Thanks to the generosity of Laurence H. and Lynne G. Brown, the Richards Civil War Era Center is pleased to invite applications from qualified undergraduate students for three paid internships during the summer of 2010; two at Gettysburg National Military Park and one at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The purpose of the internships is to provide aspiring historians with hands-on experience in public history. Deadline for submitting applications is December 11, 2009. (complete call for applications pdf file)
In Search of the State: The U.S. and Its Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century. The Richards Center will be sponsoring a graduate student conference at the Days Inn Penn State on February 5 and 6, 2010. Authors whose papers are accepted will receive a $400 stipend to defray travel costs. Submissions including your full contact information, a copy of your C.V. and an abstract of up to 500 words should be emailed to Rachel Louise Moran (rlm331@psu.edu) by November 30, 2009. Additional information can be found at: http://tiny.cc.searchstate. (call for Papers)
Nancy Bercaw, Associate Professor at The University of Mississippi will present a lecture entitled, The Anatomy of Freedom: American Indian Skulls and African American Organs and the Reconstruction of "Race" after the Civil War on Friday, December 4, at 4:00 p.m. in 102 Weaver Building. Lecture is free and open to the public. (lecture flyer)
The fifth book in the series, Lincolns Proclamation: Emancipation Reconsidered edited by William A. Blair and Karen Fisher Younger was 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.
The Penn State University Libraries and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center recently were awarded a planning grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant entitled, "The Pennsylvania Home Front in the Civil War" will identify and assess materials of potential value to advance research into the Northern home front during the Civil War. (award announcement)
To celebrate our College's Centennial this year Susan Welch, Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, recently announced the selection of twenty-nine Centennial Fellows whose significant accomplishments have made their communities and their professions better and whose lives have “swelled …the fame” of Penn State and the College of the Liberal Arts.
Congratulations to the following Richards Center Board Members who were recently named Centennial Fellows:
*Steven Brose, ’69, Partner and Department Head of Regulatory and Industry Affairs at Steptoe & Johnson, a Washington D.C. law firm involving matters of the oil and gas pipeline industry;
*Lewis H. Gold, ’59, Attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, a top national full-service law firm, and former President of the Penn State Alumni Association;
*George T. Richards, ’54, Retired CEO of Vitex Packaging, manufacturer of materials for the tea industry
Additional information on the Centennial can be found on the College of the Liberal Arts web site.