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Latest News and Events

    The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) 2024 Conference – REGISTRATION OPEN!

    Registration is now open for the SHAW 2024 conference at the Rothermere American Institute

    Just Health: Treating Structural Racism to Heal America by Dayna Bowen Matthew

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023

    This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments by McKenzie Long

    One woman’s enlightening trek through the natural histories, cultural stories, and present perils of thirteen national monuments, from Maine to Hawaii—now available in paperback

    Meltdown Expected: Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s by Aaron J. Leonard

    In January 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that “There is all across our land a growing sense of peace and a sense of common purpose.” Yet in the ensuing months, a series of crises disturbed that fragile sense of peace, ultimately setting the stage for Reagan’s decisive victory in 1980 and ushering in the final phase of the Cold War.

    The Abortionist of Howard Street: Medicine and Crime in Nineteenth-Century New York by R.E. Fulton

    Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street.

    Job Opportunity: Luce Curatorial Fellow at SAAM

    The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) seeks an outstanding emerging scholar American art for a curatorial fellowship funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Applicant must have a solid grounding within the broad field of American art with knowledge of art of the late eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century, but will specialize in one or more areas within that field. The preferred areas of specialization include, but are not limited to the arts of the American Shakers and early American folk art. Application deadline: July 11.

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