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The June 2026 issue of @jcwe.bsky.social is a special one focused on the social history of the law in Brazil. The articles are currently free to read:
www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/june2026/
Our summer newsletter is packed with exciting announcements and updates! Read it here: mailchi.mp/aae117d2bad9...
Congratulations to 2024-25 Richards Center predoctoral fellow Adam Xavier McNeil, who has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame! He will begin his appointment this fall.
Congrats to Victoria McKeller-Peoples for passing her comprehensive exams! She has also received an Annaley Naegle Redd Student Award in Women’s History for her project, “Building a Black West: Land, Leisure, and Liberation in the Intermountain West, 1880-1930.”
Congratulations to Edward Greene (Ph.D. 2025), who will begin a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in American history in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma in the fall!
SAVE THE DATES: Join us Oct. 15, 16, & 17 for the 2026 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series featuring Fay Yarbrough (Rice University). Dr. Yarbrough’s lectures are titled, “Sovereignty and Strife: The Civil War Era in Indian Territory.” Location and more info TBA soon!
We're so excited for Rachel A. Shelden’s book, The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History, which will be released in October through @uncpress.bsky.social! It is available for preorder now: uncpress.org/978146969713...
In today's Muster, Cassandra Jane Werking examines the long history of Fort Pickens and its place in Florida and national memory www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/06/stan...
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Richards Center Penn State
Richards Center Penn State
Richards Center Penn State
In today's Muster, Drew Baird examines the role of the Union Pacific in shaping the Greater Reconstruction in the American West www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2026/06/a-po...
Richards Center Penn State
Richards Center Penn State
Richards Center Penn State
This is one of the liveliest & most informative #HATM conversation that we have had - yes? Loving it. #SUFFS Great work, @phdrachel.bsky.social & all the historians & viewers who joined us, esp the experts on female suffrage.
Despite being in Confederate Florida, United States Fort Pickens repelled enemy attempts to gain control of the Union holdout. Situated on the bay of Pensacola, Fort Pickens remained in U.S. control f...
This week Historians At The Movies is singing about the history of suffrage in America. Join us on PBS this Sunday, May 24 at 8pm eastern for SUFFS.
If you like a little different side of history, then share this post and keep #HATM growing. See ya there.
Jason Herbert
Volume 16, No. 2 June 2026 Special Issue: “Noisy Archives: Race and the Social History of the Law in Brazil” This special issue examines how Brazilian historians have engaged with legal sources to rec...
Railroads have long been subjects of Civil War era studies. Scholars have cast them as promoters of growth before the conflict, agents of capacity and connection during the war itself, and instruments...
