11 February 2025 – Will Walker
How public historians should respond to prevalent anti-immigrant attitudes and the immigration policies of the Trump administration, including the promised “mass deportation program,” is one of the urgent questions of our moment. In 2016, History@Work published “A response to the election,” in which the authors (including myself) wrote: Read More
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
22 January 2025 – Tyler Jones
Something remarkable is happening in rural Alabama: a former plantation is being reimagined as a place for truth and reconciliation. But what’s most notable is who is behind it. A group of Black descendants of the formerly enslaved, and white descendants of the enslavers, have together formed the Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation, a non-profit dedicated to reparative history through art. Read More
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
13 January 2025 – Denise Meringolo
Editor’s note: This post was published in Volume 44 Number 4 of Public History News, NCPH’s quarterly newsletter. It is cross-posted here in response to History@Work‘s current Special Call for posts on “advocacy in the field.”
During this past election year there was a predictable uptick in the number of opinion pieces regarding historians’ work as public intellectuals, particularly as political commentators. Read More
06 January 2025 – Ummul Muhseneen
advocacy, oral history, commemoration, memorials, memorial museum, traumatic histories, NCPH 2024 Awards, victim recognition, 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
As part of my dissertation research on the memorialization of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, I have encountered silences in related memorials and in the archives. These silences have led me to ask: What role might oral testimonies play in remedying the silences that surround official attempts to memorialize mass atrocity crimes? Read More
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
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
21 November 2024 – Suzanne Fischer and Leslie Przybylek 3
What do cherry blossoms and nuclear reactors have in common? They were among the many topics discussed by the National Council on Public History (NCPH) World War II Home Front Working Group, a three-year collaboration between NCPH and the National Park Service (NPS) that brought together practitioners and scholars working on World War II home front history to make connections and learn from each other. Read More
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