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The Lepage Center is funding up to six grants of up to $5000 this year on the topic of "Labor in Historical Perspective" for projects that creatively engage with the broad range of questions, concerns, policies, and practices raised by the study of the role of labor in history, and how historical study can further public understanding of the present moment… Read On

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, published by the Pennsylvania Historical Association, is issuing a call for articles to be included in a special issue on the history of crime and vice in Pennsylvania. It is guest edited by Jeanine Mazak-Kahne, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and will be published in July 2025 (92… Read On

The Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Association will take place from 10-12 October 2024 in Johnstown, 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 2024 issue (91… 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 2024 issue (91… Read On

Thank you for celebrating 90 years of the Pennsylvania Historical Association! To all of our members and friends who donated to our “90 for 90” anniversary campaign we send a hearty thank you! We marked 90 years since the PHA’s founding (1932) and its first meeting (1933)… Read On

Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association's 2024 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

The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) annually bestows the William A. Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or Mid-Atlantic history… Read On

Please note that we have passed the March 15, 2024 deadline. "Identity and Politics in the Mid-Atlantic" Individual and group identity has long played an important role in the region’s political culture… Read On

The Autumn 2023 edition of Pennsylvania History (90.4) opens with reflections upon 90 years of the Pennsylvania Historical Association. It also includes original scholarship and reviews spanning the Commonwealth. From this issue, Journal Editor Linda Ries has chosen for “Pennsylvania History Presents” an article by Dr. Steven Burg (Shippensburg University), “The Material Culture of Pennsylvania’s African American Cemeteries and Burial Grounds… Read On