The fifth book in the series, Lincolns Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Karen is due to be released in November 2009. This book is based on the 2007 Symposium on Emancipation held at Penn State and consists of essays from eight distinguished contributors including Richards Center faculty William A. Blair and Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Nina Silber's book, Gender and the Sectional Conflict, was released in November 2008. This book is based on her 2007 lectures at Penn State and is the fourth volume in the ongoing Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture and Book Series published by the University of North Carolina Press.
The third volume of the Brose Lecture Series, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War, by Gary W. Gallagher, was published in April 2008.
The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center has met its fund-raising goal of $1.1 million for the third year of its four-year challenge grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH). (full story)
Congratulations to the following Richards Center faculty who have recently received honors and awards:
*William Blair was awarded the Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award for 2009.
*Amy Greenberg, professor of American history and women's studies at Penn State, has been named as a 2009 recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, to research and write a history of the little-remembered U.S.-Mexico War of 1846 and the wide-reaching cultural and political impact of America's first foreign war. (Penn State newswire) Amy also won an American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship in support of her book on the U.S.-Mexico War.
*Anthony Kaye won an NEH Fellowship for 2009-2010 to work on his project, Reinterpreting Nat Turner's Rebellion. Dr. Kaye was also a finalist for the Tenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African-American experience, for his book Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (University of North Carolina Press).
*Carol Reardon has been selected for the Victor Gondos Memorial Service Award by the Society for Military History for her record of "past and continuing contributions to the Society," and will be awarded a "Gold Citation" by Allegheny College in May 2009 for service to community, profession, and nation.
*Anne Rose has been named Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies. (Penn State newswire)
Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict Over the American Civil War edited by Joan Waugh & Gary W. Gallagher was released in June. This book of essays from twelve leading scholars in the field (including Richards Center faculty William Blair and Carol Reardon) focuses on the Meaning of the War and Its Memory.
Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians by Robert M. Sandow was released in May 2009 from Fordham University Press. Dr. Sandow is an Associate Professor of History at Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania and a 2003 Ph.D. graduate of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, Penn State.
The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center annual newsletters are now available on-line under Publications. (pdf file of 2008 newsletter)