The University of North Alabama’s (UNA) summer study abroad experience in Scotland demonstrates that regional universities can create meaningful international public history experiences for their students. Co-led by public historians from UNA and archaeologists from Historic Environment Scotland (HES), the program gives students a rare opportunity to work directly with international heritage institutions, applying classroom skills to research, interpretation, and community engagement.Read More
From Around the Field this week: Abstract submissions for Slavery North are closing; The Organization of American Historians is hosting the last lecture of its Lectureship Program; The Society for History in the Federal Government is accepting nominations for its awards until the end of the year; Germinate is accepting submissions for its winter quarter series of postsRead More
The National Park Service’s ability to interpret the breadth of American history that is reflected in its more than four hundred sites is fragile. The fate of one of these, the Blackwell School National Historic Site, serves as an example of how quickly gains made in this effort can be undone. Read More
Editors’ Note: We publish The Public Historian editor’s introduction to the November 2025 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.
Our special issue, “Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Massacre Sites,” guest edited by Lily Anne Welty Tamai, considers burial grounds and sites of mass violence as important sources for public historical research. Read More
Within the first few months of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, he and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) waged a war on national parks. Through massive staff layoffs, drastic funding cuts, and attempts to censor interpretation, this administration is undermining public access to our lands and our nation’s diverse histories.Read More
From Around the Field this week: NCPH & AASLH are closing their call for proposals for their 2026 joint conference; the Utah Historical Society is hosting a virtual Introduction to Oral History training session; the Society of American Archivists is closing its call for proposals for its 2026 annual meeting; the Organization of American Historians is hosting its K-12 Teachers’ Book Club; the Midwestern History Association is closing its call for proposals for its 2026 annual conferenceRead More
From Around the Field this week: Final proposals for NCPH-AASLH 2026 are due December 5; The International Federation for Public History invites proposals for its 2026 conference; The American Alliance of Museums is hosting its virtual Museums & Social Media Summit; The American Council of Learned Societies is accepting applications for its Digital Justice Grants Program; The Slave Dwelling Project is welcoming proposals for their 2026 conferenceRead More
From Around the Field this week: Monticello’s International Center for Jefferson Studies is offering yearlong hybrid fellowships; The Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists will host their 2025 conference; The Alliance for Texas History has an open call for papers for its annual conference; The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is holding an in-person symposium, “Public History in Authoritarian Times” Read More
In 1944, the Hungarian government carried out two operations simultaneously. More than 430,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in just eight weeks, while at the same time state officials—commissioners, police, and museum staff—systematically confiscated their art collections. The records of this bureaucratized looting survived on microfilm, largely untouched for decades. Read More
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