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When will most Af-Am programs be notifying applicants? According to the news shared by rx971, it appears that Brown has already made their decisions.

I'm anxious to hear back. I will admit, the waiting has been exciting.

I'm applying to one program (not ready to say). The application process was long and straining, but it was not so painful now that I look back on everything. The most difficult part was the statement of purpose. For the writing sample, I chose a chapter from my thesis. Everyone has been supportive of my decision to apply, so that made the application process smoother.

Hello! This thread is to discuss the journey of those applying to African American/Africana Studies programs. I would love to hear how people's application process is going, research interests, and program choices. And to all the applicants, I hope this application season brings many blessings. I wish you all the best.

Oh, I totally forgot I did ask this nearly three years ago. Thank you everyone for your replies.

Let's say that funding is not an issue and that attending a top-tier university/program doesn't matter. I have looked into Northwestern, and that is the only university I have on my list so far.

Hello. I attained my master's degree last year and took the non-academic route into the work force. Recently, I have been playing with the idea of going for a PhD in history, but I'm not fond on a few of the requirements placed on many history programs - those requirements being foreign language and the GRE. I have no desire to learn a foreign language and I'm against standardized tests of any kind. Are there any history programs that do not have these two requirements? If this thread has already been made in the past, please link it below and I will go from there. Thank you!

Reading during breaks should be your only idea.I don't know any in grad students who does not use the breaks to read at their own pace. Once the Spring semester resumes you're going to wish you had used that time to burn through those books. Since being in grad school I have spent every break reading and researching. During Thanksgiving break I only took two days to myself to literally do nothing. It truly lifts the load once the semesters start back up.

Currently reading Susannah Walker's Style & Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 (2007) for a paper I'm working on.

You're not out of your league and do not need to go back and do anything. I also have a military background and went into my MA program without a undergrad thesis or any other publishings. I used one of my undergrad papers as my writing sample. Getting into a good MA program isn't that deep. You'll do fine once you get in because your advisor to guide along your path. Just listen to your advisor and maintain clear communication with them.

The summer has come to an end, as the fall 2016 semester is only days away (for me at least). How did everyone's research go? Was it successful? Are you proud of what you accomplished?

It was for research.

Today I just started reading Mary L. Dudziak's Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy and Thomas Borstelmann's The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena. I'm still creeping through Maggi M. Morehouse's Fighting in the Jim Crow: Black Men and Women Remember World War II. For two days straight I was going through old Ebony magazines, which really did my head in. I must admit that going through periodicals have been the worst part of my research.

Did anyone apply for an internship on volunteer position at a museum or archive this summer? I'm in the process of doing this now. I am curious to know how this is working out for anyone who has applied for an internship or volunteer position.

Currently reading Linda Witt, et al. "A Defense Weapon Known to Be of Value": Servicewomen of the Korean War Era and Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee's A Few Good Women: America's Military Women from World War I to the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I still need to finish Maggi Morehouse's Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II and Angel Davis's Women, Race, and Class. Very shortly I will be starting James E. Westheider's The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers in Arms, Heather Marie Stur's Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam Era, and Mark Boulton's Failing Our Veterans: The GI Bill and the Vietnam Generation. Hopefully I will be caught up on all my reading by next Sunday.

I'm on my last day of reading Bernard C. Nalty's Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military and Brenda L. Moore's To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACs Stationed Overseas during World War II, which I'm reading for my research. Next I will be jumping into Gerald Astor's The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military and Maureen Honey's Bitter Fruit: African American Women in World War II.

Actually, the both of you could work together on your respective research going over sources or what not. I knew two women who had the same topic in a graduate program and came together for research. They both came to different conclusions. The women said working together made the research process fun, as they had each other to go around collecting data and discussing a topic that other people seemed not to be interested in.

My summer plans are not going as I had originally pictured it. I went to visit my family twice in the month of May, which has gotten be behind on my reading and research. I had planned for my Sundays to be my day of rest, but I will using Sundays to catch up. I hope I can got a lot accomplished before the July 4th holiday weekend.

Currently reading Martin Binkin and Shirley J. Bach's Women and the Military (1977), and still reading Gail Harris's A Woman's War: The Professional and Personal Journey of the Navy's First African American Female Intelligence Officer (2010). Both are for my research that I will be doing all summer long.

About 60 books and articles combined. I didn't take the time to count to see how much for sure. I probably have about 40 books. With the inclusion of autobiographies it might be about 60 books, but I have already read those with the exception of 3.

I'll be collecting government documents as primary sources at my university's library, reading my secondary sources (about 60 books and articles), and outlining my thesis this summer. I have a topic that does not require me to travel as I'm doing a military history, and government documents can be easily found at any university library. My main primary sources are autobiographies, and interviews published through the Library of Congress. So yeah, I will be staying put this summer reading and outlining.

For many graduate students, summer is used to do research for their thesis or dissertation. What will you be researching this summer? Where do you think your research will lead you? Will you be traveling to different archives? If so, where are you going? What will you be reading? May to August seems like a nice chunk of time, but as graduate students, we know that time has a way of catching up with us.

Currently reading Dorothy E. Smith's The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Smith examines the field of sociology through a feminist lens. I am not enjoying this read whatsoever. Her jargon is over the top and it reads slow.

My program at my undergrad did not have a senior seminar, so I didn't write a senior thesis. I submitted a regular term paper I had done for my African American history class. I told my professor that I was going to submit that paper as my writing sample for grad school, so he was hard on me about making the paper really good.

Do anyone know which schools have the best PhD military history program? I heard that University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has a faculty of great military historians, but that is all I have been told. The school I'm attending for my masters has only a non-tenured military historian who does not specializes in US military history, he just teaches it.