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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… 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… 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

“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 Summer 2021 issue (88… Read On

DEADLINE: July 31, 2021  The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference's Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee.  This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections… Read On

A special theme issue of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies is part of a 2021 National Leadership in History Award bestowed by the American Association for State and Local History… Read On

The Pennsylvania LGBT History Network is presenting a workshop, Teaching LGBTQ+ History in Pennsylvania, on Wednesday August 4, 2021 from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM… Read On

A Roundtable Discussion with Early-Career Historians Working Through a Global Pandemic Thursday | 10 June 2021 | 6:30 PM Register Here The global pandemic has taken lives of millions and touched the lives, personally and professionally, of nearly everyone… Read On

A Roundtable Discussion on the History of Disease and Public Health in Pennsylvania Tuesday | 30 March 2021 | 6:00 PM register here From long before the infamous Yellow Fever outbreak of 1793 to the current Covid-19 pandemic, the threat of disease has always been a fact of life for Pennsylvanians whether they realized it at the time or not… Read On