Congratulations to Antwain K. Hunter (Ph.D. 2015) and Assistant Professor at The University of NC @ Chapel Hill, who’s book, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715–1865, is on the 2026 Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award shortlist!!

Q&A with Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman on Colored Conventions and the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

Join the Penn State History Department and special guest @lizcovart.bsky.social (Class of ‘03) for our America at 250 event on Sept. 15,2026! 🎆 More details to follow. Stay tuned!

Congratulations to Edward Green (PSU PhD 2025) who received the @shearites.bsky.social Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize for his project - Captains and community: Interdependency, Diplomacy, and the Development of 'Quotidian Power' in the Choctaw Nation, 1729-1860!! 🔥👏🎉

Congratulations to Victoria McKeller-Peoples who was recently nominated Vice-Chair of the 2026-27 Western History Association Grad Student Caucus Board!!🎉

Latest post to @jcwe.bsky.social Muster features Kris Plunkett reflecting on the place of the Lost Cause in Cherokee memory of the Civil War. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/07/the-...

The Stand Watie Monument, the Lost Cause, and Oklahoma Cherokee Memory of the Civil War - The Journal of the Civil War Era

In 1921, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a monument in Tahlequah, Oklahoma in honor of Stand Watie and the Cherokee soldiers he led, inscribed: “Only full blood indian[sic] Brig. Gen. ...

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In today's Muster, we congratulate Amy Murrell Taylor for winning the @richardscenter.bsky.social Prize for the best article published in the @jcwe.bsky.social . Congratulations Dr. Taylor! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/06/anno...

Announcing the Winner of the 2025 George and Ann Richards Prize - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Amy Murrell Taylor has won the $1,000 George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2025. The article, “More Than a ‘Pile of Rude Boards’: Space, ...

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Be sure to check out Dr. Adam Xavier McNeil on PBS - Declarations: Black Americans and the Revolutionary War. Full episode will be available June 29. schedule.wttw.com/episodes/783...

Our summer newsletter is packed with exciting announcements and updates! Read it here: mailchi.mp/aae117d2bad9...

SAVE THE DATES: Join us Oct. 15, 16, & 17 for the 2026 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Fay Yarbrough (Rice University). Dr. Yarbrough’s lectures are titled, “Sovereignty and Strife: The Civil War Era in Indian Territory.” Location and more info TBA soon!

Congrats to Victoria McKeller-Peoples for passing her comprehensive exams! She has also received an Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women’s History for her project, “Building a Black West: Land, Leisure, and Liberation in the Intermountain West, 1880-1930.”

In today's Muster, Drew Baird examines the role of the Union Pacific in shaping the Greater Reconstruction in the American West www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/06/a-po...

A Power in the Land: Union Pacific in the Greater Reconstruction - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Railroads have long been subjects of Civil War era studies. Scholars have cast them as promoters of growth before the conflict, agents of capacity and connection during the war itself, and instruments...

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We're so excited for Rachel A. Shelden’s book, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, which will be released in October through @uncpress.bsky.social! It is available for preorder now: uncpress.org/978146969713...

Congratulations to 2024-25 Richards Center predoctoral fellow Adam Xavier McNeil, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame! He will begin his appointment this fall.

The June 2026 issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is a special one focused on the social history of the law in Brazil. The articles are currently free to read: www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2026/

Current Issue - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Volume 16, No. 2 June 2026 Special Issue: “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil” This special issue examines how Brazilian historians have engaged with legal sources to rec...

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In today's Muster, Cassandra Jane Werking examines the long history of Fort Pickens and its place in Florida and national memory www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/06/stan...

Stand Firm Like Fort Pickens: Confederate Florida and the Long Struggle over Unionist Memory - The Journal of the Civil War Era

Despite being in Confederate Florida, United States Fort Pickens repelled enemy attempts to gain control of the Union holdout. Situated on the bay of Pensacola, Fort Pickens remained in U.S. control f...

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Congratulations to Edward Greene (Ph.D. 2025), who will begin a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in American history in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma in the fall!

This is one of the liveliest & most informative #HATM conversation that we have had - yes? Loving it. #SUFFS Great work, @phdrachel.bsky.social & all the historians & viewers who joined us, esp the experts on female suffrage.

Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This week Historians At The Movies is singing about the history of suffrage in America. Join us on PBS this Sunday, May 24 at 8pm eastern for SUFFS. If you like a little different side of history, then share this post and keep #HATM growing. See ya there.

Reupping this list of amazing suffrage historians and their books this morning. Thanks to all of them for joining us for the #HATM watch party for #Suffs #PBSGreatPerformances

Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Speaking of awesome books, allow me to introduce the amazing suffrage historians joining us for a #suffrage takeover of #HATM tonight! @cathleendcahill.bsky.social ‘s “Recasting the Vote” expands the suffrage movement to include Asian, Latina, Black, & white women www.amazon.com/Recasting-Vo... 1/

Congratulations to Heather Carlquist Walser (Ph.D. 2024) who has accepted a tenure track job as Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History and the Kinder Institute of Constitutional Democracy (KCID) at the University of Missouri starting in August 2026!! 🎉🥳

The @richardscenter.bsky.social was lucky to host the editors & authors of this special issue last year & it was clear they were opening really important conversations for scholars interested in law, slavery, race, & social history in the Civil War-era US & beyond. Thrilled to see the work in print!

UNC Press@uncpress.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The latest issue of @jcwe.bsky.social on the social history of the law in Brazil is live and available to read for FREE on @projectmuse.bsky.social 🙌 Read it here👇 muse.jhu.edu/issue/56841

Congratulations to Halee Robinson who has accepted a tenure track job as Assistant Professor of History and Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio!

Congratulations to Hannah Katherine Hicks, Richards Center 2024-2026 Civil War Era Postdoctoral Scholar, who has accepted a tenure track position at the University of Miami as Assistant Professor of History!!

Congratulations to postdoctoral fellow Joshua Strayhorn who has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota! 🎉🥳

Amy Greenberg's, History Department Head and Winfree Professor, book review of Lois Romano's Mary Todd Lincoln biography appeared in the New York Times book review yesterday under the title "Mary Todd Lincoln Was Bad. But Not as Bad as the People Who Hated Her." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

As the academic year has come to a close, the Richards Center proudly congratulates our postdoctoral fellows Halee Robinson, Joshua Strayhorn, and Hannah Katherine Hicks as they begin exciting new chapters in their careers this fall! Learn more: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/news/congrat...

Congratulations to Our Outgoing Postdoctoral Fellows! - George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center

As the academic year has come to a close, the Richards Center proudly congratulates our 2025-26 postdoctoral fellows as they begin exciting new chapters in their careers this fall! During their time a...

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Congratulations to Dara Walker for receiving a McCourtney Institute for Democracy’s Research in Democracy Support Grant! Read more here: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

McCourtney Institute awards more than $60,000 in research grants | Penn State University

Fourteen faculty and graduate students from across the College of the Liberal Arts will receive more than $60,000 in support from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy’s Research in Democracy Support...

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Thank you so much to everyone who participated in today's wonderful workshop with our Persun Visiting Scholar Dr. Ryan Quintana! We discussed “The Business of Transportation Like all Other Things is Open to Abuse:”  Toward a Political Economy of Labor Mobility in the Age of Emancipation!!

Penn State Dickinson Law will be hosting Dr. Rachel Shelden, @richardscenter.bsky.social director for a talk, "The Political Supreme Court: Ethics, Partisanship, and Power in Early America," Tuesday, April 21, 12:45-1:45 pm, Lewis Katz Building, Room 249

Penn State History Faculty are making us proud at #OAH2026! Cathleen Cahill chaired and Tony Frazier presented on the panel, "Rights, Revolutions, and Remembering: Anniversaries and the Mobilization of Historical Memory in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries," yesterday!