Around the Field – April 8, 2026

08 April 2026 –

From Around the Field this week: Applications for the National Archives Foundation’s Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History are due soon; The Midwestern History Association will host its 2026 annual conference; The National Emerging Museum Professional Network is virtually hosting Museum Workers Advocacy Day from April 9-10, 2026; The American Association for State and Local History is presenting a five-part webinar series about core issues in the history sector

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • NCPH is hosting a Mini-Con in Washington DC on May 27, 2026, with the theme “Realizing the Power of History: Past, Present, and Future Strategies.” The Call for Participants closes April 15, 2026
  • Digital humanities project Sharing Stories from 1977 is accepting applications for its 2026-2027 Graduate Fellows Program to serve on the project’s Editorial Board. The application deadline is April 30, 2026
  • The Southeastern Cemetery Consortium (SCC) has recently launched to connect and coordinate organizations, institutions, project teams, private firms, and individuals working to document, restore, preserve, and memorialize historic cemeteries
  • NCPH, on behalf of Sarah Marsom aka Dismantle Preservation, is inviting people to fill out an anonymous cultural resource worker salary survey in order to shift compensation transparency expectations in the cultural resource field. Any cultural resource worker, broadly defined, is welcome to complete the survey – this includes historic preservationists, cultural resource workers, archaeologists, historic site managers, public historians, etc. The deadline to submit is December 31, 2026

AWARDS AND FUNDING

  • The Association for Gravestone Studies offers up to two full registration fellowships and a small travel stipend to undergraduate or graduate students to attend and present at its annual conference. Applications are due by April 14, 2026
  • The National Archives Foundation seeks applicants for its Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History for emerging and established historians, journalists, authors, or graduate students who perform and publish new research to elevate women’s history using the records held by the National Archives. All application materials must be received by April 15, 2026
  • The Oral History Association is accepting applications for its 2026 Awards. Applications for the Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund are due April 15, 2026, and remaining award applications are due July 1, 2026
  • The Center for Painted Wall Preservation is offering a $2,000 scholarship for a project proposal that best furthers the study, understanding, and appreciation of paint-decorated plaster walls in 18th- and 19th-century New England. Applications are due by April 30, 2026
  • The Association of Midwest Museums has opened their 2026 award nominations. Nominations are due by April 30, 2026
  • The National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a new Collections Stewardship grant program. Application deadlines this year are May 11, 2026, and December 15, 2026
  • Nominations for the 2026 American Historical Association Awards are open until May 15, 2026
  • The Robert & Elizabeth Dole Archives & Special Collections seeks applications for its 2026 Research Fellowship and Travel Grants. Applications are due July 1, 2026

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

  • The National Emerging Museum Professional Network is virtually hosting Museum Workers Advocacy Day from April 9-10, 2026
  • The Association for Gravestone Studies is offering a virtual lecture series, “First in the Grave,” which explores the burial sites and memorialization of our first four presidents. The next event, on April 9, 2026, will discuss Thomas Jefferson
  • The NY Historical Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is hosting its Spring 2026 in-person seminar, “The Decline of Congress in American Politics and Law,” on May 1, 8, 15 and 29, 2026. Seminar applications are due by April 10, 2026
  • The American Association for State and Local History is hosting a two-day virtual summit, “Data, Equity, and the History Workforce,” from April 13-14, 2026, to reflect on results of the 2025 National Survey of History Practitioners and chart a path forward
  • Omeka is hosting a virtual workshop for Omeka S users who want a crash-course on the CSV Import Module on April 15, 2026
  • The American Association for State and Local History is presenting a five-part webinar series about core issues in the history sector. The next two are “Doing History in Polarized Times” on April 15, 2026 and “Understanding the US History Workforce” on April 22, 2026
  • Harvard’s History Department has organized Harvard in 1776, a three-part public history initiative exploring the university’s role in the Revolutionary era and its legacies today. The last event is “The Siege of Boston: A New Discovery” on April 15, 2026 (virtual)
  • SUNY Brockport is offering a 10-part Public History Webinar series. The next two are “Digital Public History”, on April 15, 2026 and “Historical Houses” on April 20, 2026
  • The University of Glasgow is offering a Humanities International Summer School in June and July 2026 that provides guided introduction for independent research in the humanities. The application deadline is April 17, 2026
  • NCPH’s Professional Development Committee is hosting a three-part webinar series, “How to Publish Your Public History Work.” The second event, “How to Get Published: What Reviewers Want You to Know,” will take place May 5, 2026
  • The Organization of American Historians is hosting a virtual discussion of Freedom Was In Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, DC Region on May 7, 2026, as part of its K-12 Teachers’ Book Club

PUBLICATIONS

  • Excelsior University has published Past Makes Perfect: A Mini Handbook for Student Historians, an open-access work that provides information on how to perform history research. It also includes scenarios in which students can put their knowledge to the test
  • University of Iowa Press will publish Baltimore’s Black Arts Then & Now: Behind the Scenes of a Collaborative Public Humanities Project, by NCPH member Mary Rizzo, on April 21, 2026
  • Arab Americana, a new scholarly journal centering around Arab-American life, is holding an open-call for research articles, essays and reports, book reviews, round table comments, research notes, interviews, and edited primary sources
  • The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture is seeking submissions from master’s scholars for its 2026 issue of their journal Material Matters around the theme of “Animal Materialities.” Submissions are due by June 5, 2026

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