Around the Field – September 24, 2025

24 September 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Organization of American Historians is accepting applications for many of its award opportunities; The Preserving Historic Places conference is taking place in Fort Wayne, Indiana; New York Historical is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 seminar series; The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era is accepting proposals for its conference; Dr. Andrea Roberts is hosting “The Out(sider) Preservation Initiative: The Field Beyond Regulation and Lists” for Black in Historic Preservation.

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 Historical Association welcomes submissions of articles and other resources tracking federal actions affecting history
• NCPH (that’s us!) has released an updated Graduate Student Handbook: Choosing and Thriving in a Public History Program
• 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. Preliminary topic proposals are due October 15, 2025 and final proposals are due December 1, 2025 

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The Organization of American Historians has many award opportunities available to recognize scholarship and work in the field of U.S. history. Most submissions are due by October 1, 2025
• The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is offering 3 fellowships for visiting researchers of various topics, including public history. Applications are due October 15, 2025
• The American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming offers annual travel grants to provide support for travel, food and lodging to carry out research using AHC collections. The application due date is October 31, 2025
• The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin is accepting applications for its 2026–2027 research fellowship program. Applications are due November 3, 2025
• The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants Program. Applications are due November 20, 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

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• 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
• The Mountain-Plains Museums Association will host their annual conference “Crossroads and Collections” in Omaha, Nebraska, US, October 2-4, 2025
• Imagining America (IA) will host their National Gathering “Providing Passage: Practicing the Worlds We Want” in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US, October 3-5, 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 Kentucky Historical Society will host their 2025 Ohio Valley History Conference “Borders, Boundaries, and Belonging” in Frankfort, Kentucky, US, October 9-11, 2025
• “Second Foundings: Universities, Slavery, and Struggles for Justice in Texas and Beyond” will be hosted in collaboration with Universities Studying Slavery and the Texas Consortium of Universities and Colleges Studying Slavery and Race in Houston, Texas, US, October 10-13, 2025
• The Oral History Association will host “Exploring Our American Stories” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 15-18, 2025
• The American Folklore Society will host their 2025 annual meeting, “Restoring and ReStorying: Missing Stories and Moving Forward,” in Atlanta, Georgia, US, October 18-21, 2025
• The 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association will take place in St. Pete Beach, Florida, US, November 5-8, 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 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
• 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, from March 8-10, 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 Alliance for Texas History will hold its annual conference on May 27-29, 2026, in Fort Worth, Texas, US. The deadline for proposals is November 18, 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 call for proposals is open until October 1, 2025
• The Society of Civil War Historians welcomes proposals for its biennial conference in Richmond, Virginia, US, from June 18-20, 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 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 & the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies are jointly hosting a conference in Doha, Qatar, from October 19–20, 2026, focusing 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
• The Utah Historical Society is hosting multiple Introduction to Oral History training sessions in October and December 2025 
• 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
• Black in Historic Preservation is virtually hosting Dr. Andrea Roberts for “The Out(sider) Preservation Initiative: The Field Beyond Regulation and Lists” on October 4, 2025
• NCPH (that’s us!) is hosting our inaugural Grad Fair virtually from October 9-10, 2025 
• The New York Historical will host its hybrid Fall 2025 seminar series: “Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution” on November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025. Applications are due by October 10, 2025

PUBLICATIONS

• The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has released Other Stories To Tell: Recovery Scholarship and the Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, a comprehensive study that provides an essential guide for long term development and inspiration for new possibilities in the near term
• 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
• Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals seeks proposals for a special issue on “Ethical AI in GLAM: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Stewardship,” due October 20, 2025