12 March 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: National Humanities Alliance hosted their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US; the The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program; Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri hosts their 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US. Read More
12 March 2025 – Chelsee Boehm
Like many of the folks who read this blog, my career in public history is a defining part of who I am. Lately though, I’ve been wondering if this tie between my professional and personal identities may be bad for my mental health. Read More
03 March 2025 – Sarah H. Case
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the February 2025 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 presents four articles that demonstrate the diversity of public history scholarship today. Read More
28 February 2025 – Bonnie McDonald
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
26 February 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Society of American Archivists wraps up applications for several awards; The American Association for State and Local History will host “250 con” and wraps up applications for their Award in Excellence; The American Alliance of Museums recognizes Museum Advocacy Day 2025. Read More
24 February 2025 – Alena Pirok
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field”. You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
12 February 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Mountain-Plains Museum Association extends their calls for proposals for their Annual Conference to February 14, 2025; The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grant Program on February 14, 2025. Read More
11 February 2025 – Will Walker
How public historians should respond to prevalent anti-immigrant attitudes and the immigration policies of the Trump administration, including the promised “mass deportation program,” is one of the urgent questions of our moment. In 2016, History@Work published “A response to the election,” in which the authors (including myself) wrote: Read More
29 January 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History wraps up preliminary nominations for the Award of Distinction; Columbia University asks for applications for their NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 taking place in June; applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are launched. Read More
22 January 2025 – Tyler Jones
Something remarkable is happening in rural Alabama: a former plantation is being reimagined as a place for truth and reconciliation. But what’s most notable is who is behind it. A group of Black descendants of the formerly enslaved, and white descendants of the enslavers, have together formed the Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation, a non-profit dedicated to reparative history through art. Read More