Dear all,
We are happy to share our November 2025 newsletter with all of you. Here are the announcements and reminders for this month:
Event of the Month
A Nation of Minutemen: How The American Militia Became a Metaphor for the People David Center for the American Revolution Seminar with Eran Zelnik Date: November 5, 2025, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. ET Location: David Center for the American Revolution or on ZOOM For more information and registration, see here.
Awards and publications
Delahaye, Agnès, Carine Lounissi, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke et Virginie Adane, La révolution américaine (1763-1783). Atlande, Nov. 20, 2025 (release date has been postponed). 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 four shortlisted books for this first edition (2025) showcase the vitality and diversity of scholarship in North American history:
– Virginie Adane, Aux origines de New York. Femmes et hommes dans la formation d’une société coloniale (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2024)
– Gilles Havard, Les Natchez : vie et destin d’un peuple nord-américain (Éditions Tallandier, 2024)
– Martin Robert, Cette science nécessaire. Dissections humaines et formation médicale au Québec (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023)
– Michaël Roy, Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement (New York University Press, 2024)
The award ceremony took place on Oct. 17, in the presence of Élise Marienstras — a moving and memorable moment for our research community. Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, president of RéDEHJA, had the honor of awarding the very first Élise Marienstras – RéDEHJA Prize to Virginie Adane for her book Aux origines de New York. Femmes et hommes dans la formation d’une société coloniale (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2024). Congratulations to her and to all the finalists!
Éric Schnakenbourg, winner of the 2025 Madeleine Laurain-Portemer Award from the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques Created in 1998 by Jean Portemer in tribute to his wife (a renowned specialist of Cardinal de Mazarin), the Madeleine Laurain-Portemer Award is awarded each year to a work devoted to the history of early modern times (1492–1789).
This year, the award went to Éric Schnakenbourg, professor of modern history at Nantes University (CRHIA), for his book La quasi-guerre. Le conflit entre la France et les États-Unis. 1796–1800 (Tallandier, 2024), as well as for his entire body of work. Congratulations to him!
For more information see here.
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Calls for Papers and Submissions
CfP Consortium on the Revolutionary Era/Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Date: May 14-17, 2026 Location: College of Charleston campus, Charleston, SC, USA Submission Deadline: December 14, 2025 For more information see here.
Revolutionary Orbits, Revolutionary Arcs 29th Omohundro Institute annual conference Date: June 11-13, 2026 Location: Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, USA Submission Deadline: December 15, 2025 For more information and the Call for Papers, see here.
Grants and Scholarships We make use of our November newsletter to point out several opportunities to apply for research grants and fellowships with deadlines coming up in 2025:
- Graduate Student Fellowships in Early America, Early Modern Europe, Atlantic World → Deadline Nov 15, 2025
- the American Philosophical Society Research grant overview → various deadlines in November!
- the Omohundro Institute and Fort Ticonderoga joined short-term visiting fellowship → Deadline Dec 1!
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!
