From around the field this week: Join the International Sites of Conscience to talk about Museums and Guns at tomorrow’s Twitter #MuseumEdChat (May 24); @NCPHInclusion task force member Shakti Castro gives a talk on the history of the opioid crisis in NYC’s Puerto Rican and Latinx communities (May 24);Historic New England is hosting a “Caring for Municipal, Museum, and other Non-Profit Historic Properties” workshop in Massachusetts (May 25); Submit a pop-up proposal for the COSA-NAGARA-SAA 2018 Joint Meeting by May 31;June is Pride Month in the United States, and many cultural organizations are featuring LGBTQ history events and talks. Read More
From around the field this week: Topic proposals for NCPH 2019 are due on June 1 for feedback and offers of collaboration; several NEH grant applications are due in the next few weeks; upcoming workshops from AASLH, the Pennsylvania State Archives, Queens University Belfast, and others. Read More
From around the field this week: Virginia Tech is hosting a V.E. Day Transcribe-a-Thon; Fort Negley is premiering their Fort Negley Descendents Project oral histories in Nashville this Saturday the 28th; nominations will be due soon for the AHA’s awards; several summer workshops and institutes are now accepting applications. Read More
From around the field this week: PubComm 2018 (Public History Community Forum on Racism and Resistance) is tomorrow, April 5, in Philadelphia; “Reap the Whirlwind: A Holistic Approach to Museum Internships” webinar from the Virginia Association of Museums, is next Monday, April 9; AASLH’s Call for Posters for their 2018 meeting (an event sponsored by NCPH) is now open through June 10; The Public Historian is open-access for the month of April. Read More
From around the field this week: the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is holding its spring business meeting, open to the public, on March 22; the Newport Historical Society and Rhode Island Historical Society are hosting the public history panel “Myth, Memory, History and Heritage” on March 23; sign up now for a March 24 workshop on 18th century women’s clothing in Baltimore; the AASLH’s online course on Museum Education and Outreach starts March 26. Read More
From around the field this week: The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the National Park Service, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services have all opened grant and fellowship applications due May 1; AASLH’s webinar on Cultural Heritage & Climate Science is this Thursday, March 8; Jason Steinhauer is delivering a talk at the University of Michigan (open to the public) on “The Future of (Public) History” Friday, March 9; the annual Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium, this year on “Monumental Narratives: Revisiting New England’s Public Memorials,” is Saturday, March 10. Read More
From around the field this week: Explore AASLH’s “Nightmare at the Museum” week, featuring webinars and a Twitter chat, and submit nominations for their Leadership in History awards by March 1; take part in Museums Advocacy Day February 26-27; the Museum of the City of New York is hosting “Epic Histories with Mike Wallace and Nell Irvin Painter” on February 27; applications are due soon for a two-week NEH summer institute for college and university teachers in New York and the Smithsonian’s summer Latino Museum Studies Program. Read More
From around the field this week: The online journal and database Women and Social Movements in the United States is seeking volunteers to write biographical sketches of women suffrage activists for their Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States; the ACLS has opened a new fellowship and grant program for community college faculty; the Association of African American Museums’ conference proposal deadline is this Friday; an upcoming webinar on collections storage projects. Read More
From around the field this week: the National Park Service requests comments from the public on draft significance statements for the Stonewall National Monument; the Society of American Archivists announces awards with a nomination deadline of Feb. 28; Active History is looking for authors for a new monthly series on history pedagogy; the Italian Association of Public History seeks proposals for their second annual conference by early February. Read More
From around the field this week: the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) seeks nominations for their steering committee and proposals for their 2018 conference in São Paulo, Brazil; applications are now being accepted for this cycle’s Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows Competition; submit a proposal for the 2018 World Humanities Forum in Busan, South Korea by January 31; sign up for next week’s free “Historical Storytelling through Technology” webinar from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Read More
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