All NEHA members were emailed candidate bio and ballots earlier this month. Please remember to print and mail your ballot to Martin Menke, postmarked by Monday, May 11. If you do not have access to a printer at home, you may hand-write your ballot if you wish. We thank you in advance for your vote, and we are grateful to the nominating committee for a wonderful slate of candidates and colleagues willing to serve our organization and the profession.
We have extended to August 26, 2020 the call for papers and proposals for the NEHA Fall 2020 meeting, now planned as a virtual conference hosted by Sacred Heart University on October 17, 2020. The program committee welcomes proposals on any subject, period, or geographical area from scholars within or outside the New England region. The Association does NOT focus on the history of New England or of the United States but is equally concerned with European and World History. In response to current events,…
Letter from NEHA President Libby Bischof (4/24/2020): This semester has brought unprecedented changes to our personal and professional lives, and the NEHA Executive Board is keeping you all in our thoughts as you finish out your academic years and cope with varied museum, library, historic site and historical society closures. As you know, our Spring 2020 conference at Emmanuel, slated to be held last weekend, was cancelled. We are hopeful that we will meet in person again this fall at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts,…
We have an opening on our Book Prize Committee for 2020. If you’re interested, please contact Executive Secretary and Book Prize Chair, Martin Menke at mmenke@rivier.edu.
Regretfully, we are unable to have a print edition of the NEHA News made and mailed this month. The PDF version is available here: Spring 2020 NEHA News
As a public service during this time of social distancing, meaning rapid transition to online learning and digital access for scholarship across the academic and public history landscapes, we offer a few links, and we welcome more in the comments. Open Access Resources – A Crowdsourced List – editable Google Doc American Historical Association’s AHA Perspectives on History is running a daily series the week of March 16, 2020, covering topics like Transitioning to Online Teaching (March 17) and Online Teaching Tools (March 18)
Update: March 10, 2020 Dear NEHA Colleagues, As I’m sure you are all aware, preparations and restrictions related to COVID-19 and travel and conferences, have evolved rapidly in 48 hours since we last communicated about plans for the New England Historical Association spring conference scheduled to be held at Emmanuel College in Boston on April 18th. We learned this afternoon from our host colleagues at Emmanuel College that the college has decided to cancel all outside events for the foreseeable future, including our scheduled conference.…
We invite submissions for our Spring meeting at Emmanuel College on April 18, 2020. Submission deadline is February 1, 2020 has been extended to Feb 14! The New England Historical Association embraces not only the history of our own region of New England and the United States, but is equally concerned with European and World History. As always, the program committee welcomes proposals on any subject, period, or geographical area from scholars within or outside the New England region. We are not limited to the…
NEHA is pleased to announce that our Fall 2019 meeting will take place Saturday, October 26, 2019 at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. Meeting registration is now open Preliminary Conference Program Conference, Travel, and Accommodation Information for Participants
We are pleased to call for papers and proposals for our Fall meeting at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island, on October 26, 2019. The CFP deadline has been extended to Tuesday, Sept 3, 2019. The New England Historical Association embraces not only the history of our own region of New England and the United States, but is equally concerned with European and World History. As always, the program committee welcomes proposals on any subject, period, or geographical area from scholars within or outside…