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We are just about 3 weeks from this deadline, so get your proposals in ASAP! **RE-POST** Recognizing the importance of introducing the next generation of scholars and teachers to the best practices of the profession, the Pennsylvania Historical Association is pleased to announce the inclusion of a poster session for student research at its 2019… Read On

From the Spring issue of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, the Pennsylvania Historical Association proudly presents Dan Holland’s “Forging a Consistent Vision: The People Who Shaped Manchester’s Renewal, 1964-2014… Read On

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is calling for submissions for a special themed edition of the journal on the Pennsylvania frontier. It is scheduled for publication in Winter 2021. Submissions may cover topics from the colonial through early national periods in the Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic, and Ohio Country regions… Read On

    In honor of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919 and the first female voters in 1920, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is issuing a special themed edition of the journal scheduled for Summer 2020… Read On

The annual PA Museums conference will be held this year April 7-9 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The theme is “Trust, Transparency, and Transformation.” Registration is FREE for undergraduate and graduate students interested in the realm of museums. Interested historians can check this link here for more information about the conference and registration… Read On

The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) invites applications for a Business Secretary with a start date of July 1, 2019… Read On

Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2019 William Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or mid-Atlantic history (featured image is last year’s winner, Anne Morgan)… Read On

We are just about two weeks from the deadline! ****RE-POST**** The conference theme will be “Constructing Citizenship and Community,” but the program committee welcomes proposals on all aspects of Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic history. In addition to sessions focused on traditional scholarship, the program committee encourages panels that feature pedagogy, public history, or material culture… Read On

The Pennsylvania Historical Association formally apologizes for neglecting to include this advertisement in our program during the last annual conference… Read On

Judith (Judy) Ridner, Associate Professor of History at Mississippi State University, has recently published a new book: The Scotch Irish of Early Pennsylvania. She recently blogged the following on The Website of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society to discuss the book and its message… Read On