Research Institutes
Below is a list of research centers, institutes, programs, and societies with a focus on early American history. These organizations represent some of the best think tanks for the early Americas and provide scholars with a variety of resources to further their research and present their findings. Local and state historical societies have been omitted from this list, but may be found in our Archival Sources section.
American Philosophical Society
The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
The Bill Lane Center for the American West
Briscoe Center for American History
Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program
The Center for Civil War Research
Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies
Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race
Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
The Center for the Study of Southern Art
Center for the Study of the American West
Center for the Study of the First Americans
D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
David Center for the American Revolution
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography
Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
Institute for Historical Studies
Institute for Historical Study
John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture
John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy
Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
The Library Company of Philadelphia
The McNeil Center for Early American Studies
Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies
Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History & Culture
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Shapiro Center for American History & Culture
Academic Resources
Information about resources for early American scholars
Conferences and Seminars
Lists of conferences and seminars with a focus on early American history.
Fellowships
A list of fellowships and research grants that may be of interest to early Americanists.