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Announcement: Cromwell Research Fellowships in American Legal History
Cromwell Research Fellowships in U.S. Legal History
**The Deadline is July 13, 2014!
CW Maps for Teaching and Assessment?
I have looked through the h-civwar logs and I’m still not coming up with ideas on how to deal with my students’ lamentable ignorance of basic Civil War geography. Published atlases exist, but what I’m after is some way to assess their understanding through a map project or other instrument in an online format with some kind of interactive elements to it. For example, I am concerned that students are unaware of how geography (and ignorance of it by contemporaries) shaped the choreography of major campaigns (not specific operations in particular battles -- I’d be happy just to get them to a
Please write me with your H-CivWar "commons" problems!
Robert Harris here, your faithful H-CivWar editor since 1992! For most of that time the list was hosted on an easy-to-use email list editor, and it flourished, more or less. Since moving to the Commons the list -- it's not a list any longer, so let's call it a forum -- the forum has been, hmm, quiet.
Call for Panelists: SAWH annual conference, June 11-14, 2015
CALL FOR PANELISTS: Southern Association of Women's Historians
annual conference
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC June 11-14, 2015
Dear all,
Call for Papers: 2014 Conference on the Civil War
Call for Papers: 2014 Conference on the Civil War
Center for Civil War Research 2014 Conference on the Civil War, Oct. 9-11
“Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Civil War”
The Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi seeks papers for the 2014 Conference on the Civil War, to be held October 9 through 11 in Oxford, Mississippi.
This year’s theme is “Science, Medicine, and Technology in the Civil War,” and we encourage submissions that interpret the theme broadly. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
H-CivWar Announcement: Congratulations to the Winner of the 2013 George and Ann Richards Prize
Thavolia Glymph has won the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2013. Her article, “Rose’s War and the Gendered Politics of Slave Insurgency in the Civil War,” appeared in the December issue. The article was selected for the award by a two-person panel consisting of past Richards Prize winners. The prize earns the recipient a $1,000 award.
H-Net Review Publication: Phipps on Harrison, 'The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion'
Kimberly Harrison. The Rhetoric of Rebel Women: Civil War Diaries and Confederate Persuasion. Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press. xviii + 242 pp. $40.00 (paper), ISBN 978-0-8093-3257-1.
Reviewed by Sheila Phipps (Appalachian State University) Published on H-CivWar (March, 2014) Commissioned by Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz
Southern Women's Rhetoric
Deadline approaching: Virginia Tech Postdoc in Civil War Era History
Applications for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies postdoc are due February 28.
Interview with Bruce Levine, author of The Fall of the House of Dixie
Brian Kelly from the After Slavery Project interviews historian Bruce Levine on his most recent book, The Fall of the Hosue of Dixie.
See the After Slavery blog at:
http://afterslavery.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/as-interviews-historian-bruce-levine/
Brian Kelly
Queen's University Belfast
b.kelly@qub.ac.uk
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