Announcement

We are very excited to welcome Ms. Kelli Lemaster as our new intern here with the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project. Her work this spring is for three hours of academic credit, sponsored by Dr. Melanie Goan in the UK History Department. She describes her plans as following:

My name is Kelli Lemaster and I am from Louisa, Kentucky, which is a very small town in the eastern part of the state. I’m currently a student in my third year at the University of Kentucky and I am studying Secondary Education Social Studies. My involvement with H-Kentucky is through an internship this semester under Dr. Goan

As part of H-Law's onging efforts to expand our content offerings on all topics legal historical, H-Law podcaster Siobhan Barco has posted the seventh instalment of H-Law Podcasts.  The topic for Podcast 7 is a discussion with Daniel J. Sharfstein about his book Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard and the Nez Perce War (W.W. Norton & Company, 2017). The Podcast can be found on H-Law's webpage https://newtorks.h-net.org/h-law.  

Sat., Oct. 21, 2017, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Indiana State Library

Hoosiers are inventors, creators and innovators—we question, we tinker, we imagine. From the development of TV to the first man on the moon to the first video game console, Hoosier scientists, engineers, doctors and entrepreneurs have led the way. Yet most of the stories we tell are stories about men. In the history of STEM and innovation in Indiana, women’s stories have often been overlooked or poorly told.

To fix this problem, Indiana Humanities, the Indiana Historical Bureau, the Indiana State Library and the Indiana Department of

Dear H-Maritime Readers,

The editorial team would like to share with our readers the editorial rotation schedule for our editorial team (unless we add another editor or two). If you ever have any questions on how to post, comment, or contribute in any way to H-Maritime, you can always contact the whole team by emailing us at <editorial-maritime@mail.h-net.msu.edu>, or you can contact the editor-on-duty via their H-Net profile page email link.

July: Donna Sinclair

August: Felix Schuermann

September: Felix Schuermann

October: Donna Sinclair

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Dear H-USA Readers,

The editorial team would like to welcome to the editorial team Cody Foster! We would also like to share with our readers the editorial rotation schedule for our editorial team (unless we add another editor or two). If you ever have any questions on how to post, comment, or contribute in any way to H-USA, you can always contact the whole team by emailing us at <editorial-usa@mail.h-net.msu.edu>, or you can contact the editor-on-duty via their H-Net profile page email link.

July: Donna Sinclair

August: Cody Foster

September:

H-Atlantic Editorial Schedule for 2017-2018

Dear H-Atlantic Readers,

The editorial team would like to share with our readers the editorial rotation schedule for our editorial team. If you ever have any questions on how to post, comment, or contribute in any way to H-Atlantic, you can always contact the whole team by emailing us at <editorial-atlantic@mail.h-net.msu.edu>, or you can contact the editor-on-duty via their H-Net profile page email link. 

Wishing you all a great summer,

The H-Atlantic editorial team

July: Donna Sinclair

August: Jessica Parr

September: Kristin Condotta

October: Matthew

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Annual Meeting on Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Prof. Wendy Gamber will be the featured speaker at the twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Indiana State Archives on Tuesday, April 11, 2017, in the Indiana State Library (315 West Ohio Street).  She will discuss her latest book, The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016).

The Wisconsin Historical Society is pleased to announce that the first batch of Wisconsin newspapers are now available on the Library of Congress historic newspaper site Chronicling America. Currently available is the Wood County Reporter of Grand Rapids, 1858-02-17 to  1890-03-13 with more of this title to come shortly. The newspapers are freely accessible, full text searchable, and downloadable.

Over the next several months approximately 100,000 pages of Wisconsin newspapers will be added to the Chronicling America site as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program. Learn more about the