Around the Field May 15, 2019

15 May 2019 – editors

From around the field this week: applications are due for the New-York Historical Society’s women’s history fellowship by mid-June; registration is now open for our webinar with AASLH on writing for history publications; check out the newest offerings from Routledge

AWARDS and FUNDING

• Awards of Recognition – New Jersey Historical Commission – submissions due June 1, 2019
• Site Assessment Program – NYSCA/GHHN Collection Needs Assessment Program – applications due June 3, 2019
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Women’s History and Public History, 2019-2021 – New-York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History – applications due June 15, 2019

CONFERENCES and CALLS

• CFP for essays for an edited book collection on Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America – Abstracts due July 15, 2019
• “Contested Histories in the Public” – Ohio Valley History Conference – Oct 3-5, 2019, Frankfort, Kentucky, US
• “’Kindling their Hearts’: Music in New Sweden” – 19^th Annual New Sweden History Conference – Nov 2, 2019, Essington, PA, US (abstracts due May 31, 2019)
• “The Lost/Secret Histories of Indiana: A Symposium” – Indiana University Bloomington – Nov 20-23, 2019, Bloomington, IN, US (submissions due May 30, 2019)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Writing for History Publications – American Association for State and Local History in partnership with NCPH – May 30, 2019, webinar (registration open now)
• 2019 Advanced Summer Institute – UC Berkeley Oral History Center – Aug 5-9, 2019, Berkeley, CA, US (applications open now)
• Pitch Better: How to Get Attention from the Media – New England Museum Association – June 6, 2019, Cambridge, MA, US (register by May 30, 2019)
• 2019 Preservation Law Conference – National Trust for Historic Preservation – June 25, 2019, Washington, DC, US, in-person and virtual (registration open now)

PUBLICATIONS

• Recently published and soon to be published by Routledge: History, Memory and Public Life: The Past in the Present (Maerker, Sleight, and Sutcliffe), Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance (Banks), Reconsidering Interpretation of Heritage Sites: America in the Eighteenth Century (Lindsay), Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights (Aspel and Sodaro)

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