Around the Field – March 25, 2026

25 March 2026 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Applications are due soon for the Association of African American Museums scholarship to support attendance of their 2026 Annual Meeting; Sharing Stories from 1977 is accepting applications for its 2026-2027 Graduate Fellows Program to serve on the project’s Editorial Board; The Association for Gravestone Studies is offering a virtual lecture series, “First in the Grave”; The application period for NCPH’s Student Travel Award closes soon

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 of African American Museums is offering a needs-based scholarship to support attendance of their 2026 Annual Meeting, “This Land Holds Our Stories.” The application deadline is March 30, 2026
• The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming offers annual travel grants to provide support in carrying out research using AHC collections. They also offer research fellowships in several different subject areas. The application due date for the spring cycle is March 31, 2026
• NCPH is accepting applications for its 2026 Student Travel Award. The deadline has been extended to April 1, 2026
• The Oral History Association is accepting applications for its 2026 Awards. Applications for the Book Award are due April 1, 2026, and applications for the Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund are due April 15, 2026. The remaining award applications are due July 1, 2026
• 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 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 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

• The Indiana Association of Historians will host their 46th annual conference, “History in Unexpected Places – Rethinking and Reimagining History in the Early 21st Century,” in Richmond, Indiana, US, on April 11, 2026
• The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture is hosting a virtual symposium, “Animal Materialities,” on April 11, 2026
• The Society of Architectural Historians is meeting for its 79th Annual International Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, from April 15-19, 2026
• The Organization of American Historians will host their 2026 OAH Conference  on “Re-Thinking American History at 250” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, April 16-19, 2026
• The Society of Indiana Archivists will host its 2026 annual meeting, “Prioritizing Well-Being: Helping Yourself Help Others,” in Bloomington, Indiana, US, on April 17, 2026
• The American Institute for Conservation and the Canadian Association for Conservation are hosting the 2026 AIC & CAC Annual Meeting & Conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada, from April 28-May 2, 2026
• The Midwestern History Association will host its 2026 annual conference in Oxford, Ohio, US, from April 30-May 1, 2026
• The Society for History in the Federal Government is hosting its 2026 annual meeting, “Bringing Federal History to the Public During America’s 250th Anniversary” in Washington, DC, US, from May 14-15, 2026
• The Midwest Archives Conference and the Society of Ohio Archivists are jointly hosting a 2026 Annual Meeting in Columbus, Ohio, US, from May 14-16, 2026
• The Alliance for Texas History will hold its annual conference on May 27-29, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas, US
• The Vernacular Architecture Forum will hold its 47th Annual Conference, “Columbia River Plateau: Atomic Space. Native Soil. Geologic Time” in Walla Walla, Washington, US, from May 27-30, 2026
• The LGBTQ+ History Association is hosting its Queer/Trans History Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, from June 2-5, 2026
• The American Association for the History of Medicine and the American Association for the History of Nursing are jointly hosting an annual meeting in Buffalo, New York, US, from June 3-7, 2026
• The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture is presenting a symposium, “Those Who Have Must Turn Around and Give,” in Charleston, South Carolina, US, from June 9-11, 2026
• A number of organizations are coming together to host the 9th International Public History Summer School, which will take place in Wrocław, Poland, from June 15-19, 2026
• The Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums is hosting its annual conference, “Community, Conflict, Conversation,” from June 16 -21, 2026 
• The Association for Gravestone Studies is hosting their annual conference and annual meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan, US, from June 23-26, 2026. The call for papers, posters, and workshop proposals is open until April 14, 2026
• Slavery North, a research hub at University of Massachusetts Amherst, is hosting a conference, “Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution,” from July 9-12, 2026, in Amherst, Massachusetts, US
• The Association of Midwest Museums is hosting its annual conference, “We Hold These Truths,” in Chicago, Illinois, US, from July 26-29, 2026
• The Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association will hold its 119th Annual Meeting, “We Hold These Truths,” in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, from July 29-31, 2026
• The Society of American Archivists will host its 90th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, US, from July 29-August 1, 2026
• The Association of African American Museums is hosting its 2026 Annual Meeting, “This Land Holds Our Stories,” in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, from August 19-21, 2026
• The International Federation for Public History will host its 8th international conference on public history, “The Public History of Difficult Pasts,” in Lisbon, Portugal from September 7-11, 2026
• The Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation is hosting its biennial National Asian & Pacific Islander American Historic Preservation Forum in Denver & Aurora, Colorado, US, from September 10-13, 2026
• NCPH and AASLH are hosting their joint conference, “The Work of Revolution,” in Providence, Rhode Island from September 16-19, 2026
• The Southeastern Museums Conference is hosting its annual conference, “Forged in Culture – Focused on the Future,” in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US, from September 28-30, 2026
• The Slave Dwelling Project is hosting its 9th conference, “250 Years and Counting: Reckoning, Resilience, and Remembrance,” to be held in Charleston, South Carolina, US, from October 1-3, 2026
• The Oral History Association is hosting its 2026 Annual Meeting, “Landscapes of Memory,” in Portland, Oregon, US, from October 14-17, 2026. The call for proposals is open until February 20, 2026
• Qatar National Library’s Heritage Library & Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies are jointly hosting a conference in Doha, Qatar, from October 19–20, 2026, that focuses on the public history field in the Middle East
• The Universities Studying Slavery consortium will host its fall conference, “250 Years of Freedom and Unfreedom: Truth, Liberty, and Justice for All,” in College Park, Maryland, US from October 22-25, 2026
• The Association of Critical Heritage Studies is meeting for its 8th biennial conference in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, from November 30-December 2, 2026

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• 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 March 26, 2026, will discuss John Adams
• 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 next two events are “Remembering the Revolution: The Siege of Boston,” on March 26, 2026, (in-person) and “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 “Foundation Work and Historical Markers Program”, on March 30, 2026 and “Popular Music and/as Public History” on April 8, 2026
• The American Association for State and Local History is presenting a webinar, “Outdoor History Walking Tours 101,” on April 2, 2026
• NCPH’s Professional Development Committee is hosting a three-part webinar series, “How to Publish Your Public History Work.” The first event, “How to Get Published: What Editors Want You to Know,” will take place April 7, 2026
• NCPH is partnering with Creative Futures on a three-part participatory virtual workshop series, “Meaningful Conversations In & Out of Public History Institutions.” The first part will take place April 10, 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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

• Bloomsbury Publishing has published an updated version of Organizing Archival Records: A Guide for Both Physical and Digital Collections by David W. Carmicheal and Adam T. Bentz
• The University of Georgia Press has published The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System, by Joe Weber and Selima Sultana, which takes a “comprehensive geographic and historical look at ‘America’s best idea’”
• 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

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