Signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation on loan to Penn State for a year. Bill Blair, Albert L. Lord, William Joyce, Jim Quigel
| Calendar of Events | |||
Date | Event | Time | Location |
September 28, 2007 |
Breaking the Silence Lecture Series David Eltis, Emory University "The Transatlantic Slave Trade Based in North America: Perspectives from the New On-line Database" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
October 19, 2007 |
Breaking the Silence Lecture Series Sean Kelley, Hartwick College "Blackbirders and Bozales: African-born Slaves on the Lower Brazos River of Texas in the 19th Century" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
November 16, 2007 |
Breaking the Silence Lecture Series Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School "Suppressing the African Slave Trade: The Limits of Legislation, 1794–1865" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
November 30, 2007 |
Breaking the Silence Lecture Series Karen Younger, Penn State "Liberia and the Last Slave Ships" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
February 8-9, 2008 |
Graduate Student Conference "Liberty and Freedom during the Civil War Era" (additional details) |
3-5 pm on Friday and 9 am-3 pm Saturday |
Days Inn Penn State |
February 22, 2008 |
Graduate Student Workshop Timothy Wesley "The Politics of Faith: The Crosscurrents of Denominational Church Life and Politics during the Civil War" |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
March 21, 2008 |
Kate Masur, Northwestern University "Discrediting Democracy: Liberal Exclusion and the Question of Race in the Post-Emancipation U.S." |
4:00 pm |
102 Weaver |
April 11 , 2008 |
Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University "The New South Abroad: Race and Agribusiness, 1890–1910" |
4:00 pm |
302 Pond Lab |
| Names in the News |
| Mark E. Neely, Jr. lastest book, The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction, was published by Harvard University Press, November 2007. |
| In the fall 2007, Carol Reardon was invited to serve as a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Subcommittee on Naval History. |
| Anthony Kaye's, book, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in September 2007. |
| Professor Carol Reardon was recently awarded the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching from Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State. (Spring 2007) | Mark Noll, the 2003 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecturer at the Richards Civil War Era Center, was recently awarded a National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush. (November 9, 2006) |
| Four Richards Center Affiliated Faculty promoted to Professor: William A. Blair, Lori D. Ginzberg, Amy S. Greenberg, Carol A. Reardon. (Summer 2006) |
| Lori Ginzberg, professor of history and women's studies, received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship Award for 2006-2007 to research a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. |
| Richards Center Director William Blair was recently interviewed by Research Penn State about "Who Won the Civil War?" |
| Lori Ginzberg's latest book, Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York, was published in the Spring/Summer 2005 by UNC Press. |
| Amy Greenberg's latest book, Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire was published in June 2005 by Cambridge University Press. |
| The manuscript of Mark E. Neely's 2002 Brose Lecture, The Boundaries of American Political Culture in the Civil War Era, was published in September 2005 by UNC Press. |
| Carol Reardon's latest book, Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972, is now in print from the University Press of Kansas. It has been chosen as a featured offering of the Military Book Club. |
| In March 2005, Carol Reardon became the first woman president of the Society for Military History. She will serve in this elected post until the conclusion of SMH's annual meeting in 2007. |