https://www.oah.org/awards/book-awards/richard-w-leopold-prize/

Richard W. Leopold Prize

DEADLINE: SUBMISSIONS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY OCTOBER 1, 2021

The Albert Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest at Villanova University is pleased to announce a new funding opportunity to support public-facing historical projects related to the theme of “Turning Points” in history.

The Center will fund up to 5 projects that creatively engage with how the study of past turning points have affected the course of history, and how historical study can further public understanding of the present moment.

We welcome applications that are original and imaginative in content and form. Proposals can include (but are not limited to) a series of blog posts, a series of podcast conversations, digital and in-person exhibits, an oral history project, an initiative with a local newspaper to write a series of op-eds, a mapping project, a multimedia resource, and other creative ideas. Educators, researchers, activists, students, librarians, digital humanists, museum specialists are all invited to apply. 

Each grantee will receive up to $5,000 depending on the scope, size, and need of the proposal.

The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2021, at 11:59 pm (EST).

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer on Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II 

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Kai Bird on The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

June 2021 SHAFR Prize Announcements 

Betty Miller Unterberger Dissertation Prize

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Teasel Muir-Harmony on Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo

https://thestantonfoundation.org/informed-citizens/reunite-ah-prize

Anyone working in sports and diplomacy, especially women’s baseball, might be interested in submitting or attending the September Annual Women in Baseball Conference which this year is focused on women’s baseball around the world. Please follow this link for more info on proposal submissions and the conference generally: https://sabr.org/latest/call-for-papers-2021-sabr-iwbc-women-in-baseball-conference/

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Jeremy Brown on June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989

Tuesday, June 1 at 4:00 pm ET

Dear Amy,

Thank you for taking the time to contact me about the proposed changes to the Department of History, Languages and Translation.  I can inform you that the consultation has now concluded and, although you may already have heard of it from colleagues at Aston, I wanted to update you on the outcome.

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Joanne Meyerowitz on A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit.

Monday, May 17 at 4:00 pm ET

Please join us for a Washington History Seminar Panel with Alex Wellerstein on Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States.

"Cold War and New Cold War: Re-evaluating the Global Order from World War II to the Present"

Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 4:00pm Eastern time - 9:00pm London; 10:00pm Berlin; May 5, 1:30am New Delhi; May 5, 4:00am Beijing and Tokyo; May 5, 6:00am Sydney