Dear all,
Welcome to fall and pumpkin spice. We are happy to share our October 2025 newsletter with all of you. Here are the announcements and reminders for this month:
Events of the Month
Solving the American Paradox: Contested Conceptions of Slavery, 1763-1776 David Center for the American Revolution Seminar with Mark L. Thompson Date: October 15, 2025; 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET Location: online via zoom For more information on the program and registration, see here
The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution David Center lecture feat.Zara Anishanslin Date: October 28, 2025, 7:00-8:00pm ET Location: Washington Crossing Historic Park Visitor Center OR online For more information on the program and registration, see here
A Rose or a Tooth: Rent and the Political Economy of New York’s Manors OH Colloq with BJ Lillis Date: October 16, 2025, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm EDT Location: online For more information on the program and registration, see here
For 2026: Wartime Transformations OH Institute Conference Series Date: October 24-25, 2025 Location: William & Mary School of Education, 301 Monticello Avenue, Williamsburg, VA 23185 For more information on the program and participation, see here
Publications Delahaye, Agnès, Carine Lounissi, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke et Virginie Adane, La révolution américaine (1763-1783). Atlande, Oct. 16, 2025. More information here.
Martin, Nicola. The British Army in Scotland and North America, 1745-1775: Militarisation on the Fringes of the Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. More information here.
Zelnik, Eran A. American Laughter, American Fury. Humor and the Making of a White Man’s Democracy, 1750–1850. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025. More information here.
Volker Depkat, Karsten Fitz, and Susanne Lachenicht, eds., Representations and Uses of the American Revolution in Past and Present (Heidelberg, 2025) More information here.
Élise Marientras – RéDEHJA 2025 Book Prize
The RéDEHJA association (Network for the European Development of the History of Early America) has launched the ”Élise Marienstras – RéDEHJA Prize,” awarded twice a year, in honor of this distinguished historian and pioneer in the field of Early American studies in France.
The prize will be awarded on Friday, October 17, 2025, at the end of RéDEHJA’s annual “Recent Publications” conference, at Sorbonne University (the program for the day is available here: https://redehja.hypotheses.org/3013). The finalists are: Virginie Adane, Aux origines de New York. Femmes et hommes dans la formation d’une société nouvelle (Presses Universitaire de Rennes, 2024) ; Gilles Havard, Les Natchez : vie et destin d’un peuple nord-américain (Tallandier, 2024) ; Martin Robert, Cette science nécessaire. Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec (MacGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023) ; Michaël Roy, Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (New York University Press, 2024).
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Calls for Papers and Submissions
CfP: Finance and the American Revolution, 1763-1795 Date: September 24-25, 2026 Location: Library Company of Philadelphia Submission Deadline: October 15, 2025; To submit a paper, please submit a c.300-word abstract and a 2-page CV to peaes@librarycompany.org with the subject line “Finance and the American Revolution Workshop” For the full CfP and more information see here
Grants and Scholarships
We make use of our October newsletter to point out several opportunities to apply for research grants and fellowships with deadlines in October or November 2025:
- the American Antiquarian Society Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship
- the American Philosophical Society Research grant overview
- the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities
- the Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship
- the Omohundro Institute and Fort Ticonderoga joined short-term visiting fellowship
Looking Ahead
American-Dutch Connections in the Revolutionary Era Conference at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies Date: December 11-12, 2025 Location: RIAS, Hofplein 16, 4331 CK Middelburg, NL For more information on the program and registration 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!
