Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center have exceeded an ambitious fundraising goal of $3 million, after securing a $1 million challenge grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH). With the support of one of the NEH's largest We the People Challenge Grants and alumni philanthropy, the Richards Civil War Era Center has become a national leader in the study of not only the Civil War era, but also the larger struggle for American freedom ranging from slavery to civil rights. (more)
Monday, March 09, 2009
The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center will be hosting a graduate student workshop with David Perry, assistant director and editor-in-chief of the University of North Carolina Press, at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, March 20, in 102 Weaver Building. The Center also will host a talk entitled "The Normals Must Save the World: Women's Religious Identities in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era," by Kathi Kern, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 3 in 102 Weaver. (more)
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Carol Reardon, professor of military history at Penn State, will deliver the lectures on Civil War strategy, leadership and soldiers for the 2009 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series in the Era of the Civil War, on March 19, 20 and 21, in Pattee Library's Foster Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus. (more)
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Anthony Kaye, assistant professor of history at Penn State, has been awarded a 2009 fellowship of approximately $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a book on Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831. An affiliate of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Kaye's book will use the Turner insurrection to introduce neighborhoods as a new perspective on slavery to a general audience. (more)
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center within Penn State's College of the Liberal Arts has met its fund-raising goal of $1.1 million for the third year of its four-year challenge grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH). A recipient of one of the NEH's largest We the People Challenge Grants ever, the Richards Center aims to raise a total of $3 million by next February in order to capture $1 million in NEH funding. Over the first three years of the challenge, alumni and friends have committed a total of more than $2.4 million. "It's a wonderful moment to look back on our accomplishments and, now that we've done it three times, I'm confident we can do it once more through the generous financial support of alumni and friends of the center," said Penn State alumnus George Richards, who with his wife, Ann, endowed the center in 2002. (more)
