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Western History Association - Award deadlines approaching!
2025-03-14 - 2025-07-01
Heads up, western US history scholars!
The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. Their mission is to cultivate the broadest appreciation of this diverse history.
Two of WHA’s awards have deadlines coming up fairly soon.
First, the Autry Public History Prize is awarded annually to media exhibits, public programs, or written works that contribute to a broader public reflection and appreciation of the past or serve as a model of professional public history practice in the history of the North American West. The award consists of a $1,000 prize and a certificate to the award recipient. The prize is made possible by the generous support of the Autry Museum of the American West. The deadline to submit is April 15, 2025.
The WHA Council created the Louise Pubols Public History Prize to honor Pubols’ prize-winning publications, landmark exhibitions, and extraordinary service to the WHA. In keeping with Louise’s deep commitment to public history, the Pubols Prize will support the attendance of a public historian to the WHA’s annual meeting [in Albuquerque, NM, October 15-18, 2025]. The overwhelming generosity of donations from Louise’s friends and family fully-funded this prize in the fall of 2017 in its inaugural year. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2025.
The prize will include complimentary registration, a ticket to the Awards Banquet, and $500 to offset travel expenses to this year’s WHA Conference.
You can learn more about all of WHA’s awards on their Awards overview page.

TPS Western Region Granting open now
2025-04-11 - 2025-11-01
School districts, universities, cultural institutions, library systems and other educational organizations are invited to apply for grants of up to $25,000 to incorporate Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) materials and methods into their existing education and professional development programs for pre and in-service K-12 teachers, librarians, community members, and students.
TPS Western Region is currently accepting proposals for 6-9 month projects completing before 5-31-26.
The deadline for proposals for 6–9-month projects is July 31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Sept 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
The deadline for proposals for 6-month projects is Oct.31, 2025. These projects must start no earlier than Dec. 1, 2025, and be completed by May 31, 2026.
TPS Regional Program also offers subgrants under the Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative, named in honor of late Congressmen John Lewis (D-GA) and Amo Houghton (R-NY). Lewis-Houghton Initiative subgrants support projects incorporating music and creative arts-based primary sources and approaches to support student learning about civics, history, and democracy at the middle and high school level. Educational organizations across the country are invited to apply for subgrants to incorporate music, visual art, theatre, poetry, and literature from the Library’s digital collections, as well as arts-based approaches, into secondary civic and history education.
Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program offers grants to a wide spectrum of organizations that plan to integrate the Library’s resources into educational programs and teaching materials. TPS regions award grants of up to $25,000 for projects designed to deliver educational programming centered on resources made available by the Library of Congress.
