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Call for Papers, Fall 2022 Meeting

news and updates May 9, 2022 admin

We are pleased to call for papers and proposals for our Fall meeting at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, on October 29, 2022. The proposal deadline is August 1, 2022. The program committee welcomes proposals for presentations on any subject, period, or geographical area from scholars within or outside the New England region. We invite research from any historical field or subdiscipline, including applied historical scholarship in pedagogy or public history. Complete session proposals as well as single paper proposals are welcome. Please submit proposals…

Spring Conference April 23, 2022 at UMASS Lowell

news and updates March 25, 2022 admin

We are pleased to welcome our members and colleagues back to an in-person conference. Our Spring 2022 meeting will be Saturday, April 23, 2022 in the O’Leary Library, South Campus of UMASS Lowell in Lowell, MA. Register NowÂ Preliminary Conference ProgramÂ Nearby Hotels

Spring 2022 CFP

news and updates December 14, 2021 admin

New England Historical Association invites submissions for our Spring 2022 in-person conference on April 23 hosted by University of Massachusetts Lowell. Submit a proposal and brief C.V. to nehasubmissions@gmail.com by February 1, c/o Dr. Charlotte Gradie, Sacred Heart (NEHA Vice President). The program committee welcomes proposals on any subject, period, or geographical area from scholars within or outside the New England region. In honor of the vibrant city of Lowell as the site of our return to face-to-face meetings, we especially invite presentations, panels,and roundtables…

Fall NEHA Meeting (Virtual) Registration Now Open

news and updates September 16, 2021 admin

You are invited to be part of the Fall New England Historical Association Conference, held via Zoom on Saturday, October 23, 2021. Registration is now open until Oct 21 ($25 registration / undergraduates free). Preliminary Program:

Fall 2021 Virtual Conference CFP

news and updates May 10, 2021 admin

Dear friends and members of NEHA, We are pleased to announce our call for papers for the Fall 2021 New England Historical Association meeting. Our fall conference will be a virtual gathering on Saturday, October 23, 2021. Thank you to Worcester State University for being our hosts. For our Fall meeting, we invite submissions of individual papers or full panels or sessions, and we encourage you to share our CFP widely (download our flyer here). We are pleased that holding a virtual meeting may allow…

Spring Conference April 2021

news and updates March 17, 2021 admin

Join us for a stellar virtual NEHA conference on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Thanks to our conference organizers, Vice President Jess Parr and Melanie Murphy from our host institution, Emmanuel College. Registration has closed as of Thursday, April 8 Preliminary conference program

NEHA Statement on Violence at U.S. Capitol

news and updates January 8, 2021 admin

The Officers and Executive Committee of the New England Historical Association (NEHA) condemn political violence and the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The attempt by insurrectionists to prevent our representatives and senators from carrying out their constitutional duty–the certification of the election of President-elect Biden and Vice-President-elect Harris–was unlawful and a brazen threat to our democratic republic. As we prepare for a new semester, the leadership of NEHA encourages our colleagues and members to consult the resources prepared by the American…

Spring 2021 Virtual Conference CFP

CFP December 8, 2020 admin

Dear friends and members of NEHA, We are pleased to announce our call for papers for the Spring 2021 New England Historical Association meeting. Our spring conference will be a virtual gathering on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Thank you to Emmanuel College in Boston for being our hosts. We hope to be able to return to in-person conferences in Fall 2021. For our Spring meeting, we invite submissions of individual papers or full panels or sessions, and we encourage you to share our CFP widely…

Fall Virtual Conference

news and updates September 29, 2020 admin

NEHA is excited to share the below preliminary program for our Fall Virtual Conference, hosted by Sacred Heart University on Saturday, October 17. Final archived program available here. Participants and attendees should register by October 15, 2020 using this link: https://neha.wildapricot.org/events Preliminary Program NEHA Fall 2020 Virtual Conference Saturday, October 17, 2020 Sacred Heart University All sessions will be held online. The links for each session will be distributed the day before. Please note that ALL sessions are on EST. All participants will need to…

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Mark Peterson Awarded James P. Hanlan Book Prize

Image August 21, 2020 admin

NEHA’s Book Prize Committee (Kristen Petersen, Marie B. McDaniel, Ian Delahanty, and Martin Menke) are delighted to announce the winner of this year’s James P. Hanlan Book Prize. Mark Peterson, the Edmund S. Morgan Professor of History at Yale University, has received the award for his work The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630-1865 (Princeton, 2019).
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Book cover — The City-State of Boston

Reviewer comments included:
“The word that comes to mind for this book is â€œmagisterial.â€ Petersen delivers a three centuries long history of Boston that has fundamentally challenged the way I conceive of and teach about not only New Englandâ€™s colonial history but also the history of the Atlantic World more generally.”

“I found Peterson’s approach to urban history and to Boston to be unique and compelling. As an historian who has read as many books on Boston’s history as have popped off presses, this is the finest, in my humble opinion.”