Announcements

KHS Research Fellowships

The Kentucky Historical Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the Fall 2016 KHS Research Fellowship grants:

Fall 2016 Scholarly Research Fellowships

J. Matthew Gallman (Professor of History University of Florida), “Kentucky Democrats and Family Politics: The Strange Case of ‘Willie’ Weller”

Robert P. Murray (Assistant Professor of History Mercy College), “Slavery Times in Kentucky, Redux”

Jonathan W. White (Associate Professor of American Studies and Senior Fellow, Center for American Studies, Christopher Newport University), “Abraham Lincoln and the Slave Trade”

2016 Oral History Research Fellowship

Rebecca Hasselbeck (doctoral candidate, Anthropology, University of California–Irvine), “Behind the Tracks: Social and Labor Relations in the United States Horse Racing Industry”

2016 Churchill Weavers Collection Fellowships

Ricki Dwyer (artist, independent scholar), “Weaving in Contemporary Culture”

Maggie Leininger (Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Hite Art Institute; Director, International Honor Quilt Project), “Churchill Weavers and Textile Industrialization”

Fellowships are awarded annually in two cycles. Application deadlines for the KHS Scholarly Research Fellowship program are March 1 and September 1 each year. For more information about the KHS Scholarly Research Fellowship program, visit our website: http://history.ky.gov/research-fellowships/. Churchill Weavers Collection (CWC) fellowships are awarded annually. The application deadline for CWC fellowships is September 1. For more information, visit our website: http://history.ky.gov/khs-fellowship-guidelines/.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky Symposium, June 8–9, 2017

On June 8–9, 2017, KHS and guest convener Amy Murrell Taylor will host ten acclaimed U.S. historians and Organization of American Historians President-elect Edward L. Ayers for a symposium celebrating the initial publication of the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK). Each participant will produce short, trailblazing papers that will analyze a different set of documents within the CWGK corpus and propose a list of new historiographical questions that need to be addressed through CWGK materials and using CWGK tools. In addition, a special session for K-12 teachers and museum professionals will discuss the use of digital infrastructure to teach historical thinking to students: formulating questions about causation, testing assumptions with evidence, evaluating the reliability of information, and embracing complexity and contingency. A special 2019 issue of the Register will publish the symposium proceedings. Follow CWGK at CivilWarGovernors.org for more information about the event.