26 February 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Society of American Archivists wraps up applications for several awards; The American Association for State and Local History will host “250 con” and wraps up applications for their Award in Excellence; The American Alliance of Museums recognizes Museum Advocacy Day 2025. Read More
24 February 2025 – Alena Pirok
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in 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
12 February 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The Mountain-Plains Museum Association extends their calls for proposals for their Annual Conference to February 14, 2025; The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Grant Program on February 14, 2025. Read More
11 February 2025 – Will Walker
How public historians should respond to prevalent anti-immigrant attitudes and the immigration policies of the Trump administration, including the promised “mass deportation program,” is one of the urgent questions of our moment. In 2016, History@Work published “A response to the election,” in which the authors (including myself) wrote: Read More
29 January 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The American Association for State and Local History wraps up preliminary nominations for the Award of Distinction; Columbia University asks for applications for their NEH-funded Archives as Data – Summer Institute 2025 taking place in June; applications for the Cokie Roberts Fellowship for Women’s History to support research at the National Archives are launched. Read More
22 January 2025 – Tyler Jones
Something remarkable is happening in rural Alabama: a former plantation is being reimagined as a place for truth and reconciliation. But what’s most notable is who is behind it. A group of Black descendants of the formerly enslaved, and white descendants of the enslavers, have together formed the Wallace Center for Arts and Reconciliation, a non-profit dedicated to reparative history through art. Read More
15 January 2025 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: The University of Michigan William L. Clements Library wraps up applications for 2025-2026 
research fellowships; The American Historical Association calls for proposals for their 2026 Annual Meeting in Chicago; The Indiana Association of Historians extends their call for proposals to February 1, 2025, for their 2025 conference in Hanover. Read More
13 January 2025 – Denise Meringolo
Editor’s note: This post was published in Volume 44 Number 4 of Public History News, NCPH’s quarterly newsletter. It is cross-posted here in response to History@Work‘s current Special Call for posts on “advocacy in the field.”
During this past election year there was a predictable uptick in the number of opinion pieces regarding historians’ work as public intellectuals, particularly as political commentators. Read More
06 January 2025 – Ummul Muhseneen
memorials, memorial museum, traumatic histories, advocacy, NCPH 2024 Awards, oral history, victim recognition, commemoration, 1971 Bangladesh Genocide
As part of my dissertation research on the memorialization of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide, I have encountered silences in related memorials and in the archives. These silences have led me to ask: What role might oral testimonies play in remedying the silences that surround official attempts to memorialize mass atrocity crimes? Read More
11 December 2024 – NCPH Office
From Around the Field this week: Nominations for two American Association for State and Local History awards open; the National Park Service wraps up applications for its Save America’s Treasures grant program.
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