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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Nominations are open for the Arline Custer Memorial Award, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, with submissions due July 31, 2024
CONFERENCES AND CALLS
Rochester History invites submissions to a forum on Blake McKelvey in honor of the 80th anniversary of the publication Rochester: The Water-Power City, 1812-1854.
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.
In 1997, my hometown of Fort Collins, Colorado, was ravaged by a flood. During the deluge, the Johnson Center Mobile Home Park was completely destroyed. As a young child, I walked through the empty lot where the homes used to sit and wondered about the community that had been erased. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The Ohio Valley History Conference announces dates in early October, the AHA challenges participants to a Summer Reading Challenge, AASLH calls for poster proposals, and the Utah Historical Society hosts a webinar on statewide markers and monuments. Read More
From Around the Field this week: The National Trust for Historic Preservation accepts applications for their grant program; the Midwestern History Association hosts their annual conference; NCPH hosts a virtual workshop; Radical History Review ends their call for article abstracts
The American Association for State and Local History calls for proposals for an NCPH-sponsored poster session at their 2024 conference, deadline is June 24, 2024
AWARDS AND FUNDING
Museum Hue and the New York State Council on the Arts are accepting applicants for their fellowship program, HueArts NYS Leadership Cohort, until May 24, 2024
The Center for Archival Collections at the University Libraries at Bowling Green State University is accepting applicants for their Access to the Archives Travel Grants through May 31, 2024
The New England Historical Association is accepting nominations for their James P.
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