Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
Massachusetts Historical Society Research Fellowships
Discussions
SHA 2018 Report: Northern Civilians and the Occupied Wartime Confederacy
SHA 2018 Report: “Northern Civilians and the Occupied Wartime Confederacy”
SHA 2018 Report: Defining Defeat—Three Approaches to Making Sense of Loss and the Confederate Experience
This panel at the 2018 Southern Historical Association demonstrated that there are more avenues for historians to unpack the meanings of Confederate defeat and the building of the Lost Cause. The panelists were Amy L. Fluker (University of Mississippi), Ann L. Tucker (University of North Georgia), and Sarah K. Bowman (Columbus State University).
SHA 2018 Report: Emancipationist Memory and Radical Dreams of Freedom: New Directions in African American History of the Reconstruction Era
How did African Americans and Southerners address the memory of Emancipation and contemplate freedom during Reconstruction? The answer, from Nicole Myers Turner, Caitlin Verboon, and Giuliana Perrone came in the form of political, social, and legal spaces.
William L. Clements Library 2019 Fellowships
The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan is accepting applications for 2019 research fellowships. Specializing in pre-1900 American history, the Clements Library's primary resources (books, manuscripts, pamphlets, maps, prints and views, newspapers, photographs, ephemera) support diverse research topics. Strengths include: military history, gender and ethnicity, religion, the American Revolution, Native American history, politics and government, slavery and antislavery, the Civil War, travel and exploration, and others.
SHA 2018 Report: "War Trauma and the American Civil War: A Roundtable Discussion"
Elusive Consensus? War Trauma and the American Civil War, at the Southern 2018
SHA 2018 Report: Slavery's Science in an Emancipated World: The Influence of Racial Medicine in the Postbellum South
Slavery’s Science in an Emancipated World:
SHA 2018 Report: Material Witness: Visual Culture and Reliquaries of the Slave South
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SHA 2018 Report: Memories and Commemorations of Abolition in the Post-Emancipation Era
In this panel, Hilary Green, Adam Domby, and Amanda Brickell Bellows each shed light on the different ways that Americans remembered the destruction of slavery.
SHA 2018 Report: Animal Studies in the Civil War Era
As moderator Megan Kate Nelson (Writer) suggested, there are many ways to utilize animal studies to further the study of the Civil War Era, including as means of transportation, food, and on the battlefields of the war. This session was set up as a roundtable with Joan E. Cashin (Ohio State University), Kenneth Noe (Auburn University), and Paula Tarankow (Indiana University) as panelists.
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