NEH Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society

FAIN: RA-50058-07

American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA 01609-1634)
Caroline Sloat (Project Director: September 2006 to November 2010)

The equivalent of three fellowships a year for two years.

This application seeks continued funding for the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) under the Endowment's initiative supporting Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions. Previous grants since 1975 have helped support a deep, rich, and growing body of scholarship in many fields, including the development of the field of book history. The funding requested is the same amount as was awarded in the previous grant, that is, sufficient funds to award three fellowships at the maximum stipend annually for three years. For more than three decades, the AAS fellowship program has made the Society's unparalleled resources for the study of American history and culture through 1876 more readily available to scholars from throughout the nation, has fostered a productive culture of collegiality among fellows and staff, and has enabled the Society to enhance its services to humanistic scholarship in and about the United States.

Associated Products

A Social History of English Grammar in the Early United States (Article)
Title: A Social History of English Grammar in the Early United States
Author: Beth Barton Schweiger
Abstract: no abstract available
Year: 2010
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of the Early Republic
Publisher: Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England (Book)
Title: Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Author: Meredith Marie Neuman
Abstract: New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the lived experience of the sermon. By reconstructing the aural culture of sermons, Neuman shifts our attention from the pulpit to the pew to demonstrate the many ways in which sermon auditors helped to shape this dominant genre of Puritan New England. Tracing the material transmission of sermon texts by readers and writers, hearers and notetakers, Jeremiah's Scribes challenges the notion of stable authorship by individual ministers. Instead, Neuman illuminates a mode of textual production that pervaded communities and occurred in the overlapping media of print, manuscript, and speech. Even printed sermons, she demonstrates, bore the traces of their roots in the oral culture of the meetinghouse. Bringing material considerations to bear on anxieties over the perceived relationship between divine and human language, Jeremiah's Scribes broadens our understanding of Puritan literature. Neuman examines the controlling logic of the sermon in relation to nonsermonic writing - such as conversion narrative - ultimately suggesting the fundamental permeability among disparate genres of Puritan writing.
Year: 2013
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/jeremiahs-scribes-creating-sermon-literature-in-puritan-new-england/oclc/821218332&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL: http://wordpress.clarku.edu/meneuman/sermon-notebooks-online/
Secondary URL Description: Sermon Notebooks Online: you can browse a gallery of images of sermon notebooks, read a transcription of a set of sermon notes, view frequently asked questions on sermon notetaking, find resources for further study, or get involved with creating and perfecting new transcriptions.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978081224505
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

‘I Am a Stranger with Thee’: Frederick Douglass and Recognition after 1845 (Article)
Title: ‘I Am a Stranger with Thee’: Frederick Douglass and Recognition after 1845
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Abstract: abstract not available
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Literature 85:2

Prizes

Norman Foerster Prize
Date: 1/1/2014
Organization: Modern Language Association
Abstract: Given annually for the best essay published in "American Literature" during the year.

“Confronting Taboo: Photography and the Art of Jacob Lawrence.” (Article)
Title: “Confronting Taboo: Photography and the Art of Jacob Lawrence.”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Abstract: Among the most celebrated African American artists of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence is known for depicting black life in post-Depression Harlem and exploring social and political realities through abstraction. Scholars have noted regular overlaps in the subject matter of Lawrence’s paintings and that of contemporary documentary photographs, especially the images produced by white photographers under the Farm Security Administration. And yet little has been said of the recurring references to vernacular photography across his oeuvre or of their relation to the documentary tradition. Through a reinterpretation of Taboo (1963), this essay asks how and why Lawrence turned to “everyday” photographic practices as a formal element in his painting and as a carrier of political meaning. My aims are twofold: to shed new light on an understudied aspect of Lawrence’s painting, and to expand our understanding of African American modern art as reaching across the history of photography.
Year: 2014
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Art

“Comical Conflations: Racial Identity and the Science of Photography,” (Book Section)
Title: “Comical Conflations: Racial Identity and the Science of Photography,”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Editor: David Bindman
Editor: Adrian Randolph
Abstract: “Comical Conflations: Racial Identity and the Science of Photography,” in No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, ed. Adrian Randolph and David Bindman (Hanover: UPNE, 2015).
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.upne.com/1611688207.html
Publisher: UPNE
Book Title: No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity
ISBN: 978-1-61168-82

“A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History” (Book Section)
Title: “A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Editor: Jason LaFountain
Editor: Jennifer Greenhill
Editor: John Davis
Abstract: “A Time and a Place: Rethinking Race in American Art History,” in A Companion to American Art, ed. John Davis, Jennifer A. Greenhill, and Jason D. LaFountain (Oxford: Blackwell Press, 2015), 49-67.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470671025.html
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Book Title: A Companion to American Art
ISBN: 978-0-470-6710

“Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile.” (Book Section)
Title: “Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile.”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Editor: Elspeth Brown
Editor: Thy Phu
Abstract: “Looking Pleasant, Feeling White: The Social Politics of the Photographic Smile.” In Feeling Photography, ed. Elspeth Brown and Thy Phu (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), 27-157.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: https://www.dukeupress.edu/Feeling-Photography/
Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Title: Feeling Photography
ISBN: 978-0-8223-554

“Marketing Racism: Popular Imagery in the US and Europe,” (Book Section)
Title: “Marketing Racism: Popular Imagery in the US and Europe,”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Author: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Editor: David Bindman
Editor: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Abstract: “Marketing Racism: Popular Imagery in the US and Europe,” co-authored with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 5, The Twentieth Century, ed. David Bindman and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014), 29-42.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674052673
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Title: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Vol. 5, The Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780674052673

“In a New Light: Early African American Photography.” (Article)
Title: “In a New Light: Early African American Photography.”
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Abstract: “In a New Light: Early African American Photography.” American Studies 52 (2013): 7-26.
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Studies

Photography, History, Difference. (Book)
Title: Photography, History, Difference.
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Editor: Tanya Sheehan
Abstract: Photography, History, Difference. (Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2014).
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.upne.com/1611686463.html
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-1-61168-64

Photography and Its Origins (Book)
Title: Photography and Its Origins
Author: Tanya Sheehan
Editor: Andres Mario Zervigon
Editor: Tanya Sheehan
Abstract: Photography and Its Origins, co-edited with Andres Mario Zervigon (London: Routledge, 2015).
Year: 2015
Secondary URL: http://www.amazon.com/Photography-Its-Origins-Tanya-Sheehan/dp/041572290X
Publisher: Routledge
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-0415722902

"Locality and the Serial South" (Book Section)
Title: "Locality and the Serial South"
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Editor: Barbara Ladd
Editor: Fred Hobson
Abstract: "Locality and the Serial South," Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the US South, ed. by Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
Year: 2015
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: Oxford Handbook to the Literature of the US South

"Historical Totality and the African American Archive" (Book Section)
Title: "Historical Totality and the African American Archive"
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Editor: Ivy Wilson
Editor: Dana Luciano
Abstract: "Historical Totality and the African American Archive," in Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies, ed. by Dana Luciano and Ivy Wilson (New York: New York University Press, 2014)
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://nyupress.org/books/9781479857722/
Publisher: New York University Press
Book Title: Unsettled States: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
ISBN: 9781479857722

"The Nature of Form" (Article)
Title: "The Nature of Form"
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Abstract: "The Nature of Form," J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1:2 (2013): 423-31.
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

"Stranger History" (Article)
Title: "Stranger History"
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Abstract: "Stranger History," J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 1:1 (2013), 154-59
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

“Early American Literature and Its Exclusions" (Article)
Title: “Early American Literature and Its Exclusions"
Author: Lloyd Pratt
Abstract: “Early American Literature and Its Exclusions.” PMLA 128.4 (2013): 9803-988.
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: PMLA

“The Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans" (Article)
Title: “The Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans"
Author: Meredith Neuman
Abstract: “The Versified Lives of Unknown Puritans,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 107:3 (2013), special issue on Poetry & Print in Early America.
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

“Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina" (Article)
Title: “Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina"
Author: Sean Kelley
Abstract: “Scrambling for Slaves: Captive Sales in Colonial South Carolina," Slavery and Abolition (March 2013).
Year: 2013
Access Model: Subscription
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Slavery and Abolition

“The Dirty Business of Panyarring and Palaver: Slave Trading on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth Century" (Book Section)
Title: “The Dirty Business of Panyarring and Palaver: Slave Trading on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth Century"
Author: Sean Kelley
Editor: Suzanne Schwarz
Editor: Paul E. Lovejoy
Abstract: “The Dirty Business of Panyarring and Palaver: Slave Trading on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth Century," in Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone, eds. Paul E. Lovejoy and Suzanne Schwarz (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014), 85-104.
Year: 2014
Secondary URL: http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Abolition-Transition-Colonisation-Sierra/dp/1592219837
Publisher: Africa World Press
Book Title: Slavery, Abolition and the Transition to Colonialism in Sierra Leone
ISBN: 978-1592219834

The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina (Book)
Title: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey into Captivity from Sierra Leone to South Carolina
Author: Sean M. Kelley
Abstract: "From 1754 to 1755, the slave ship Hare completed a journey from Newport, Rhode Island, to Sierra Leone and back to the United States--a journey that transformed more than seventy Africans into commodities, condemning some to death and the rest to a life of bondage in North America. In this engaging narrative, Sean Kelley painstakingly reconstructs this tumultuous voyage, detailing everything from the identities of the captain and crew to their wild encounters with inclement weather, slave traders, and near-mutiny. But most importantly, Kelley tracks the cohort of slaves aboard the Hare from their purchase in Africa to their sale in South Carolina. In tracing their complete journey, Kelley provides rare insight into the communal lives of slaves and sheds new light on the African diaspora and its influence on the formation of African American culture.
Year: 2016
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/voyage-of-the-slave-ship-hare-a-journey-into-captivity-from-sierra-leone-to-south-carolina/oclc/922912887&referer=brief_results
Primary URL Description: WorldCat
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-4696-276
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Manuscript Culture & Print (Book Section)
Title: Manuscript Culture & Print
Author: Meredith Neuman
Editor: Gary Kelly
Abstract: not available
Year: 2018
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

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