Welcome
The People's Contest Digital Archiving Project
This pathbreaking project by the Richards Center and the Penn State Libraries catalogs and digitizes Civil War era materials housed in archives across Pennsylvania.
Graduate Program
The Richards Center oversees one of the top graduate programs in the country for Civil War Era studies.
The Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture and Book Series
Richard J. M. Blackett (left) poses with Janice and Steven Brose. Each year the Richards Center invites a distinguished scholar in Civil War era studies to present three Brose lectures based on new research.
The Journal of the Civil War Era
Published by UNC Press, this journal brings together scholars from across the many subfields in nineteenth-century history to produce cutting edge scholarship on the broad Civil War era.
