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Mellon Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship: Webinars and Events

View some of the virtual and in-person programming Mellon Fellows have organized with their host site teams.

Webinars

Small American flags planted in front of unnamed graves in a cemetery

Say Their Name

Say Their Name: Remembrance and Libation Ceremony for the Ross's Landing Massacre of 1864

Stone monument with a metal engraving of a Black solider wearing a tricorn hat in a field

Black Americans’ Revolutionary Histories

The Monument to Patriots of African Descent: Black Americans’ Revolutionary Histories at Valley Forge National Historical Park

Statue of a solider. Spray painted on the wall next to him is

Graffiti and the Founding Fathers

The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier: Graffiti and the Legacy of the Founding Fathers at Independence National Historical Park.

State of a soldier wearing a cloak and a tricorn hat

Interpreting LGB Histories

The General von Steuben Statue: Interpreting LGB Histories of the Revolution at Valley Forge National Historical Park

American flag and four plaques next to a set of pilings in the water.

Marking Suffering and Struggle

Explore how tragedy and resistance are commemorated at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.

Tight shot of the Dred and Harriet Scott staue and the Old Courthouse.

Justice Denied, Injustice Remembered

Learn the history behind the Dred and Harriet Scott Sculpture in St. Louis and the Haymarket Martyrs Monument near Chicago.

Women putting shoes on children

Working People's Hidden Histories

Learn the hidden labor histories behind existing monuments and the struggle to create sites focused on women labor leaders.

Last updated: February 14, 2025