The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library and the Department of History are pleased to announce a Research Travel Grant to support scholars conducting research in any of the Library’s collections.

Sam Franz examines how universities, foundations and corporations developed computing education as a social and economic project in the postwar world — and provides historical context for contemporary issues such as AI, digital labor, and the university's role in the economy.

Drexel University has processed and acquired several new collections.

Apply by August 22 for support to conduct research in the collections of NYAM.

Adriana Fraser examines Consortium collections to find how scientists understood human-microbe relations in the second half of the twentieth century.

Anna Doel finds unexpectedly rich personal and professional communications between U.S. and Soviet scientists across the Iron Curtain.

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology invites historians and philosophers of science to apply for the Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship at CSHL.

Please help the Organization of American Historians assess how budget cuts are influencing historians' research.

Paper proposals will be accepted until July 11, 2025.

Emma Broder examines controversies about psychological causes of 20th-century outbreaks now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID, and uncovers new opportunities for research in the history of medicine.
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Leonhart Fuchs, De historia stirpium (Basel, 1542)