Please share! Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
If an American uses the term "car" while traveling through Western Europe in 1872, what form of travel do they mean? It seems railway travel often uses that word "railway" or "by rail." So is car the "diligence," the soon to disappear large carriage that goes between cities without railway lines?
For sale, Robert Norton's copy of The Mother's Recompense, dedicated to him by its author, Edith Wharton. File under too expensive for me, but still v. cool! www.peterharrington.co.uk/the-mother-s...
The Mother's Recompense. First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to her closest companion in later life, Robert Norton, on the front free endpaper, "R.N. from E.W., ...
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Connection The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest exists to encourage and train graduate students to blog about history—as a way to teach beyond the classroom, marke...
The AHA is seeking three graduate students to write a series of two columns each for online publication in #AHAPerspectives. Apply by April 21 to hone your writing skills and share what you do as a historian with a wide audience! 🗃️
Submit your application by Sunday, April 21!
Yes, here is just a glimpse at what the world thinks of a country—i.e. the United States—that will not care for young people.
Etats-Unis : les soins pour les mineurs transgenres temporairement interdits dans l’Idaho
La Cour suprême a validé une loi votée dans cet Etat conservateur, menaçant de poursuites pénales les professionnels de santé pratiquant de traitements tels que des bloqueurs de pubertés, des hormones, ou certains actes chirurgicaux sur des mineurs.
Every time Dawn Staley gives an interview where she says it’s her role to make sure young people have the space and support to be their true, authentic selves it’s like she’s subtweeting Kim Mulkey