Long-Term Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society
FAIN: RA-234931-16
Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA 02215-3631)
Conrad Edick Wright (Project Director: July 2015 to January 2020)
Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai (Project Director: January 2020 to October 2022)
16 months of stipend support (2-4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.
The Massachusetts Historical Society requests a grant for a program of long-term post-doctoral fellowships. The MHS will add additional funds from outside sources and from fundraising or its own funds. The initiative will complement three other fellowship programs at the Society—1) short-term fellowships; 2) regional fellowships (in collaboration with the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium); and 3) a two-month Civil War fellowship (in collaboration with the Boston Athenaeum). In the spring of 2015 the four fellowship competitions the MHS sponsors considered 225 applications and made 44 awards. MHS-NEH Fellows employ their grants at the MHS, where they make use of one of the great collections for American history research. (edited by NEH staff)
Associated Products
'To Board & Nurse a Stranger': Poverty, Disability, and Community in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts (Article)
Title: 'To Board & Nurse a Stranger': Poverty, Disability, and Community in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
Author: Laurel Daen
Abstract: This essay examines poverty and disability in eighteenth-century Massachusetts.
Year: 2020
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Social History
The Resistance Petitions of 1664-1665: Confronting the Restoration in Massachusetts Bay (Article)
Title: The Resistance Petitions of 1664-1665: Confronting the Restoration in Massachusetts Bay
Author: Adrian Chastain Weimer
Abstract: This essay uses petitions in Massachusetts to examine positions relating to the Restoration.
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: New England Quarterly
Quakers, Puritans, and the Problem of Godly Loyalty in the Early Restoration (Book Section)
Title: Quakers, Puritans, and the Problem of Godly Loyalty in the Early Restoration
Author: Adrian Chastain Weimer
Editor: Andrew Murphy
Editor: John Smolinski
Abstract: This essay look at how Quakers and Puritans considered issues of loyalty during the Restoration Period.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Book Title: The Worlds of William Penn
ISBN: 978-1978801776
The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and Its Empire (Book)
Title: The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and Its Empire
Editor: Brent S. Sirota (former MHS-NEH Fellow)
Editor: Allan I. Macinnes
Abstract: Was the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty of Brunswick to the throne of Britain and its empire in 1714 merely the final act in the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-89? Many contemporaries and later historians thought so, explaining the succession in the same terms as the earlier revolution - deliverance from the national perils of 'popery and arbitrary government'. By contrast, this book argues that the picture is much more complicated than straightforward continuity between 1688-89 and 1714. Emphasizing the plurality of post-Revolutionary developments, it explores early eighteenth-century Britain in light of the social, political, economic, religious and cultural transformations inaugurated by the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-1689 and its ensuing settlements in church, state and empire. The revolution of 1688-89 was much more transformative and convulsive than is often assumed; and the book shows that, although the Hanoverian Succession did embody a clear-cut reaffirmation of the core elements of the Revolution settlement - anti-Jacobitism and anti-popery - its impact on various post-Revolutionary developments in Church, state, Union, intellectual culture, international relations, political economy and empire is decidedly less clear.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Boydell
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781783274499
The ‘Contynuance of our Civell and religious Liberties’: Plymouth Colonists’ 1665 ‘Humble Addrese’ to the King (Article)
Title: The ‘Contynuance of our Civell and religious Liberties’: Plymouth Colonists’ 1665 ‘Humble Addrese’ to the King
Author: Adrian Chastain Weimer
Abstract: Not available.
Year: 2021
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Early American Literature
The London Jews’ Society and the Roots of Premillennialism, 1809-1829 (Book Section)
Title: The London Jews’ Society and the Roots of Premillennialism, 1809-1829
Author: Brent S. Sirota
Editor: Simone Maghenzani
Editor: Stefano Villani
Abstract: Not available.
Year: 2020
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: Converting Europe: British Protestant Missions in the Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Centuries
Ecclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825-1850 (Book Section)
Title: Ecclesiology and the Varieties of Romanticism in American Christianity, 1825-1850
Author: Brent S. Sirota
Editor: Benjamin E. Park
Abstract: Not available.
Year: 2021
Publisher: Routledge
Book Title: A Companion to American Religious History
Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour (Book)
Title: Memoirs of the Life, Religious Experience, Ministerial Travels and Labours of Mrs. Zilpha Elaw, an American Female of Colour
Author: Kimberly Blockett
Abstract: As a young Black orphan indentured to a Quaker family in Bristol, Pennsylvania, Zilpha Elaw (c. 1793–1873) decided to join the upstart Methodists in 1808. She preached her first sermon a decade later, ignoring her husband and the many church leaders, clergy, and laity who tried to silence her. Elaw’s memoir chronicles the first twenty years of her forty-year itinerant ministry during massive Protestant revivalism in the United States and England.
Elaw preached from Maine to Virginia, attracting multiracial and multidenominational audiences that included powerful men, wealthy White women, poor families, and enslaved communities. She moved from Bristol to Burlington, New Jersey, then to Nantucket, Massachusetts, and finally, in 1840, to London’s East End. In England, Elaw’s celebrity expanded, and at least twice she drew crowds so large they caused human stampedes and multiple injuries.
Blockett’s introduction and extensive annotations draw on newly unearthed information about the entirety of Elaw’s evangelism to provide context for this story of an antebellum Black woman’s personal and professional mobility.
Year: 2021
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-952271-2
Race-ing Around: Zilpha Elaw’s Transgressive Theologies (Book Section)
Title: Race-ing Around: Zilpha Elaw’s Transgressive Theologies
Author: Kimberly Blockett
Editor: Emily Hamilton-Honey
Editor: Jennifer McFarlane Harris
Abstract: This collection analyzes the theme of the "afterlife" as it animated nineteenth-century American women’s theology-making and appeals for social justice. Authors like Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Martha Finley, Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Zilpha Elaw, Rebecca Cox Jackson, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Belinda Marden Pratt, and others wrote to have a voice in the moral debates that were consuming churches and national politics. These texts are expressions of the lives and dynamic minds of women who developed sophisticated, systematic spiritual and textual approaches to the divine, to their denominations or religious traditions, and to the mainstream culture around them. Women do not simply live out theologies authored by men. Rather, Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven is grounded in the radical notion that the theological principles crafted by women and derived from women’s experiences, intellectual habits, and organizational capabilities are foundational to American literature itself.
Year: 2021
Publisher: Routledge Press
Book Title: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Theologies of the Afterlife: A Step Closer to Heaven
ISBN: 9780367528379