The Eldred WWII Museum cordially invites college students to participate in a supplemental self-guided learning experience utilizing the considerable World War II reference resources of the Eldred WWII Museum in Eldred, Pennsylvania.

Eligibility

The program is open to any student currently enrolled in an accredited institution of higher learning. Students may be subsidized by foundation grants, university grants, or participate independently. Student interns are also welcome.

For more information, go to

http://www.eldredwwiimuseum.org/contest.html

Internships at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission

Internships for history majors are available at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC). As history students look towards their future, some may be contemplating a career in public history. We’d like to encourage that interest – all our internships are structured educational experiences designed to provide hands-on, real world experience that complements students’ academic work. We encourage students to seek credit for their internship; and will work with your faculty to fulfill all requirements.

As a multi-service state agency, PHMC offers internships that encompass a variety of history-related fields and practices, including archives, archaeology, architecture, collections care and management, cultural resource management, curation, exhibition development, historic preservation, research and program development, museum studies, and museum education.

PHMC internships fall into two categories: unpaid and likely parttime internships during the spring (and fall) semesters; and paid, full time summer internships through the highly selective Keystone Internship Program, open to graduate students and upper level undergraduate students. The deadline for spring internships is rolling; the deadline for summer 2006 is January 27, 2006.

In addition, in partnership with the Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations, the Commission is sponsoring a specially funded Minority Student Internship Program for summer 2006. Through this program, two fulltime, paid summer internships will be offered at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two at the Independence Seaport Museum, both in Philadelphia; and one at a PHMC facility or program. The Minority Student Internship Program is designed to introduce upper level undergraduate and graduate students of diverse backgrounds to careers in museums and related fields; and represents a commitment by PHMC and the Pennsylvania Federation, as well as collaborating institutions, to increase the participation of minorities in the museum field.

Full descriptive information and application materials for PHMC internships, including Minority Student Internships, are available at the Commission’s website: go to www.phmc.state.pa.us, click on “Internship Program,” and follow the links. Thank you. –Linda Shopes

Linda Shopes
Bureau of Archives & History
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission
Commonwealth Keystone Building - PL
400 North St.
Harrisburg, PA 17120-0053
717/772-3257 (phone)


Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
by David S. Brown

The career of Richard Hofstadter spanned the triumph and decline of modern American liberalism. He was an articulate opponent of extremism and a vigorous champion of the politics that emerged from the New Deal. In Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography David S. Brown traces the life of one of our most important and prolific public intellectuals. Read the introduction.

Cars, Trains, Buggies & Planes:
Transportation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Images from the Photo Collection
of the Lancaster County Historical Society

Discover how people in Lancaster County have gotten from here to there for the last 150 years—from early horse-drawn wagons to the steam locomotive to the automobile to the airplane. Other chapters focus on bikes and motorcycles, trucks, trolleys, gas stations, and boats.

An insightful introduction by Thomas R. Winpenny, Ph.D., professor of history at Elizabethtown College, and short essays by local experts recount engaging stories and place Lancaster’s history in a national context. This superb collection of images is certain to appeal to any transportation enthusiast or local history buff.

For more information, go to http://www.lancasterhistory.org/bookstore/Carsmain.html

Beijing--a capital city with over 5000 years of history! China--a country with the fastest growing economy in the world! Travel to China this May and learn more about this dynamic country with its rich history. Join your fellow Elizabethtown students as well as professors Liang Tang and David Kenley for a study tour that includes a two-week-long stay in Beijing with a possible side trip to Shanghai. The program fee of $1295 covers tuition, room and board, and all China activities (you will receive four credit hours of core curriculum credit).

This program is open to all students, faculty, staff,
alumni and guests of Elizabethtown College.

"Home of the Brave"
"A serenely powerful, handcrafted film that navigates into a place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once called 'the tangled discords of our nation'" DAILY VARIETY


Mardi Gras: Made in China
Film and discussion panel featuring Dr. David Kenley

The Women and Gender Studies Program featured the film “Mardi Gras: Made in China,” on Thursday, November 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Event Space in Brossman Commons, as part of the 2005-6 Allies/ Womenspeak/WGS Film Series. As part of the event, there was a panel discussion featuring Dr. David Kenley from the History Department.

“Mardi Gras: Made in China” is a documentary about Chinese factory workers who work long days for little pay, making beads for the Mardi Gras celebrations in New Orleans. The film is thought-provoking, juxtaposing the exploited women workers of the Chinese factory with the callous and pleasure-seeking American consumers.

First Dr. King Student Fellow Essay Contest

Interested students should submit an essay of 500 words . The essay theme is "In the Spirit of Community."

• Essays must contain at least one citation from Dr. King's works. There are items on reserve in the High Library to assist students.
• Essays are due on or before Friday, December 9, 2005 , to Dr. David Brown in Wenger 379A or in his faculty mailbox in Wenger 276.
• Essays will be judged by an Elizabethtown faculty panel.
• Prizes are as follows:

• First Prize is $500 in textbooks from the White Bookstore for the spring 2005 semester.
• Second Prize is $250 in textbooks from the White Bookstore for the spring 2005 semester.
• Third Prize is $100 in textbooks from the White Bookstore for the spring 2005 semester.

Finalist will be notified over the winter vacation and must be present at the award ceremony to win. The essays will be read and judged in a public ceremony on Monday, January 16, 2006, at 11 a.m. in the Event Space. Finalist will read their essays aloud and answer questions from the faculty panel. The event is sponsored by the Provost's Office. Questions may be directed to Dr. David Brown at BROWNDS or ext. 1249.



Exhibition at Trout Gallery/Dickinson Gallery

George M. Richards , Oh, Boy! That's the Girl! ..., color lithograph, 1918

DESIGNING FOR VICTORY 1914-1945

Posters from the United States Army Heritage and Education Center

This traveling exhibition is on loan from the United States Army Heritage and Education Center, Carlisle Barracks, Carlisle, Pennsylvania and organized in conjunction with The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College

THE TROUT GALLERY/Dickinson College
Emil R. Weiss Center for the Arts
West High Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17013
www.dickinson.edu/trout 717-245-1344

October 28, 2005-January 14, 2006

Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4p.m.
Closed November 23-27/December 23-January 2

Reception: Friday, October 28, 5-7p.m.

Fred Spear, Enlist , color lithograph, 1915

THE FACE OF DECLINE: THE PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE REGION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY”

You are cordially invited to attend:

BRINGING NEW HISTORY TO A PUBLIC AUDIENCE

“THE FACE OF DECLINE: THE PENNSYLVANIA ANTHRACITE REGION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY”

featuring Thomas Dublin and Walter Licht

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

12-1 p.m.

The State Museum Auditorium, Harrisburg

In The Face of Decline (Cornell University Press, 2005), Thomas Dublin (Binghamton University) and Walter Licht (University of Pennsylvania) present a bold and provocative analysis of the economic and social reorganization of Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region. With a keen eye for the human consequences of broad historical developments, these two distinguished historians offer a compelling assessment of “deindustrialization” and a region’s struggle to transform itself. Combining folklore and oral history with economic theory and social analysis, The Face of Decline is Pennsylvaniahistory at its finest.

A reception and book signing will follow questions and answers.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

This event is sponsored by:

The State Museum of Pennsylvania,

Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Pennsylvania Historical Association

Pennsylvania Humanities Council

Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations

American Studies Program, PSU-Harrisburg

For further information, contact Dennis Downey at 717 872 3924.


The New England Quarterly Essay Contest

The New England Quarterly, a Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, administers two annual essay contests, one in early American history (December deadline), and the other in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England literary history (June deadline), both with generous prize awards and the opportunity for publication in NEQ.

2005 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History

This prize of $2500, sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts andestablished in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, former editor of publications for the Society, will be awarded for a distinguished essay on colonial history, with preference being given to New England subjects. A committee of members of the Colonial Society will act as judges: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University; Robert Middlekauff, University of California, Berkeley; and Edmund Sears Morgan, Yale University. Submissions for the 2005 prize must be postmarked by 31 December 2005. The prizewinner will be announced in the spring of 2006, and the winning essay will be published in The New England Quarterly. For prize specifications, see NEQ’s website, http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/whitehill/. Essays may be submitted to Whitehill Prize Committee, c/o Linda Smith Rhoads, Editor, The New England Quarterly, 249 Meserve Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.

2006 Herbert Ross Brown Prize in New England Literary History, 1820–2000

This prize of $2000, established by the editors of The New England Quarterly in memory of Herbert Ross Brown, editor of NEQ from 1945 to 1980, will be awarded for a distinguished essay in New England literary history, 1820–2000. The editors will accept essays discussing New England literature in the broadest sense—from slave narratives, to poetry and novels, to political and religious tracts. The judges are Nina Baym, University of Illinois; Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University; and James Longenbach, University of Rochester. The prizewinner will be announced in the fall of 2006, and the winning essay will be published in NEQ. Submissions for the 2006 prize must be postmarked by 30 June 2006. For prize specifications, see NEQ’s website, http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/brown/. Essays may be submitted to Brown Prize Committee, c/o Linda Smith Rhoads, Editor, The New England Quarterly, 249 Meserve Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.