Around the Field February 21, 2024

20 February 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Society of American Archivists looks for survey respondents; the National Fund for Sacred Places accept applicants for their grant program; the Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium takes place; the Organization of American Historians host a webinar

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• During NCPH’s 2024 annual meeting in Salt Lake City join WWII camp survivors on an one-day visit to Topaz, Utah on April 13 in attending the 81st memorial ceremony for James Wakasa, killed by a guard at the incarceration camp in 1943
• NCPH will host “Public History + ?: A Creative Showcase” to celebrate our multi-talented public history community at our 2024 annual meeting in Salt Lake City. Apply to be part of the showcase by March 15, 2024
• The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site calls for volunteer judges for Project POTUS, a national competition for middle schoolers to create video projects on their selected president
• The Society of American Archivists is looking for participants for a brief survey to help improve their Digital Archives Specialist course offerings
• The National Archives is looking for feedback on their online catalog

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for their Mosaic Scholarship, Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award, and J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award through February 28, 2024
• Duke University Libraries are accepting applicants for their Rubenstein Library Grants & Fellowships through February 29, 2024
• The National Fund for Sacred Places will be accepting applications for their grant program until February 29, 2024
• The Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University Libraries is seeking submissions for their 2023 Local History Publication Awards through February 29, 2024
• The Institute of Museum and Library Services is accepting applicants for their 21st Century Museum Professionals grant program until March 1, 2024
• The American Association for State and Local History is accepting applications for their Award of Excellence through March 1, 2024
• The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is accepting submissions for their 2024 Prizes through March 1, 2024
• The Massachusetts History Alliance is accepting nominations for their Bay State Legacy and MHA Star Awards until March 6, 2024
• The State Historical Society of Iowa accepts applications for their grant program to support history of Iowa or the Midwest through April 15, 2024
• The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming is accepting applicants for four fellowships through March 30, 2024
• The National Park Service is accepting applicants for the Semiquincentennial Grant Program through March 5, 2024
• The Western History Association is accepting applicants for two public history prizes, the Autry Public History Prize due on April 15, 2024 and the Louise Pubols Public History Prize due on June 30, 2024
• 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Southwest Popular/American Culture Association will host their 2024 Annual SWPACA Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US, February 21-24, 2024
• The 2024 Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium will take place in Champaign, Illinois, US, February 29 – March 2, 2024
• The National Council for History Education will host their 2024 conference, “History at the Crossroads,” in Cleveland, Ohio, US, March 7-9, 2024
• The African American Intellectual History Society will host their annual conference, “Reparations: Past, Present, and Future,” in Charlottesville, Virginia, US, March 8-9, 2024
• The South Carolina Historical Association will host their 2024 conference, History Teaches, to be held in Florence, South Carolina, US, March 30, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host Past Forward Online from April 3-4, 2024
• The Indiana Association of Historians will host their 2024 conference, “Historical Intelligence,” in Indianapolis, Indiana, US, April 5-6, 2024
• The Museum Association of New York will host their 2024 conference, “Giving Voice to Value,” to be held in Albany, New York, US, April 6-9, 2024
• NCPH and the Utah Division of State History/Utah Historical Society will host our joint conference, “Historical Urgency,” in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, April 10-13, 2024
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2024 conference, “Public Dialogue, Relevance, and Change: Being in Service to Communities and the Nation,” in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, April 11-14, 2024
• PA Museums will host their 2024 conference, “Chance for Change: Opportunities in a Community,” in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US, April 14-16, 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 Society of Appalachian Historians are accepting proposals for their annual conference to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, US, May 21-23, 2024 (proposals due March 24, 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 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, tentatively scheduled for the week of July 15, 2024
• The Association for Gravestone Studies calls for papers for their 2024 Conference to be held at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US, June 18-23, 2024 (proposals due March 29, 2024)
• The Association of African American Museums calls proposals for 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 (proposals due on March 1, 2024)
• 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 Virginia Museum of History and Culture calls for proposals for their 2024 VMHC History Matters Symposium to be held in Richmond, Virginia, US, September 7, 2024 (proposals due on April 12, 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 Oral History Association calls for proposals for their 2024 annual meeting, Oral History: Bridging Past, Present, and Future, to be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, October 30 – November 2, 2024 (proposals due on February 23, 2024)
• The Social Science History Association calls for papers for their 2024 annual meeting to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 31 – November 1, 2024 (call ends February 23, 2024)
• The Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Humanities Alliance invites proposals for the National Humanities Conference 2024, Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change, to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, US, November 13-17, 2024 (deadline for submissions is April 3, 2024)
• The American Historical Association will host their 2025 annual conference in New York City, New York, US, January 3-6, 2025
• The Organization of American Historians calls for proposals for their 2025 Conference on American History to be held in Chicago, Illinois, US, April 3-6, 2025 (accepting proposals and papers through March 1, 2024)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Indiana Humanities and the Indiana Historical Society will host a webinar, “U.S. 250 Meeting Series: Doing History,” on February 22, 2024 from 11:30 am – 1:00 pm Eastern
• The Organization of American Historians will host a webinar, “Rethinking Encounters – U.S. History at 250,” on February 22, 2024 at 4:00 pm Eastern
• Connecting Collections to Care will host a webinar, “Working with Facilities to Create a Fuller Picture of Your Collection Environment,” on February 29, 2024 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm Eastern
• The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Education is accepting applicants for their Landmarks of American History and Culture program through March 5, 2024
• Oral History Summer School will host an online workshop, Oral History for Educators, March 14-17, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host an online book talk, “Book Talk: Dwell Time with Author Rosa Lowinger,” on March 21, 2024 from 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern
• The Northeast Document Conservation Center will host a webinar, “Introduction to Audio Preservation,” March 26, 2024, 12:30 – 1:30 pm Eastern
• The New-York Historical Society’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History will host their spring 2024 seminar, “The Presidency and the Constitution: Historical Case Studies and Contemporary Questions,” on May 3, 10, 31 and June 14, 2024 in New York, New York, US (applications due March 29, 2024)
• 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

PUBLICATIONS

• Seeking case study proposals for an edited collection, Landback Universities, by February 21, 2024
• The Oral History Review calls for papers for a special issue on Oral History and Disability, submissions due March 31, 2024
• The US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal is seeking abstracts for a special volume, “Oral History and Literary Criticism: Approaches to Researching and Teaching about Latinos/as/x in the U.S.,” with a deadline of April 1, 2024
• Contingent Magazine is accepting pitches for pieces on history and the process of doing history