News
Assistant Professor Andrew Fisher's soon-to-be-published first book, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity, has been selected for inclusion in the Emil and Kathleen Sick Lecture-Book Series.
Professor Scott Nelson has been awarded a year-long residential fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Professor Kris Lane was awarded a 2009 Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence.
Professor Kveta Benes has published her first book.
Professor LuAnn Homza accompanied three undergraduate students to Spain, where she introduced them to archival research.
William and Mary graduate alumnus Andrew Schocket (2001) has won the 2008 Ohio Academy of History Publication Award for his book Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia (NIU Press, 2007).
John Weber was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship for the 2008-2009 term.
Few historians get to write about windsurfing and barleywine ale.
Charles McGovern's new book, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945, was a finalist for the 2007 Virginia award for Non-Fiction.
Sean Patrick Harvey received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship for academic year 2008/2009.
Cindy Hahamovitch has been appointed a Fulbright Fellow by the Irish Fulbright Commission.
The Organization of American Historians has selected a recent article by Beth English (Ph.D. '03) for inclusion in the organization's Best American History Essays of 2008.
Paul Moyer's book, Wild Yankees: The Struggle for Independence Along Pennsylvania's Revolutionary Frontier came out from Cornell University Press.
Graduate student Justin Pariseau has been awarded a 2007 Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship through Mystic Seaport's Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies.
Chitralekha Zutshi has been awarded a six-month Kluge Fellowship from the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress for 2008 and will be in residence there during spring semester of next year.
Melvin Ely has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
Scott Reynolds Nelson's Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend has won three national awards and one statewide award.
Beth English's A Common Thread: Labor, Politics, and Capital Mobility in the Textile Industry "weaves together the histories of labor, politics, and industrial development in a way that is both compelling and insightful."
Scott Reynolds Nelson's Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend won the 2007 Merle Curti Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history.
Award-winning filmmaker and journalist David Taylor (BA '76) has long been fascinated by the U.S. Presidency in the 20th century.
As he weighed the fallout from his recent appearance on the highly publicized History Channel special, "Dark Ages: 600 Years of Degenerate, Godless, Inhuman Behavior," Philip Daileader, professor of history and the University Professor for Teaching Excellence at the College, counted the pros and cons.
Jim Piecuch's The Battle of Camden chronicles the 1780 battle between patriot and British forces in Camden, South Carolina.
Ron Schechter has been offered a fellowship for 2007-08 at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, at Princeton University.
Susan Kern (Ph.D. 2005) has won the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture "Richard L. Morton Award."
Three faculty members at the College of William and Mary have received the Commonwealth of Virginia's highest honor for professors of the colleges and universities in the state.
The extensive collection of correspondence between Charles Carroll of Carrollton (Charley), the only Roman Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence, and his father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis (Papa), contains a thousand mysteries.
Congratulations to Professor Melvin Patrick Ely.
Phil Daileader has been named University Professor for Teaching Excellence.
Melvin Patrick Ely's Israel on the Appomattox received the Literary Award for nonfiction from the Library of Virginia.
The 2005 James B. Castles Fellowship in Columbia River Basin History has been awarded to Andrew H. Fisher, Assistant Professor of history at the College of William and Mary.
Chitralekha Zutshi has been awarded the 2005-06 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for her book project entitled Consuming India, Adorning Empire: A Socio-Cultural History of the Kashmiri Shawl.
Laurie Koloski has been selected for the Alumni Fellowship Award for 2005.
Melvin Patrick Ely, professor of history and black studies at the College of William and Mary, has been awarded the prestigious Bancroft Prize in American History for his book "Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War," thus becoming the second faculty member to win the award while at the college.
Kris Lane has recently received notice that he has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar for next fall, 2005.
Ron Schechter was presented with the Leo Gershoy Award at the American Historical Association's 2005 General Meeting.
When the university faculties of the nation were getting bludgeoned in the press, in Congress and in America's think tanks during the mid-1990s, William and Mary's Kenan Professor of Humanities James Axtell responded.
It was a drab day last November when I first was introduced to Landon Carter.
To hear associate history professor Ronald Schechter struggle with the question perplexing all post-Enlightenment generations is refreshing.
James L. Axtell, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities in the William and Mary department of history, was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 30.
In recognition of the Lyon Gardiner Tyler legacy - and a family legacy to the College of William and Mary that spans three centuries - a new garden was dedicated at the college April 30, 2004.
Ron Schechter's book Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815, has been awarded the David Pinkney prize for 2003.
On the surface, there are few similarities between Richard A. Williamson and Kris E. Lane.
Professor of History Emeritus Thad Tate celebrates the life of his friend, former roommate and fellow scholar of early American history
Ronald Hoffman, director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and professor of history, has received the 2001 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award for his book Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland, written in collaboration with Sally Mason.
Joseph J. Ellis, a member of William and Mary's Class of 1965, has been awarded the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Founding Brothers, a study of the men who led the American Revolution.
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Ruffin Tyler have committed $5 million to establish an endowment for the College's Department of History in memory of his father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler--17th president of William and Mary and son of John Tyler, the 10th United States president.
