Applications for 2018
Deadline: February 15, 2018
The Maryland Historical Society invites applications for its Lord Baltimore Research
Fellowship program. The society offers fellowships each year designed to promote
scholarship in Maryland history and culture through research in its library collections.
Applications will be welcomed from independent scholars, graduate students, or university
faculty in any discipline appropriate to the society’s collections.
Between six and twelve fellowships will be awarded. Fellows receive expanded access to the
library, free parking, and free photocopies. These
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Lord Baltimore Research Fellowships
Applications for 2018
Deadline: February 15, 2018
The Maryland Historical Society invites applications for its Lord Baltimore Research
Fellowship program. The society offers fellowships each year designed to promote
scholarship in Maryland history and culture through research in its library collections.
Applications will be welcomed from independent scholars, graduate students, or university
faculty in any discipline appropriate to the society’s collections.
Between six and twelve fellowships will be awarded. Fellows receive expanded access to the
library, free
The Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC invites applications for a new Visiting Faculty Fellowship program from scholars who are committed to diversity and the advancement of groups historically underrepresented in the professoriate. Part of the Dresher Center’s Inclusion Imperative Program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this regional program is open to full-time faculty doing humanities research at colleges and universities in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Faculty from all ranks, including tenured, tenure-track, and
Unscripted Moments: The Life and Photography of Joseph Kohl
BALTIMORE, October 30, 2017 – The Maryland Historical Society will open Unscripted Moments: The Life and Photography of Joseph Kohl, an exhibition celebrating one of Baltimore’s most distinctive photojournalists and fine art photographers.
Joseph Kohl. (courtesy MdHS)
Unscripted Moments showcases Baltimore in the 1980s and 1990s through the extraordinary eye of local photographer Joseph Kohl (1957-2002). The massive 55,000
September 7, 2017
Eliza Crawford Anderson Godefroy: Shattering the Glass Ceiling in the Intellectual World of Baltimore, 1800-1819Francis Scott Key Lecture Series
6:00 PM Cocktails, 6:30-7:30 PM Lecture, 7:30-8:30 PM Reception
Presented by Edward Papenfuse, Ph.D., Maryland State Archivist (retired)
A friend of Elizabeth Patterson, abandoned wife of a failed Baltimore merchant, a single mother who divorced for love to marry a French artist/architect, and an accomplished editor/writer in her own right, Eliza Godefroy’s life was both extraordinary and tragic. Her failed journal, the first of its
The Washington Area Early American Seminar, hosted by the University of Maryland, College Park (near downtown DC) invites proposals from scholars wishing to present work in progress in the next academic year on any topic connected to Atlantic world or American history prior to 1865.
The seminar meets monthly during term time and our regular members include faculty and graduate students from a variety of DC-area institutions. Papers are pre-circulated and our Friday afternoon (4-6pm) seminars are followed by a dinner at a local restaurant.
To propose a paper, please send a brief cv and a title
Applications for 2017
Deadline: May 1, 2017
The Maryland Historical Society invites applications for its Lord Baltimore Research Fellowship program. The society offers fellowships each year designed to promote scholarship in Maryland history and culture through research in its library collections. Applications will be welcomed from independent scholars, graduate students, or university faculty in any discipline appropriate to the society’s collections. Between six and twelve fellowships will be awarded. Fellows will be provided access to computers with Internet connections, expanded access to
Silver Spring developed as a “sundown suburb” in the early 20th century. African Americans were welcome to work in the stores and homes there but they were unable to shop, eat, play, and live in the community because of racial restrictive covenants and bias by local government officials and business owners.
This two-hour tour explores Silver Spring’s historic landscape as it transitioned from Jim Crow segregation into the thriving multicultural community it’s become. Tickets are now available for the next Silver Spring Black History Tour Saturday, May 6, 2017. The event is free but