28 June 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: 
OAH Graduate Student Committee seeks participants for panel at OAH 2024; international guidelines for public history MA programs; ACLS grant application now open; the National Humanities Alliance is hosting two moderated deep-dive conversations on public humanities training (one is today!) Read More
13 June 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting grant applications; the National Trust for Historic Preservation host a webinar; the Process calls for papers
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24 May 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Hagley Museum and Library is accepting grant applications; the American Association for State and Local History and NCPH call for poster proposals; the Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture calls for papers
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23 May 2023 – Danielle Afsordeh
Community engagement has become an essential part of post-custodial collections work. Through community engagement, archives can grow trust with underrepresented groups. The Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Butler Center for Arkansas Studies is currently employing these methods to document the history of the historically Polish Marche community in Pulaski County, Arkansas, while also working to build sustainable community relationships and trust. Read More
17 May 2023 – Mary Culler 1
“After you graduate and get the letters M.A. after your name, finding a job should be no problem.”
These encouraging words were offered up to me at a recent museum conference, and although I appreciate the sentiment, the statement is not exactly true. Read More
09 May 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Association of African American Museums extends early-bird pricing; the DAR Museum calls for proposals; the American Swedish Historical Museum calls for proposals
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04 May 2023 – Sarah H. Case
historiography, authority, environmental history, Native American history, The Public Historian, commemoration
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2023 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and to others with subscription access.
This issue brings several articles that explore the concept of authority in public history, an idea that has long shaped debates about how we define our field. Read More
26 April 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Endowment for the Humanities is accepting applications for a grant program; the Association of African American Museum is accepting applications for travel scholarships; the University of Manchester calls for proposals
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10 April 2023 – Andy Urban and Alena Pirok
From Amazon and Starbucks unionization drives to the waves of strikes that have roiled higher education in recent months, American workers are thinking critically about labor and moving towards action. Museum and historical site professionals are no different. Projects like Art/Museums Salary Transparency 2019, and Instagram accounts like Museumworkersspeak, and Changethemuseum, have stimulated the conversation among art museum workers, but public historians have been comparatively silent. Read More
04 April 2023 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Archives Foundation is accepting applications for a fellowship; the Association for the Study of African American Life and History calls for proposals; the Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network is holding a virtual workshop
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