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

Around the Field October 16, 2024

16 October 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week: Two announcements of new fellowship programs seeking applicants; the Society for History in the Federal Government and the American Association for State and Local History are now accepting proposals for their 2025 annual meetings.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• The National Humanities Alliance is hosting a webinar to launch their new report Attracting Students to the Liberal Arts through Integrative Curricula, October 24, 2024
• The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for its new Community Deep Mapping Institute through November 22, 2024.

Around the Field October 2, 2024

02 October 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

Columbia University’s History Lab announces a conference on archival data and historical research funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission opens proposals for their annual conference, and Latino public history is given a spotlight in John Lequizamo’s PBS documentary series. Read More

Around the Field September 18, 2024

18 September 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

The National Trust for Historic Preservation opens nominations for the 2025 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research announces October conference, and Emma Dennison seeks Christian-identified museum workers for a master’s thesis survey. Read More

Around the Field September 4, 2024

04 September 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

The Midwest Archives Conference extends its proposal deadline to September 6, 2024, the Daughters of the American Revolution announce a symposium on textile history, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will hold a webinar on Black Modernism, architecture, and identity. Read More

Around the Field August 21, 2024

21 August 2024 – NCPH Office

From Around the Field this week:

Imagining America begins searching for their next home institution, the National Humanities Center opens residential fellowship applications, and the Lepage Center is now accepting applicants for the Labor in Historical Perspective Grant.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Imagining America: Artists & Scholars in Public Life has begun a two-year long search for their next campus home, institutions are called to submit a letter of interest by January 15, 2025
• The Council of State Archivists has announced the winners of several awards for the 2024 season, who will be thanked at the CoSA Annual Conference in St.