Around the Field – May 21, 2025

21 May 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Association of Midwest Museums finalizes nominations for their 2025 awards; The Society for History in the Federal Government will host their annual meeting next week; The George Wright Society will be hosting a webinar “National Parks Culture: Art, Placemaking, and Belonging” next week.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Association of Midwest Museums seeks nominations for their Promising Leadership, Distinguished Career, Best Practices, and Groundbreakers Awards by May 23, 2025
• Solid Light will be awarding one all-inclusive conference scholarship for the 2025 Association of Midwest Museums conference “Crosscurrents” in Davenport, Iowa, US. Applications due May 23, 2025
• The Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University is accepting applications for their Access to the Archives Travel Grant through May 31, 2025
• The National Museum of African American History and Culture is offering a Culture & Legacy Scholarship to attend their 47th Annual Conference in Charleston, South Carolina, US. Applications due June 2, 2025
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is seeking applicants for their new grant program, “Public Impact Projects Celebrating America’s 250th Anniversary” due July 9, 2025 with projects starting between March 1 – May 1, 2026
• The Latinos in Heritage Conservation is seeking nominations for the launch of The Endangered Latinx Landmarks program. Nominations are due June 15, 2025 and sites will be announced on September 16, 2025 
• The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Louise Pubols Public History Prize through June 30, 2025

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Society for History in the Federal Government will host their 2025 annual meeting “History as Dialogue” in Washington, DC, US, May 29-30, 2025
• The Mexican American Civil Rights Institute will host their 2025 Symposium in San Antonio, Texas, US, May 30-31, 2025, and will be live-streamed
• The Inaugural Sensory Public History Conference will be held at University College London East in London, England, UK, May 30-31, 2025
• The Massachusetts History Alliance will host “Connecting and Caring Through History” June 2, 2025 at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts, US
• The Association for Gravestone Studies will host their annual conference at York College of Pennsylvania in York, Pennsylvania, US, June 17-22, 2025
• The Association of African American Museums will host their 47th Annual Conference “Voices of Democracy: Commemorating the Voting Rights Act’s 60th Anniversary” in Charleston, South Carolina, US, July 23-25, 2025
• The Association of Midwest Museums, Illinois Association of Museums, and Iowa Museum Association will host their 2025 conference “Crosscurrents” virtually on July 25, 2025 and in Davenport, Iowa, US, July 30 – August 2, 2025 
• The European Society for Environmental History is holding their bi-annual Climate Histories Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, August 18-22, 2025
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host their PastForward 2025 conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US, September 16-18, 2025 
• The Association for the Study of African American Life and History will host their annual conference “African Americans & Labor” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, from September 24-27, 2025
• The Preserving Historic Places conference will be held in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US, September 30 – October 3, 2025 
• The Society of Georgia Archivists will host their 2025 Annual Meeting, “Archivists ‘Macon’ It Happen: Back to the Basics” in Macon, Georgia, US, October 2, 2025. Proposals are due May 30, 2025
• The Mountain-Plains Museums Association will host their annual conference “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025
• EUROPAST will host “The Past and Future of Public History” in Vilnius, Lithuania, October 9-10, 2025
• The Kentucky Historical Society will host their 2025 Ohio Valley History Conference “Borders, Boundaries, and Belonging” in Frankfort, Kentucky, US, October 9-11, 2025. Call for proposals due July 18, 2025 
• The Urban History Association will host “Metropolitan Majorities” in Los Angeles, California, US, October 9-12, 2025
• The Oral History Association will host “Exploring Our American Stories” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 15-18, 2025
• The National Humanities Alliance and Federation of State Humanities Councils will host their annual meeting “Roots of Invention, Innovation, and Revitalization” in Detroit, Michigan, US, November 12-16, 2025
• The Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists will host their 2025 conference PRESENT tense in St. Louis, Missouri, US, November 18-21, 2025
• The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 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

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• The George Wright Society will be hosting a webinar “National Parks Culture: Art, Placemaking, and Belonging” May 29, 2025
• Columbia University will host the NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 for historians and archivists in processing and analyzing textual data June 2-13, 2025 at Columbia University, New York City, New York, US. Master students through established scholars are encouraged to apply. Financial support may be available for those needing to travel 
• Session 2 of the American Revolutions in the Digital Age Webinar Series, “Public History at Historic Sites”, will take place on June 4, 2025
• Museum Hue will host a 10th Anniversary Symposium and Celebration June 5, 2025 
• Students completing their Master in Digital and Public History at the University of Luxembourg will host an online seminar, “Public history for contested and conflicting past(s),” on June 19, 2025
• The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center will host a five day seminar, “Teaching the Holocaust” from July 14-18, 2025. A limited number of full and partial scholarships and travel stipends are available for those who qualify. Applications are due June 23, 2025
• Session 3 of the American Revolutions in the Digital Age Webinar Series, “Slavery, Freedom, and Resistance,” will take place on July 9, 2025
• Session 4 of the American Revolutions in the Digital Age Webinar Series, “Information Technology and Lessons from the American Revolution,” will take place on August 7, 2025

PUBLICATIONS 

• Mass Humanities invites grant proposals for “Expand Massachusetts Stories: Promises of the Revolution” by June 9, 2025
• The DAR Museum seeks abstracts for their 2026 museum catalog accompanying their exhibition “Revolution in Their Words,” due July 15, 2025. Article submissions are due January 1, 2026 
• The American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue on “Methods for Archival Silence in Early History” due September 15, 2025