The NPS’s Underrepresented Communities Grant Program (URC) is now accepting applications for competitive grants. Since 2014, the NPS has awarded almost $3 million in grants to diversify the nominations to the National Register of Historic Places. Grant-supported projects include surveys and inventories of historic properties associated with communities underrepresented in the National Register, as well as the development of new nominations to the National Register.

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Historically Black Colleges & Universities Grant Program (HBCU) is now accepting applications for competitive grants. The HBCU Preservation Grant Program exists to document, preserve, and stabilize structures on HBCU campuses that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places either individually or as contributing to a National Register or National Historic Landmark historic district.

Applications for both programs will be due March 31, 2021.

The 2021 Virtual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians will bring scholars, practitioners, professionals, and students in architectural history and related fields together online to share new research on the history of the built environment, engage in thought-provoking conversations, and connect with colleagues from around the world. The Virtual Conference will take place between Tuesday, April 13, and Saturday, April 17, and will include 36 paper sessions with live Q&A, a social hour, the SAH Business Meeting, a pre-conference workshop, keynote talks, the annual SAH Awards Ceremony, and the SAH Montréal Seminar. Registrants receive 30-day access to watch recorded paper presentations. In addition, SAH will present a series of free roundtable discussions throughout the month of May. Register at https://www.sah.org/2021-virtual-conference.  

The Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) is now accepting paper abstracts for the 2021 Annual Conference, to be held in Natchez, Mississippi, September 29—October 2, 2021, and co-hosted by Historic Natchez Foundation, Natchez National Historical Park, and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The paper sessions will be held on Thursday and Friday, September 30 and October 1. Please submit paper and/or session proposals via Qualtrics at: SESAH 2021 Paper and Session Proposals by May 1, 2021.

For the full call for papers and important dates, see the SESAH conference page.

The Center for the Preservation of Civil Right Sites has just launched a brand new website. The website features a curated list of searchable resources about black heritage and the built environment. Also – we have an ongoing initiative Picturing Civil Rights, a crowd-sourced digital exhibition commemorating Civil Rights sites in the vernacular landscape. This is now an Instagram account as well @civilrightsites.