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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… 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