Y'all, we got a preview of this book at the @richardscenter.bsky.social and it is going to be *AMAZING*!! @gauthamrao.bsky.social is such a brilliant thinker & writer.

The Richards Center has SIX paid internships available for Penn State undergraduates for summer 2026 at the John W. Kluge Center at the @librarycongress.bsky.social & Gettysburg Nat. Military Park, @harpersferrynhp.bsky.social. More info on our website: (richardscenter.la.psu.edu/internships/)

In today's Muster, JCWE Book Review Editor Megan Bever chats with J Matt Ward about his book Garden of Ruins (LSU Press, 2024) www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/11/jcwe...

Congratulations to Richards Center faculty affiliate Prakash Kumar on publication of his new book, A History of India's Green Revolution, by Cambridge University Press! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h...

Congratulations to our Post-Doctoral Fellow Hannah Katherine Hicks on an amazing book proposal workshop yesterday!

The Richards Center has SIX paid internships available for Penn State undergraduates for summer 2026! The John W. Kluge Center at the @librarycongress.bsky.social, Gettysburg Nat. Military Park, @harpersferrynhp.bsky.social More information on our website: (richardscenter.la.psu.edu/internships/)

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15: We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds. Start date of July 1, 2026. Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 15: We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds. Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Today we're highlighting Richards Center faculty affiliate A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, editor of “Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History,” which was published by University of Chicago Press earlier this year! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Thank you Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press, for talking with the Richards Center community about the "nut and bolts of publishing with a university press."

REMINDER: Our Postdoctoral Fellowship deadline is now extended to November 15! Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Check out this Q&A with Richards Center faculty affiliate @restall.bsky.social about his books on pop music history: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

Congratulations to Richards Center affiliate and @jcwe.bsky.social Editorial Assistant Cameron Sauers, who published a book review essay entitled "Black Movement and Rebellion Across the Atlantic World" in the latest issue of Pennsylvania History: tinyurl.com/exbvayrc

Deadline Extended Until Nov 15, 2025 We are accepting applications for TWO postdoctoral fellows! Fellowships are for two years and offer competitive wages and travel funds. Additional information and how to apply can be found here: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/...

Thanks to everyone for attending an exciting workshop with Dr. Corey Brooks from York College of Pennsylvania on the history of the Freedman's Bureau!

Learn more about our Postdoctoral Fellowships in African American History and Civil War Era History: richardscenter.la.psu.edu/fellowships/... Deadline to apply is November 1!

Spread the word! This is the final call for our postdoctoral fellowships in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Deadline is 11/1! Postdoc, African American History: tinyurl.com/5e8khmcx Postdoc, Civil War: tinyurl.com/ymermzvu

Today we're highlighting former Richards Center postdoc @jonathansjones.bsky.social, whose book Opium Slavery was just published by UNC Press! uncpress.org/978146968953...

LAST CALL - The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! 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. Links in the replies below.

The deadline to apply is coming up in only a week! November 1st! 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 Africana Research Center will present the Barbara Jordan Lecture Series featuring Dr. Erica Armstrong Dunbar on Wednesday, November 5: events.la.psu.edu/event/barbar...

In today's Muster, we introduce four new contributors to the site. Welcome Cassy Werking, Will Horne, Elliott, and Kris Plunkett to the Muster team! www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2025/10/intr...

Join us this week - 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...

We’re thrilled to share that Dr. Sherita Johnson, Director of the Africana Research Center and Associate Professor of English at Penn State, will be the keynote speaker at an upcoming public lecture and discussion titled “An Evening with Frances Ellen Watkins Harper” on October 29.

APPLICATIONS CLOSE IN TWO WEEKS! 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.

Shoutout and congratulations to Richards Center faculty affiliate Keith Gilyard, who published not one, but FOUR books in 2025! Learn more here: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

Congratulations to Richards Center faculty affiliate Matthew Restall on publication of his new book “The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus” by W.W. Norton & Company! Learn more here: www.psu.edu/news/liberal...

Congratulations to our faculty affiliate Lucien Holness for his presentation of "Juneteenth: The Commemoration and Celebration of Emancipation and the Making of Freedom" at the Central Pennsylvania Civil War round table on Tuesday!

Congratulations to our Persun Visiting Scholar Ryan Quintana for a successful presentation of "Westward How?! The Politics and Practice of Trans-Continental Travel in the Civil War Era" at the Central Pennsylvania Civil War Round Table.

Congrats to Michael Kaelin our 2025-2026 Predoctoral Fellow on a great chapter workshop this week!

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...

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.

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/...

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!

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.

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!) 🎉🎉

Congratulations Dr. Moyra Williams Eaton!! 🎉🎉 Moyra defended her dissertation on Friday.

This week we enjoyed a great community chapter workshop with predoctoral fellow Alison McCann. Congrats Alison!

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...

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...

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...

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".

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!

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...

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: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Join us on September 30 for a Pennsylvania Civil War Round Table Talk with Ryan Quintana, Persun Visiting Scholar!

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."

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

FEATURED JOB: Postdoctoral Scholar in African American History, The Richards Civil War Era Center, and The Africana Research Center, Penn State - Pennsylvania networks.h-net.org/jobs/69086/p... #academic #education #africanamerican

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.