Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts announces the 2015 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History.  This prize of $2500, establ...

Arbitration in Historical Perspective: A Symposium and Student Writing Competition

[We have the following announcement.] William Blackstone, via the CSDR A student writing competition is being organized in conjunction with ...

The Nancy Weiss Malkiel Fellowship for Junior Faculty

[We have the following announcement.] The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is proud to announce a one-time, highly selective fe...

Littleton-Griswold Prize to Dayton and Salinger!

The AHA has announced its 2015 prize winners.  The Littleton-Griswold Prize "for the best book in any subject on the history of America...

Call for Applications: ABF Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowships

The American Bar Foundation has issued the following call for applications : ABF Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Law and Social...

Franklin Research Grants

[We have the following announcement.] Scope .  Since 1933, the American Philosophical Society has awarded small grants to scholars in order ...

Supreme Court Fellows Program

[We have the following announcement for the Supreme Court Fellows Program .] Credit Each year, the Supreme Court Fellows Commission selects...

Dudziak Named Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance

[We’re delighted to report that LHB Founder Mary L. Dudziak will be the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congre...

Weekend Roundup

From the Chronicle of Higher Education : Christopher Loss (Vanderbilt University) places our current woes in context. "[F]aculty work...

The JEV-Fellowship for European Administrative History

[We have the following announcement of a research fellowship in the field of European Administrative History.] At the end of 2012 Prof. Dr. ...

Scribes Book Awards

Although we've noted John Bessler' s receipt of the Scribes Book Award for 2015, given by the American Society for Law Writers, th...

Weekend Roundup

The National Humanities Center invites applications for residential fellowships . The deadline is October 15. Seth Barrett Tillman replies ...

Weekend Roundup

On November 5-6, 2015, the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, along with the London Centre for Social Studies, will host a co...

Osgoode Society to Honor Four Legal Historians

As reported in the Financial Post .

Cromwell Research Fellowships in American Legal History

[Via H-Law , we have this announcement of the Cromwell Research Fellowships in American Legal History, which has a deadline of July 13, 2015...

Miller Center Fellows Announced

Recipients of the University of Virginia's Miller Center National Fellowship for 2015-16 have been announced.  Descriptions of the fello...

Weekend Roundup

Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan , has an op-ed tracing the origins of the recent unrest in Baltimore to the mortgage crisis, which ...

Weekend Roundup

Harold Leventhal , J. A report of the session of the Washington History Seminar, heralded here , devoted to David Armitage and Jo Guldi ’s...

LSA Graduate Student Paper Prize to Menyawi

The Law and Society Association has awarded the 2015 Graduate Student Paper Prize ("for the graduate paper that best represents outs...

LSA International Award to Shamir

The Law and Society Association has selected Ronen Shamir (Tel Aviv University) as winner of its 2015 International Award ("for sign...