Long-Term Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society

FAIN: RA-50119-13

Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, MA 02215-3631)
Conrad Edick Wright (Project Director: August 2012 to December 2019)

Sixteen months of stipend support (2 to 4 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated wtih the selection of fellows.

The Massachusetts Historical Society requests a grant of $278,400 in outright funds and $21,000 in matching funds, a total of $299,400, for a program of long-term post-doctoral fellowships. To this sum the Society will add $21,000 raised from outside sources and $40,500 in its own funds, a total of $61,500. The initiative will complement three other research 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 2012 the four research fellowship competitions the Society sponsors considered 226 applications and made 37 awards. Fellows employ these grants at the Society, where they make use of one of the great research collections for the study of American history.

Associated Products

"'Slavery' and 'To Mrs. Eliot on the Death of Her Child': Two New Manuscript Poems Connected to Phillis Wheatley by the Bostonian Poet Ruth Barrell Andrews" (Article)
Title: "'Slavery' and 'To Mrs. Eliot on the Death of Her Child': Two New Manuscript Poems Connected to Phillis Wheatley by the Bostonian Poet Ruth Barrell Andrews"
Author: Wendy Roberts
Abstract: Reports on two recently discovered poems connected to the eighteenth-century African American poet Phillis Wheatley.
Year: 2016
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Early American Literature
Publisher: Early American Literature

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Book)
Title: The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
Author: Manisha Sinha
Abstract: Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radical social movement in which men and women, black and white, free and enslaved found common ground in causes ranging from feminism and utopian socialism to anti-imperialism and efforts to defend the rights of labor. Drawing on extensive archival research, including newly discovered letters and pamphlets, Sinha documents the influence of the Haitian Revolution and the centrality of slave resistance in shaping the ideology and tactics of abolition. This book is a comprehensive new history of the abolition movement in a transnational context. It illustrates how the abolitionist vision ultimately linked the slave’s cause to the struggle to redefine American democracy and human rights across the globe.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780300181371
Copy sent to NEH?: No

Prizes

Avery O. Craven Award
Date: 4/1/2017
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Abstract: Awarded for "“the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, and Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.”

American Capitalism: New Histories (Book)
Title: American Capitalism: New Histories
Editor: Christine Desan
Editor: Sven Beckert
Abstract: AMERICAN CAPITALISM presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars of the subject. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women's rights; slavery and political economy; the racialization of capitalism; labor beyond industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and contested by participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke.
Year: 2018
Primary URL: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-capitalism/9780231185240
Primary URL Description: Publisher's catalog
Access Model: hardcover book; e-book
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9780231185240
Copy sent to NEH?: No

The Problem of Abolition in the Age of Capitalism (Article)
Title: The Problem of Abolition in the Age of Capitalism
Author: Manisha Sinha
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: American Historical Review

Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity (Article)
Title: Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity
Author: Manisha Sinha
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Black Perspectives

Preface (Book Section)
Title: Preface
Author: Manisha Sinha
Editor: Michael Roy
Editor: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
Editor: Claire Parfait
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Publisher: Paris: Editions Rue d'Ulm
Book Title: Undoing Slavery: American Abolitionism in Transnational Perspective, 1776-1865

"Do Something": A Letter from Frederick Douglass to an Abolitionist in Ireland (Book Section)
Title: "Do Something": A Letter from Frederick Douglass to an Abolitionist in Ireland
Author: Manisha Sinha
Editor: Nicole Seary
Editor: Justine Ahlstrom
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2018
Publisher: Gilder Lehrman Institute in American History
Book Title: Frederick Douglass: A Life in Documents

The Lion of All Occasions: The Great Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass (Blog Post)
Title: The Lion of All Occasions: The Great Black Abolitionist Frederick Douglass
Author: Manisha Sinha
Abstract: N/A
Date: 01/01/2018
Primary URL: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/2018-02/frederick-douglass-200
Blog Title: History Now
Website: The Guilder Lehrman Institute on American History

Hymnody and Song (Book Section)
Title: Hymnody and Song
Author: Wendy Roberts
Editor: Greta LaFleur
Editor: William Huntting Howell
Abstract: N/A
Year: 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, Volume One, 1770-1828
ISBN: 9781108675239

The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920 (Book)
Title: The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920
Author: Manisha Sinha
Abstract: In The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, acclaimed historian Manisha Sinha expands our view beyond the accepted temporal and spatial bounds of Reconstruction, which is customarily said to have begun in 1865 with the end of the war, and to have come to a close when the 'corrupt bargain' of 1877 put Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House in exchange for the fall of the last southern Reconstruction state governments. Sinha's startlingly original account opens in 1860 with the election of Abraham Lincoln that triggered the secession of the Deep South states, and take us all the way to 1920 and the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote--and which Sinha calls the 'last Reconstruction amendment'
Year: 2024
Primary URL: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1379265882
Publisher: Liveright
Type: Single author monograph

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