American Antiquarian Society
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) maintains a major research library in American history, literature, and culture through 1876. The library includes some 700,000 books and pamphlets; 20,000 newspaper titles; 200,000 pieces of graphic arts materials including broadsides, political cartoons, maps, and photographs; 60,000 pieces of sheet music; and nearly 1,600 collections of manuscripts.
The society’s holdings are especially rich for projects in the history of the book, including bibliography and the history of printing and publishing; literature; the history of Puritanism; cultural history; intellectual history; environmental history; American state and local history; and social history, including the history of reform, family history, and women’s history.
The collections are strong chronologically from the early colonial period to the late nineteenth century. The AAS-NEH fellows are part of a community that includes the AAS staff, area faculty, and the recipients of AAS short-term fellowships (including scholars from all over the U.S. and abroad, Ph.D. candidates, and creative artists and writers producing work for the general public) and other long-term fellows. Further opportunities for collegial association are provided by the society’s Program in the History of the Book in American Culture; the Center for Historic American Visual Culture; its series of seminars in American history and culture through 1876; lunchtime colloquia; public lectures; and more informal gatherings. Three AAS-NEH fellowships are available for 2008-2009. Detailed information and a link to request an application packet may be found on the AAS website.
Application deadline: January 15, 2008
Contact:
Caroline F. Sloat, Director of Scholarly Programs
Room 106
American Antiquarian Society
185 Salisbury Street
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609-1634
Telephone: 508/755-5221
FAX: 508/754-9069
E-Mail: csloat@mwa.org
Website: http://www.americanantiquarian.org
Inquiries about American Antiquarian Society Collections should be addressed to: jchaison@mwa.org
Inquiries about fellowships generally should be addressed to
Caroline Sloat
Website: http://www.americanantiquarian.org