20 August 2025 – Stephanie Rowe 2
Editor’s note: This piece builds on an article that appeared in the June 2025 edition of Public History News.
Going into the 2025 NCPH Annual Meeting in Montréal this March, I expected to bear the weight of the experience more deeply than prior years, not just because of our current political moment but because of my own circumstances. Read More
20 August 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The National Park Service is accepting applications for its Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Subgrant Program; the Organization of American Historians’ first session in their Lectureship Program series takes place this Saturday; Omeka is hosting a webinar next Wednesday; NCPH has released an updated Graduate Student Handbook. Read More
05 August 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The American Historical Association hosts a webinar on supporting new college students this Friday; the Alliance for Texas History seeks a public history editor; Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York hosts a webinar discussing how to plan a successful digitization project; Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals seeks proposals for a special issue on “Ethical AI in GLAM: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Stewardship.” Read More
30 July 2025 – Evania Pietrangelo-Porco
What shapes public history in 2025? The answer (for me) is social media. By utilizing the online persona of The Sex Work Historian as public history, I have uncovered social media as a medium and a method of history, allowing me to see it as a path forward for some historians’ work and as a solution and problem to issues facing historians in the digital era. Read More
23 July 2025 – Jess Baloun
From Around the Field this week: Virtual events for the Association of Midwest Museums annual meeting begin this Friday; American Alliance of Museums hosts an advocacy webinar this Thursday; The Alliance for Texas History seeks a public history editor.
AWARDS AND FUNDING
17 July 2025 – Amanda Tobin Ripley, Lee Bishop, Haley Bryant, Greig de Peuter, Steff Hui Ci Ling, Salma Geneidy, Carolyn Jong and Bonnie McDonald
Editor’s Note: This post is part of a 2025 History@Work series authored by members of the NCPH Labor Task Force in response to our Special Open Call on “#Advocacy in the Field.” You can read each post as it’s published throughout the year under H@W‘s #Advocacy tag. Read More
09 July 2025 – Jess Baloun
From Around the Field this week: MARAC is accepting book award nominations; The New Jersey Association of Museums hosts their annual meeting this week; The American Council of Learned Societies releases a new study on digital humanities; and abstracts for the DAR Museum are due this week. Read More
09 July 2025 – Jess Baloun
From Around the Field this week: AASLH announces the Leadership in History Awards of Excellence winners; The Association for Gravestone Studies will be hosted in York, Pennsylvania, this week; Research fellows sought for work on British and environmental work; and Black in Historic Preservation hosts a member talk and teach-in this week. Read More
27 June 2025 – Public History Breakfast Club
As federal cuts have threatened or fully hollowed the NPS, NEH, IMLS, the National Digital Newspaper Program, and the Smithsonian, history is undergoing systemic white-washing and straight-washing around the country. In response, some public historians at the recent NCPH Educator’s Forum in Montréal, Canada, transformed their annual breakfast into an urgent call to action. Read More
18 June 2025 – Jess Baloun
From Around the Field this week: AASLH announces the Leadership in History Awards of Excellence winners; The Association for Gravestone Studies will be hosted in York, Pennsylvania, this week; Research fellows sought for work on British and environmental work; and Black in Historic Preservation hosts a member talk and teach-in this week. Read More