Dear all,
We are happy to share our May 2025 newsletter with all of you. Here are the announcements and reminders for this month:
Community Highlights
A Remarkable Honor
We are thrilled to announce that Bertrand Van Ruymbeke has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. This is an extraordinary recognition, as the APS elects only a few new members each year, primarily American scientists. Elections in the field of history are particularly rare. Congratulations on this outstanding achievement.
Events of the Month
British Security and American Sovereignty in Revolutionary Border-sea Spaces, 1783-1815 David Center for the American Revolution Seminar with Ross Nedervelt Date: May 7, 2025; 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET Location: via Zoom Find more information on registration here.
Death By Numbers ONLINE DH Projects Coffeehouse with Jessica Otis Date: May 13, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT Location: via Zoom Find more information on registration here.
From Lost Colony to Lost Cause: American Beginnings Revisited with Heike Paul Research Colloquium Literature/Culture, JFK Institute at FU Berlin Date: May 14, 2025, 6:15pm-7:45pm Location: John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Lansstr. 7-9, 14195 Berlin, Room 201 Find more information on registration here.
Patriots of Color Archive ONLINE DH Projects Coffeehouse with Adrienne Whaley Date: May 27, 2025, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT Location: via Zoom Find more information on registration here.
The Disaffected in The Revolutionary City, A Conversation Lunch at the Library with with Aaron Sullivan and Caroline O’Connell Date: May 29, 2025; 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Location: Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 or via ZOOM Find more information on registration and online participation here.
Job Announcements and Scholarships
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
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Calls for Papers and Submissions
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.
Submission Deadline: June 23, 2025 Find the CfP and more information here.
A Quarter-Millenium of Franco-American Relations Co-organized by The Tocqueville Society and the American University of Paris. Date: May 28-29, 2026 Location: Paris Submission Deadline: June 15, 2025 at David Bell, dabell@princeton.edu. Papers can be delivered in either English or French. For more information, see here.
