It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Professor Emerita at Morgan State University, one of the three founders of the Association of Black Women Historians, a founding member of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora, and a pioneering historian of black women’s history. In a […]
Professional Announcements
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NEH Summer Programs for K-12 Educators and Faculty in HigherEd
NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes and NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops grants broaden and deepen understanding of the humanities by supporting professional development programs, specifically designed for a national audience of K-12 educators or faculty in higher education. The programs provide one- to four-week opportunities for participants (NEH Summer Scholars) to explore […]
CFP: 21st Annual Conference on Illinois History
Call for Papers and Workshops 21st Annual Conference on Illinois History October 3 & 4, 2019 Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Springfield The Conference on Illinois History is accepting paper or panel proposals on any aspect of Illinois’s history, culture, politics, geography, or archaeology. We encourage submissions from professional and avocational historians, students, and those engaged […]
CFP: ‘Exile, Gender, and Family in the Nineteenth Century’ Closing conference of ‘AsileuropeXIX’
Call for Papers: ‘Exile, Gender, and Family in the Nineteenth Century’ Closing conference of ‘AsileuropeXIX’, sponsored by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche 5-7 September 2019 in Reims, France The forced migrations of the long nineteenth century, which caused hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes and construct new lives abroad, have recently […]
CFP: 2020 “Big” Berks Conference
We are excited to announce that the Call for Papers for the 2020 “Big” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities is now live. Join us for the conference, which will be held May 21-23, 2020 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Please help us spread the word. The theme of the […]
Now Accepting Nominations for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ Book Prizes
Deadline for Nominations: November 1, 2018 To nominate a book, see: https://berksconference.org/prizes/ Description of Prizes We invite publishers and authors to submit books published in the year 2018 for consideration for the Berkshire Conference Book Prizes. The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians annually awards two book prizes: For a first book that deals substantially with […]