Dear Colleagues,

We are in the process of updating our web site at 
www.duke.econ.edu/HOPE. One prominent change is to put on the main 
page (what we have taken to calling the "HOPE Portal") a link labeled 
Resources for Historians of Economics, which contains links to 
relevant journals, societies, blogs, online archives and literature 
sources, and so on. If you have suggestions for websites that you 
think should be listed, please send them to our webmaster and overall 
web guru, Kevin Hoover, at [log in to unmask]

As was mentioned in an earlier post, the Center will be sponsoring, 
with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a "Boot 
Camp for Teaching the History of Thought,"  to be held at Duke from 
June 5-26, 2010.  Brad Bateman, Steve Medema, and Sandy Peart will 
join me as co-directors for 1 week each, and guest lectures will be 
provided by Craufurd Goodwin, Kevin Hoover, and Roy Weintraub. The 
aim is to get the history of thought back into the undergraduate 
curriculum, particularly but not exclusively at good liberal arts 
colleges, the sort that might send students on to graduate programs 
in economics. (This is the first step, as we see it, in a long run 
strategy of getting it back into the graduate curriculum.) If you 
know of economists who might have an interest in the history of 
thought, please encourage them to visit our website and look at the 
information under the "NEH Summer Institute" tab. IMPORTANT NOTE: 3 
of the 25 places have been reserved for graduate students. If you 
know of a good grad student who might have such interests, please 
encourage him or her to have a look.

I will close with a reminder that we are now accepting applications 
for our Fellowship Program for the 2010-2011 academic year. Both 
junior (pre-doc, post-doc, or graduated in the last few years) and 
senior candidates are encouraged to apply for fellowships for a 
semester or for the academic year. If you have a sabbatical semester 
coming up, consider spending in the company of fellow historians of 
thought at Duke. If you would prefer instead to come for a shorter 
visit, we can often provide work space, either in a private carrel in 
the library or in the Center itself.  For further information, please 
see the information provided under the "Fellowship Program" and 
"Academic Visits" tabs under the Center.

Bruce Caldwell