11 September 2024 – Bri Matson, Sophia Imperioli, Justin Porcelo and Lauren Perry
In the Fall of 2023, the Museum Club at East High School in Denver, Colorado began working with students at the University of Colorado Denver to expand the high school’s museum to better represent their current community. This collaboration highlights the value of incorporating public history in high school curricula. Read More
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
27 August 2024 – Bailey Brown and Lindsey Waldenberg
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. Read More
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
07 August 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
Multiple publications, including Public Humanities’ “How-To Issue” and the Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies, call for paper submissions and registration opens for the 2024 National Humanities Conference in Rhode Island, US.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
02 August 2024 – Sarah H. Case
The Public Historian, 2024 Annual Meeting, slavery, oral history, small business, urban history, Editor's Corner, African American history, environmental history
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2024 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.
The three articles in this issue all grapple with interpreting a particular place over multiple time periods, often in conversation with each other, and the insights that doing so can provide historians and the public. Read More
24 July 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
The American Association for State and Local History opens registration for their virtual summit on models of history and museum interpretation, the Organization of American Historians accepts submissions for the 2025 award cycle, and the American Council of Learned Societies launches award competition honoring open access publishing. Read More
17 July 2024 – Priya Chhaya
Author’s Note: This post was written in consultation with members of the NCPH Governance Committee.
In April 2024, the Board of the National Council on Public History formally adopted a statement of shared values for the organization. This statement of Shared Values and Ethical Commitments of Public Historians articulates a set of values amongst members of the National Council on Public History. Read More
10 July 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week:
Youth250 calls upon Gen Z to participate in Imagine + Incubate Workshops on America’s founding across the United States and the National Trust for Historic Preservation opens registration to their conference in New Orleans.
AWARDS AND FUNDING
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
18 June 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: Juneteenth is celebrated throughout the United States, the National Endowment for the Humanities hosts an informational webinar for the Climate Smart Humanities Organizations Grant Program, and nominations open for the Disability Public History Award.
AWARDS AND FUNDING