Around the Field – April 9, 2025

09 April 2025 – NCPH Office

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Celebrate National Historic Marker Weekend in your community Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27, 2025
• The University of Nebraska at Omaha Criss Library is conducting a survey on archivists teaching outside the archives and invite librarians and archivists to complete their survey by May 2, 2025
• The Council of Independent Colleges has published a report on the grants awarded to 49 independent colleges and universities through the Humanities Research for the Public Good (HRPG) initiative between 2019 and 2024 to support public-facing humanities projects

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• Applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are due April 14, 2025
• The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Autry Public History Prize through April 15, 2025 
• Sharing Stories from 1977 is forming an inaugural editorial board for their peer-reviewed, open-access website and seeks applications for editorial fellows from graduate researchers through April 15, 2025
• The Association of African American Museums is accepting nominations for their 2025 awards through May 15, 2025
• The Center for Archival Collections at Bowling Green State University is accepting applictions for their Access to the Archives Travel Grant through May 31, 2025
• The Western Historical Association is accepting applications for the Louise Pubols Public History Prize through June 30, 2025

CONFERENCES AND CALLS

• The Midwestern Archives Conference will hold its 2025 annual meeting, Serving It Up, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, from April 10-12, 2025
• Seattle University calls for abstracts for a conference, Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities, to be held in Seattle, Washington, US, April 25-27, 2025
• The Center for Cryptologic History and the National Cryptologic Foundation call for papers and posters for their 19th Cryptologic History Symposium in Laurel, Maryland, US, from April 30 – May 2, 2025
• The Society for History in the Federal Government calls for papers for its 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US, May 29-30, 2025
• The Inaugural Sensory Public History Conference will be held at University College London East in London, UK, May 30-31, 2025
• 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 invites proposals for 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, in August 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 Mountain-Plains Museums Association calls for proposals for 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
• 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 American History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US, April 16-19, 2026

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

• Indiana University – Indianapolis Museum Studies Program will host “Museums in Uncertain Times” on Monday April 14, 2025 at 4pm Eastern
• The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 4(f) Compliance for Historic Properties in Montpelier, Vermont, US, from April 23-24, 2025
• The National Preservation Institute will host a session on Section 106: An Introduction in New York, New York, US, from April 28-29, 2025, and in Salt Lake City, Utah, US, from May 20-21, 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.

Around the Field – March 12, 2025

12 March 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: National Humanities Alliance hosted their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US; the The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program; Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri hosts their 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, US. Read More

Around the Field – February 26, 2025

26 February 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Society of American Archivists wraps up applications for several awards; The American Association for State and Local History will host “250 con” and wraps up applications for their Award in Excellence; The American Alliance of Museums recognizes Museum Advocacy Day 2025.  Read More

Around the Field – February 12, 2025

12 February 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The Mountain-Plains Museum Association extends their calls for proposals for their Annual Conference to February 14, 2025; The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grant Program on February 14, 2025. Read More

Around the Field – January 29, 2025

29 January 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History wraps up preliminary nominations for the Award of Distinction; Columbia University asks for applications for their NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 taking place in June; applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are launched. Read More

Around the Field – January 15, 2025

15 January 2025 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library wraps up applications for 2025-2026 research fellowships; The American Historical Association calls for proposals for their 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago; The Indiana Association of Historians extends their call for proposals to February 1, 2025, for their 2025 conference in Hanover. Read More

Around the Field – December 11, 2024

11 December 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Nominations for two American Association for State and Local History awards open; the National Park Service wraps up applications for its Save America’s Treasures grant program.

AWARDS AND FUNDING

• The National Park Service is now accepting applications to its Save America’s Treasures grant program through December 12, 2024
• The Society for History in the Federal Government is accepting 2025 award nominations through December 15, 2024
• The 2025 Society for History in the Federal Government Awards are now open for submissions until December 15, 2024
• The Fitch Foundation is now accepting applications for 2025 fellowship and grant funding, with a deadline of December 16, 2024
• The National Trust for Historic Preservation is seeking nominations for their National Preservation Award through January 10, 2025
• The National Endowment for the Humanities invites Chair’s Grant requests of up to $30k to support free Juneteenth events.

Around the Field – November 27, 2024

26 November 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: The National Humanities Alliance introduces the new Humanities for All Compendium; The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host a webinar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Humanities Alliance has recently published a new resource, Humanities for All: Documenting the Public Humanities in Higher Education, 2017–2023, which compiles four essays, 62 in-depth project profiles, and 15 exemplary posts from the Humanities for All blog, into a durable publication. 

Around the Field – November 13, 2024

13 November 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Cambridge University Press launches the open-access Public Humanities; the National Humanities Conference Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change is happening in Providence, Rhode Island; The National Trust hosts equity-based preservation planning webinar.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Registration has now opened for the National Archives Foundation’s space-themed “History, Heroes, & Treasures: Sleepover at the National Archives” in Washington DC, on February 1, 2025
• The National Archives is putting together a focus group for feedback on the redesign of Archives.gov

Around the Field October 30, 2024

29 October 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: NPS is now accepting grant applications for Save America’s Treasures; the NEH seeks to fund free Juneteenth events; the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission calls for proposals from authors who wish to contribute to a study on The Negro Travelers’ Green Book. Read More