From Around the Field this week:The National Humanities Alliance introduces the new Humanities for All Compendium; The National Trust for Historic Preservation will host a webinar.
What do cherry blossoms and nuclear reactors have in common? They were among the many topics discussed by the National Council on Public History (NCPH) World War II Home Front Working Group, a three-year collaboration between NCPH and the National Park Service (NPS) that brought together practitioners and scholars working on World War II home front history to make connections and learn from each other.Read More
From Around the Field this week: Cambridge University Press launches the open-access Public Humanities; the National Humanities Conference Making Waves, Navigating Currents of Change is happening in Providence, Rhode Island; The National Trust hosts equity-based preservation planning webinar.
Despite their profound cultural and historical importance, civic leaders often neglect the preservation of African American churches in the South in favor of saving buildings that promise economic benefits or contribute to the development of private or public communities. Yet, these churches have always been central to African American communities, serving as places of worship, centers of civil rights activism, and sacred spaces for social and moral support. Read More
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the November 2024 issue of The Public Historian here. The entire issue is available online to National Council on Public History members and others with subscription access.
This issue begins with a unique take on the National Council on Public History (NCPH) presidential address, presented at the March 2024 Annual Meeting (held jointly with the Utah Historical Society) in Salt Lake City, Utah.Read More
From Around the Field this week: NPS is now accepting grant applications for Save America’s Treasures; the NEH seeks to fund free Juneteenth events; the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission calls for proposals from authors who wish to contribute to a study on The Negro Travelers’ Green Book. Read More
From Around the Field this week: Two announcements of new fellowship programs seeking applicants; the Society for History in the Federal Government and the American Association for State and Local History are now accepting proposals for their 2025 annual meetings.
Columbia University’s History Lab announces a conference on archival data and historical research funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the South Carolina African American Heritage Commission opens proposals for their annual conference, and Latino public history is given a spotlight in John Lequizamo’s PBS documentary series. Read More
Editor’s Note: Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan is the 2024 winner of the G. Wesley Johnson Award, which recognizes the most outstanding article appearing in the The Public Historian during the previous volume year, for her article “‘People First’: Interpreting and Commemorating Houselessness and Poverty,” The Public Historian Vol 45, No 1.Read More
The National Trust for Historic Preservation opens nominations for the 2025 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research announces October conference, and Emma Dennison seeks Christian-identified museum workers for a master’s thesis survey. Read More
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