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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

“Read All Over: The Reading Labor Advocate and the Socialist Power in Reading, Pennsylvania, 1927-1936” BY: Ian Gavigan, PhD Candidate at Rutgers University At the zenith of the Great Depression, the Parker Brothers began marketing Monopoly, the popular board game that encourages players to "take a ride on the Reading!" The Reading Lines connected Atlantic City to metropolitan New York… Read On

2021 Annual Meeting The Pennsylvania Historical Association invites you to join us virtually for our 90th Annual Meeting to be held in October 2021! This year's theme is "Justice and Rights in the Mid-Atlantic" and the Call for Proposals (CFP) is now open… Read On

William “Bill” Pencak Award for Undergraduate Research Nominations are now open for the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2021 William Pencak Award for the best undergraduate research paper about Pennsylvania and/or mid-Atlantic history… 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… Read On