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The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) will be held in Hershey, Pennsylvania April 12-14, 2018! The festivities will include workshops ranging from handling and caring for physical archival collections to questions of privacy in digital collections, an all-day business forum, and several breakout sessions… Read On

On Wednesday, March 21, Dr. Bill Pretzer, Senior Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, will be giving a FREE talk at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg entitled "From Civil War to Civil Rights: The Journey Toward Freedom… Read On

Professor Roger Simon of Lehigh University will be speaking at the Union League as part of a regular book series on Thursday, March 22 at 6:30 pm. Simon has previously spoken at the Pennsylvania Historical Society. The talk is free and open to the public, but reservations are required… Read On

Special Collections: Radio Tours to All the Cool Places is a new hour-long program that is produced by BYUradio. It's heard across the United States on Sirius XM Radio, channel 143. The show airs on Saturdays at 7 p.m. Eastern; 4 p.m. Pacific. You can also listen to the show via their website.​ You can also listen via free BYU Radio Android and Apple apps. Archived episodes are also available as podcasts through iTunes and Stitcher… Read On

The Pennsylvania Historical Association announces that nominations are now open for the 2018 William A. Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or mid-Atlantic history… Read On

PA Museums, Pennsylvania’s statewide museum association, has extended an open invitation to students in regards to their upcoming annual conference in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. The conference, to be held April 16-17, 2018, will require NO REGISTRATION FEE and will feature Keynote Addresses, one session of particular interest, and educational sessions… Read On

“City, County, Commonwealth, and Country: Local and Regional History as America’s History" will be the theme for the 87th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association to be held Oct. 11-13 in Lancaster. The event will be hosted by LancasterHistory.org. LancasterHistory.org's Campus of History Proposals are now being accepted for individual papers, panel presentations, and roundtable discussions as well as for the student research poster session on all topics related to Pennsylvania and Mid-Atlantic history… Read On

Shippensburg University senior Frank Grumbine appeared on WITF SmartTalk to discuss his Pencak Award-winning research on Hurricane Agnes. Grumbine's research demonstrates the storm was not merely a natural disaster, but a watershed event in state and national flood management policy… Read On

After a more than five-year hiatus, the Pennsylvania Historical Association and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission are partnering to revive the popular Scholars in Residence Program for summer 2018.  The Scholars in Residence Program supports short-term, full-time research and study in collections maintained by the Pennsylvania State Archives… Read On