The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer more than three dozen research fellowships for the academic year 2014-2015, including two MHS-NEH Long-term Fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their stipend, governed by an NEH formula, will be $4,200 per month for a minimum of four months and a maximum of twelve months. MHS Short-term Fellowships carry a stipend of $1,500-$2,500 to support four weeks of research in the Society’s collections. The Boston Athenaeum and the MHS will offer one…

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More than two dozen Massachusetts Historical Society Research Department seminars have been scheduled for 2013-2014, offered in five series: the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston Environmental History Seminar, the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, the New England Biography Seminar, and the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender, presented in conjunction with the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Look for innovative formats, including a town hall meeting on October 1 with Karin Wulf, the new…

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New England Regional World History Association (NERWHA) is hosting a one-day fall symposium on Saturday, 26 October 2013, starting at 8:45 a.m., at Memorial Lounge, Waterman Building, on the Campus Green, the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. The symposium features a keynote address and four sessions. The day’s events will end at 5:00 p.m. The keynote address by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, William P. Reynolds Professor of History, University of Notre Dame, is a special highlight. Anyone conversant with world history knows his rich contributions to the…

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