15 January 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library wraps up applications for 2025-2026 
research fellowships; The American Historical Association calls for proposals for their 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago; The Indiana Association of Historians extends their call for proposals to February 1, 2025, for their 2025 conference in Hanover. Read More
13 January 2025 – Denise Meringolo
Editor’s note: This post was published in Volume 44 Number 4 of Public History News, NCPH’s quarterly newsletter. It is cross-posted here in response to History@Work‘s current Special Call for posts on “advocacy in the field.”
During this past election year there was a predictable uptick in the number of opinion pieces regarding historians’ work as public intellectuals, particularly as political commentators. Read More
06 January 2025 – Ummul Muhseneen
advocacy, oral history, commemoration, memorials, memorial museum, traumatic histories, NCPH 2024 Awards, victim recognition, 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
As part of my dissertation research on the memorialization of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, I have encountered silences in related memorials and in the archives. These silences have led me to ask: What role might oral testimonies play in remedying the silences that surround official attempts to memorialize mass atrocity crimes? Read More
11 December 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: Nominations for two American Association for State and Local History awards open; the National Park Service wraps up applications for its Save America’s Treasures grant program.
AWARDS AND FUNDING
26 November 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Humanities Alliance introduces the new Humanities for All Compendium; The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host a webinar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
21 November 2024 – Suzanne Fischer and Leslie Przybylek 3
What do cherry blossoms and nuclear reactors have in common? They were among the many topics discussed by the National Council on Public History (NCPH) World War II Home Front Working Group, a three-year collaboration between NCPH and the National Park Service (NPS) that brought together practitioners and scholars working on World War II home front history to make connections and learn from each other. Read More
13 November 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: Cambridge University Press launches the open-access Public Humanities; the National Humanities Conference Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change is happening in Providence, Rhode Island; The National Trust hosts equity-based preservation planning webinar.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
13 November 2024 – Brandon A. Owens, Sr.
Despite their profound cultural and historical importance, civic leaders often neglect the preservation of African American churches in the South in favor of saving buildings that promise economic benefits or contribute to the development of private or public communities. Yet, these churches have always been central to African American communities, serving as places of worship, centers of civil rights activism, and sacred spaces for social and moral support. Read More
07 November 2024 – Sarah H. Case
The Public Historian, gender/sexuality, National Park Service, Editor's Corner, pandemic, NCPH 2022 awards, 2024 Annual Meeting
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the November 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.
This issue begins with a unique take on the National Council on Public History (NCPH) presidential address, presented at the March 2024 Annual Meeting (held jointly with the Utah Historical Society) in Salt Lake City, Utah. Read More
29 October 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: NPS is now accepting grant applications for Save America’s Treasures; the NEH seeks to fund free Juneteenth events; the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission calls for proposals from authors who wish to contribute to a study on The Negro Travelers’ Green Book. Read More