- The Athenæum’s Civil War collections are anchored by its holdings of Confederate states imprints, the largest in the nation, consisting of books, maps, broadsides, sheet music, newspapers, governmental publications, and other materials organized according to the Parrish & Willingham bibliography.
- The MHS’s manuscript holdings on the Civil War are particularly strong. They include, for example, diaries, photographs, correspondence from the battlefield and the home front, papers of political leaders, material on black regiments raised in Massachusetts, and extensive holdings on the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Past Recipients of the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship
2014-2015
Sarah Beetham, Ph.D. candidate, University of Delaware, "Sculpting the Citizen Soldier: Reproduction and National Memory, 1865-1917"
2013-2014
Dylan Yeats, Ph.D. Candidate, New York University, "Americanizing America: How the Federal Government Shaped the Nation, 1818-1924"
2012-2013
Ann Holder, Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, “Making the Body Politic: Sexual Histories, Racial Uncertainties and Vernacular Citizenship in Post-Emancipation US”
2011-2012
Jordan Watkins, Ph.D. candidate, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, “The Place of the Past in the American Civil War”
2010-2011
Peter Wirzbicki, Ph.D. candidate, New York University, “Black Intellectuals, White Abolitionists, and Revolutionary Transcendentalists: Creating the Radical Intellectual Tradition in Antebellum Boston”
2009-2010
Kathryn Shively Meier, Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia, '"Under the Surge of the Blue’: Environmental Effects on Civil War Solder Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862”
2008-2009
Megan Nelson, Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton, for her project Flesh and Stone: Ruins and the Civil War