Halee Robinson with Brandi Brimmer and Martha Escobar standing together and smiling.
Congratulations to our Post-Doctoral Fellow Halee Robinson on her workshop today with special guests Brandi Brimmer and Martha Escobar. We read and considered her phenomenal manuscript “They Taken Him Away: Race, Punishment, and the Intimate Histories of the Texas Prison System, 1865-1912.”
Citizen Historians for the Smithsonian www.citizenhistorians.org invites you to RAISE YOUR VOICE FOR THE SMITHSONIAN: A WORKSHOP ON WRITING AND PLACING OP-EDS this Monday, March 9 at 6:30 EST. You can register to attend here: georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
picture of Secretary Janet Napolitano and Cathleen Cahill
It was an honor to meet Secretary Janet Napolitano last week during The McCourtney Inst for Democracy lecture, "Higher Education and Democracy." (A recording of the lecture is now available on their YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlZo...)
We encourage interested community members to explore the option of volunteering some of their time to the Transcribe Harper virtual event. You can participate by following this link: www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
A professional head shot of Dr. Mary Mendoza in black and white.
Congratulations to our affiliated faculty Dr. Mary Mendoza for her talk at Villanova for their “Albert LePage Center Annual Series.” Congrats to our affiliated grad students Morgan Haller and Elyse Conley who presented at the NCAIS grad student conference and the Conference on the Americas.
“What Is To Be Done: Historians of Crisis in a Moment of Crisis” is available online now here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56406 Thanks to UNC press, the full issue will be available for a short time without paywall.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15!!
Apply TODAY for one of the 2026-2027 Predoctoral Fellowships!
Please help share this amazing opportunity to be a part of the Richards Center Community!!
More information can be found at: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Deadline Extended to March 15!! Apply TODAY for one of the 2026-2027 Predoctoral Fellowships!
Please help share this amazing opportunity to be a part of the Richards Center Community!!
More information can be found at: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
The SCWH Grad Student Connections Comm is pleased to announce a discussion with @jcwe.bsky.social co-editor @gregdowns.bsky.social. Dr. Downs will discuss publishing your article with the JCWE, article publishing tips, and take questions: us06web.zoom.us/j/8857214479...
We’re grateful to our Graduate Affiliate Keon Burns for bringing his compelling chapter, “Storefront of Resistance: Black grocers and enterprise amid Jim Crow Violence, 1930-1954,” to our workshop today. Congrats, Keon!
The Richards Center invites applications for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured history faculty at the rank of Assoc Prof. For the 2026-27 academic year, the fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history.
The latest, special issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is currently free for all to read!
Save the date!! Dr. Shannon Speed, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, will give a lecture in Foster Auditorium on Friday, March 27, at 12:00 noon.
Building the Archives of Black History Together!
More info at: douglassday.org/Penn-State/
The SCWH Grad Student Connections Comm is pleased to announce a discussion with @jcwe.bsky.social co-Editor Dr. Greg Downs. @gregdowns.bsky.social will discuss publishing your article with the JCWE, article publishing tips, and take questions from you. Zoom Link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8857214479...
Don't Delay -- Apply TODAY for one of the 2026-2027 Predoctoral Fellowships!
Deadline for submitting application packet is March 1, 2026!
Please help share this amazing opportunity to be a part of the Richards Center Community!!
richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
The Richards Center invites applications for the Mark & Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured history faculty at the rank of Assoc Prof. For the 2026-27 academic year, the fellowship is open to scholars of the Civil War Era, broadly conceived, who study military or political history.
Be sure to check out Christina Snyder's, McCabe Greer Professor of the American Civil War Era, article in The Economist
The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Congrats to Christopher Heaney who was awarded a $25,000 Engaged Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Fdn to support Proyecto Huayo, a community-guided collaboration with San Mateo de Huánchor, Peru, focused on the recontextualization of a pre-Hispanic ritual cranial mask now held in the Smithsonian.
Congratulations!!
Call for applications - predoctoral scholars
The @richardscenter.bsky.social invites applications for two 2026-27 predoctoral dissertation fellowships in the history of the Civil War Era. One-year fellowship to work on their research - NO teaching or admin responsibilities! More info: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
Join the McCourtney Institute for Democracy for a lecture from one of the country’s leading democracy scholars and practitioners, Danielle Allen.
This event is co-sponsored by the Africana Research Center, Humanities Institute, and the Richards Civil War Era Center.
democracy.psu.edu/events/
In today's Muster, ongoing contributor Elliott Martin writes about Henry 'Box' Brown and Richmond's public history landscape www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/henr...
We are excited to welcome these new members to the board! And deeply thankful for the service of our past board members 🙏
Congratulations to the Africana Research Center's Director Dr. Sherita L. Johnson, whose book Mixing: Race, Higher Education, and the Case of Clyde Kennard was published by the University Press of Mississippi this month! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/M/Mixing
Call for Applications: 2026-27 Predoctoral Fellows, History of the Civil War Era
This is a limited-term fellowship for advanced graduate students who are in the writing stage of their dissertation. Review of app materials will begin March 1.
Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
We kicked off our spring series of workshops this week with an excellent discussion on "“My Room-mate is a Democrat”: Young Women’s Political Culture at Antebellum Midwestern Schools" by our very own Assistant Program Director Hope McCaffrey! Congratulations, Hope!
The Richards Civil War Era Center invites applications for the Mark and Ann Persun Visiting Scholars Program for tenured faculty in history at the rank of Associate Professor. Deadline is March 1! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...
In today's Muster, we are announcing a call for gradate student submissions www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/01/must...
