Public History

Join us in celebrating VE Day with a Transcribe-a-Thon focused on uncensored, handwritten reflections of military service from WWII soldiers collected by the Army Research Branch. "The American Soldier" project is a collaboration between multiple units at Virginia Tech (College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences; University Libraries; and Center for Human-Computer Interaction) as well as the National Archives and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join the Museum of the City of New York for its Spring 2018, David Berg Distinguished Speakers Series
Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00 pm at 1220 5th Avenue at 103rd Street

Please join the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. for its Visionary Historian Award and 124th Anniversary Celebration. The Fifth Annual Visionary Historian Award will be presented to Howard Gillette, Ph.D., to honor his enduring contributions to the field of Washington, D.C. history. The event takes place on Thursday, May 10, 2018, from 6 to 8 pm, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW, Washington, D.C. 20001

Persistenze o Rimozioni , in collaboration with Spagna Contemporanea and Univeristy of Perugia, launches a call for papers for its 8th annual conference: The  Europe of Yesterday. The Europe of Tomorrow.

The conference wil be hosted by the University of Perugia (28-29 June 2018)

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Hazardous Objects: Function, Materiality, and Context

History Acts 11 - Environment
Tuesday 17 April 2018 18:00 to 20:00
MAL G16, Birkbeck College, Malet St, London

An opportunity for historians with an interest in environmental issues to engage with activists.

22-23 November 2018 at Tūranga (Central Library) on the corner of Gloucester Street and Colombo Street, Christchurch.

The Historical Institute of the University of Wroclaw (Poland), the International Federation for Public History and Zajezdnia History Centre invites students and PhD candidates to participate in Public History Summer School to be held in Wrocław, 2-5 July 2018.

The Historical Institute (HI UWr) constitutes a major centre for public history studies and offers a unique MA program taught in English.

The James K. Polk Project and the Department of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, invite paper proposals for "James K. Polk and His Time: A Conference Finale to the Polk Project," to be held at the East Tennessee Historical Society, in Knoxville, on April 12–13, 2019.