I just learned about this great opportunity for high school students and their teachers at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston: The John and Elizabeth Winthrop Endowed Fellowship encourages high school students to make use of the nationally significant documents...
If so, you have about a month to submit your application. The deadline is April 30, 2015. With that in mind, Chris Cameron of the African-American Intellectual History blog has provided some useful advice. Here is a small taste: In...
A McNeil Center staple–with a hat tip to Brett Mizelle Congratulations to the new group of fellows who have converged on Philadelphia this Fall to study early American history at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the University […]
Read the entire list here. Here are a few projects that caught my eye: Sarah Beetham, University of Delaware, “Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917”*Nicholas Bonneau, University of Notre Dame, “Unspeakable Loss: New England’s Invisible Throat Distemper […]
Are you working on a project related to George Washington or the founding era? Consider applying for a fellowship at the newly opened Fred. W. Smith Library. Go to the Mount Vernon website to learn more. Here is how to...
The National Endowment for the Humanities just handed out $33 million in grants for 173 humanities projects. Here are a few that caught my eye: Preparation for online publication of a critical edition of primary source material about Native Americans...
Robert Kingdon I met Robert Kingdon when I was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity in Deerfield, IL. He came down for a few lectures on Calvinism and the Protestant Reformation back in the early 1990s and I was honored...
Congratulations! James Hill, Ph. D. Candidate, The College of William and Mary – “Creek Resistance and Spanish Restructuring: How Two Peoples Sought to Avert Anglo-American Hegemony in North America, 1763-1818” (dissertation) David C. Hsiung, Ph. D., Professor, Juniata College – […]
Do you want to spend four weeks of your summer in Boston with a $4000 stipend doing research for your classes at the Massachusetts Historical Society? Are you a K-12 teacher who uses historical documents in your work? If you...
For the third straight year, the American Council of Learned Societies will be offering 20 recent Ph.Ds from humanities disciplines a $65,000 per year job with full benefits to work in the government or non-profit sector with a host of […]
Mount Vernon 2013 Fellowship Program Supporting Research on the Life, Leadership, andLegacy of George Washington The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon is accepting applications for its inaugural fellowships. These fellowships are...
There were 244 in total, including seven digital projects. Here are a few that caught my eye: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute: 2 one-week workshops for school teachers on labor history and civil rights in Birmingham. California State–Seaside Foundation: 2 one-week...
When I was in Mount Vernon last week for the George Washington Book Prize dinner, I had a chance to talk briefly with Adam Goodheart, director of the C.V. Starr Center for the American Experience at Washington College. I have...
