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Civil War archives provide access to the northern home front
Meredith H. Lair publishes her first book
Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War, with UNC Press, November 2011.
Neely publishes new book
Lincoln and the Triumph of the Nation: Constitutional Conflict in the American Civil War
Richard J. M. Blackett
The 2012 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecturer
Nan Woodruff's book,
American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta, to be published in paperback
Congratulations to Barbara Gannon
who won honorable mention for the 2012 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Established in 1998, the Richards Center is an initiative of the Department of History and theCollege of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University. The Center has emerged as a unique resource for interpreting and reflecting on life in 19th century America. The Center stimulates work in the field by sponsoring graduate and faculty research, public lecture series, undergraduate internships, and workshops for schoolteachers. The Center is also home to The Journal of the Civil War Era and organizes the biennial conference of the Society of Civil War Historians. In 2005 the Center was awarded a $1 million National Endowment of the Humanties (NEH) We The PeopleChallenge Grant.
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