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We Are the Richards Civil War Era Center, a scholarly home dedicated to the idea that the Civil War was fundamentally a struggle over the intersections of race, slavery, and democracy.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · Aug 24
Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 5d
Apply for Postdoctoral Scholar, African American History: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Scholar, African American History
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 5d
Apply for Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil War Era: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil War Era
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 5d
We're looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for two years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1!

Links in the replies below.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 7d
Congratulations to former Richards Center postdoc Jessica Wicks-Allen, whose article, "Child Apprenticeship and Black Maternal Authority following the Civil War," published in September issue of The Journal of American History: academic.oup.com/jah/article/...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 8d
2022 Brose lecturer Aaron Sheehan-Dean's book, Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War, was published by UNC Press today!
Fighting with the Past
Civil War Americans, like people today, used the past to understand and traverse their turbulent present. As Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating w...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you everyone for attending "Inquisition, Incarceration, and Gendered Resistance in Colonial Latin America" with Dr. Amanda Summers, Global Indigeneity Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen’s University, Ontario.
Around a seminar table, grad students and faculty are seen discussing inquisition history with Dr. Amanda Summers, who stands in the center over a podium. Dr. Amanda Summers and Dr. Martha Few stand together for a photo and smile
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Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social · 12d
Congratulations to Moyra Eaton on a successful defense of her dissertation, "The State in Stone: The U.S. Naval Asylum, Governance, and Nation Building in the Early Republic." (Very proud advisor on the left!) 🎉🎉
Picture of Rachel Shelden & Moyra Eaton in Weaver Building at Penn State, Friday, September 26, 2025.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations Dr. Moyra Williams Eaton!! 🎉🎉 Moyra defended her dissertation on Friday.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 13d
This week we enjoyed a great community chapter workshop with predoctoral fellow Alison McCann. Congrats Alison!
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 14d
Join us on October 23, 24, and 25 for the 2025 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lectures Series. This year our lecturer is Dr. Laura F. Edwards of Princeton University.

Learn more this and more upcoming events at our website: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/events/upcom...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 16d
Congratulations to Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun, who has been selected as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award for 2025! Read more about Calhoun and the prize here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/news/announc...
Announcing the 2025 Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award - George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
The Journal of the Civil War Era is pleased to announce that Dr. J. Jacob Calhoun has been selected as the recipient of the Anthony E. Kaye Memorial Essay Award for 2025. His winning essay is titled, ...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 16d
Join us on October 23, 24, and 25 for the 2025 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lectures Series. This year our lecturer is Dr. Laura F. Edwards of Princeton University. Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/events/upcom...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 19d
Consider joining us at the Central Pennsylvania Civil War Round Table featuring Ryan Quintana's talk "Westward How?! The Politics and Practice of Trans-Continental Travel in the Civil War Era".
A flyer advertising "Central Pennsylvania Civil War Round Table" with Ryan Quintana on September 30th.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 19d
We're looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for two years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1!
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 21d
Congratulations to Cathleen Cahill, who was awarded a Lois P. Rudnick Writing Residency at the Historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM!

Learn more about the residency here: www.mabeldodgeluhan.com/rudnick-writ...
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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · Jul 29
SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at:
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Frances E. W. Harper 200 – Looking Back, Moving Forward - Colored Conventions Project
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 22d
Join us on September 30 for a Pennsylvania Civil War Round Table Talk with Ryan Quintana, Persun Visiting Scholar!
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 26d
We had an amazing time during our first community manuscript workshop of the semester! On Wednesday, attendees workshopped a chapter from Rana Asali Hogarth's second book project. The chapter is titled “Race and War: Military Anthropometry, Colored Troops, and the Beginnings of Eugenics."
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 26d
FEATURED JOB: Postdoctoral Scholar in Civil War Era, The Richards Civil War Center and the Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts, Penn State - Pennsylvania

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69088/p...

#edusky #academicsky #americanhistory
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H-Net @h-net-humanities.bsky.social · 26d
FEATURED JOB: Postdoctoral Scholar in African American History, The Richards Civil War Era Center, and The Africana Research Center, Penn State - Pennsylvania

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#academic #education #africanamerican
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 28d
Apply for Postdoctoral Scholar, African American History:
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Scholar, African American History
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 28d
Apply for Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil War Era:
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Postdoctoral Scholar, Civil War Era
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · 28d
We're looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for two years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1!

Links in the replies below.
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Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social · Sep 5
Congratulations to Guy Emerson Mount, winner of the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in @jcwe.bsky.social in 2024!

Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/news/announc...
Announcing the Winner of the 2024 George and Ann Richards Prize - George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center
Guy Emerson Mount has won the $1,000 George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2024. The article, “Shall I Go? Black Colonization in the Pacif...
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The Journal of the Civil War Era @jcwe.bsky.social · Sep 5
In today's Muster, Gregory Downs and Kate Masur preview the September 2025 JCWE www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/09/prev...
Previewing the September 2025 JCWE - The Journal of the Civil War Era
This issue exemplifies the wide sweep of the Civil War Era as scholars understand it, and the success of the journal’s now fifteen-year-long effort to promote broadminded interrogation of the many for...
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