Endnotes
Announcements
The National Endowment for the Humanities named Penn State's George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center as a recipient of one of its "We the People" Challenge Grants. The award provides a grant of $1 million to the center to help build its endowment for programming in the humanities and must be matched by another $3 million raised by the University within a 56-month period.
The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are pleased to announce a publicly accessible, full-text database of Pennsylvania Civil War Era Newspapers is now available at http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/newspapers/civilwar/. The site provides digital fascimiles of newspapers from 10 Pennsylvania communities, including Gettysburg, Chambersburg, and Philadelphia. The database allows searching and access to all the words, images, and advertisements from a selection of Pennsylvania newspapers published during the pivotal years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. Funding for this project was provided by the State of Pennsylvania. The project was coordinated by the University Libraries' Preservation Department under the leadership of Sue Kellerman; The Judith O. Sieg Chair for Preservation, in consultation with William Blair, director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center; and other key newspaper contacts from across the state. We are very pleased to expand access to this important record of the history of Pennsylvania. Watch for additional titles planned for 2006/2007. Please suggest titles via the "Contact Us" link on the site. Additional Pennsylvania Digital Collections can be found at: http://apps.libraries.psu.edu/digital/index.cfm. [End Page 447]
Awards
The Organization of American Historians presented the annual Avery O. Craven Award to Anne Sarah Rubin of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for her book A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868 (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2005). This prize recognizes the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.
Doris Kearns Goodwin won the 2006 Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, her study of Lincoln and his cabinet. Administered annually by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College and endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman, the Lincoln Prize is the nation's most generous award in the field of American History.
The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that While in the Hands of the Enemy: Military Prisons of the Civil War, by Charles W. Sanders Jr., published by the Louisiana State University Press, is the recipient of the 2005 Jefferson Davis Award. Sanders is professor of history at Kansas State University. His book is a volume in LSU Press's "Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War" series.
