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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 EraIn 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. ...www.journalofthecivilwarera.org

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.”

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 EraVolume 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...www.journalofthecivilwarera.org

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!

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!! 🎉🥳

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 CenterAs 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...richardscenter.la.psu.edu