Philip F. Gura

Chapel Hill, NC
United States

Elected to AAS

April 1988

Fellowships

1989-90: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: The Reverend Nathan Fiske and the Cultural Transformation of Central Massachusetts
1998-99: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: America's Instrument: The 19th Century Banjo
2002-03: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: Guitars for all America: C.F. Martin (1796-1873) and the 19th Century Music Trade
2006-07: Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence
Project: The Club of the Like-Minded: A History of New England Transcendentalism

Books Based on Fellowship Research

American Transcendentalism

Hill and Wang, 2007

C.F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873

University of North Carolina Press, 2003

Public Programs

Celebrating the American Antiquarian Society, 1812-2012

May 19, 2012

Watch on YouTube

Magnalia Historiae Libri Americana; or, How the American Antiquarian Society Brought the History of the Book into the New Millennium

November 19, 2004

Enriching American Studies Scholarship through the History of the Book

June 20, 2004

AAS Proceedings

Early Nineteenth-Century Printing in Rural Massachusetts: John Howe of Greenwich and Enfield, Ca. 1803-45. April 1991 , Volume 101, Part 1
Manufacturing Guitars for the American Parlor: James Ashborn's Wolcottville, Connecticut, Factory, 1851-56. April 1994 , Volume 104, Part 1
Re-Figuring Scholarship: Twenty-Five Years of the AAS Fellowship Program. October 1997 , Volume 107, Part 2
Alan Edward Heimert. April 2000 , Volume 110, Part 1
'Magnalia Historiae Libri Americana'; Or, How AAS Brought the History of the Book Into the New Millennium. October 2004 , Volume 114, Part 2