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Max Longley is researching Joseph Williams Thorne, a Underground Railroad conductor turned carpetbagger, for which he received an NCIS Research Grant this spring. Mr. Longley is the author of For the Union and the Catholic Church: Four Converts in the Civil War (McFarland, 2015), which was...

The NCIS Grant Awards Committee is delighted to announce that NCIS Conference Travel Grants have been awarded to Tula Connell, for her paper entitled " 1950s Milwaukee: Race, Class and a City Divided,” to be presented at ‘The Working Urban' Urban History Association Conference,...

Following the annoncement of the 2016 Eisenstein Prize, we'd like to share the following statement from Barbara Williams Ellertson​, who, with Janet Seiz, co-authored the winning essay.

"We are so honored to be chosen as the 2016 recipients of the NCIS’ Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize....

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 Elizabeth Eisenstein Prize, named for Professor Elizabeth Lewisohn Eisenstein (1923-2016) in recognition of her long-standing support of NCIS, and co-funded by NCIS and Margaret DeLacy, daughter of Professor Eisenstein and a founding member of...