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The Pennsylvania Historical Association annually bestows the William A. Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or Mid-Atlantic history. The award, named for Bill Pencak (1951–2013), a prolific scholar and much-loved Penn State University history professor and former Editor of Pennsylvania History, honors the academic year’s best written undergraduate paper in history… Read On

 Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association‘s 2022 Klein Book Prize The Philip S. Klein Book Prize is awarded for the best book on a topic that illuminates the history of Pennsylvania… Read On

“Pennsylvania History Presents” is an online feature of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s (PHA) website. Begun in 2019, we offer for free public access one article from the current issue of its quarterly award-winning journal, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. For the Winter 2022 issue (89… Read On

The American Association for State and Local History is a national membership association dedicated to helping the history community thrive. For the better part of a century, AASLH has provided leadership and resources to its members who preserve and interpret state and local history to make the past more meaningful to all people… Read On

Call For Student Papers and Presentations 2022  The program committee of the Pennsylvania Historical Association invites proposals for student research presentations at the annual meeting being held October 13-15, 2022, at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania… Read On

“HEALTH AND RESILIENCY IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND MID-ATLANTIC” After nearly two years of a global pandemic, combined with the fractures of deep political unrest and creeping economic uncertainty, how health is defined in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic has taken on new meanings… Read On

“Pennsylvania History Presents” is an online feature of the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s (PHA) website. Begun in 2019, we offer for free public access one article from the current issue of its quarterly award-winning journal, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. For the Autumn issue (88… Read On

In her concise history Slavery and Abolition in Pennsylvania, Beverly Tomek corrects the long-held notion that slavery in the North was “not so bad” as, or somehow “more humane” than, in the South due to the presence of abolitionists. While the Quaker presence focused on moral and practical opposition to bondage, slavery was ubiquitous… Read On

PUBLIC HISTORY IN AND OF PENNSYLVANIA PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY SERIES | TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS CFP: 250-500 word abstract, brief bio and/or CV by November 15, 2021 Essays are sought for a proposed volume that will explore how the complex history of Pennsylvania is preserved and interpreted in a variety of contexts, including but not limited to:… Read On

Call for Editorial Board Members: The Literary and Cultural Heritage Maps of Pennsylvania (“the project”) is a digital humanities project and reference source developed and maintained by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book (PACFTB, a state affiliate of the Library of Congress Center for the Book) within the Education Library at Penn State’s University Park campus… Read On