Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Joan Zenzen is the winner of the Excellence in Consulting Individual Awardfor her work on Using Oral History to Affect Community Change: Action in Montgomery at its 20th Anniversary. Read More
Roots of Resistance: The Tuchyn Story is a hybrid exhibition about a Jewish uprising in the Tuchyn Ghetto against Nazi occupiers in Tuchyn, Ukraine, during World War II. When nearby refugees arrived in Tuchyn, they warned Jews of the dangers coming towards the town. Read More
From Around the Field this week: NCPH calls for posters; the Black Buffalo Syllabus Collective is accepting reading recommendations; the National Trust for Historic Preservation is accepting scholarship applications
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Black Buffalo Syllabus Collective is accepting reading recommendations for the #BuffaloSyllabus for the next month
The National Council on Public History has a wonderful guide for students applying to graduate school, but it offers limited advice on how to write your personal statement. Prospective public history graduate students could benefit from insights about what graduate faculty are looking for in these short essays. Read More
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a series of reflections from winners of NCPH awards in 2022. Madeline Hellmich is the winner of a graduate student travel award.
From Around the Field this week: NCPH is offering a virtual mini-con; the National Archives is accepting applications for grants; Change Over Time calls for abstracts
The Association of African American Museums will hold their 44th Annual Conference in Miami, Florida, US, August 10-12, 2022
The International Federation for Public History will hold the 6th IFPH World Conference in Berlin, Germany, August 16-20, 2022
The American Association for State and Local History will hold their annual conference, “Right Here, Right Now: The Power of Place,” in Buffalo, New York, US, September 14-17, 2022, and virtually, November 1-4, 2022
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the August 2022 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.Read More
From Around the Field this week: NCPH 2023 proposals are due July 15; the American Association for State and Local History releases an update on the Semiquincentennial; the Society for Queer Asian Studies calls for conference panel proposals
AWARDS AND FUNDING
The Special Collections Research Center of William & Mary Libraries is accepting applications for four 2022-2023 Travel Scholarships, due July 18, 2022
The Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference calls for nominations for the Arline Custer Memorial Award by July 31, 2022
From Around the Field this week: NCPH and other organizations release statements on the overturning of Roe v. Wade; the American Association for State and Local History accepts applications for scholarships for their annual meeting; the Organization of American Historians offers a webinar on Dobbs v.Read More
On the morning of April 1, 2022, I was among throngs of remote researchers who visited the National Archives and Records Administration website to access data from the newly released 1950 Census. I had waited thirteen years to answer one research question: Who was the Black woman working in a family home that I had first researched in 2009? Read More
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