Around the Field April 3, 2024
03 April 2024 – Hunter Marsh
From Around the Field this week: NCPH hosts our joint conference with the Utah Historical Society; the Oral History Association accepts applications for a research fund; the Learning Disabilities Association of America hosts a history webinar
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- During NCPH’s 2024 annual meeting in Salt Lake City join WWII camp survivors on an one-day visit to Topaz, Utah on April 13 in attending the 81st memorial ceremony for James Wakasa, killed by a guard at the incarceration camp in 1943
- The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites have released a free, online toolkit that helps historic site staff and volunteers looking to incorporate women’s history
- Consider volunteering for National Historic Marker Day on Friday, April 26, 2024
- NCPH board members will host a Committee Interest Info Session via Zoom on April 26, 2024 at 12:00 pm Eastern
AWARDS AND FUNDING
- The State Historical Society of Iowa accepts applications for their grant program to support history of Iowa or the Midwest through April 15, 2024
- The Oral History Association is accepting applications for their Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund until April 15, 2024
- The Journal of Women’s History is accepting applicants for their Scholars Research Grant through April 19, 2024
- The Western History Association is accepting applicants for two public history prizes, the Autry Public History Prize due on April 15, 2024 and the Louise Pubols Public History Prize due on June 30, 2024
- The National Archives Foundation is accepting applications for the 2024 Cokie Roberts Research Fund for Women’s History until May 15, 2024
- The American Historical Association will accept applications for the Herbert Feis Award through May 15, 2024
- the Disability History Association is accepting applicants for their Public Disability History Award until May 15, 2024
- The American Historical Association is accepting submissions for the Raymond J.