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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS HISTORY FELLOWSHIPS Call opens  August 1st, 2019 . Deadlines:  October 15th and November 5th, 2019. The  Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History . To be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at Harvard Business School. The fellowship is open to scholars who, within the last ten years, have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline. The fellowship has two purposes: The first is to enable scholars to engage in research that will benefit from the resources of Harvard Business School and the larger Boston scholarly community. A travel fund and a book fund will be provided. The second is to provide an opportunity for the fellow to participate in the activities of Harvard Business School. Application and related materials are due by October 15, 2019. The  Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship in U.S. Business History . The Thomas K. McCraw Fellowship seeks applicants who are establ...

The Call for Papers for the Conference Home and Hearth: Gender and Energies within the Domestic Space, 19th-21st Centuries (Wood, Coal, Electricity, Gas, Oil) is open until the end of September . The meeting will take place in Paris, June 2020. The different sources of energy (wood, coal, gas and oil, electricity) increasingly changed lifestyles within the domestic space from the nineteenth century onward. The markets that included these new energy uses were amplified with the spread of multiple types of household equipment. Living conditions were transformed through the promotion of comfort, the reduction of domestic hardship, and the simplification of chores. Cooking, heating, refrigeration, hot water, and housework were all separately or collectively emphasized as sources of well-being in the household. Their promotion helped to simplify the most basic everyday practices from the bathroom to the kitchen, from lighting to cleaning. They also transformed activities outside of th...

Dear subscribers to The Exchange, The following podcasts shows are all related to history and might be of interest and also useful for your classes. Another BBC show focusing on history is In Our Time . The last episode of Past Present, School Busing, Girlboss, and Lil Nas X , is relevant to the ongoing primaries debates in the United States. Dig: A History Podcast ," is made by "Women historians digging up intimate stories of the past to uncover history that matters." The History Buffs podcast was also created by the women of DIG. The full archive is available here . The first season of Nice Try! , from Curbed and Vox Media, is hosted by Avery Trufelman (@trufelman). "Utopian tells the stories behind the world’s most fascinating communities, from an enclosed bubble of environmentalists to the first American “company town” to 19th-century spiritual sects." Throughline is US National Public Radio's history podcast. The last episode on July ...

CBHA 2019-20 Chris Kobrak Research Fellowship Open for Applications New deadline is July 31st, 2019. The CBHA/ACHA, Canada’s leading organization for the study of business in Canada, offers support for a research project in an area of Canadian business history. Applicants are encouraged to think creatively in developing proposals that will result in an academic product (scholarly article, book project, digital, oral or public history project) that advances our understanding of some aspect of Canadian business history. The field of study is open to any area or time period, but the Grants Committee especially encourages proposals that embrace questions that emerge from the global and international challenges faced by Canadian business. One particular area of interest for the CBHA/ACHA is the internationalization of Canadian financial services. The successful applicant will receive up to $5,000 per year over two years, for a total of up to $10,000, to support the completion of the ...

The following journals have recently published new issues: Volume 59, Issue 2 (July 2019) of the Australian Economic History Review is available online. The last published volume of The Journal of Labor and Society is a Special Issue on Feminism and Labor Struggles (Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2019) The Economic History Review and Enterprise & Society just published their August 2019 and September 2019 issues, respectively. The AEA Papers and Proceedings (Volume 109, May 2019) may be accessed  here . Volume 61, Issue 6 of Business History is available here. Other interesting readings from across the web, For the Washington Post's section  Made by History , JoAnne Yates and Craig N. Murphy wrote " Globalism is under siege. Here's how to save it -- and why. " Their book  Engineering Rules  was also featured in the blog  The Past Speaks . And  Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement, by David K. Johnson From ...

Dear subscribers to The Exchange, The following podcasts shows are all related to history and might be of interest and also useful for your classes. The History Chicks ' podcast theme is women in history. The last episode aired last July 9th about Joan of Arc. The show Our Fake History is "A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths!" To access the episodes click  here . BBC Witness History podcast has been airing episodes since 2010. All of the episodes are freely available on their website. For a combination of comerdy and history, listen to The Dollop . Atlanta Monster is a "true crime podcast" and it takes the listener through the last four decades of Atlanta's history. Produced by director and award-winning documentary filmmaker, Payne Lindsey. BackStory is "Hosted by noted U.S. historians, each episode provides listeners with different perspectives on a particular theme or subject – givin...

The Martha Moore Trescott Award -- honoring Paul Uselding, Harold F. Williamson, Richard C. Overton, Alfred D. Chandler, and Albro Martin The Business History Conference is delighted to announce the establishment of a new prize, The Martha Moore Trescott Award. The prize, generously funded by a bequest from the estate of the late Martha Moore Trescott, will be awarded to the best paper at the intersection of business history and the history of technology presented at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference. The award honors pioneering scholars Paul Uselding, Harold F. Williamson, Richard C. Overton, Alfred D. Chandler, and Albro Martin. Martha Moore Trescott was herself a pioneering member of the BHC and published extensively, particularly on the role of women in science and engineering, while she worked in academic administration for several universities. The prize will be for the amount of $500. Criteria and eligibility: The BHC will establish a prize committee...