Exploring our nation’s rich history in innovative ways, the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience draws scholars and citizens, college students and national leaders to a unique 18th-century town on the Chesapeake Bay. Our guiding principle is that now more than ever, a wider understanding of our shared past is fundamental to the continuing success of America’s democratic experiment.
Hodson-Brown Fellowship Deadline March 15
The Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Fellowship, a unique research and writing fellowship, supports work by academics, independent scholars and writers working on significant projects relating to the literature, history, culture,
or art of the Americas before 1830.
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Mitch Epstein's
American Power
(Postponed until March 3rd due to weather.) Mitch Epstein's photographs examine how energy is produced and used in the United States. Epstein's new book questions the power of nature, mass consumption, government, and corporations in the United States. Click for more...
Henry Fellowship Deadline Feb. 15
The C.V. Starr Center invites applications
for its residential Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship, which supports writing
on the history and/or legacy of the American Revolution and the nation’s founding ideas. Applications are due by February 15, 2010.
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