Washington College Magazine
Havens For Historians
Washington College's tie to history got significantly stronger with a new fellowship between the C.V. Starr Center and the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious institutes for the study of early American history.
This past December, the Hodson Trust earmarked $1 million of its $4.6 million grant to Washington College to endow the Hodson Trust-John Carter Brown Library Fellowship. The recipient will spend several months conducting research in Providence and then devote himself or herself to intensive writing at the Starr Center.
Under the direction of Ted Widmer, the Brown Library houses an exceptional collection of early Americana. Among treasures such as 15th-century editions of Columbus's letter announcing the discovery of the New World as well as American Revolutionary pamphlets, lives George Washington's account book from the year of his death, 1799.
"It is invaluable for the Starr Center, as a young institution, to build a partnership with one of the oldest and most renowned institutions in its field," says Adam Goodheart, the Starr Center's Hodson Trust-Griswold Director. "This allocation from the Hodson Trust was an unexpected but very welcome Christmas gift."
In addition to this new fellowship, The Hodson Trust's grant will continue to build existing scholarship endowments, including the Hodson Trust Star Scholarships awarded to Maryland veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
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