Newsletter #26

Dear all,

We are happy to share our April 2025 newsletter with all of you. While our AMERICA2026 Summer School had to be re-scheduled, here are the announcements and reminders for this month: 

Events of the Month 

Women’s Entrepreneurship in Maritime Households’ Economic Strategies with Hannah Tucker  Omohundro Institute Online Colloq    Date: April 8, 2025, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT   Location: online   Find more information on registration here.

1775: A Society on the Brink of War and Revolution   An event by The Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society   Date: April 10-11, 2025   Location: Concord Museum, 53 Cambridge Tpke, Concord, MA 01742   Learn more about the program and event registration here.

Exhibition Opening: Philadelphia, the Revolutionary City   Dates: April 11-December 28, 2025   Location: American Philosophical Society, 104 S. 5th Street Philadelphia, PA 19106   More information here.

Dematriation: Indigenous Women, Displacement, and Racial Capitalism   with Joanne Jahnke-Wegner   Omohundro Institute Online Colloq    Date: April 29, 2025, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT   Location: online   Find more information on registration here.

Job Announcements and Scholarships

Doctoral Scholarship for International Doctoral Students in North American History, History of the Americas, or Transatlantic History (up to 4 years)   Funded by the DAAD Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP)   Class of Culture and History, Graduate School Language & Literature Munich, University of Munich (LMU), Germany    Find the call for applications with further information here.   Application Deadline First Round: April 15, 2025

Chambrun-Lafayette International Fellowship   A new scholarship is being offered by the Fondation Chambrun to support the formation of a foreign student enrolled in the paleographer archivist course from the start of the 2025 academic year.   Submission deadline: May 9, 2025   More information here

2025 Rachel Hines Prize

The Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program and the University of South Carolina Press are delighted to announce that we are now soliciting submissions for the biannual Rachel Hines Prize for manuscripts on the Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World.   More information: see attached file.   Submission deadline: June 1, 2025

Publications

The Library of Congress Magazine’s (LCM) issue for Jan/Feb 2025 features an article entitled “‘The Two Georges’: Exhibit Explores the Lives of George Washington and King George III.” It is available here.

Virginie Adane, 1619: L’autre naissance des États-Unis, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, published on March 5, 2025

Remember to send us your publication news so we can spread the word! 

Calls for Papers and Submissions 

Call for Papers: Wartime Transformations   Omohundro Institute “For 2026” Series   Date: October 23-25, 2025    Location: The William & Mary School of Education and at Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia   Submission Deadline: April 15, 2025   Find the CfP and more information here

Call for Papers: Global 1776: Imperial Worlds in Upheaval   A joint University of Hong Kong / University of Chicago / David Center /  American Philosophical Society. AMERICA2026 is also a partner!   Date: March 12-14, 2026   Location: University of Hong Kong   Submit a 250-word abstract and a c.v. (for each paper and presenter) to: global76@hku.hk (full CFP attached to this email)   Deadline for submission: April 20, 2025

Call for Papers: BrANCH/BGEAH Joint Annual Conference   Date: September 12-14, 2025   Location: Leonardo Hotel in Cardiff, Wales   Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025   Find the CfP and more information on our website

Looking ahead: upcoming events

Call for Submissions now open: America’s 1776: Independence and its Enduring Legacies   A conference by the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society   America’s 1776 is one of three conferences co-hosted by DCAR and the APS in 2026. These conferences seek to examine the American Revolution in global, national, and local contexts, to view the American Revolution in relationship to the Age of Revolutions, and to debate the central forces of change at work in the period. The other events are:   Global 1776: Imperial World in Upheaval (Hong Kong, March 12-14, 2026)   Europe’s American Revolution (Paris, October 2026; an AMERICA2026 event, details forthcoming)   Date: June 4-6, 2026   Location: Philadelphia, PA    Submission Deadline: June 23, 2025    For more information and the official Call for Papers, see here. 

Let us know what you are up to in- and outside of America2026 (preferably by the 20th of the current month to be included in the upcoming newsletter) so we can spread the word here as well!