Around the Field April 24, 2024

24 April 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Organization and NCPH host our joint virtual conference; the National Park Service hosts a webinar; the American Association for State and Local History announces a new book series

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The American Association for State and Local History provide email templates to contact your senator for America 250 funding in a recent blog post
• NCPH’s Curriculum and Training Committee launch their Handbook for Public Historians in Academia

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Archives Foundation is accepting applications for the 2024 Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History until May 15, 2024
• The American Historical Association will accept applications for the Herbert Feis Award through May 15, 2024
• The Coordinating Council for Women in History is accepting applicants for six awards through May 15, 2024
• The American Historical Association is accepting submissions for the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize until May 15, 2024
• The Center for Archival Collections at the University Libraries at Bowling Green State University is accepting applicants for their Access to the Archives Travel Grants through May 31, 2024
• The Western History Association is accepting applicants for their Louise Pubols Public History Prize, due on June 30, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for their Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant until July 16, 2024

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• MuseumNext will host their virtual conference, Creative Museums Summit, from April 29-30, 2024
• The Organization of American Historians and NCPH will host our joint virtual conference, Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation, April 30 – May 2, 2024
• The Midwest Archives Conference will host their 2024 Annual Meeting, in Des Moines, Iowa, US, May 2-4, 2024.
• The American Alliance of Museums will host their 2024 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo in Baltimore, Maryland, US, May 16-19, 2024
• The Midwestern History Association will host their annual Midwestern History Conference, “Finding the Lost Region,” in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, May 30-31, 2024
• The Society for History in the Federal Government will host their annual meeting, Making History Accessible, in the Library of Congress, Madison Building, Washington, DC, US, May 30-31, 2024
• The Southwest Oral History Association will host their conference, Rooted in Memory and Resistance: Cultivating Radical Futures, at the University of California, Riverside in Riverside, California, US, May 31 – June 3, 2024
• The Massachusetts Historical Alliance will host the 2024 Massachusetts History Conference, History is for Everyone, in Devens, Massachusetts, US, June 3, 2023
• The Agricultural History Society will host their 2024 meeting, Borderlands, Marginal Spaces, and Agriculture In-Between, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, June 6-8, 2024
• The Howell Living History Farm will host the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums’ annual meeting, Curating Living History: Preserving Skills and Intangible Culture, in Titusville, New Jersey, US, June 7-10, 2024
• The Committee on LGBT History will host their Queer History Conference 2024, at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California, US, June 10-13, 2024
• The Oral History Association will host their AI in OH Virtual Symposium, featuring ten sessions scheduled for July 15-19, 2024
• The Association of African American Museums will hold their 2024 conference, Acknowledging Legacy, Fostering Progress: Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, US, August 13-16, 2023
• The Society of American Archivists will host Archives*Records 2024 in Chicago, Illinois, US, August 14-17, 2024
• The International Federation for Public History will host their 2024 World Conference in Belval, Luxembourg, September 3-7, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History will host their 2024 conference, Doing History, to be held in Mobile, Alabama, US, September 11-14, 2024
• The Centre for Public History at the Queen’s University, Belfast will host their annual conference, Digital Public History in a Divided World: Stories, Collaborations, Complexities, Futures, to be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, September 12-13, 2024
• The Society of Architectural Historians calls for session proposals for SAH Virtual 2024 to be held online September 19-21, 2024 (proposals due May 20, 2024)
• The Northern Great Plains History Conference calls for papers for their 2024 conference to be held at the University of South Dakota in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, US, September 25-28, 2024 (papers due by May 20, 2024)
• The Slave Dwelling Project will host their conference, The Illusion of Freedom: Slavery in the Northern States, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024
• The American Journalism Historians Association calls for papers and panels for their 2024 conference to be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, October 3-5, 2024 (submissions due by June 1, 2024)
• NCPH calls for proposals for CampingCon 2024 to be held in the Gila National Wilderness, Mimbres, New Mexico, US, October 10-12, 2024 (proposals due June 1, 2024)
• The Oral History Association calls for proposals will hold their 2024 annual meeting, Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future,  in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, October 30 – November 2, 2024
• The Daughters of the American Revolution Museum call for proposals for their annual symposium, Making – Meaning – Memory, A Sewn in America Symposium, to be held in Washington DC, US, November 1-2, 2024 (call for proposals ends May 19, 2024)
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance will host the National Humanities Conference 2024, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change, in Providence, Rhode Island, US, November 13-17, 2024
• The American Historical Association will host their 2025 annual conference in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025
• The School of Advanced Study at the University of London calls for proposals for their inaugural Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory conference to be held in London, England, United Kingdom and virtually, April 2-4, 2025 (proposals due on May 15, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The American Association for State and Local History will host a webinar, “Climate and Weather History as Local History,” on April 24, 2024 at 3:00 pm EST
• The National Park Service’s Technical Preservation Services will host a webinar, “Use of Substitute Materials on Historic Building Exteriors,” on April 25, 2024 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm EST
• The American Association for State and Local History will host a two-day, virtual workshop, Interpreting Enslavement in School Programs, May 9-10, 2024 from 1:00 – 5:00 pm EST each day
• The Ohio Museums Association will host a webinar, “Adaptability for Sustainability: Evolving Beyond Your Institution’s Past to Influence Its Future,” on May 20, 2024 from 10:00 – 11:00 am EST
• NCPH will host a two-day, virtual workshop, Interpreting the History and Legacies of Slavery in School Programs Virtual Workshop, May 30-31, 2024 at 1:00 pm EST each day
• The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy will host a digital humanities workshop, “Archives as Data: An Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities for Archivists and Historians,” at Columbia University in New York, New York, US, June 10-21, 2024
• Old Westbury Gardens will host a one-day conference, “What’s Cooking?: New Directions in Historic House Kitchens Conference,” in Old Westbury, New York, US, June 27, 2024

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Association for State and Local History announces their new books series, Practical Guides for the Public Historian, that will focus on providing accessible introductions to timely topics in public history
• USAbroad calls for article abstracts for a special issue, The Role of Public History Within and Outside the United States: Critical Reflections, by May 5, 2024
• Radical History Review calls for abstracts for a future issue, The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose, by May 15, 2024
• The Public Historian calls for proposals for a special issue on Labor and Public History, deadline for submissions is September 1, 2024
• Fwd: Museums seeks submissions for their 2025 issue, Guide: {…}, by January 5, 2025