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Around the Field – October 22, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The 1772 Foundation is accepting grant applications for historic preservation construction projects; The National Trust for Historic Preservation is hosting its annual National Preservation Law Conference; a Teach-in is taking place on the National Mall; The Métis Nation of Ontario is presenting “Who Tells Our Stories? Indigenous Authority in […]
Around the Field - October 8, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: NCPH and AASLH are welcoming preliminary topic proposals for their joint conference; The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History is accepting applications for three fellowships; Applications for New York Historical’s Fall 2025 seminar series are due; the Oral History Association is hosting its 2025 Annual Conference ANNOUNCEMENTS The […]
Feeling at Home in a Newport Mansion | 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.” In addition, this piece is part of a series based on Rutgers University student interviews with practicing public historians. You can read each post as it […]
Around the Field - September 24, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: The Organization of American Historians is accepting applications for many of its award opportunities; The Preserving Historic Places conference is taking place in Fort Wayne, Indiana; New York Historical is accepting applications for its Fall 2025 seminar series; The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era […]
Imagining a Future for Public History | National Council on Public History
Like so many members of our professional community, I have been buffeted by the steady stream of blows to the field these past several months––blows that I can’t help but take personally. The financial and ideological foundations of what I’ve come to understand as public history in the twenty-first century have been under attack from […]
Around the Field - September 10, 2025 | National Council on Public History
From Around the Field this week: NCPH is accepting letters of interest for multiple National Park Service contract positions; the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is accepting submissions for the 2026 ASALH Book Prize; American Historical Review seeks proposals for a special issue on “Methods for Archival Silence in […]
Editor's Corner | National Council on Public History
The editor's corner discusses public history and historic preservation in many aspects, including the racial implications of historic commemoration and preservation; preservation of historical sites affected by COVID-19 shutdowns; recommendations for the management of historical house museums and sites; and the preservation of records created by campus organizations.
A neurodivergent approach to public history labor | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Public History and Social Media | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Around the Field - August 20, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. ANNOUNCEMENTS The American […]
Around the Field - August 6, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Public History and Social Media | National Council on Public History
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 […]
Around the Field - July 23, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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 The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) is accepting entries for the Arline Custer […]
Labors of love and organizing for solidarity within, across, and beyond the cultural industries | National Council on Public History
At NCPH's annual meeting in Montreal this year, one session focused on how workers across industries are demanding structural change through an unprecedented wave of labor organizing.
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 […]
Around the Field - July 9, 2025 | National Council on Public History
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. AWARDS AND FUNDING The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference […]
Meeting the moment in tiers (not tears): a resistance guide for public history educators | National Council on Public History
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]