Dr. Andrew Huebner, Professor of Modern U.S. History at The University of Alabama, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Public Scholars Grant in August to support his current book project, titled “Buffalo Soldiers and the Making of United States Empire, 1866–1917.”
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Professor Joshua Rothman Part of Team that Receives $300,000 NEH Grant
This story was published originally in The University of Alabama College of Arts & Sciences’ Desktop News. Can you imagine opening a newspaper and seeing an advertisement for a runaway slave? In today’s world, it’s hard to fathom what it must have been like to live in a time when slavery was accepted. Dr. Joshua Rothman, a professor of history and chair of the Department of History, is on a mission to make understanding that world—and the many things we […]
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Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo Awarded NEH Fellowship.
Associate Professor Margaret Abruzzo received a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for her project entitled Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility in the 18th and 19th Centuries. This fellowship will support twelve months of full-time writing on a book that will trace changes in how both Catholic and Protestant Americans thought about sin and sinners. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many traditional frameworks for explaining sin — such […]
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