Scholarship

Since 2007, the NSLM has hosted over 60 research Fellows honoring the legacy of sportsman and book collector John H. Daniels (19212006). Past Fellowship recipients include post-graduate students, authors, curators, professors, and scholars researching a variety of subjects related to fi eld sports. The diversity of Fellows’ projects re�lects the wide variety of material within the F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room and the NSLM collections. Topics included history, art, literature, anthropology, and sport, with research projects ranging from the architecture of horse stables, history of horsemanship, equestrian fashion, and poetry, to falconry, veterinary science, environmental conservation, and �ly fi shing.

Front cover of Sidesaddle, 1690 – 1935 exhibition catalog authored by 2016 John H. Daniels Fellow, Dr. Ulrike Elisabeth Weiss and George L. Ohrstrom, Jr. Curator Claudia Pfeiff er

2018 Fellows

Matthew “Duke” Biscotti, Geneva, OH “American and British Sporting Periodicals”

Dr. Charles Caramello is a Professor of English, and the Senior Advisor for Graduate Education at The University of Maryland. He was fi rst accepted as a John H. Daniels Fellow for 2017 and conducted his research using several editions of Pembroke’s and Tyndale’s works in the NSLM’s collections. The book resulting from that research, Eighteenth Century Equitation: “Military Equitation; A Method of Breaking Horses and Teaching Soldiers to Ride” by The Earl of Pembroke & “A Treatise on Military Equitation” by William Tyndale with notes and commentary by Charles Caramello, was published in 2018. Dr. Caramello returned as a John H. Daniels Fellow for 2018 and is currently completing a book-in-progress, Horsemen, Horse Soldiers, and Grand Illusions, and is conducting research in the NSLM archives for a projected book on equitation between the two World Wars. Dr. Charles Caramello, Bethesda, MD “Equitation Between the Two World Wars”

Michael Cronin, Boston College, Dublin Ireland “James Brendan Connolly - The First Olympian”

Matthew Lockhart, Charleston, SC “The Ecology of Early American Duck-Shooting Preserves”

Eliza McGraw, Washington D.C. “American Horsewoman”

Kathryn Waldo, Middleburg, VA “Origins of Classical Horsemanship”

In 2018, the Library received a generous grant from The Ohrstrom Foundation for its digitization project. This project includes two elements: the scanning of NSLM’s rare books into a digital format and the hosting of digital content online. With the support of this grant and generous donations by Frances Massey Dulaney, Helen K. Groves, and Jacqueline B. Mars, the Library purchased a book scanner to be installed on the Library’s lower level. The NSLM’s Digital Repository, The Sporting Commons, came online in early 2019, making NSLM’s digital content available to researchers worldwide. The Sporting Commons digital repository can be found here: https://commons.nationalsporting.org/