Around the Field – November 19, 2025

19 November 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Final proposals for NCPH-AASLH 2026 are due December 5; The International Federation for Public History invites proposals for its 2026 conference; The American Alliance of Museums is hosting its virtual Museums & Social Media Summit; The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants Program; The Slave Dwelling Project is welcoming proposals for their 2026 conference

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 International Federation for Public History invites nominations for three open positions on its Steering Committee: Delegate, Secretary, and President. Nominations should be received by November 22, 2025
• NCPH and AASLH are welcoming proposals for their joint conference “The Work of Revolution,” taking place from September 16-19, 2026 in Providence, Rhode Island. Final proposals are due December 5, 2025 
• The National Humanities Alliance is surveying the field of Humanities/STEM collaborative projects that address ecological challenges, which will culminate in a workshop in Washington, DC, in January 2026. This survey will be used to locate and understand this field of study and to select participants for the January event
• Preserving the Historic Road International (PHRI) seeks input for its 2026 Historic Roads Virtual Summit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the US highway system. Please provide feedback by December 31, 2025
• 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

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 American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants Program. Applications are due November 20, 2025
• The Newberry Library is offering both short-term and long-term postdoctoral fellowships to support individual scholarly research. Applications are due November 21, 2025, and December 8, 2025, respectively
• Laurier Archives and Special Collections at Wilfrid Laurier University is accepting applications for its Joan Mitchell Travel Award for research projects relevant to the institution’s collections. Applications are due December 15, 2025
• The Society for History in the Federal Government has opened nominations for its 2026 awards. Nominations are accepted until December 31, 2025
• The OutHistory Fellowship Program (OFP) is offering four paid fellowships for projects on under-represented topics in North American LGBTQ history. The application deadline is January 1, 2026
• The Association of African American Museums has opened nominations for its five 2026 Awards. Nominations should be submitted by January 16, 2026
• 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 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The American Historical Association will host their 139th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, January 8-11, 2026
• The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Society for Black Military Studies are hosting “Africa and the African Diaspora and the World Wars” in Tallahassee, Florida, US, from February 19-21, 2026
• The History Graduate Student Association at Loyola University Chicago is hosting its 2026 conference, “The Power of Public History: Resistance, Revolutions, Renaissance,” in Chicago, Illinois, US, from February 20-22, 2026. Paper proposals are due by November 30, 2025
• Queer History South will host their 2026 conference virtually from February 20-22, 2026
• The National Humanities Alliance is hosting their annual conference in Arlington, Virginia, US, from March 8-10, 2026
• The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science will host its 28th Annual Meeting in Fort Smith, Arkansas, US, from April 2-4, 2026. They are accepting abstracts until November 21, 2025
• 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 call for papers is open until January 16, 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 University of Rochester Humanities Center will host “Climate Havens: Humanistic Perspectives on Resilience, Migration, and Resources Symposium” in Rochester, New York, US, from April 16-17, 2026
• The Midwestern History Association will host its 2026 annual conference in Oxford, Ohio, US, from April 30 – May 1, 2026. The submission date for the call for papers is December 8, 2025
• 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 call for papers is open until January 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 call for paper and poster proposals is open until December 1, 2025
• The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is hosting its first conference in Chicago, Illinois, US, from June 4-6, 2026
• The Society of Civil War Historians is hosting its biennial conference in Richmond, Virginia, US, from June 18-20, 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 Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) will hold its annual conference from June 25-27, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio, US. The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2025 
• 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. Abstract submissions are open until December 19, 2025
• 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 call for proposals is open until February 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 call for proposals is open until February 10, 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 call for proposals closes on November 30, 2025
• 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
• The Slave Dwelling Project (SDP) 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 call for proposals is open until November 21, 2025
• 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 call for proposals is open until January 31, 2026

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 Organization of American Historians is hosting a Lectureship Program series held at venues around the country
• The American Alliance of Museums is hosting its two-day virtual Museums & Social Media Summit on November 20 & 21, 2025
• The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University is hosting its 2025 Murray Pantirer Memorial Scholar Lecture on December 2, 2025 in a hybrid format. Dr. Rachel Deblinger will be discussing her recent book, Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned About the Holocaust
• The Utah Historical Society is hosting a virtual Introduction to Oral History training session on December 6, 2025
• The Organization of American Historians is hosting a virtual discussion of Native Nations: A Millennium in North America on December 11, 2025, as part of its K-12 Teachers’ Book Club
• The History Leadership Institute (HLI) is accepting applications for its annual seminar, taking place June 1-12, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US. Applications are due December 31, 2025 

PUBLICATIONS

• The National Humanities Alliance has released two advocacy resources, “Humanities Pathway to Career Success,” and “Demonstrating the Value of the Liberal Arts,” which respectively demonstrate the value of humanities education for a successful career in a wide range of fields and the value of a liberal arts education
• The Organization for American Historians’ History, Archives, and Records Preservation Project (HARPP) has launched HARPPing on History, a Substack dedicated to rapid response commentary on current developments affecting federal, state, and local historical and cultural institutions
• The International Federation for Public History has published “Creating Public History Master Programs: International Guidelines,” which provided guidance on early planning, the proposal, and evaluation and sustainability of a public history master’s program
• Pasados, an open-access peer-reviewed publication with a focus on Latinx cultural pasts, has opened a Call for Papers for a Special Issue: “Against the Past/Contra Pasados.” Materials must be submitted by January 15, 2026

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