NEH Summer Institute

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Dr. Sandra Harbert Petrulionis invites applications (deadline 1 March 2022) for the NEH Summer Institute “Transcendentalism and Social Reform: Activism and Community Engagement in the Age of Thoreau,” a two-week residential program based in Concord, Massachusetts, June 26-July 9, 2022. It is sponsored by the Thoreau Society, with funding from […]

Emma Goldman Papers To Receive Hamer-Kegan Award

The Emma Goldman Papers will receive the 2014 Philip M. Hamer and Elizabeth Hamer Kegan Award. The Hamer-Kegan Award is given by the Society of American Archivists Foundation in recognition of an archivist, editor, group of individuals, or institution that has increased public awareness of a specific body of documents […]

Register for Humanities Advocacy Day

I’m writing to remind you that Humanities Advocacy Day is only a little more than two months away. As I’m sure all of you are only too well aware, the FY’14 appropriations battle will be a very difficult one as the pressure to cut spending increases. The grants programs of […]

Robert P. Forbes awarded NEH Fellowship

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a year-long fellowship to Robert P. Forbes of the University of Connecticut to prepare an annotated digital edition of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. This will be the first edition to be published from Jefferson’s original manuscript, in the […]