Month: January 2015

ShondaLand is the production company of television screenwriter and producer Shonda Rhimes, whose current series Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder (for which she serves as executive producer) comprise the Thursday Night prime-time block on ABC. At the core of Rhimes’… Continue Reading Johnson to join scholars at Duke for Shondaland Symposium

Congratulations to Jessica Marie Johnson who was awarded a 2015-2016 Mellon Postdoctoral Scholars Fellowship in the Program of African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She will be in Philadelphia beginning September 2015 and through May 2016 completing research on her current book… Continue Reading Johnson wins Mellon Fellowship

Professor Helen Veit’s Food in the Civil War Era: The North, the first book in the American Food in History series that she edits with Michigan State University press, won Gourmand International’s award for Best Series Cookbook published in the United States in 2014.

Ronen Steinberg discusses ghosts and the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror in this blog post that was published originally on the website Not Even Past (UT Austin) and was later picked up by the History News Network. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157469