Around the Field – January 28, 2026

28 January 2026 –

From Around the Field this week: The application window for many NCPH awards is closing; The American Association for State and Local History is hosting the final two sessions of its virtual 6-week Core Issues Briefing Series; The application window for the Daughters of the American Revolution America 250! Scholarship is closing; BlackPast.org will honor the life and legacy of its founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr, with a community celebration in Kent, WA; The call for proposals for this year’s Annual Meeting for the Association of African American Museums is closing

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The American Historical Association welcomes submissions of op-eds, media appearances, or other resources that offer context and insight to the public on the recent actions by the federal government
  • The American Council of Learned Societies, the American Academy of Religion, the Institute for Diversity and Civic Life, and the National Humanities Alliance are collaborating on the Publicly Engaged Religion Mapping Project, an initiative to document and analyze the landscape of publicly engaged scholarship on religion in North America. They are inviting scholars, practitioners, and community partners to contribute to this project by completing a survey about scholarship working at the intersection of religion and public engagement
  • The American Historical Association has started the Community Action and Resource Exchange (CARE), where historians can come together in working groups to discuss shared professional issues and concerns, exchange ideas, and collaborate on strategies and solutions that strengthen the discipline
  • The Organization of American Historians’ Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project (FECOHP) is continuing to collect oral histories of federal employees and contractors to capture their lived experiences, institutional knowledge, and overlooked perspectives
  • The National Humanities Alliance invites you to share about efforts on your campus to engage local employers and support students’ exploration of professional opportunities in your region by filling out a short survey. Research will demonstrate how the humanities prepare graduates to contribute to the national workforce
  • The International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations is accepting site proposals for its upcoming World Congress of Environmental History in 2029, preferably in July or August of that year. View more details here. Submissions are due by April 15, 2026
  • Dr. Matthew Herbst is seeking one additional panelist and a panel chair for a teaching-focused panel for the 2027 American Historical Association conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, on “Leveraging the History Classroom: Collaboration, Engagement, and Discernment.” Check the link for more details and contact information if interested
  • Dr. George Holmes and Dr. Monica Vasile are seeking conservation historians and humanities researchers to present at their panel “Conservation Histories and Humanities: Understanding the Present, Unearthing the Past” at the 2026 European Congress of Conservation Biology in Leiden, the Netherlands. Check the link for more details and contact information if interested

AWARDS AND FUNDING

  • Permanent Legacy Foundation offers Byte4Byte storage grants for nonprofit organizations seeking to complete digital preservation projects. The application deadline is rolling
  • The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) has announced a new $25,000 scholarship for ten undergraduate or graduate students. Essay applications are due by January 31, 2026
  • The Society for History in the Federal Government has open nominations for its 2026 awards. Nominations for the Trask and Trautman Awards should be submitted by February 1, 2026
  • NCPH is accepting applications for its 2026 awards. The deadline for most is February 1, 2026, but the deadline for our Student Travel Award has been extended to April 1, 2026
  • The American Association for State and Local History is accepting nominations for its Leadership in History Awards. Award of Distinction preliminary nominations are due by February 1, 2026; Award of Excellence nominations are due by March 1, 2026
  • Rocky Mountain National Park and Rocky Mountain Conservancy are accepting applications for the 2026 Bailey Research Fellowship, which supports graduate students to conduct research in the park and communicate their work to the public. Applications accepted through February 16, 2026
  • The Society of American Archivists is accepting nominations for its Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award, which recognizes an individual or group that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents. Nominations are due by February 28, 2026
  • The Society of American Archivists is accepting applications for its J. Franklin Jameson Archival Advocacy Award, which honors an individual, institution, or organization that promotes greater public awareness, appreciation, or support of archival activities or programs. Nominees must be from outside the archives profession. The application deadline is February 28, 2026
  • The Hoover Presidential Foundation is sponsoring a Herbert Hoover Research Travel Grant Award to alleviate travel and research costs for individuals traveling to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Applications are due by March 1, 2026
  • Applications are open for the American Council of Learned Societies’ Leading Edge Fellowship program, which offers 14 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven nonprofits for recent PhDs in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Submissions are due March 11, 2026
  • Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute is requesting proposals for research projects which foster research in the digital humanities with a particular focus on artificial intelligence. Projects can request budgets up to $800,000, and the deadline for submission is March 13, 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

  • The National Preservation Institute offers continuing education and professional training for those involved in the management, preservation, and stewardship of cultural heritage
  • Living Landscape Observer has made recordings from their ongoing webinar series available
  • The American Association for State and Local History is presenting “Documenting Historic Cemeteries” on January 29, 2026. This virtual, live webinar will provide resources for researching and documenting the valuable information that historic cemeteries offer
  • The American Association for State and Local History is offering a 6-week Core Issues Briefing Series, a set of virtual webinars offering consolidated access to the latest research, insights, and guidance on how to respond to the history sector’s most pressing issues. The final two sessions will be “Preparing for the U.S. 250th at History Organizations” on February 4, 2026, and “Engaging Younger Generations at History Organizations” on February 11, 2026
  • BlackPast.org will honor the life and legacy of its founder, Dr. Quintard Taylor, Jr, on February 7, 2026 in Kent, WA. This community celebration will feature music, dance, and devotionals celebrating Black history
  • Wiki Education is hosting “Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives,” a webinar centering on student editors’ experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework, on February 11, 2026
  • The Lincoln Presidential Foundation and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are partnering to present “Reframing Lincoln: Myth, Memory, and Changing Narratives,” a week-long professional development seminar for K–12 teachers at Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Illinois, US from July 19–24, 2026. Applications are due March 6, 2026
  • iCivics is hosting a Civic Learning Week National Forum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, from March 9-10, 2026
  • The Organization of American Historians is hosting a virtual discussion of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South on March 9, 2026, as part of its K-12 Teachers’ Book Club
  • The San Gemini Preservation Studies Program is hosting a field school in Italy this Summer 2026 with two possible sessions. This program is dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage, offering students hands-on experience in restoration and conservation. Applications are due March 15, 2026
  • The American Association for State and Local History is hosting a two-day virtual summit, “Data, Equity, and the History Workforce,” from March 17-18, 2026, to reflect on results of the 2025 National Survey of History Practitioners and chart a path forward

PUBLICATIONS

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