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In Remembrance of Ann Richards

3/14/13

The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center has lost a friend whose leadership and philanthropy played a major role in its attainment of leadership in the liberal arts. Ann Marie Stiegler Richards of Simsbury, Conn., died Jan. 26, 2013, at the age of 78 from injuries related to a fall.

Montage of graduate studies at Civil War Research Center

Richards Center trains next generation of Civil War scholars

3/13/13

From its original mission of interpreting and reflecting on the transformative experience of the Civil War itself, Penn State's Richards Civil War Era Center and its scholarship now encompass themes spanning Atlantic World slavery, emancipation, constitutionalism, the expansion of democracy, religion and social movements, women's rights, immigration, western expansionism, war and society, and the struggles of labor. In addition to fostering this forum, the Center is training scholars who are making significant contributions in the field.

McCourtneys endow history professorship with $1 million gift

5/10/10

Penn State alumna Tracy Winfree McCourtney and her husband, Ted, have made a $1 million gift to the University to endow a professorship in American history. Preference for the appointment will be given to faculty working with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center in the College of the Liberal Arts. The McCourtneys are creating the George Winfree Professorship in American History in memory of Tracy's great-grandfather, who served in a Virginia regiment of the Confederate Army and who took part in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Events commemorate bicentennial of slave trade abolition in U.S.

10/21/08

A bicentennial commemoration of the abolition of the legal slave trade in the United State will be held with two events on Thursday (Oct. 23) afternoon at Penn State's University Park campus. The events are presented by the Center for American Literary Studies and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. A public mini-marathon read-in of documents related to the slave trade will take place from 1-3:30 p.m. on the steps of Pattee Library. Members of the Penn State and Centre County communities will read short excerpts from the document to bring alive the literature of the slave trade to participants and passers-by on campus. Sylviane A. Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture then will present "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Human Story," at 4 p.m. in 207 Henderson South. Diouf is the author of the award-winning "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda" and the "Story of the Last Africans Brought to America" (Oxford University Press, 2007). The book is a detailed account of the lives of the young people from Benin and Nigeria who were on the last documented slave ship to the U.S.

George and Ann Richards

In Remembrance of Ann Richards

3/14/13

The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center has lost a friend whose leadership and philanthropy played a major role in its attainment of leadership in the liberal arts. Ann Marie Stiegler Richards of Simsbury, Conn., died Jan. 26, 2013, at the age of 78 from injuries related to a fall.

Montage of graduate studies at Civil War Research Center

Richards Center trains next generation of Civil War scholars

3/13/13

From its original mission of interpreting and reflecting on the transformative experience of the Civil War itself, Penn State's Richards Civil War Era Center and its scholarship now encompass themes spanning Atlantic World slavery, emancipation, constitutionalism, the expansion of democracy, religion and social movements, women's rights, immigration, western expansionism, war and society, and the struggles of labor. In addition to fostering this forum, the Center is training scholars who are making significant contributions in the field.

McCourtneys endow history professorship with $1 million gift

5/10/10

Penn State alumna Tracy Winfree McCourtney and her husband, Ted, have made a $1 million gift to the University to endow a professorship in American history. Preference for the appointment will be given to faculty working with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center in the College of the Liberal Arts. The McCourtneys are creating the George Winfree Professorship in American History in memory of Tracy's great-grandfather, who served in a Virginia regiment of the Confederate Army and who took part in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Events commemorate bicentennial of slave trade abolition in U.S.

10/21/08

A bicentennial commemoration of the abolition of the legal slave trade in the United State will be held with two events on Thursday (Oct. 23) afternoon at Penn State's University Park campus. The events are presented by the Center for American Literary Studies and the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. A public mini-marathon read-in of documents related to the slave trade will take place from 1-3:30 p.m. on the steps of Pattee Library. Members of the Penn State and Centre County communities will read short excerpts from the document to bring alive the literature of the slave trade to participants and passers-by on campus. Sylviane A. Diouf of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture then will present "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: The Human Story," at 4 p.m. in 207 Henderson South. Diouf is the author of the award-winning "Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda" and the "Story of the Last Africans Brought to America" (Oxford University Press, 2007). The book is a detailed account of the lives of the young people from Benin and Nigeria who were on the last documented slave ship to the U.S.