History and Geography

Elon University has received a grant of nearly $116,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize two history seminars next summer for community college professors from across the nation. Assistant professor John Beck authored the grant proposal and will co-direct the project with Jim Bissett, the William J. Story, Sr. Professor at Elon University.

History professor David M. Crowe has edited a special edition of Nationalities Papers titled Crimes of State; Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses, Past and Present.

Winners of the 13th Annual Philip L. Carret "Thomas Jefferson Essay Competition" were named April 27, 2009, at a recognition dinner in the Center for the Arts.

Charles Irons, an assistant professor of history, is giving an April 7 reading at UNC Chapel Hill as part of the Southern Historical Collection Book Series.

The American Library Association has named two books by Elon faculty - a textbook on the Holocaust by professor David M. Crowe, and "Southern Culture: An Introduction" co-authored by assistant professor John Beck - as CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles for 2008. The annual list reflects the best titles reviewed by the organization's CHOICE magazine and is the top recognition of the academic library community.

Professor of History Clyde Ellis's recently published essay "'More Real Than The Indians Themselves': The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States" has been nominated for the Western Writers Association's Spur Award for the best nonfiction essay on the American West published in 2008.