AmericanScholarship - Update on Scholarships in America

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.
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Award: $1,000 scholarship, renewable one time if 3.0 GPA is maintained
Eligibility: Sophomore or junior in a Massachusetts or Vermont college; history, political scienc, education, or a public srevice-related major; 3.0 GPA
Advisor: Dr. Susan Whitbourne, ONSA Director
Coolidge Information in PDF
Campus Campus Deadline: (for Coolidge Application in PDF) March 15, 2008

The JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (short-term) is for North American and European researchers, and is being offered through the Japan Society for Promotion of Science. This program provides opportunities to postdoctoral researchers from two regions to conduct, under the guidance of their hosts, cooperative research with leading research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions.
Contact information:
JSPS San Francisco Office,
email: webmaster@jspsusa-sf.org,
Tel: (510) 665-1890,
Fax: (510)-665-1891.
Deadline: None.

In 1992, David Brower, Lois Gibbs, and Cesar Chavez helped Green Corps create a yearlong full time, paid Environmental Leadership Training Program. Each year we hire thirty recent college graduates to launch their organizing and advocacy careers with Green Corps. Through our Environmental Leadership Training Program, students gain the hands-on training and experience to put ideas into action and win important victories for public health and the environment. Green Corps’ one-year, full time, paid program gives you the best training available to launch an organizing and advocacy career. (more…)