Around the Field – May 7, 2025

07 May 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Association of African American Museums wraps up nominations for their 2025 awards; the National Humanities Alliance and Federation of State Humanities Councils have extended proposals until May 11, 2025; NCPH will co-host an AAPI Digital Public History Project Showcase.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Inspection copies of How Museums Tell Stories by Amelia Wong can be requested through Routledge
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has released a list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for 2025

AWARDS AND FUNDING

The Association of African American Museums is accepting nominations for their 2025 awards through May 15, 2025
The Association of Midwest Museums seeks nominations for their Promising Leadership, Distinguished Career, Best Practices, and Groundbreakers Awards by 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 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, 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, MA, 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 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 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. Call for proposals has been extended to May 11, 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 National Council on Public History, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation will host a digital AAPI Digital Public History Project Showcase on May 14, 2025
Session 1 of the American Revolutions in the Digital Age Webinar Series, a four-part webinar series with the editors and contributors of the new volume, American Revolutions in the Digital Age, will take place on May 14, 2025
An Omeka Intensive Course Info Session will be held on May 15, 2025
The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 106: An Introduction in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, from May 20-21, 2025
The virtual 2025 Oral History Storytelling Workshop, hosted by The Center for Oral History and Tradition at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, will be held on Thursdays from May 8 – June 12, 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
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