News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Life
Culture & Art
Hobbies
News
Entertainment
Science & Technology
Culture & Art
Hobbies
![](https://cdn.contenting.app/assets/images/default-site-icon.png?width=64"){kind=icon}
Around the Field - June 18, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. AWARDS AND FUNDING […]
Give public historians bread and roses | National Council on Public History
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. Utilizing a rally cry of labor activists from the past, public historians say, […]
Around the Field - June 4, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: Latinos in Heritage Conservation closes endangered site nominations this week; The Association for Gravestone Studies hosts their annual conference this month; The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts will host a webinar on their new preservation glossary in two weeks. AWARDS AND FUNDING Massachusetts Humanities is seeking applications […]
Around the Field - May 21, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The Association of Midwest Museums finalizes nominations for their 2025 awards; The Society for History in the Federal Government will host their annual meeting next week; The George Wright Society will be hosting a webinar “National Parks Culture: Art, Placemaking, and Belonging” next week. AWARDS AND FUNDING The […]
Around the Field – May 7, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The Association of African American Museums wraps up nominations for their 2025 awards; the National Humanities Alliance and Federation of State Humanities Councils have extended proposals until May 11, 2025; NCPH will co-host an AAPI Digital Public History Project Showcase. ANNOUNCEMENTS Inspection copies of How Museums Tell Stories by […]
Editor's Corner: Indigenous presence and memoryscsapes | National Council on Public History
Editors’ Note: We publish the editor’s introduction to the May 2025 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 features two research articles and two reports from the field. The two articles both consider the meaning of representation and “memoryscapes” (physical spaces that […]
Finding their voices: the Williamsburg Bray School scholars’ legacy | National Council on Public History
This article is the author’s personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of Colonial Williamsburg. In February 2023, I began working at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF). At the same time, an original structure then known as the Williamsburg Bray School was being moved from the College of William & Mary onto the […]
Around the Field – April 23, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The Organization of American Historians has extended proposals for their 2026 conference “Re-Thinking American History at 250” to April 29, 2025; Seattle University hosts “Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities”; the 2025 National Humanities Conference has extended their call for proposals to May 11, 2025. ANNOUNCEMENTS The […]
Is It a Farce or Is It History? Native American Playwrights as Public Historians | National Council on Public History
Not long ago, I described Native playwrights as public historians because their plays speak directly to audiences, their narratives confront the past as well as illuminate it, and playwrights bring life to histories Americans have forgotten or perhaps never learned. Whether through comedy or drama, satire or farce, Native playwrights are bringing complex histories to […]
Navigating the Complexities of Public History in a Changing Legislative Landscape | National Council on Public History
Sixty-five public historians gathered at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette to discuss the state of public history in the U.S. South in October 2024. These historians came from across the South—the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Tennessee—for the NCPH mini-conference co-organized by Ian Beamish, Julia Brock, and Liz Skilton. Befitting of the […]
Around the Field - April 9, 2025 | National Council on Public History
ANNOUNCEMENTS Celebrate National Historic Marker Weekend in your community Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27, 2025 The University of Nebraska at Omaha Criss Library is conducting a survey on archivists teaching outside the archives and invite librarians and archivists to complete their survey by May 2, 2025 The Council of Independent Colleges has published […]
Identity and Careers in Public History | National Council on Public History
Like many of the folks who read this blog, my career in public history is a defining part of who I am. Lately though, I’ve been wondering if this tie between my professional and personal identities may be bad for my mental health. If you’ve worked in public history–or, more specifically, in museums–you’ve probably seen […]
Around the Field – March 12, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: National Humanities Alliance hosted their 2025 annual meeting in Washington, DC, US; the The National Trust for Historic Preservation wraps up applications for their Conserving Black Modernism Grant Program; Park University and the State Historical Society of Missouri hosts their 2025 Missouri Conference on History in Blue Springs, Missouri, […]
Editor's Corner: new media and stone walls | National Council on Public History
This issue presents four articles that demonstrate the diversity of public history scholarship today. Labor issues, racial justice, new media, and the intersection of the built and natural environment are considered in these pages.
Around the Field – February 26, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The American Alliance of Museums marks […]
Immigration and Public History in the Second Trump Era | National Council on Public History
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: “In the past several decades, our field has […]
Around the Field – February 12, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. AWARDS AND FUNDING The National Endowment for Humanities Division […]
Around the Field – January 29, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Short Film: The Power of Art for Reparative History | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Around the Field – January 15, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. […]
Private memories, public memorials: the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide | National Council on Public History %
Oral histories challenge silences in the memorialization of the 1971 Bangladesh Genocide. This post examines private memories, public memorials, and the struggle for recognition of mass atrocity victims.
Around the Field – December 11, 2024 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: Nominations for two American Association for State and Local History awards open; The undNational Park Service wraps up applications for its Save America’s Treasures grant program. AWARDS AND FUNDING The National Park Service is now accepting applications to its Save America’s Treasures grant program through December 12, 2024 The […]
Around the Field - November 27, 2024 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The National Humanities Alliance has recently published a new resource, Humanities for All: Documenting the Public Humanities in Higher Education, 2017–2023, which compiles four essays, 62 in-depth […]
Final report: Exploring the World War II home front with an NCPH working group | National Council on Public History
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.
Around the Field - November 13, 2024 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS Registration has now opened for the National Archives Foundation’s space-themed “History, Heroes, & Treasures: Sleepover at the […]
Around the Field October 30, 2024 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Mellon Foundation has awarded a […]
Around the Field October 16, 2024 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The National Humanities Alliance is hosting a webinar to launch their new report Attracting Students […]
Around the Field October 2, 2024 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: 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. ANNOUNCEMENTS […]
“History and tradition:” judicial engagement with public histories of homelessness | National Council on Public History
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. This post considers our series featuring […]
Around the Field September 18, 2024 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: 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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) […]
The Impact of Public History Projects on High School Communities | National Council on Public History
In the Fall of 2023, the Museum Club at East High School in Denver, Colorado began working with students at the University of Colorado Denver to expand the high school’s museum to better represent their current community. This collaboration highlights the value of incorporating public history in high school curricula. The co-authors of this article […]
Around the Field September 4, 2024 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The Midwest Archives Conference extends its proposal deadline to September 6, 2024, the Daughters of the American Revolution announce a symposium on textile history, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund will hold a webinar on Black Modernism, architecture, and identity. ANNOUNCEMENTS Imagining […]
“Arab American Labor" digital humanities project | National Council on Public History
As part of its mission to share the history of the Lebanese diaspora in the United States and beyond, the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies (KCLDS), based at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, is dedicated to researching, preserving, and promoting the history and culture of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants worldwide. […]