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Television Producer Seeks Historians

Leftfield Pictures, producers of television programming for the History Channel—as well as Bravo, A&E, National Geographic and other networks—is looking for historians of American history and US Military History, to cast for upcoming shows being shot in Las Vegas, Nevada. Interested individuals should contact Ms. Sarah Cowan (sarah.cowan@leftfieldpictures.com). For more information about Leftfield Pictures, visit www.leftfieldpictures.com.

Robert Remini

Robert Remini, former historian for the US House of Representatives, died April 1, 2013. He was 91 years old. A member of the Organization of American Historians for more than 52 years, Remini was an award-winning biographer and "foremost Jacksonian scholar of our time."

Walter L. Sargent

Walter L. Sargent, University of Maine Farmington, passed away on January 27.

Vernon S. "Pete" Braswell

Vernon S. "Pete" Braswell died January 31, 2013. Braswell taught American history at Del Mar College from 1965 until 1989. He was in his fiftieth year as a member of the Organization of American Historians.

Edward M. Bennett

Edward M. Bennett died on March 3, 2013. He taught for 33 years at Washington State University and was a member of the OAH for more than 50 years.

Robert H. Zieger

Robert H. Zieger, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Florida, passed away on March 6, 2013. Zieger, a fify-one-year member of the OAH, began his teaching career at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1964 and moved to the University of Florida in 1986. Paul Ortiz, University of Florida, has written a remembrance of Professor Zieger for the Southern Labor Studies Association Web site.

Witt, Bolster Bancroft Prize Winners

Please join us in congratulating OAH members John Fabian Witt, Yale University, and W. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire, 2013 winners of Columbia University's prestigious Bancroft Prize.

2013 Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate New Jersey History Award

The Paul A. Stellhorn Undergraduate New Jersey History Award recognizes outstanding research and writing by undergraduates about New Jersey's history. Eligible are term or seminar papers or senior theses written by undergraduate students during 2011, 2012, or 2013 that deal with a topic in the history of New Jersey. Papers must be nominated by the professor for whose course the student wrote the paper or who mentored or served on the committee for the student's senior thesis. Award is a framed certificate and a modest cash award. Sponsored by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and other organizations, the presentation will be held at the New Jersey Historical Commission's annual conference in November 2013. Deadline for submissions is June 1. For more information contact Richard Waldron acrelius@optonline.net.

Cromwell Dissertation Prize for 2013

The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation has funded a dissertation prize of $2,500. The winning dissertation may focus on any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies, but topics dealing with the colonial and early national periods will receive some preference. Anyone who received a PhD in 2012 will be eligible for this year's prize. The Foundation awards the prize on the recommendation of the Cromwell Prize Advisory Committee of the American Society for Legal History. Deadline for submissions is May 31, 2013.

Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study

Each year, the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, invites about twenty scholars to be in residence for the full academic year to pursue their own research. The School welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature and linguistics. Applicants must hold a PhD at time of application, and can only be a member in the school once. Each year there is a general thematic focus that provides common ground for roughly half the scholars; for 2014-2015 the focus will be Egalitarianisms. Deadline for applications is November 1, 2013.

Time for Everyone: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Public Time

Twenty years ago at Harvard University, the Longitude Symposium brought together collectors, restorers, dealers, academics, curators and people from seventeen countries interested in the history of time measurement. "Time for Everyone: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Public Time" will be held on November 7-9, 2013 at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Governor's Conference on Otto Kerner

The Governor's Conference on Otto Kerner (Illinois governor, 1961-1968) will include four panel sessions: Kerner Administration Goals and Accomplishments; Journalists' View of the Kerner Administration; Trial and Conviction of Otto Kerner; and The Public and Private Otto Kerner. The conference will be held at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, 112 N. Sixth St., Springfield, IL.

2013 National Trust Preservation Conference

The National Trust for Historic Preservation will hold its 2013 National Preservation Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 29-November 2. The conference encompasses nearly one hundred education and field sessions using Indianapolis and the surrounding area as a living laboratory of preservation examples.

Call for Papers: 2013 Gulf South History and Humanities Conference

The 2013 Gulf South History and Humanities Conference will be held October 10-12 in Pensacola, Florida. The program committee seeks papers around the conference theme, "Five Hundred Years After Ponce De Leon: The Gulf South in Change, 1513-2013." Proposals should be postmarked by July 1, 2013.

Deadline for proposals is quickly approaching for 2014 OAH meeting in Atlanta

Proposals are now being accepted through February 28, 2013 for the 2014 OAH Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia. The theme for the 2014 meeting is “Crossing Borders.” The United States is a product of migrations—internal and international. Along with people, goods and ideas crossed borders, reshaping the composition and character of the American nation.

George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum

In preparation for its opening in the spring of 2013, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum launched its social media efforts this month on Twitter and Facebook. Information on construction milestones, library features, exhibits, opening dates, and hours of operation is available via @GWBLibrary and Facebook.com/GWBLibrary. The Bush Library and Museum is the thirteenth US Presidential Library administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Stein named Distinguished Professor

The University's Board of Trustees appointed City College of New York historian and author Dr. Judith Stein a University Distinguished Professor at its January 2013 meeting. The appointment recognizes Professor Stein's outstanding scholarship over the past four decades, which has helped shape the study of 20th century U.S. history, labor history, African-American history and political economy.

A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies invites submissions for a special issue on women of color and gender equity. With this special issue, we commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the 1974 Women's Educational Equity Act which provided funds for Title IX and codified women's equality under the law in the US setting forth a foundation for antidiscrimination policies and remedies as well as cultivating a language and rhetoric for gender equity. All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu.

ACLS Public Fellows Program

ACLS invites applications for the third competition of the Public Fellows program. The program will place twenty recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. The fellowship provides a stipend as well as individual health insurance. Deadline for applications is March 27, 2013.

Robert J. Dole Archive and Special Collections Research Fellowships and Travel Grants

Established in 2010, Dole Archive and Special Collections funding programs award grants to scholars engaged in projects studying Congress, politics, or policy issues. The Dole Archive and Special Collections at the Dole Institute of Politics houses Senator Bob Dole's extensive collections which include his 36-year career in the House and Senate. While in residence, the Research Fellow and Travel Grant awardees will use these collections, which provide extensive documentation on a wide range of legislative, historical, and policy issues. Applications are due March 15, 2013

Native Americans of New England: A Historical Overview

Native Americans of New England: A Historical Overview (July 7-26, 2013) is a summer institute for K-12 teachers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each successful applicant receives a stipend to help with the cost of travel, lodging, and meals.

History of Science Society 2013 Annual Meeting

The History of Science Society will hold its 2013 annual meeting at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The meeting will mark the centennial anniversary of the society's journal Isis, one of the premiere international journals in the history of science. Submissions on all topics are encouraged. All proposals must be submitted via the HSS Web site or on the annual meeting proposal forms that are available from the HSS Executive Office. Deadline for applications is April 1, 2013. Also, anyone wishing to submit a panel or paper idea for the upcoming conference should visit hssmeeting.wikia.com.

C-SPAN 2013 Summer Educators' Conference

This summer, C-SPAN will be hosting two, day-and-a-half long conferences at C-SPAN's headquarters in the heart of Washington, DC. Airfare to and from Washington, two nights' hotel stay, and meals during the conference are all provided by C-SPAN. The dates for the conferences are: Monday, July 8th-Tuesday, July 9th; and Thursday, July 11th-Friday, July 12th. The application deadline is Friday, April 5, 2013.

2013 Midwest Archives Conference

Registration is now open for the Midwest Archives Conference 2013 annual meeting. The meeting will be held in Indianapolis, IN at the Hyatt Regency Indianapolis April 18-20.

Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion

The Massachusetts Historical Society invites you to attend its conference on Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion, April 4-6.

Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Capitalism, Democracy, and Progressivisms, 1877 to 1920

The Chicago Metro History Education Center, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Loyola University Chicago invite K-12 teachers to apply for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Capitalism, Democracy, and Progressivisms, 1877 to 1920," to be held July 8-August 2, 2013. NEH Summer Scholars will spend four weeks in Chicago, a center of Progressive Era reform, engaging in vigorous discussions about this critical time period in American history and creating materials to use in their classrooms.

Fifteenth Annual Conference on Illinois History

Proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois' history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology are requested for the Conference on Illinois History, September 26-27, 2013 in Springfield. Conference organizers welcome submissions from professional and avocational historians, graduate students, and those engaged in the study of Illinois history at libraries, historic sites, museums, and historical societies. Deadline for submissions is March 11, 2013.

2013 Pennsylvania Historical Association Annual Meeting

The Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) invites proposals for its 2013 Annual Meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Hosted by Gettysburg College, the PHA will convene October 17-19, 2013, at the Wyndham Gettysburg. The program committee is especially interested in proposals that examine any dimension of Pennsylvania's experience with the Civil War, including sectionalism, national reconstruction, or developments after the war related to memory or veterans' affairs. The program committee also welcomes proposals that address history and culture in Pennsylvania and the broader Mid-Atlantic region in general. Deadline for submissions is February 22, 2013.

Federal History

Federal History, a journal of the Society for History in the Federal Government, welcomes manuscript submissions for its 2014 edition. It features articles exploring the development of the federal government.

Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Fellowships in Civil War Era Studies

Since 1998 Gettysburg College has been offering a unique study away program called The Gettysburg Semester. Every fall, Gettysburg College welcomes a select group of undergraduates from across the country to a total-immersion semester in Civil War studies. Gettysburg Semester students take two core seminars devoted to the cutting-edge in Civil War scholarship, plus one course from Gettysburg College's Civil War Era Studies program. Application deadline is March 1, 2013.

Fellowships at the David Library of the American Revolution

To promote advanced scholarship, the David Library of the American Revolution (DLAR) offers short-term Resident Research Fellowships for conducting research in its collections. DLAR's rich resources in microfilm and print on virtually every aspect of the era of the American Revolution (1750-1800) are fully listed at www.dlar.org. Fellows receive a stipend of $1600 per month ($1000 if your legal address is within a 100-mile radius of DLAR) plus housing and 24-hour access to the Library. The David Library does not fund research conducted at other institutions. Fellowship Awards will be made by the David Library's Academic Advisory Council sometime in April 2013. Questions? Contact Meg McSweeney, Chief Operating Officer, at (215) 493-2233, ext.106, or email mcsweeney@dlar.org.

NEH Summer Programs for School and College Educators

Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities supports tuition-free summer programs for school and college educators. Participants receive stipends to help cover travel and living expenses. These one-to-five week study opportunities focus on important topics, texts, and questions in the humanities; enhance the intellectual vitality and professional development of participants; build a community of inquiry and provide models of excellent scholarship and teaching; and promote connections between teaching and research in the humanities. The application deadline is March 4, 2013

NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture

The NEH will host a 2013 summer institute, "American Material Culture: Nineteenth-Century New York" for college and university teachers at the Bard Graduate Center, New York City, July 1-26, 2013. The institute will focus on the material culture of the nineteenth century and use New York as its case study because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural commodities and promoting consumer tastes. We will study significant texts in the scholarship of material culture together as well as in tandem with visiting some of the wonderful collections in and around New York City for our hands-on work with artifacts Deadline for applications is March 4, 2013.

Massachusetts and the Civil War: The Commonwealth and National Disunion

The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston Street in Boston, will host this conference April 4-6, 2013, which will consider reform activities; military life; politics and the economy; slavery and emancipation; and how citizens dealt with the war's consequences. It will feature new areas of emphasis, including the radical intellectual tradition, health and the environment, and the memory of the war. Preregister to receive conference papers in advance; panelists and commentators will offer brief remarks, and a discussion with the audience will follow.

Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow and Gerda Lerner

The fifteenth annual Women's History Month Conference, March 1-2, 2013, will feature a keynote address by Alice Kessler- Harris, distinguished professor at Columbia University and author of Difficult Women The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. For more information contact: Tara Elise James tjames@sarahlawrence.edu or call (914) 395-2405.

George C. Marshall International Center Announces 2013 Immersion Workshop

The George C. Marshall International Center announces the 11th Annual Marshall Immersion Workshop, July 22-26, 2013, promising an exciting professional and collegial experience for high school-level American and modern European history teachers, and social studies supervisors. During the workshop, all expenses--food, lodging, and transportation--are paid and participants receive a $200 stipend, free materials, and re-certification points. Persons interested in applying may simply log onto the George C. Marshall International Center website. The application deadline is March 15, 2013.

OAH Releases 2012 Annual Report

The OAH is pleased to share with you its 2011-2012 OAH Annual Report. With reports from the president, executive director, executive editor, and treasurer, the annual report places at your fingertips a comprehensive view of the organization's programs and activities for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012.

2013 OAH Annual Business Meeting

The 2013 OAH Business Meeting will be held immediately preceding the OAH Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address on Saturday, April 13 at 3:30 p.m. All OAH members are encouraged to attend and participate in the governance of the organization.

The OAH Announces Sponsored Memberships

Do you have current students or recent graduates who could benefit from and would enjoy membership in the Organization of American Historians? If so, you can take advantage of the OAH’s new sponsored membership category for young scholars.

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race and Gender History

The Department of History at Rutgers University announces a post-doctoral fellowship for scholars pursuing research in race and gender studies. The successful applicant must have the doctorate in hand at the time of application, be no more than six years beyond the PhD, and be able to teach history courses. The fellowship of $45,000 is of one year duration and includes benefits and a $2,000 research stipend. The recipient will teach at least one small course in the history department and participate in the seminar series at one of Rutgers centers/institutes. For information regarding the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, the Institute for Research on Women, or the Center for Race and Gender Studies see the respective website. Please send letter of interest, c.v., dossier with a least three letters of reference and research proposal to: rutgersrghpostdoc2013@gmail.com. Questions regarding the fellowship should be addressed to Professor Deborah Gray White at dgw@rci.rutgers.edu. The deadline for applications is March 15, 2013.

Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner, past president of the Organization of American Historians (1981-1982), and pioneer in women's and gender history, passed away on January 2, 2013 at the age of 92.

Terry Gross, host of NPR's Fresh Air, talks with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Bruce Levine as they explore the destruction of the old South and the reunified country that emerged from the Civil War through Levine's new book, "The Fall of the House of Dixie."

Thomas K. McCraw

Thomas K. McCraw, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School (HBS), and former editor of the Business History Review, died on Saturday, November 3, 2012, following a long illness.

OAH Explores New Publication Possibilities

OAH President Al Camarillo provides an update on the fall 2012 OAH Executive Board meeting where a task force was formed to explore new publication possibilities in a digital age.

Herbert Shapiro

University of Cincinnati professor emeritus Herbert Shapiro passed away on October 17, 2012. Shapiro was a member of OAH for more than forty-five years. Roger Daniels remembers "Herb" Shapiro, his colleague at the University of Cincinnati.

Actions of the OAH Executive Board, Fall 2012

The OAH Executive Board took action on items placed on its November agenda. These items included: creating a sponsored membership category for students and recent college graduates; establishing a Committee of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Historians and Histories; appointing a task force to explore new publication opportunities in the digital age; and approving appointments of individuals to OAH service and award committees

The 2013 OAH Election

Individual members are encouraged to vote in the 2013 OAH Election. As outlined in the OAH Constitution, the OAH Nominating Board prepares the annual slate of candidates. Biographies for this year's candidates are available online. The election closes February 1, 2013. Using your OAH ID number, cast your vote today!

2012 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts Announces the 2012 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History which will be awarded for a distinguished essay on early American history (up to 1825), not previously published, with preference being given to New England subjects. Essays are now being accepted for consideration. All manuscripts submitted for the 2012 prize must be postmarked no later than December 31 2012.

2013-2014 Lemelson Center Fellowships and Travel Grants

The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is soliciting applications for its 2013-2014 Fellowship and Travel Grant programs, supporting the study of invention and innovation in American society. The application deadline for both programs is January 15, 2013.

The Advertising Educational Foundation Visiting Professor Program

The Advertising Educational Foundation invites applications for its two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications and the liberal arts. The objective of the program is to expose professors to the day-to-day operations of an advertising agency, marketing or media company; and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between academia and industry. Application deadline is January 31, 2013.

Naval History and Heritage Command Fellowships

The Naval History and Heritage Command, Department of the Navy, is offering various fellowships to encourage original work in the history of the United States Navy for the 2013-2014 academic year. Deadline for applications is April 1, 2013.

NEH Summer Institute for Teachers

The Society for American Music, is pleased to offer a five-week summer institute for K-12 teachers, "Voices Across Time: Teaching American History Through Song." The institute will be held from June 24 to July 26, 2013 at the University of Pittsburgh. Accepted participants will receive a $3900 stipend to cover travel and housing.

OAH Award Deadlines Extended

The deadline for applications has been extended for two OAH awards, the 2013 OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year and the 2013 Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants. The new deadline is January 18, 2013.

Registration is now open for the
2013 OAH Annual Meeting

Join your colleagues in San Francisco, California, from April 11 to 14, 2013, for the 105th annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians. This year's theme is “Entangled Histories: Connections and Constraints in US History.”

Resources for Volunteer Programs in Archives

The National Archives, in partnership with the Society of American Archivists, announces the launch of Resources for Volunteer Programs in Archives (RVPA), a free online resource that lists dozens of ongoing volunteer activities at archival facilities nationwide. RVPA also provides guidance for archival institutions that plan to revamp or launch brand-new volunteer programs. It includes volunteer management tools such as sample applications, handbooks, emergency contact forms, and job descriptions.

Office of the Historian releases FRUS, 1969-1976

The Department of State released Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969—1976, Volume XLI, Western Europe; NATO, 1969—1972. This volume is part of a subseries of volumes of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important issues in the foreign policy of the administrations of Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. This specific volume documents U.S. regional and bilateral relations with Western Europe from January 20, 1969 to January 20, 1973. The documentation printed in this volume highlights U.S. policy regarding European economic and political integration, U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well as U.S. bilateral relations with Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Urban History Association Announces 2012 Prize Competition

The Urban History Association (UHA) announces its 2012 book, article, and dissertation prizes for significance, originality, quality of research, sophistication of methodology, clarity of presentation, cogency of arguments, and contribution to the field of urban history. The winners will be announced in late 2013, with formal presentation of the award at the UHA biennial conference in 2014 in Philadelpha.

Activism and Scholarship: A Conference Honoring Amy Swerdlow

The fifteenth annual women's history conference at Sarah Lawrence College, March 1-2, 2013, honors Amy Swerdow's life and her work as a committed and indomitable activist/scholar by making issues of peace and justice its central theme. Conference organizers invite scholars, artists, writers, and activists to submit proposals for papers, readings, workshops, and performances. Proposals should be no more than two pages maximum. Deadline is December 3, 2012.

Cornell University College of Human Ecology History of Home Economics

The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University is accepting applications for the 2013 Dean's Fellowship in the History of Home Economics. Faculty members, research scholars, and advanced graduate students with demonstrated background and experience in historical studies are encouraged to apply. One award of $6,000 is available for a summer or sabbatical residency of six continuous weeks to use the unique resources available from the College and the Cornell University Library system in pursuit of scholarly research in the history of Home Economics and its impact on American society. Deadline for application materials is March 4, 2013.

Archie K. Davis Fellowships

The Archie K. Davis Fellowships encourage more extensive and intensive research in North Carolina's historical and cultural resources. The North Caroliniana Society offers on a competitive basis Archie K. Davis Fellowships to assist scholars in gaining access to collections. Modest stipends vary and are intended to cover a portion of travel expenses while fellows conduct research in North Caroliniana. The annual deadline for proposals is March 1.

Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships

The Massachusetts Historical Society will offer short- and long-term research fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year, including at least two MHS-NEH long-term fellowships made possible by an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Society also offers MHS short-term fellowships and participates in the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. Application deadlines: MHS-NEH fellowships, January 15, 2013; New England Regional Fellowships, February 1, 2013; Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, February 15, 2013; MHS Short-term Fellowships, March 1, 2013.

2013 Research Fellowships at the Virginia Historical Society

To promote the interpretation of Virginia history and access to its collections, the Virginia Historical Society, funded by a matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and gifts from individuals, offers research fellowships of up to three weeks a year. Deadline to apply is February 1, 2013.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postgraduate Fellowship at the Bard Graduate Center

The Bard Graduate Center invites applications for one two-year post-graduate fellowship funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation designed to help bridge the gap between objects as studied by conservators and objects as studied by academics in the human sciences (Art History, History, Archaeology, Anthropology). The fellowship is part of “Cultures of Conservation,” an initiative designed to model a new graduate curriculum at the Bard Graduate Center. Deadline for applications is January 5, 2013.

OAH Partners with The Versatile PhD

The OAH is pleased to announce its newest benefit for members, access to premium content at The Versatile PhD (VPhD). Established in 1999, the VPhD is a Web-based resource for graduate students, ABDs, PhDs, and postdoctoral fellows interested in exploring nonacademic careers. Read more >

Activism, Unity, and the Georgia State Archives

Jamil S. Zainaldin, president of the Georgia Humanities Council and secretary of the Friends of Georgia Archives and History, takes us behind the scenes at the controversy surrounding the Georgia State Archives. His article is excerpted from the November, 2012 issue of OAH Outlook. Read more >

Alfred F. Young

Northern Illinois University professor Alfred F. Young passed away Tuesday, November 6, 2012, at the age of 87. Young, a fifty year member of the OAH, was the recipient of the OAH Distinguished Service Award in 2000. Upon his retirement from NIU, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago, until 2005.

Center of Miltary History Dissertation Fellowships

The Center of Military History (CMH) welcomes applications for its 2013 dissertation fellowship program. Intended to support scholarly research and writing among civilian graduate students preparing dissertations in the history of warfare, the CMH offers three dissertation fellowships each year. Applications must be postmarked by January 15.

Alexander Saxton

University of California, Los Angeles historian Alexander Saxton died on September 1, 2012 at the age of 93.

Bertram Wyatt-Brown

The OAH is saddened to learn of the passing of Bertram Wyatt-Brown. Wyatt-Brown died November 4, 2012. He was 80 years of age.

Paul Young

OAH member and Utica College professor of history, Paul Young, died On October 1, 2012. He was 67.

Chronicling America

Chronicling America recently announced the posting of its 5 millionth newspaper page. Launched by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in 2007, the Chronicling America web site features a searchable database of more than 800 newspapers from 25 states. It is a part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), a joint effort between the two agencies and 32 state partners.

Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History

The Center for Civil War Research is accepting submissions for the second annual Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War History. The prize will be awarded to the best first book in Civil War history published in 2012 and is intended to recognize emerging scholars in the history of the American Civil War. Results will be announced by July 1, 2013. Deadline for submissions is February 15, 2013.

Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes

The 45th annual conference of the Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts and Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will be held in Utica, New York, October 9-12, 2013. The Mohawk Valley Conference Committee is soliciting proposals for papers, special sessions, and panel discussions relating to the conference theme beginning January 1, 2013. Visit the PAS: APAL web site for more information.

Women's History in the Digital World

Bryn Mawr College will host Womens History in the Digital World, March 22-23, 2013. Conference organizers will bring together experts and novices to share insights, lessons, and information on the landscape of women’s history in the world of twenty-first century technology. The program committee invites individual papers or panels on new projects, theoretical approaches, teaching, research and new challenges in the digital realm of historical and cultural research on women. Deadline for abstracts is December 14, 2012. Visit the conference web site for more information.

C-SPAN Teacher Fellowship Program

C-SPAN’s annual Teacher Fellowship program invites three teachers from across the country to join C-SPAN in their Washington, DC offices. The Fellows will spend four weeks during summer 2013 collaborating with our Education department to develop new teaching materials using C-SPAN resources. Each C-SPAN Teacher Fellow receives an award valued at $7,000 which includes housing and travel expenses. Deadline for applications is February 8, 2013.

The Mary Baker Eddy Library Research Fellowships

Applications are now available for Summer 2013 Research Fellowships at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Fellowships are open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students. The collections center on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science. Areas of research may include women's history, spirituality and health, religious studies, nineteenth-century history, architecture, and journalism. Stipend provided. Application and supporting materials must be postmarked by February 4, 2013.

C-SPAN Announces 2013 Summer Conferences

Each summer, C-SPAN hosts thirty teachers from across the country at its two summer educators' conferences. Conference participants learn about C-SPAN and its online resources (including new programming and initiatives), as well as how to better integrate these materials into the classroom. Airfare to and from Washington, two nights’ hotel stay, and meals during the conference are provided. The two conferences in 2013 will be July 8-9 and July 11-12. Applications for these conferences will be available in January 2013.

NARA Assumes Expanded Role in Federal Records Management

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is about to experience a sea change in the way it oversees the management and preservation of government records. This change is a result of a directive from me and the acting head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). This is our response to the president’s mandate to reform records management for the twenty-first century as delivered in his Memorandum on Records Management. In it, the president outlines his goal to require departments and agencies to manage all of their permanently valuable records in electronic form by the end of the decade to ensure transparency, efficiency, and accountability in government. Read more >

Penningroth is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow

Please join us in congratulating OAH member and Northwestern University history professor Dylan C. Penningroth, who was named a 2012 MacArthur Fellow! Visit the MacArthur Foundation web site to view a short video on Penningroth's research in the history of the black family and community life.

Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation is marking this election year by presenting Political Machines: Innovations in Campaigns and Elections, a symposium that explores the role of invention and technology in electoral politics. Through this lens, we temporarily shift the focus away from today’s candidates and issues to examine the critical role that political “machinery” such as campaign advertisements, voting machines, and automated opinion polls play in our democracy. The symposium will be held at the National Museum of American History on November 2-3, 2012. All events are free and open to the public.

John C. Williams

John C. Williams, an OAH life member, died on October 19, 2012 in Brewster, MA. He was 74 years of age. Williams received his BA in history and MA in teaching from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He taught history and Social Studies for 36 years, much of it in the Weston (MA) Public Schools.

American Research Center in Egypt Fellowships

Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt are available to predoctoral candidates in the ABD stage and to postdoctoral scholars. Fellowships are limited to US citizens and the scholarship year begins October 1, 2013 and ends September 30, 2014. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2013.

Call For Papers: Freedom, Rights and Power

A conference, “Freedom, Rights and Power: Recasting Women’s struggles across the Americas since 1900” will be held April 26-27, 2013 at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London, UK. This two-day multidisciplinary conference seeks to explore the intersection between gender, revolt and power across the Americas. Proposals for papers should not exceed five hundred words and must be accompanied by a working title and CV. Abstracts should be submitted to the organizers by January 4, 2013. For more information, contact freedomrightspower2013@gmail.com.

Fighting Women: A Symposium on Women's Boxing

This two-day symposium seeks to explore the diverse ways women have participated in amateur and professional boxing. The purpose will be to investigate women’s involvement in boxing in its broadest sense, from historical, ethnographic, cultural, and artistic perspectives. This multidisciplinary approach hopes to take into account the multiple, often intersecting, aspects of this exploitative and dysfunctional, yet equally compelling and beautiful, sport. This symposium will be held June 21-22, 2013 at The Art Bar, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is hosted by Brock University. Proposal deadline is January 31, 2013.

Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

Essays are wanted for Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, a new digital, peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Nebraska Press. The journal's mission is to provide a forum for scholars from across Humanities disciplines to speak to one another about their shared interest in environmental issues, and to plot out an evolving conversation about what the Humanities contributes to living and thinking sustainably in a world of dwindling resources. The publishers are interested in narratives produced through or around objects, geographic spaces, information cultures, political agendas, and social movements central to environmental practices and ideas. We welcome essays of around 5K words that are written in a clear style, that attempt to make disciplinary knowledge accessible to a range of readers, and that pay attention to the intellectual commitments that drive their analyses. Resilience is also interested in photo essays and reports on community activism. Please send queries or essays to the editors (Stephanie LeMenager, University of California at Santa Barbara and Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) at resiliencejournal@gmail.com.

Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) invites applications for its two-year Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellowship, beginning in September 2013. The APS seeks applications from recent PhDs in the fields of history of science, art history, 18th- or 19th-century American history, or any other related humanities disciplines. The fellowship, based at the APS Museum, will provide hands-on experience in curatorial work and the opportunity to pursue an independent research project, preferably one related to the collections or programs of the Society's library and museum. The deadline for applications is January 9, 2013.

Forum on Education Abroad Announces Curriculum and Teaching Project

The Forum on Education Abroad invites faculty to participate in this new initiatiev to identify best practices in curriculum design and teaching abroad that will help to advance the education abroad field. The project is compiling resources and best practice examples from across the curriculum and identifying the range of approaches to curriculum development and teaching in education abroad.

The Big History Project

The Big History Project looks at 13.7 billion years of history--from the Big Bang to modernity--and has as one of its goals to reveal common themes and patterns that help students better understand people, civilizations and our place in the universe.

JAH Call for Papers: Civil Rights Struggles
of the 1950s and 1960s

Please join the Journal of American History in its exploration of the African American freedom movement, focusing on the history, meaning, and legacies of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the next three years, we invite scholars to submit articles that address the events of those years and illuminate new ways of thinking about the historical significance of that momentous time. Specialists in all fields of history are encouraged to submit their work for consideration.

OAH Announces Inaugural
Teaching Seminar in China

With generous funding from the Ford Foundation, the Organization of American Historians and the American History Research Association of China (AHRAC) are cosponsoring a teaching seminar in the People's Republic of China. Northeast Normal University in Changchun will host the inaugural seminar in June 2013. The OAH International Committee seeks applications from OAH members who are established scholars interested in leading an advanced seminar focusing on American social history. The November 2 deadline for applications is quickly approaching.

Stanford History Education Group Launches
History Assessment Resource

The Stanford History Education Group is pleased to announce the launch of "Beyond the Bubble," a new Web site that uses the digital archive of the Library of Congress to create a new generation of History Assessments of Thinking (HAT). Each HAT focuses on the ability to interpret original sources and requires students to use knowledge in action rather than asking them to recall discrete names and dates. HATs have been extensively field-tested and come with interactive rubrics and examples of student work.

US Department of Interior Announces New Historic Landmarks

In October 2012, US Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar announced the designation of 26 national historic landmarks and one national natural landmark as places that possess exceptional value and quality in illustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States. Currently there are only 2,527 designated national historic landmarks and 592 national natural landmark sites across the country that bear this national distinction.

State Releases New Volume in Foreign Relations of the United States Series

Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969—1976, Volume XXXVII, Energy Crisis, 1974—1980 is part of a subseries of the Foreign Relations series that documents the most important foreign policy issues of the Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford presidential administrations. Because of the long-term nature of the 1970s energy crisis, however, this volume includes the period of the Jimmy Carter administration, covering U.S. policy from August 1974 until January 1981. The documentation in this volume focuses primarily on Ford and Carter policies aimed at mitigating the damage to the U.S. and global economy caused by rising oil prices imposed in 1973 by the OPEC cartel, and in 1978 by the perceived shortage of oil supplies resulting from the Iranian Revolution. Compiled and edited by Steven G. Galpern, the volumeis available on the Office of the Historian Web site.

Congress.gov Unveiled

The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Government Printing Office, unveiled Congress.gov, a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. The new Web site features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation. The Library of Congress is releasing Congress.gov as a beta site to enable a period of time for collecting user feedback and refining functionality while other content is incorporated. Other data, such as the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties and communications, will be incorporated over time in a planned, prioritized order. The Library anticipates Congress.gov will operate as a beta site for approximately one year as this work is completed. During that time, both THOMAS and LIS will continue to operate as usual.

2013 Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) Powell Prize

The John Wesley Powell Prize commemorates the explorer and federal administrator whose work demonstrated the importance of historic preservation and historical display. The Powell Prize alternates annually in recognizing excellence in the fields of historic preservation and historical displays. In 2013, the prize will be awarded to either an individual or to principal collaborators for a single major historic display or exhibit project completed in 2011 or 2012. The award for historic display is given for any form of interpretive historical presentation including but not limited to, museum exhibits, historical films, CD/DVDs, websites, or multi-media displays. The winner will be announced in the spring of 2013 at the annual meeting the SHFG. Nomination deadline is November 30, 2012.

National Catholic Reporter History Research Award

The National Catholic Reporter will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its founding in 2014-2015. As part of the commemorative activities, a book-length scholarly historical study will be published of the newspaper's first fifty years. The NCR invites scholars, of both junior and senior standing, including doctoral students in the dissertation-writing phase, to submit a proposal. The deadline for the proposals is December 31, 2012.

Irene Neu Jones

Professor Irene Neu Jones, 96, of Marietta, died October 5, 2012 at Marietta Memorial Hospital. Professor Jones was born March 21, 1916, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Frederick F. Neu and Mary Clara (Holderman) Neu. She graduated from Marietta College in 1944 with a degree in history, and obtained her PhD in history from Cornell University in 1950. As a professor of history, she dedicated the next 66 years of her life to the education of college students and the expansion of their knowledge of history. During her active professorial career, she held numerous chair positions. Upon her retirement from full time teaching, she was named Professor Emeritus at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., in November of 1986. She was an active member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Marietta. A strong supporter of the Legacy Library of Marietta College, Irene was an active volunteer there until her death. She also served on the board of directors of The Women's Home of Marietta.

Anna Kasten Nelson

Distinguished Historian-in-Residence at American University, died at her home in Washington DC, on September 27, 2012. Anna K. Nelson taught courses related to the history of American Foreign Relations from 1783 to the present. She wrote her dissertation and published on the diplomacy of the 19th century before moving her research into the post World War II period. In addition to her teaching and research, she has testified before Congress and written in support of Freedom of Information Act and access to documents in the National Archives. She was a member of the Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation and received a presidential appointment to the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Paul Nelson, and is survived by her sister Reba Kasten Nosoff, her two sons, Eric (Sarah) and Michael; and her three grandchildren Faith, Marc, and Jeffrey Nelson.

Henry F. May

Henry May, one of his generation’s most distinguished historians, died Saturday, September 29, at the age of 97. May was Margaret Bryne Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of California Berkeley, where he had taught from 1952 until his retirement in 1980.

Mellon Fellowships in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School

Rare Book School welcomes applications from scholars of the digital humanities to The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography. The aim of this new Mellon Foundation-funded three-year fellowship program is to reinvigorate bibliographical studies within the humanities by introducing doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty to specialized skills, methods, and professional networks for conducting advanced research with material texts. Twenty Mellon Fellowships will be awarded in the spring of 2013. The deadline for application to the program is December 1, 2012.

Winterthur Research Fellowship Program

The Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2013-14. Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, Shaker studies, travel and tourism, the Atlantic World, childhood, literary culture, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2013.

Call for Nominations: National Council on Public History Awards

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) awards recognize excellence in the diverse ways public historians apply their skills to the world around us. The purpose of the award program is to promote professionalism and best practices among public historians and to raise awareness about their activities. Awards are presented to recipients during the annual meeting, April 17-20, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario. Guidelines and current and past recipients are listed on the NCPH web site. Nominations for the book award are due November 1 and for all other awards, nominations are due December 1.

17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, and Society in the American Northeast

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, in conjunction with its 15th anniversary, presents the conference “17th Century Warfare, Diplomacy, and Society in the American Northeast.” This interdisciplinary conference, October 17-19, 2013, examines the complexity of a changing cultural landscape, consequences of colonization and warfare by bringing together scholars in fields such as American studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnohistory, geography, literature and Native American studies. Email abstracts to Dr. Kevin McBride (KMcbride@mptn.org), Director of Research, Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Please include “Abstract Submission, October 2013 Conference” in the subject line. Deadline for submissions February 1, 2013.

Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities

The Newberry's fellowships support humanities research in residence at the Newberry Library. Long-Term Fellowships support research and writing by post-doctoral scholars. Fellowship terms range from four to twelve months with stipends of $4,200 per month. Applicants should examine the Newberry's online catalog before applying. Deadline for long-term fellowship applications is December 1, 2012. Short-Term Fellowships support travel to research in Newberry collection for PhD candidates and post-doctoral scholars from outside Chicago.Applications are invited for short-term fellowships from teams of two or three scholars to collaborate on a single, substantive project.Terms are usually one month with a stipend of $2,000.Deadline for short-term fellowships is January 15, 2013.

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference (HOTCUS) invites paper proposals for its sixth annual conference, which will take place at Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom, on July 5-7, 2013. Proposals are requested on all topics concerning the History of the United States from 1890 to the present and proposals from complete panels of scholars as well as those undertaking postgraduate study are especially welcome. Deadline for proposals is December 21, 2012. Read more >

Request for Proposals: Coeditor of The Public Historian

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Department of History seek proposals from academic or public history institutions for a coeditor and institutional support for The Public Historian, a journal of public history.The current editorial team includes the editor, who is a faculty member in the UCSB Department of History (with course release support), a managing editor, a graduate student assistant review editor (all on the UCSB campus), and a review editor (with course release support), who is in the Department of History at California State University Sacramento. The editorial office is advised by the journal's editorial board, which is appointed by the NCPH president in consultation with the editorial office.The start date is negotiable, although UCSB and NCPH prefer January 1, 2013. The term is similarly negotiable, but UCSB and NCPH prefer a coeditor arrangement that extends at least through much of 2013 and 2014.

Call for Public History Working Group Discussants

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites proposals for working groups at its 2013 annual meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, April 17-20. Working groups, involving facilitators and up to twelve discussants, allow conferees to explore in depth a subject of shared concern before and during the annual meeting. In these seminar-like conversations, participants have a chance to discuss questions raised by specific programs, problems, or initiatives in their own public history practice with peers grappling with similar issues. Deadline for submissions is October 16.

Call for Posters: 2013 NCPH Annual Meeting

The National Council on Public History invites proposals for its Poster Session at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Ottawa, Ontario, April 17-20. The Poster Session is a format for public history presentations about projects that use visual evidence. It offers an alternative for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion, can be especially useful for work-in-progress, and may be a particularly appropriate format for presentations where visual or material evidence represents a central component of the project. Deadline for proposals is November 1.

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Seeks Editor

The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) is issuing a call for proposals to edit its flagship publication, Diplomatic History. The editorship will begin in August 2014 and, as stipulated in SHAFR’s by-laws, will extend for at least three but no more than five years.

New Library of Congress Magazine Makes Debut

The new Library of Congress Magazine debuts this week. The bimonthly, general interest magazine features educational and entertaining content about both current and historical events. The magazine’s circulation of twelve thousand includes members of Congress and libraries and educational institutions throughout the nation and the world. The publication is also accessible free online.

The Society for US Intellectual History Annual Book Award

The Society for US Intellectual History (SUSIH) announces an annual book award for the best book in American intellectual history. Eligble books should be a work of original scholarship and published during the 2012 calendar year. Any member of the SUSIH or publisher may nominate books for the award. Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2013.

Civil Rights Struggles of the 1950s and 1960s

Please join the Journal of American History in its exploration of the African American freedom movement, focusing on the history, meaning, and legacies of the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Over the next three years, we invite scholars to submit articles that address the events of those years and illuminate new ways of thinking about the historical significance of that momentous time. Specialists in all fields of history are encouraged to submit their work for consideration.

Gilder Lehrman Conference on Abolition, Past and Present

Gilder Lehrman Center‘s fourteenth anual international conference, November 8-10, takes as its theme, “Abolition, Past and Present: Scholars, Activists, and the Challenge of Contemporary Slavery.” The conference is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

Unfinished Journey: William H. Chafe, Forty Years at Duke, Writing American History

This fall, after having served forty years on the faculty at Duke University, William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, will be retiring. At a conference on October 11-12, 2012, Duke University will honor and celebrate Chafe and the incomparable contributions he has made to the field of history and to the life of the university.

United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship

Applications are invited for the twenty-seventh year of the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of art and architecture of the United States Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one to twelve months; the stipend is $2500.00 per month. (Most awards are for one to four months.) Application deadline is March 15, 2013.

Georgia Governor Pledges to Keep State Archives Open

On September 13, 2012, the Georgia secretary of state Brian Kemp announced that due to budget cuts, his office will soon reduce staff at the Georgia State Archives and will close the archives entirely on November 1, 2012. One week later, the Governor of Georgia, Nathan Deal, pledged to keep the archives open.

2013-2014 Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowships

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars announces its fellowships for 2013-2014. The center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists and public intellectuals to take part in its international fellowship program. Applications are due October 1.

2012-2015 Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture invites applications for two-year postdoctoral research fellowships in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2013. For more information contact: Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, OIEAHC, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg VA 23187-8781. For more information, e-mail: ieahc1@wm.edu. Applications must be postmarked by November 1, 2012.

Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin annually awards over fifty fellowships to support scholarly research projects that require substantial onsite use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Application deadline is February 1, 2013.

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeks applications for the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the humanities. Successful candidates will hold a two-year appointment beginning in July 2013. Application deadline is January 15, 2013.

Library Company of Philadelphia Postdoctoral Fellowships

Applications are welcome for the the 2013-2014 NEH Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Library Company of Philadelphia (LCP). These fellowships support for research at the Library Company on any subject related to its collections, which cover a variety of feilds relating to the history and culture of America and the Atlantic world from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Applications are also invited for the Program in Early American Economy and Society Postdoctoral Fellowships which support research on a wide range of topics concerning the American economy. Deadline for receipt of applications for both programs is November 1, 2012. The LCP also offers short term and dissertation fellowships in colonial and U.S. history and culture. Deadline is March 1, 2013.

Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research

The Humboldt Area Foundation welcomes applications for its Palmquist Memorial Fund awards, which are open to individuals researching Western American photography before 1900 or women in photography. Application deadline is November 1, 2012.

Elias and Marine-Street are Hagley Museum Fellows

Congratulations to OAH members Allison Elias, University of Virginia, and Natalie Marine-Street, Stanford University, recipients of grants and fellowships from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library.

2013 Business History Conference

The Business History Conference invites proposals for its 2013 annual meeting which will be held March 21-23 at the Hyatt Regency Columbus, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme is "the Cultures and Institutions of Business." In keeping with its policy, the conference will also consider submissions not directly related to the conference theme.

David Nord Recieves Award

The American Journalism Historians Association has selected David P. Nord, professor emeritus in the Indiana University School of Journalism, as winner of the 2012 Sidney Kobre Award for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism History.

Hoganson Receives Billington Prize

Please join us in congratulating Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is the recipient of the 2012 Ray Allen Billington Prize from the Western History Association for her article "Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900." Hoganson's article appeared in our March, 2012 issue.

Consumer Movement Archives Research Award

The Consumer Movement Archives (CMA) is pleased to announce its annual research award of $2,500. Scholars, graduate students, and consumer advocates are invited to apply. The 2013 award recipient will study onsite in the CMA which is located in the Morse Department of Special Collections, Hale Library, at Kansas State University in Manhattan.

NINE Conference on Baseball History and Culture

NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture announces its twentieth annual spring training conference on the historical and sociological impact of baseball, Wednesday, March 13-Saturday, March 16, 2013 in Tempe, AZ. Conference organizers welcome proposals for original, unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history and social policy implications. Deadline for proposals is December 3, 2012.

2013 UVA History Graduate Student Conference

The Corcoran Department of History at The University of Virginia is pleased to announce its Annual Graduate Student Conference on the theme, Historicizing the Present. The conference will be held at the University's campus on February 23, 2013, and will include a keynote address by Thavolia Glymph (Duke University) with a reception following. The Program Committee for 2013 invites proposals from graduate students nationwide for individual papers on all topics related to the theme, Historicizing the Present from its pre-colonial era to today. The deadline for proposals is October 1, 2012.

2013 McMullen Naval History Symposium

The History Department of the United States Naval Academy invites proposals for papers to be presented at its 2013 McMullen Naval History Symposium in Annapolis, Maryland, on 19-20 September 2013. The 2011 symposium was extremely successful, with over 250 in attendance, and over 125 papers presented. Deadline for proposals is February 4, 2013

Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2013. A principal criterion for selection is that the candidate's dissertation or other manuscript have significant potential as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship.

2012-2013 ACLS Fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies has opened the application cycle fror its upcoming fellowship competitions. Visit their website for updated and comprehensive information on all ACLS programs. Most deadlines are in October and November.

2012-2013 Massachusetts Historical Society Seminars

The MHS hosts five seminar series: the Boston Area Early American History Seminar, the Boston Environmental History Seminar, the Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, the Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender (cosponsored by the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study), and the New England Biography Seminar. Most programs take place at the MHS, 1154 Boylston Street, Boston, and revolve around the discussion of a precirculated paper. A light supper follows each program. The programs are free of charge, and all are welcome to attend. As in the past, we are making seminar essays available to subscribers as .pdfs on the MHS website in advance of each program.

2013 IASPM-US Annual Conference

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music, US Branch (IASPM-US) invites proposals for its 2013 annual conference to be held in Austin, Texas, February 28-March 3. The conference will explore the ideas of liminality and borderlands in popular music, focusing on those things (artists, genres, textures, developments, etc.) that are neither and both at the same time. Deadline for proposals is Thursday, November 1.

Society for the History of Women in the Americas Workshop

The Society for the History of Women in the Americas invites interested to facilitate one-off research training workshops with postgraduates and early career scholars, to be held in London during the week beginning 3rd December 2012. If you would like to be involved or have any further questions, please contact the organizers, Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson, RHUL; Dr Rachel Ritchie, Brunel University; Ms Imaobong Umoren, University of Oxford, via shawsociety@gmail.com.

Law and the French Atlantic

On October 5, 2012, the Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History will present a conference on "Law and the French Atlantic" at the Newberry Library, Chicago. This conference will explore the legal dimension (broadly conceived) of the French Atlantic empire in the early modern period. Participants and attendees should preregister by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library at renaissance@newberry.org or at 312-255-3514. For information about the conference, please contact Prof. Richard Ross at Rjross@illinois.edu.

Abraham Lincoln Discussion Symposium

Interested individuals are encouraged to visit and participate in a new online forum, "Abraham Lincoln Discussion Symposium."

Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Undergraduate History Journal

The Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) Undergraduate History Journal welcomes submissions for publication. The QMUL Undergraduate History Journal is the only published undergraduate history journal within the United Kingdom. For more information contact qmulhistoryjournal@gmail.com.

Historical Thinking Poster Goes Digital

With links to lessons, primary sources, teaching ideas, and more, TeachingHistory.org's interactive historical thinking poster gives K-12 teachers great tools to help students think like historians. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Teachinghistory.org is a project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

SHFG Thomas Jefferson Prize

The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2013 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2011 or 2012. The prize recognizes the editor(s) of a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to the understanding of the history of the federal government. It will be awarded at the SHFG annual meeting in College Park, Maryland in March 2013. Deadline for submissions is November 15.

James Lorence

James Lorence, died in June 2012. For 35 years he had taught at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. Lorence joined the OAH in 1964.

Let the OAH send you to Japan or Germany

In cooperation with the Japanese Association for American Studies and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the OAH sponsors scholars-in-residence programs in Japan and Germany. We encourage you to apply to teach and research abroad through these exciting programs.

OAH establishes exchange program with China

The August issue of OAH Outlook includes a story on an OAH delegation that recently traveled to China to forge a series of exchanges between the two nations. Delegates visited Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities and met with representatives of the American History Research Association of China (AHRAC) to shape a three-year scholar exchange program. The OAH and the AHRAC presented a proposal to the Ford Foundation which, we are pleased to learn, has just been funded.

North Caroliniana Society Welcome Applications

The North Caroliniana Society welcomes proposals for its annual Archie K. Davis Fellowships, awarded to scholars researching North Carolina History. The annual deadline for proposals is March 1. For more information, please visit www.ncsociety.org.

Adrian Brettle Receives Fellowship

Adrian Brettle, University of Virginia, is a 2012-2013 recipient of an Archie K. Davis Fellowship from the North Caroliniana Society.

2013 Humanities Advocacy Day

National Humanities Alliance will hold its 2013 Annual Meeting & Humanities Advocacy Day on Monday, March 18 - Tuesday, March 19. Pre-meeting sessions are tentatively scheduled to begin the afternoon of Sunday, March 17. Events will take place in Washington, DC on The George Washington University campus and Capitol Hill. If you have any suggestions or questions regarding the 2013 meeting or advocacy day, I can be reached at duane@arl.org or 202-296-4994 x149. You may also contact Erin Mosley at emosley@nhalliance.org or x150.

Georgia State University New Home of the Oral History Association

Effective January 1, 2013, the history department at Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta will become the new institutional home for the executive office of the Oral History Association (OHA). Dr. Clifford Kuhn, associate professor of history at GSU and a past president of OHA, will serve as the association's first full time executive director. The appointment of Dr. Kuhn as executive director will open up opportunities to develop the association's reach nationally and internationally and to expand programming in ways that advance the field of oral history.

American Academy in Rome 2013

The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years. Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy's eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend. Deadline is November 1.

Workshops at the National Archives

The National Archives has launched new online videos of its most popular genealogy "how to" workshops. These videos cover "hot topics" in genealogical research such as Civil War records, online resources and databases, and more. These workshops led by National Archives experts are available on the National Archives YouTube channel.

International Bibliography of Military History

The Bibliographical Committee of the International Commission of Military History encourages submissions to the International Bibliography of Military History. The deadlines for the two issues (due to be published in summer and in winter) are 1 April and 1 September, respectively.

Engaging Students & Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in K-16 Curricula

Registration is now open for the 2012 Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium to be held October 19-20, 2012. The Symposium is titled "Engaging Students & Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in K-16 Curricula," and it will gather archivists and educators to learn and discuss methods for connecting students with primary sources. Expert speakers will provide hands-on opportunities to work with primary sources, develop assignments and lesson plans using primary sources, and dialogue about best practices.

National Archives Updates Open-Government Plan

One of President Barack Obama’s first actions when he took office in 2009 was to make a commitment to the “open government” principles of transparency, participation, and collaboration. At the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), we also made that commitment. Doing so was not difficult, since those same principles of open government are embedded in our basic mission. Read more >

Praise for Bolster's
Black Jacks

Jeffrey W. Bolster's book, Black Jacks—and the impact it made on one man's life—is featured in The Washington Post.

Oil and American Studies

Our friends at the Journal of American Studies have just published "Oil and American Studies," a special issue tracing the cultural life of oil from the beginning of the modern oil industry to the present. Browse the issue to explore how oil and the extractive industry have been imagined in popular fiction, public art, film, television, war propaganda, museums and educational institutions, trade periodicals, and the popular press.

Topic Modeling for Humanities Research

Topic Modeling for Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start Up Grant-funded workshop, will facilitate a unique opportunity for crossfertilization, information exchange, and collaboration between and among humanities scholars and researchers in natural language processing on the subject of topic modeling applications and methods. The workshop will take place at the University of Maryland, College Park, on November 3, 2012. For more information, please visit mith.umd.edu/topicmodeling/.

Digital Humanities Winter Institute

The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, and lectures during an intensive, week-long event. The 2012 winter institute will be held January 7-11, 2013 at the University of Maryland, College Park. For more information, please visit mith.umd.edu/dhwi/.

2012 Conference on Illinois History

The annual Conference on Illinois History is scheduled for October 11-12, 2012, at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in downtown Springfield, Illinois. The conference will feature topics that include politics, architecture, community studies, Abraham Lincoln, African American history, and the Civil War. For more information, please visit www.illinoishistory.gov/conference.htm.

U.S. Department of State Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) Program

The Office of the Historian will participate in the Department of State's Virtual Student Foreign Service (VSFS) program for the upcoming 2012-2013 academic year. The office's Special Projects Division seeks 2-4 VSFSs to serve as virtual research assistants for the Historical Briefing Program (HBP). The HBP provides country-specific historical background on the bilateral diplomatic relationship and evolution of the U.S. representative at post to ambassadors, deputy chiefs of mission, and Foreign Service Officers. At present, briefings are offered for countries within the Europe, East Asia, and Africa Bureaus of the Department. For more information, please visit www.state.gov/vsfs/index.htm.

Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants

The Organization of American Historians is pleased to announce the inauguration of the Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grants. These grants, supported by a bequest from the Merrill Trust, will help sponsor the travel-related costs of graduate students who are confirmed as participants on the OAH conference program and who incur expenses traveling to the annual meeting. Five awards of $500 each will be awarded each year. Graduate students who are Ph.D. candidates and who are presenting a paper or serving as a commentator on a session or panel are eligible to apply. Priority will be given to dissertation-stage doctoral candidates with decreasing priority given to students based on the year of matriculation in their respective Ph.D. programs. Please email (to prizes@oah.org) your paper title or panel title, with an abstract and a CV (indicating your anticipated year of completion of the Ph.D.) to the Merrill Travel Grant Selection Committee c/o of the OAH. The first travel grants will be awarded for the 2013 annual meeting in San Francisco.

Deadline extended to January 18, 2012.

Society for Applied Anthropology

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers and posters) for its 2013 program to be held in Denver, CO, March 19-23. The theme of the program is "Natural Resource Distribution and Development in the 21st Century." The SfAA is a multidisciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution. We welcome papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2012 For more information, please visit www.sfaa.net/sfaa2013.html.

Envisioning Peace, Performing Justice: Art, Activism, and Cultural Politics in the History of Peacemaking

The Peace History Society seeks proposals for panels and papers for its upcoming meeting October 25-27, 2013 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The program committee seeks proposals from across the humanities, social sciences, and fine and performing arts disciplines that reveal both the artistic and performative dimensions of peacemaking and the vital roles that artists and activists have played as visionaries, critics, interpreters, and promoters of peacemaking efforts around the world. For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2013/.

Alabama Historical Association

The Alabama Historical Association invites proposals for individual papers and themed panels to be given at its 66th annual meeting in Eufaula, Alabama, on April 11-13, 2013. This meeting is open to scholars, educators, public historians, students, local historians, and members of the general public who share an interest in the history of Alabama from its founding through modern times. Proposals must be submitted by October 10, 2012. For more information, please visit www.alabamahistory.net.

Groundbreaking Survey on Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty Released

Coalition on the Academic Workforce issues "A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members: A Summary of Findings on Part-Time Faculty Respondents to the Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors"

Massachusetts Teacher of the Year

Richard F. Houston, OAH member and American history teacher at Harwich (MA) High School, received the 2012 Massachussetts Teacher of the Year Award from Governor Deval Patrick in a statehouse ceremony on June 19.

AAUP Issues Report on Academic-Industry Partnerships

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has issued its draft report, "Recommended Principles and Practices to Guide Academic-Industry Relationships." The report tackles many ethical and professional questions while defending academic freedom and the rights of faculty to control their research agendas and the fate of the intellectual property they create. After the open comment period, AAUP will revise the report to reflect the insights it has received.

2012 Conference on the Civil War

The Center for Civil War Research at the University of Mississippi seeks papers for its 2012 Conference on the Civil War to be held October 19-20. With the theme "The War at Home: Civilian Life During the American Civil War," the center encourages submissions that interpret the theme broadly, and suggests topics such as the civilian experience, women and men on the homefront, slavery and emancipation, churches and religion, wartime politics, irregular warfare, and Union and Confederate domestic policies. Deadline for proposals is August 15. For more information, please visit www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/conference2012.html.

Western History Association Teaching Awards

The Western History Association and the Charles Redd Center are sponsoring four K-12 teaching awards to enable the recipients to attend the 2012 Western History Association Annual Meeting in Denver, October 4-7. Deadline for applications is August 6, 2012. For more information, please visit www.westernhistoryassociation.org/awards.

Lee Benson

Dr. Lee Benson, professor emeritus of history and a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania's Netter Center for Community Partnerships, died on February 10, 2012. He was 90 years of age. Dr. Benson, a 45-year member of the OAH, graduated from Brooklyn College in 1947. He received his MA from Columbia University in 1948 and his PhD from Cornell University in 1952.

The Nominating Board announces the 2013 OAH Slate of Candidates

The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2013 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates to the OAH Nominating Board. The election opens December 3, 2012 and closes February 1, 2013.

National Archives Celebrates First Lady Centennials

Throughout 2012, the National Archives will feature programming in celebration of the centennial anniversaries of the births of two former first ladies, Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson. Commemorative events include teacher/student outreach, social media initiatives, and special programs and exhibits at both the Richard Nixon and Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Libraries. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/events/first-ladies-centennial/.

NARA Awards $2.9 million for Documentary Editions and Archival Projects

Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero awarded 31 grants totaling $2.9 million for historical records projects in 18 states and the District of Columbia. The National Archives grants program is carried out through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Grants totaling $1.2 million went to 16 documentary editing projects to edit and publish the papers of key American figures, including Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Edison, Jane Addams, and the Presidential Recordings from the Kennedy and Nixon administrations. Grants totaling $1.4 million went to 14 archival projects, including the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina; the backlog of unprocessed records at the South Dakota State Archives; the papers of California governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown; Vietnam War-era poster collections; the records of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; and the Pan American World Airways records at the University of Miami. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2012/nr12-121.html.

Enduring Questions

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the development of a new course that will foster intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. Courses may be developed by up to four faculty members from any department or discipline in the humanities or outside the humanities, provided humanities sources are central to the course. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/education/enduring-questions.

Maggie L. Walker Documents Discovered

In February 2009 College of William and Mary students found 31 boxes of documents belonging to Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of St. Luke. personal, organizational and general African American. The Independent Order had insurance, banking, a newspaper and an emporium; operated in 24 states. Since then we have 12,000 Dublin Core Metadata entries and 8,000 digital images of this privately owned collection. We are processing it using a public/scholarly model, working alongside community members who make a huge difference in our understanding of the documents which are in reasonably good condition and order. The Collection will go to the Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site; the national headquarters building a few blocks away, a witness to black enterprise and resistance to apartheid remains empty For more information, please visit www.nps.gov/mawa.

Kluge Center at the Library of Congress Seeks Applications

The John W. Kluge Center accommodates post-doctoral Fellows pursuing resident research, usually for periods from six to twelve months. Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural topics of a kind normally not encouraged in specialized departmental settings are welcome. Selection of a diverse group of Fellows is by various competitions. Post-doctoral Fellows have an opportunity to discuss their research with the Kluge Scholars and to explore possibilities for intellectual collaboration with other Fellows. For more information, please visit www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/fellowships/.

National Archives at San Francisco Opens Immigration Files

The National Archives at San Francisco officially opened to the public over 40,000 case files on immigrants to the United States. These immigration files, known as "Alien Files" (commonly referred to as "A-Files"), were transferred from U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). They are among the first of millions of case files that will eventually be opened to the public. In 1940 the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the predecessor of USCIS, started issuing Alien Registration Numbers to resident aliens in the United States. On April 1, 1944, INS began to assign these numbers to a new series of immigration case files called A-Files. A-Files are a genealogical wealth of information, containing documents such as photographs, personal correspondence, vital records, interview transcripts, and visa applications. A-Files may be viewed in person by appointment or copies may be ordered for a fee. Researchers may contact National Archives staff at AFiles.SanBruno@nara.gov to search A-Files holdings for a particular file. Beginning in June 2012, an online database will be available through the National Archives at San Francisco website. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/pacific/san-francisco/.

Thomas J. Pressly

Longtime OAH member Thomas J. Pressly died at age 93 on April 3, 2012. Read more >

National Humanities Center Fellowships

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce its fellowship competition for 2013-14. For more information, please visit nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/fellshipapinfo.htm.

A Subway Exhibit on the Japanese Internment

Richard Oba of the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee convinced the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to mount an exhibit of Dorothea Lange's photos of the Japanese internment in WWII, in a subway station. Approximately forty photographs were displayed during the month of May 2012, in the San Bruno (San Francisco) station, which was built on the spot where a temporary internment camp for imprisoned Japanese Americans was located (known as the Tanforan camp). This is one of the places that Dorothea Lange photographed extensively. Historian and OAH member Linda Gordon, New York University, had published these photographs for the first time in Impounded (W.W. Norton, 2007), and discussed them in her Dorothea Lange biography (W.W. Norton, 2009) and she helped curate the exhibit. Meanwhile, a photojournalist from the Sacramento Bee, Paul Kitagaki Jr., had been using Lange's photographs to locate and photograph camp veterans. Upon discovering Lange's photos, Kitagaki "wanted to find out the rest of the story: how the internment had changed the lives of people who had lost their homes, businesses and sometimes their families." Some of the individuals in Lange's photographs were just children in the camps, which were framed together with Kitagaki's portraits of them as they are today. The photographs were beautifully mounted, framed, and displayed in the airy, sparkling clean BART station. The opening was held on April 28, 2012, on the seventieth anniversary of the first "shipment" of prisoners to the camp. An opening reception attracted about 250 people. Each camp veteran was given a red carnation to wear. There were refreshments, including Japanese sweets, and beautiful weather. Congresswoman Jackie Speier spoke, offering a formal apology for the internment. Several camp veterans read poetry.

Sipress and Voelker Win Award

OAH members Joel M. Sipress, University of Wisconsin–Superior, and David J. Voelker, University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, are recipients of the 2012 Maryellen Weimer Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award sponsored by Magna Publications for their article, "The End of the History Survey Course: The Rise and Fall of the Coverage Model" that appeared in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

Information Security Oversight Report

On May 29, 2012 the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) released its Report to the President for fiscal year (FY) 2011. The report profiles data on the government-wide security classification program during FY2011. Among its declassification highlights, the report states that under automatic, systematic, and discretionary declassification review, federal agencies reviewed 52,760,524 pages and declassified 26,720,121 pages of historically valuable records. This report is the 32nd Annual Report to the President issued by ISOO. The first Report, covering FY 1979, was transmitted to President Carter in April of 1980. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/isoo/reports.

Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research

The Society of American Archivists recently published Using Archives: A Guide to Effective Research, a free online resource that gives valuable advice to first-time archives users. In this guide, Laura Schmidt (Archivist at The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College) provides insightful tips on how to locate archives that have appropriate materials specific to users' research; how to effectively use tools such as finding aids, catalogs, and databases; and how to plan a visit to an archives, among other topics. For more information, please visit www2.archivists.org/usingarchives.

OAH Members Named 2012 ACLS Fellows

The OAH congratulates the following members who are recipients of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow: Matthew Amato, University of Southern California. New Faculty Fellows Program: Ikuko Asaka, Rutgers University, New Brunswick; and Melissa Milewski, Columbia University. ACLS Fellowship: Darren Dochuk, Purdue University. Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship: Risa Goluboff, University of Virginia; and Lisa McGirr, Harvard University. Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship: Andrew Kahrl, Marquette University; and Susan Pearson, Northwestern University. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/fellows/new/.

Action Items of the OAH Executive Board

The OAH Executive Board took action on its April agenda items, including approving the organization's budget for fiscal year 2013, establishing new travel grants and a new book prize in labor history, as well as approving appointments to the OAH Magazine of History Editorial Board and forming a new committee on disability and disability history.

2012 OAH Award and Prize Winners

The Organization of American Historians sponsors annual awards and prizes given in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the field of American history. Please join us in congratulating the following 2012 OAH award and prize winners. Read more >

Betty Miller Unterberger

OAH notes with sadness the passing of longtime member Betty Miller Unterberger. A native of Scotland, she began her college career at Syracuse University, earned her Master's degree at Radcliffe College (now Harvard), and completed her PhD at Duke University. A pioneer in her own right, Unterberger was Texas A&M's first female professor, and was the first woman president of the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Read more about her life in a profile OAH printed in August 2005 in the OAH Newsletter.

NHPRC Promotes More Product, Less Processing

One of the seldom-told stories at the National Archives is about the work of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Most people, if they have heard of the NHPRC at all, know about its work in supporting historical documentary editions—the papers of American presidents, statesmen, or civil rights leaders. Or they have a general notion that the commission awards grants for preservation and access projects at state and local government agencies, colleges and universities, and nonprofit organizations. Since it began giving grants in 1964, the NHPRC has awarded $207 million to 4,900 projects in all fifty states and special jurisdictions. Read more >

New Guggenheim Fellows

OAH members Laura F. Edwards (Duke University) and Lori D. Ginzberg (Pennsylvania State University) were among the recently announced 2012 Guggenheim Foundation Fellows. For more information, please visit www.gf.org/news-events/2012-Fellows-in-the-United-States-and-Canada/.

2013 NCPH Annual Meeting Call for Proposals

The program committee of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) has issued its call for proposals for the 2013 annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for April 17-20, in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit: http://ncph.org/cms/conferences/2013-annual-meeting/ The program committee of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) has issued its call for proposals for the 2013 annual meeting. The meeting is scheduled for April 17-20, in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/conferences/2013-annual-meeting.

New Materials: Their Social and Cultural Meanings

Historians of science, technology, and medicine as well as scholars in science and technology studies, anthropology, the visual arts, cultural studies, and related fields are invited to submit essays for an edited volume on the historical and cultural meanings of new materials. The resulting collection of essays, focused on the creation, testing, and definition of materials in all historical settings, will be published in the Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture series of the University of Pennsylvania Press and edited by Amy Slaton (Drexel University). Essays should not exceed 10,000 words (exclusive of endnotes), and must be received for consideration by November 1, 2012. Please address inquiries to Amy Slaton at slatonae@drexel.edu.

The Presidential Election of 2012

On November 16 and 17, Hiram College will host a two-day conference featuring panels on many aspects of the 2012 presidential election: voting behavior, demographic trends, and the election outcome; general election strategies of the two nominee’s campaign organizations; the role of the media and public opinion; the role of economic policy; the role of domestic policy; the role of foreign and national security policy; and the makeup, policy inclinations, and relationship of the new 113th Congress with the president. Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2012. For more information, please visit thehiramcollege.net/garfieldinstitute/conference-2012/the-presidential-election-of-2012/.

Susan D. Ware is new General Editor

Susan D. Ware has been appointed the General Editor of the American National Biography, the premier biographical encyclopedia of U.S. history. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/news/4-19-2012/.

Mellon Foundation Elects New President

Earl Lewis, Emory University, has been elected president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New AAAS Fellows Named

David Blight, Yale University, Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University, and Vicki L. Ruiz, University of California, Irvine, were newly-elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please visit www.amacad.org/.

NARA Releases 2011 Federal Records Management Self-Assessment Report

In May 2011, NARA issued the mandatory annual records management self-assessment to federal agencies. The goal of the self-assessments is to determine whether federal agencies are compliant with statutory and regulatory records management requirements. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/self-assessment-2011.pdf.

NEH Seeks Nominations for 2013 Jefferson Lecture

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites nominations for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. NEH’s annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities award recognizes a scholar who has made significant contributions to the humanities and who has the ability to communicate the knowledge and wisdom of the humanities in a broadly appealing way. Deadline for nominations is May 25, 2012. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/about/awards/jefferson-lecture-nominations.

Gilder Lehrman Institute Releases Essential Questions in American History Videos

The Gilder Lehrman Institute released a collection of short videos with historians answering fundamental questions about American history. For more information, please visit vimeo.com/album/1886800.

Lewis E. Atherton Prizes for Dissertation and Thesis

The State Historical Society of Missouri seeks nominations for the Lewis E. Atherton Prizes, to be awarded to an outstanding doctoral dissertation and master's thesis on Missouri history or biography. For the 2012 prizes, nominees must have completed the doctoral degree or the master's degree between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012. The deadline for receipt is June 30, 2012. For more information, please visit shs.umsystem.edu/awards/athertonaward.shtml.

Cromwell Fellowships for Research in U.S. Legal History

pplications are now open for fellowship awards funded by the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation to support research and writing in American legal history. Preference is given to scholars at the early stages of their careers, including advanced graduate students. Deadline is July 13, 2012. For more information, please visit www.legalhistorian.org/awards.shtml.

Teacher Seminar on Abraham Lincoln: His Life, Leadership, and Legacy

This three day seminar, June 18-21, at the Lincoln Heritage Museum in Lincoln, Illinois combines onsite visits, activities, and stimulating discussion to provide teachers with a deeper awareness of Lincoln, the changing times in which he lived, and how he helped move the nation ahead. For more information and to apply, please contact Ron Keller, Lincoln College, at rkeller@lincolncollege.edu. Deadline to submit an application is May 28, 2012.

Deep Delta Civil War Symposium

The 26th annual Deep Delta Civil War Symposium will be held June 1-2, 2012 in the War Memorial Student Union at Southeastern Louisiana University. Sponsored by the Department of History and Political Science, the theme of this year's symposium is “Lee’s Generals.” For more information, please visit www.selu.edu/acad_research/depts/hist_ps/civil_war_symposium/index.html.

Engaging Students and Teachers: Integrating Primary Sources in the K-16 Curricula

The 2012 Midwest Archives Conference Fall Symposium will be held October 19-20 it will gather archivists and educators to learn and discuss methods for connecting students with primary sources. The symposium will be held at the Radisson Hotel Cincinnati Riverfront in Covington, Kentucky. For more information, please visit www.midwestarchives.org.

Reading Artifacts Summer Institute

The 2012 Reading Artifacts Summer Institute will take place August 13-17 at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. For more information, please visit www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/whatson/2012-reading-artifacts-summer-institute.cfm.

Leading Scholars Put Civil War on Trial

Albany Law School will host “The Civil War on Trial: Legal Issues that Divided a Nation” a scholarly conference in June 2012 to discuss the legal issues that led to and defined the Civil War and post-war reconstruction. For more information, please visit www.albanylaw.edu/sub.php?navigation_id=297&event_id=624.

Smithsonian Symposium on Technology and the Civil War

Proposals are sought for a symposium on technology and the American Civil War, as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s contribution to the war’s sesquicentennial commemoration. It will be hosted by the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC, November 9-11 2012. For more information, contact the symposium organizer, Bart Hacker, at: hackerb@si.edu, no later than June 30, 2012.

Naomi Wulf, 1964-2012

Naomi Wulf’s many American friends were deeply saddened to learn of her death on April 17, 2012, after her courageous, decade-long struggle with cancer. Naomi was a key figure in the American Studies community in France and throughout Europe. Born in 1964 of mixed Franco-American parentage, Naomi promoted a broader and deeper understanding of her two countries through her scholarship and her warm personal connections with fellow scholars.

Naomi completed her PhD. under the mentorship of the distinguished Americanist Elise Marienstras at Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 and first taught at Paris-12, now the Université Paris-Est Créteil; in 2007, she was named professor of American History at the Universit? Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. At the time of her death Naomi was revising her prize-winning doctoral dissertation for publication as a book, “Democracy in America”: Orestes Brownson, American Critic of Jacksonian America. Naomi was convinced that this brilliant and eccentric preacher, social reformer and Catholic convert offered an illuminating counterpoint to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous contemporaneous account of the new nation’s political culture in his classic Democracy in America. Naomi worked on her project for many years, exploring Brownson’s Jeffersonian roots as a fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (Monticello) in the Fall of 2010.

Naomi had a genius for collaboration and conference-organizing. Co-author of two monographs with her mentor Elise Marienstras, Naomi also edited volumes of conference proceedings and special issues of journals with Marienstras, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, and Nathalie Caron. With Caron, her dear friend and now professor at Paris-Est Créteil, Naomi published “Les Lumières américaines: continuitiés et renouveau” in the on-line journal Transatlantica in 2009. This important essay was awarded the David Thelen Prize for the best foreign-language article on American history at the April meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Milwaukee and will be appear in English translation in The Journal of American History in 2013.

Naomi Wulf will be sorely missed by everyone who had the privilege of knowing her.

Peter Onuf, University of Virginia
Nathalie Caron, Paris-Est Créteil

National Archives Announces Legislative Archives Fellowship for 2012

The National Archives seeks applications for its 2012 Legislative Archives Fellowship to support work in United States history based on research in the records of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Applications for the 2012 fellowship will be accepted until midnight EDT May 16, 2012. Contact the Center for Legislative Archives at the National Archives for fellowship requirements and application instructions. For more information, please visit www.archives.gov/legislative/research/fellowship.html.

2013-2014 Fellowships at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study

The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, invites about twenty scholars each year to be in residence to pursue their own research. The School welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature and linguistics. Applicants must have a Ph.D. at time of application. For more information, please visit www.sss.ias.edu/applications.

NEH Invites Proposals on Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites proposals for projects that advance the role of the humanities at community colleges through curriculum and faculty development on a theme of “bridging cultures.” Proposals should provide support for community college faculty and administrators to create new courses on “bridging cultures” themes or topics; design new course sequences, concentrations, and core curricula; or conduct scholarly research that will improve faculty preparation and enrich teaching. Deadline for applications is August 14, 2012. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCulturesCCRFP.html.

The Port Huron Statement: Fifty-Year Commemorative Conference

The Port Huron Statement and the Making of the New Left, an open conference at the University of Michigan, October 31-November 2, 2012, will mark fifty years since publication of The Port Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic Society. The conference will explore the social, cultural, political, and global contexts for the rise of new radical movements from 1958-1965. For further information, contact Professor Howard Brick ().

Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars

The University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, will host the tenth annual symposium April 13-14, 2012. The symposium investigates the potential of object-based research to expand and even reinvent our understanding of culture and history. The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration is encouraged. For more information contact

Mark Durfee Graduates with Honors

Mark Durfee, of Troy, Texas graduated with honors from American Public University in February 2012 with a Master of Arts degree in history with a concentration in American History.

Three OAH Members receive the 2012 Bancroft Prize

The Bancroft Prize, awarded annually by Columbia University for distinguished works in American history, was bestowed upon three OAH members for its 2012 prize. OAH congratulates Tomiko Brown-Nagin, University of Virginia; Anne Hyde, Colorado College; and Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University. For more information, visit their website.

Paul S. Boyer 1935-2012

The OAH notes with sadness the passing of Paul S. Boyer, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, and fifty-year member of the OAH. http://www.cressfuneralservice.com/obituary/89729/Paul-Boyer/

Foreign Relations of the United States Series Now Available as an E-Book

The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State has announced the release of its Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series in a new e-book format that is readable on popular electronic devices such as the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad. The e-book edition combines many of the benefits of print and web publications in a new form that is portable and extremely convenient. For more information, please visit history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/ebooks.

National Park Service Awards State and Tribal Historic Preservation Grants

Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar recently announced $46.9 million in historic preservation grants to the fifty states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Territories, and three independent Pacific island nations. The Secretary also announced $8.4 million in grants to 131 American Indian tribes to support Tribal Historic Preservation Offices under the National Historic Preservation Act. The $46 million in grants will enable the states to preserve and protect historic sites without expending tax dollars. The Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) is supported by revenue from federal oil leases on the Outer Continental Shelf. The National Park Service administers the fund and uses the majority of appropriated funds to distribute matching grants to State and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. For more information, please visit nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/index.htm.

Writers Wanted for Historical Documents Studies Project

Salem Press, an imprint of EBSCO Publishing, is soliciting historians to write for a reference series in development that is best defined as historical document studies. We will publish primary source documents with analysis designed for advanced high school (AP) and undergraduate students and their teachers. Our coverage begins with two volumes, 1492-1750 and 1750-1800, and presents selections from journals, diaries, political sermons, slave narratives, political tracts, letters, and other genres on major subjects in the period. We also seek writers for volumes covering the 19th century, which will soon advance to production. An honorarium is available. For more information contact Jim Ryan, Senior Managing Editor, EBSCO Publishing at

Flat World Knowledge (FWK), the leading publisher of open textbooks, is looking for contributors to work on its upcoming database of primary sources in US history. Potential contributors should contact the editor, Dr. David J. Trowbridge, Marshall University at For more information, please visit www.flatworldknowledge.com.

The OAH Releases 2011 Annual Report

The OAH is pleased to share with you its 2010-2011 OAH Annual Report. With reports from the president, executive director, executive editor, and treasurer, the annual report places at your fingertips a comprehensive view of the organization’s programs and activities for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.

Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service

The OAH is pleased to announce the availability of Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, a new report examining the practice and presentation of American history in the National Park Service and at its sites.

HistoryMakers NEH Summer Institute

The HistoryMakers’ 2012 NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers will be held in Chicago, Illinois from Sunday, July 8, 2012 - Friday, August 3, 2012. In a competitive process, teachers will compete for 25 spots as Summer Scholars. These Summer Scholars will spend the month of July studying the subject of African American political history from the Reconstruction to the present. For more information, please visit www.thehistorymakers.com/edday.

Federal Trials and Great Debates

Secondary school teachers of U.S. history and government are invited to apply for a summer institute, Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History, to be held June 24-29, 2012, in Washington, DC. The institute is cosponsored by the Federal Judicial Center and the American Bar Association Division for Public Education. For more information, please visit www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/initiatives_awards/summer _institute_for_teahers.html.

Historical Research Assistance

Researcher seeks little known historical items, events, or people of interest for an upcoming television series. The series seeks to spotlight lesser known people or events that have made an impact on or are central to American history. Please send your ideas to Ms. Michelle Smawley (.

National History Day Receives National Humanities Medal

On February 10, 2012, President Barack Obama announced winners of the 2011 National Humanities Medal, awarded for outstanding achievements in history, literature, education, philosophy, and musicology. National History Day, an academic program for elementary and secondary school students, was among this year’s recipients. Each year more than half a million students from across the country compete in National History Day, conducting research and producing Web sites, papers, performances, and documentaries to tell the human story. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/whoweare/nationalmedals.html.

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies will move its editorial offices to The Ohio State University for the next five years starting in May 2012. Frontiers explores the critical intersections of gender, race, sexuality, and transnationalism. In celebration of its fortieth anniversary in 2015, Frontiers will publish a special issue per year for the next five years reflecting on significant events and topics from forty years ago, with the first issue commemorating Roe vs. Wade. The editors welcome scholarly, creative writing, and visual art submissions on reproductive rights, reproductive justice, and reproductive technologies. For more information contact the editors at .

Call for Submissions: 2013 OAH Willi Paul Adams Award

The Willi Paul Adams Award is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians to the author of the best book on American history published in a foreign language. The award (formerly the Foreign Language Book Prize) is named for Willi Paul Adams, who was an active member of the OAH in Germany and a tireless advocate of the internationalization of American history. The award committee invites submissions before its deadline of May 1, 2012.

2012 OAH Community College Conference

The Organization of American Historians is pleased to announce its sixth annual community college conference to be held June 14-16, 2012, at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. This year’s community college conference will focus on Abraham Lincoln and his career in Springfield, and is tailored to meet the specific needs and challenges of community college historians. The three-day conference offers community college historians an excellent opportunity for professional development, networking, and a chance to explore Springfield's unique connection to Lincoln.

2012 OAH Election Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2012 OAH Election. OAH President, Albert M. Camarillo, Stanford University; OAH President-Elect, Alan M. Kraut, American University; and OAH Vice President, Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado.

Professional Organizations and Political Engagements

The Organization of American Historians recently conducted an “interchange” conversation among current and past leaders of the organization. The discussion focuses on the complex relationship between the duties, professional obligations, and avowed mission of a learned society and the personal or political ideologies of the individual members it represents. Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, facilitated the lively online discussion.

Examining World War II and Religion

The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience and the Department of Religion at the Florida State University seek paper proposals for a conference examining “World War II and Religion” to take place in Tallahassee, Florida (November 30-December 1, 2012). Scholars who focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, and the Soviet Union, as well as Europe and North America are encouraged to submit paper proposals by March 15, 2012. For more information about the conference or the Institute please contact G. Kurt Piehler at . For more information, please visit ww2.fsu.edu/.

Northwest Ohio History

The journal Northwest Ohio History is actively seeking unpublished scholarship addressing northwest Ohio’s political, military, social, economic, cultural, and ethnic history. Submissions, letters of inquiry, or other questions may be sent to: Larry L. Nelson, Editor, Northwest Ohio History, Department of History, Bowling Green State University, 128 Williams Hall, Bowling Green, OH 43404, or e-mail: .

National Park Service Announces American Latino Theme Study

The National Park Service is undertaking an American Latino Theme Study to enhance the public?s understanding of the role of American Latinos in the development of the nation. The theme study will consist of a core essay that will cover Latina/o history since the fifteenth century, with a primary focus on the period since the 1820s, and will highlight four broad themes: making the nation, making a life, making a living, and making a democracy. The study encourages suggestions from the public about American Latino historic sites within the boundaries of the U.S. and the stories associated with them. Please send your suggestions (name of the property, where it is located, and a few sentences about why it is important and why it tells an important story) to: . For more information, please visit www.nps.gov/history/crdi/latino.html.

Casting Call: Historical Hackers

“Historical Hackers,” a documentary series now in development, is casting individuals interested in serving as its host and master cryptologist. This new series will explore the world of code breaking and codes that changed the course of history. Interested individuals are asked to submit their names, contact information, a photograph and brief biographical statement to .

American Demographic History: 1790—2000

American Demographic History Chartbook is a new Web site that presents a demographic history of the United States, using decennial census data from 1790 to 2000. For more information, please visit www.demographicchartbook.com.

2012 Graham Foundation Carter Manny Award

The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects focus on fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architecture; architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; visual arts; and other related fields. The award is intended to assist students enrolled in graduate programs in architecture, art history, and other programs in the fine arts, humanities, and social sciences. Applications are due March 15, 2012. For more information, please visit grahamfoundation.org/grant_programs?mode=award.

Library of Congress Junior Fellows Summer Internships

This summer the Library of Congress is again offering special ten-week paid internships to college students. For a stipend of $3,000, 2012 Junior Fellows Summer Interns will work full-time from May 29 through August 3, with library specialists and curators to inventory, describe, and explore collection holdings and to assist with digital-preservation outreach activities throughout the library. Applications will be accepted online only at http://usajobs.gov/, keyword: 308129000. Deadline is February 27. For more information, please visit www.loc.gov/hr/jrfellows/.

American Slavery: Bringing Wider Perspectives to Museum Interpretation

This symposium, jointly sponsored by Independence National Historical Park, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and the Friends of Independence National Historical Park, will take place February 25. For more information, please visit www.friendsofindependence.org/.

War of 1812 NEH Landmarks Workshops

Interested teachers are invited to apply for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Landmarks of American History Workshops focusing on The War of 1812 in the Great Lakes and Western Territories. The workshops will be offered July 22-27 and August 5-10 in Toledo, Ohio. There is no fee to participate in this program and all participants will receive a $1,200 stipend to help defray travel and lodging expenses. Applications are due March 1. For more information, please visit www.1812landmarkscollege.org.

2012 Illinois History Symposium

“Contested Lands: 1763-1840” is the theme of the 2012 Illinois History Symposium, April 26-28 in East Peoria, Illinois. Sponsored by the Illinois State Historical Society, the three-day symposium will include sessions, hands-on workshops, performances, as well as tours and offsite events. For more information, please visit www.historyillinois.org/announcements/announce.php#18.

A Presidential Charge to Improve Federal Records Management

President Barack Obama has designated the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) as one of the leading agencies in his Open Government Initiative to bring more participation, collaboration, and transparency to government. Read more >

Gerald T. Flom, 1930-2011

OAH Election Closes January 31

The 2012 OAH Election closes at midnight on January 31. All OAH members are encouraged to vote. To cast your ballot, use our online voting system at: OAH.vote-now.com. (Your voter code is your OAH membership ID number.)

The Civil War at 150 Podcast

Ed Linenthal, the executive editor of the Journal of American History, talks with Allen Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and director of Civil War Era Studies at Gettysburg College, comparing and contrasting the Civil War centennial with the ongoing sesquicentennial and the Lincoln bicentennial in 2009.

2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting Program Now Online

The 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting Program has been mailed to OAH members and may also be downloaded online at http://annualmeeting.oah.org/.

January OAH Magazine of History Focuses on Black Freedom Struggle Outside the South

The theme for the January 2012 issue of the OAH Magazine of History is Beyond Dixie: The Black Freedom Struggle Outside of the South. It features an all-star lineup of scholars whose work continues to transform our understanding of this subject. They include consulting editor and contributor Patrick Jones, Thomas Sugrue, Jeanne Theoharis, Lisa Levenstein, Donna Murch, Craig Werner, Trevor Griffey, and Hasan Kwame Jeffries.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

JFK Library Releases Final Recordings

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that it has declassified and made available the final 45 hours of White House recordings that were secretly taped during President John F. Kennedy’s time in office.

Authors Wanted

Authors wanted for the final stages of an encyclopedia on Women and American Military History to be published with ABC-Clio at the end of 2012. Most of the entries have already been assigned and submitted, but authors are still needed for several important entries. Unassigned entries include the War in Afghanistan, the Cold War, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, Middle East Conflicts, Nursing, and several biographies. Faculty, graduate students, and Independent scholars are all encouraged to inquire. For more information contact Lisa Tendrich Frank, .

Research Fellowships at the Robert J. Dole Archive

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are eligible to apply for this one-time $2,500 award which will support substantial contributions to the study of Congress, politics, or public policy issues. Applications for the 2012 Dole Institute Research Fellowship are due on or before March 15, 2012. For more information, please visit dolearchive.ku.edu/research/fellowships/.

Ithaca College Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellow

The School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College announces a Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship for 2012-2013. The fellowship supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity in the academy in order to better prepare them for tenure track appointments within liberal arts or comprehensive colleges/universities. Screening of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. For more information, please visit www.icjobs.org.

Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship

Applications are now open for the residential fellowship with The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Applications are encouraged from scholars and public intellectuals to study the fundamental origins and circumstances surrounding debt bondage, forced labor, human trafficking, and other forms of modern day slavery. Deadline is March 1, 2012 For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/glc/info/trafficking.htm.

ACLS Public Fellows Program

The American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for its second competition of the ACLS Public Fellows Program. The program will place thirteen recent Ph.D.s from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these organizations and receive professional mentoring. Deadline for applications is March 21, 2012. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/.

New Voyages to Carolina

New Voyages to Carolina is a series of conferences on North Carolina history under the aegis of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, and participating universities. The 2012 conference will be held at East Carolina University, February 2-3. For more information, please visit www.ecu.edu/cs-ecu/calendar.cfm?a=5&e=7743.

Civil War Study Group Symposium

The Civil War Study Group will hold its fifth annual symposium at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, IL, on September 15, 2012. The organizing committee seeks proposals for papers related to the theme of “Abraham Lincoln and the Intersection of War and Society.” For more information contact Daniel W. Stowell, Director, The Papers of Abraham Lincoln, via e-mail at: dstowell@papersofabrahamlincoln.org. Deadline is April 15, 2012.

The Cosmopolitan Metropolis: Urban History Association Conference

The sixth biennial conference of the Urban History Association will be held in New York City, October 26-28, 2012. Its program committee seeks submissions for panels, roundtable discussions, and individual papers on all aspects of urban, suburban, and metropolitan history. Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2012. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/conf.html.

Nixon Grand Jury Records Now Online

In May 1975, the Watergate Special Prosecution team found it necessary to question former President Richard M. Nixon in connection with various ongoing investigations at the time. The following month, Nixon was questioned by and his testimony was given to the third Watergate Grand Jury. Through the efforts of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, on behalf of the OAH and others, these records are now online.

Urban History Association’s Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award

The Urban History Association will award a prize of $500 for the best book in North American urban history with a publication date of 2011. For applications and nominations, please submit three copies of the book, each containing a complete publication citation, by April 16, 2012. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/awards.html.

Urban History Association Best Article Award

The Urban History Association will award the best article on urban history in a scholarly journal with its annual article award. For applications and nominations, please submit three copies of the article, each containing a complete publication citation, by April 16, 2012. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/awards.html.

Urban History Association Best Dissertation Award

The award for Best Dissertation in Urban History completed in 2011 will be given by the Urban History Association. For applications and nominations, please submit three (3) copies of the dissertation, each containing information on where and when completed. All materials must be received by April 16, 2012. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/awards.html.

Wiley-Silver Prize for First Book in Civil War History

The Center for Civil War Research is accepting submissions for the inaugural Wiley-Silver Prize in Civil War history. The prize, awarded to the best first book in Civil War history published in 2011, is intended to recognize emerging scholars in the history of the American Civil War. For more information, please visit www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/wileysilverbookprize.html.

2012 Fellowships at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Situated at the center of the world’s largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries (SIL) are a vital part of the Institution’s research, exhibition, and education enterprise. March 15, 2012 is the deadline for many SIL fellowships, resident scholar programs, and fellowships. For more information, please visit www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=3.3.

Filson Historical Society Fellowships

The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, invites applications for fellowships and internships to support research in The Filson’s collections. Applications must be received by February 15, 2012. For more information, please visit www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html.

Office of the Historian Commemorates Anniversary

The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions. The series began in 1861 and provides an indispensable resource for all who seek to understand U.S. foreign policy and strategic planning, international relations, economic affairs, and transnational social and cultural developments. For more information, please visit history.state.gov/frus150.

Sarah Ruth Hammond, 1977-2011

For more information, please visit theoberlinnewstribune.com/obituaries/sarah-ruth-hammond/.

2012 OAH Annual Business Meeting

The OAH Business Meeting will be held immediately preceding the OAH Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address, Saturday April 21 at 3:30 p.m. All OAH members are encouraged to attend and participate in the governance of the organization. Proposals for action by the OAH shall be made in the form of ordinary motions or resolutions. As outlined in Article VIII, Section 3 of the OAH Constitution and Bylaws (http://www.oah.org/about/constitution.html), all such motions or resolutions must be submitted at least thirty days prior to the meeting (or March 22, 2012) to the OAH Executive Director Katherine M. Finley and the OAH Parliamentarian Jonathan Lurie. Proposals should be sent to the OAH, 112 North Bryan Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408.

Borders, Boundaries, and Beyond: A Graduate Student Historical Studies Conference

The 2012 Central Michigan Graduate Student Historical Studies Conference, to be held April 13-14 in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, welcomes proposals from scholars in the humanities and the social sciences that explore the benefits, challenges, and the limitations of crossing borders and moving beyond boundaries. Individuals wishing to participate should send a 250-word abstract and a short CV to histconf@cmich.edu. The deadline for submission is January 31, 2012.

2012 New Jersey Forum

The New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Archives, and the New Jersey State Museum invite proposals for research papers to be delivered at the New Jersey Forum on Saturday, November 17, 2012 (location TBD). The annual forum provides an opportunity for college and university faculty, teachers, graduate students, independent scholars, museum professionals, historical society members, and all others with an interest in New Jersey studies to present new research to their peers. For more information contact Niquole Primiani (Niquole.Primiani@sos.state.nj.us). Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.newjerseyhistory.org.

Dr. Miller Leads Fundraising Efforts

Dr. Linda Karen Miller, 1996 OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year recipient, led fundraising efforts in Las Vegas, Nevada to build a statue dedicated to Helen J. Stewart, often called the “first lady of Las Vegas.” For the past four years Miller has been appearing as Helen J. Stewart in character and costume at various civic groups around town.

2012 Advertising Educational Foundation Visiting Professor Program

The Advertising Educational Foundation invites applications for its Visiting Professor Program (VPP). The VPP is a two-week fellowship for professors of advertising, marketing, communications, and the liberal arts to expose professors to the day-to-day operations of an advertising agency, marketing or media company and to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between academia and industry. Application deadline is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.aef.com.

Academic Opportunities in U.S. Naval History

The Naval History and Heritage Command, an agency of the United States Navy, provides various funding opportunities through its predoctoral fellowships, research grants, and scholarships for research and writing on aspects of U.S. naval history. The application deadline for all of these programs is March 30, 2012. For more information, please visit www.history.navy.mil/prizes/prizes.htm.

Henning Graduate Fellowship in Labor Culture and History

The Fund for Labor Culture and History invites applications for its 2012 Henning Graduate Fellowship in Labor Culture and History. The Henning Fellowship encourages innovative study of the problems, identities, philosophies, and the expressive cultures of working people in the United States. Applications must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2012. For more information, please visit www.laborculture.org/scholarship/henning.html.

2012 NEH Summer Institute: Visual culture of the American Civil War

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center will host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university teachers in July 2012 on the visual culture of the American Civil War. Applications deadline is March 1, 2012. For more information, please visit ashp.cuny.edu/civil-war-150/nehinstitute/.

Northern Great Plains History Conference

The Society for Military History (SMH) sponsors sessions at the Northern Great Plains History Conference (NGPHC) which will be held September 27-29, 2012 in Fargo, ND. The SMH encourages graduate students as well as faculty, government, and independent historians to submit proposals for papers or sessions. Please send a one-page paper proposal and c.v. or, for a full session proposal, send a one-page session proposal, and a one-page abstract for each paper, and c.v.s for all participants, to: jcfitzharris@stthomas.edu by April 1, 2012.

2012 International Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

The 2012 International Conference of the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universit․t Berlin, will be held May 11-12, and invites papers on a range of diverse topics around the theme, “Making It Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Belonging and Displacement in America.” For more information, please visit www.gsnas.fu-berlin.de/en/conference/2012/.

Conference on Illinois History

Proposals are invited for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois’ history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology for the 2012 Conference on Illinois History, October 11-12, in Springfield, Illinois. For more information, please visit www.IllinoisHistory.gov/conference.htm.

2013 OAH Annual Meeting

The program committee invites proposals for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting, April 11-14, in San Francisco, California. The theme for the 2013 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Entangled Histories: Connections, Crossings, and Constraints in U.S. History.” More information, including proposal instructions and deadlines, are available at our web site.

Actions of the OAH Executive Board

The OAH Executive Board took action on several of its November agenda items, including hearing reports from the task forces assigned to examine the annual meeting and membership, reviewing a proposed plagiarism policy, discussing disability issues, and approving appointments of individuals to OAH service and award committees.

The OAH recognized by the Indiana Society of Association Executives

The Indiana Association of Association Executives held its annual Star Awards banquet on December 8. The Organization of American Historians received first-place awards in two association categories: the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program was recognized as the best non-dues revenue program, and our new membership newsletter, OAH Outlook, was recognized as the best association newsletter or bulletin.

Secretary of Education Stresses History in “the Age of Accountability”

At the annual meeting of the National Council for Social Studies this month, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan addressed the importance of history in elementary and secondary curricula. Duncan asserted that to “boost student achievement, history should not be eliminated but expanded.” We invite you to read a transcript of Secretary Duncan's remarks, “A Well-Rounded Curriculum in the Age of Accountability.” For more information, please visit www.ed.gov/news/speeches/well-rounded-curriculum-age-accountability.

OAH Mourns the Passing of David Montgomery

The Organization of American Historians notes with sadness the passing of OAH Past President David Montgomery, Farnam Professor of History emeritus at Yale University, on December 2, 2011. Montgomery was 84 years of age.

Registration Now Open for the
2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting

Join your colleagues in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from April 18 to 21, 2012, for the 104th annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, a joint meeting with the National Council on Public History (NCPH). With more than 150 panels, events, and special sessions on teaching skills, digital history, and the Civil War, the meeting promises to be exciting.

John Morton Blum, 1921-2011

John Morton Blum, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, died at his home in North Branford, Connecticut on October 17, 2011 at the age of ninety. A preeminent scholar of American politics and culture during the second half of the twentieth century, Blum was born on April 29, 1921 in New York City. A Yankee fan from his early youth, Blum followed the Bronx Bombers, the NFL Giants, and Yale football with equal gusto. He was educated at Andover and at Harvard, from which he received his Ph.D in 1950. He was a co-editor of the Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (1951—1954). Blum taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1949 to 1957 and at Yale from 1957 to 1991. Among his thirteen books, The Republican Roosevelt (1954) and V was for Victory (1976) had the widest influence, but his three—volume work From the Morgenthau Diaries (1959—1967) displayed the extensive range of his talents. His memoir A Life with History (2004) traced the many accomplishments of his career as author, scholar, and administrator in lucid and revealing prose. He was a gifted undergraduate lecturer whose recreation of Theodore Roosevelt at Kettle Hill became a classic experience for his student listeners. He was also a superb mentor to his many graduate students and friends within the historical profession. A memorial service at Yale University on November 11, 2011 brought more than 500 people together to honor his rich life, his vibrant personality, and his outstanding scholarly accomplishments. He lineis survived by Pamela Z. Blum (pzb23@comcast.net) of 88 Notch Hill Road, #176, North Branford, CT, 06471, their three children and three grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the John Morton Blum Fellowship in American History at Yale University or to the scholarship fund of your choice at any university.

Lewis L. Gould

David Montgomery 1927-2011

The Organization of American Historians notes with sadness the passing of OAH Past President David Montgomery, Farnam Professor of History emeritus at Yale University, on December 2, 2011. Montgomery was 84 years of age.

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and Pennsylvania History are planning a joint publication, scheduled for 2014, on teaching Pennsylvania history. Submissions are especially encouraged from teachers who have a special interest in a topic such as women's history, African American history, etc., who can prepare an article that also describes their methodology with suggestions for illustrations, documents, and connection to Web sites that would help others teach that subject in the context of Pennsylvania and U.S. history. Please send inquiries to either Tamara Gaskell (tgaskell@hsp.org) or Bill Pencak (wap1@psu.edu). Deadline for submissions is January 1, 2013.

National Council for Public History Call for Proposals

The National Council on Public History (NCPH) invites panel, roundtable, workshop, working group, and individual paper proposals for its 2013 conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada. The Call for Poster sessions will be issued in fall 2012. Deadline for proposals is July 15, 2012. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/.

Release of Presidential Memorandum on Managing Government Records

President Barack Obama issued a memorandum on November 28, 2011 to the heads of all federal executive departments and agencies on managing government records. This memorandum marks the start of an executive branch-wide effort to reform records management policies and practices. The memorandum requires each agency to report to the Archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero, the name of a senior agency official who will supervise an agency-wide evaluation of its records management programs. These evaluations are to focus on electronic records, including email and social media, as well as those programs that may be deploying or developing cloud-based services. For more information, please visit www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/28/presidential-memorandum-managing-government-records.

National Archives Launches New FOIA Dispute Tracking System

The National Archives Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Ombudsman launched a new online case management system on November 28, 2012 to manage the requests for assistance that FOIA requesters and agencies bring to OGIS. This tool will both streamline OGIS’s work and increase transparency of its operations. For more information, please visit ogis.archives.gov/.

University of Southern Indiana Announces Prize on Communal Studies

The Center for Communal Studies at the University of Southern Indiana announces its annual prize competition for the best undergraduate and graduate student paper on historic or contemporary communal groups, intentional communities, and utopias. Submissions are due January 20, 2012, and should be sent as an email attachment to Casey Harison (charison@usi.edu). For more information, please visit www.usi.edu/libarts/communal/.

Army Heritage Center Foundation Fellowship

The Army Heritage Center Foundation invites graduate students to apply for the 2012 Robert C. and Robert L. Ruth Fellowship. The successful candidate will receive a $1,500 stipend to facilitate a three-week research program in the archives of the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center. For more information, please visit www.armyheritage.org.

Lemelson Center Fellowships

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center is soliciting applications for its 2012-2013 Fellowship Program, supporting the study of invention and innovation in American society. Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of ten weeks and carry a prorated stipend. For more information, please contact the fellowship coordinator, Dr. Eric S. Hintz, via e-mail (hintze@si.edu) or telephone (202-633-3734). The deadline for applications is January 15, 2012. For more information, please visit invention.smithsonian.org/fellowships.

NEH Summer Institute for Teachers

“American Frontiers in Global Perspective” will explore how the frontier experience in US history compares with frontier experiences in other societies. In addition to considering various meanings of “frontiers,” participants will develop curricular materials for secondary level classrooms, interact with fellow educators from throughout the United States, and study with a faculty of scholars active in the fields of history, environmental studies, and secondary education. The summer institute will be hosted by Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24 through July 13, 2012. For more information, please visit www.calvin.edu/academic/history/katerbergneh/.

Allen William Trelease, 1928-2011

Making Access Easier at the National Archives

The National Archives and Records Administration is increasing its use of social media sites and tools to provide access to its vast holdings. Read more >

United States Naval Academy Fellowship

The United States Naval Academy Department of History invites applications for the Class of 1957 Fellowship in naval or Marine Corps history for the 2012-13 academic year. Applications will be considered for any period or aspect of naval or Marine Corps history. The successful applicant will be a recipient of the Ph.D. within the past five years or an ABD researching the dissertation. To apply, send a cover letter, c.v., writing sample, transcript, and three letters of recommendation to Professor Robert Love (mailto:love@usna.edu). Deadline for applications is March 1, 2012.

Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships

The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) will offer short-term and long-term research fellowships for the academic year 2012-2013, including two MHS-National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) long-term research fellowships. Other MHS fellowships include: the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship, and the MHS Short-term Fellowship. For more information, please visit www.masshist.org/fellowships.

Mary Baker Eddy Library Summer 2012 Fellowships

Applications are now available for summer 2012 research fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students, fellowships support research at the library using the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science, women?s history, spirituality and health, religious studies, and nineteenth-century history. For more information, please visit www.marybakereddylibrary.org/research/visit/fellowships.

2012-2013 Fellowships at the Winterthur

The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2012-13. The Winterthur offers an extensive program of short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, and museum scholars, including advanced graduate students, to support research in material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies, and many other areas of social and cultural history. Fellowship applications are due January 15, 2012. For more information, please visit winterthur.org/research/fellowship.asp.

Call for Papers: Women, The Arts, and Activism

Women, The Arts, and Activism, a Women’s History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College, will be held in Bronxville, New York, March 2-3, 2012. Free and open to the public, conference organizers invite the submission of proposals for papers, panels, workshops and performances that express the diverse nature of the story of women in the arts, and their activism, from ancient to modern and postmodern, from all areas of the arts. Deadline: Monday, December 5, 2011. Please send proposals to: tjames@sarahlawrence.edu.

The Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States has issued a call for papers for its fifth annual conference at the Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, the Netherlands, June 20-22, 2012. Proposals are requested on all topics concerning the history of the United States from 1890 to the present. Please send a c.v. and a 300-word abstract of the proposed paper or session to Dr. Sandra Scanlon (sandra.scanlon@ucd.ie), School of History and Archives, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland by November 30th, 2011. For more information, please visit www.hotcus.org.uk.

The OAH Joins in Support of House Resolution 3071

The Organization of American Historians has joined the National Coalition for History in supporting House Resolution 3071, which amends the Presidential Records Act to establish procedures for the consideration of claims of constitutionally based privilege against disclosure of presidential records. The OAH supports the proposed legislation which significantly reduces the possibilities of closing presidential records while keeping them as accessible as possible. For more information, please visit www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h112-3071.

NARA Debuts National History Day Web Site

The National Archives is pleased to announce a special Web site highlighting activities and documents related to the 2012 National History Day (NHD) theme, “Revolution, Reaction, and Reform in History.” Visit http://www.DocsTeach.org/home/national-history-day for sample documents, suggested topics, and special activities available for the 2012 NHD competition. For more on National History Day, visit: http://www.nhd.org/.

Educational Testing Service Seeks AP Readers

The Educational Testing Service seeks teaching professionals to serve as readers for its annual Advanced Placement (AP) examinations in world history, U.S. history, government and politics. The ETS invites interested individuals to visit http://apcentral.collegeboard.org/read for more information and eligibility requirements on the AP Exam Readers Program.

Nancy Imlay Chard 1933-2010

For more information, please visit www.legacy.com/obituaries/rutlandherald/obituary.aspx?n=nancy-chard&pid=139844380&fhid=4763.

2011 OAH Treasurer’s Report

Jay S. Goodgold presents the report of the OAH Treasurer for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.

The OAH Executive Board Issues Statement on Institutional Review Boards

In its letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, the executive board of the Organization of American Historians (OAH) unanimously agrees that the work of historians, especially oral historians, should be exempt from the purview of institutional review boards (IRBs).

Covert Award in Mass Communication History

The History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) announces the 28th annual competition for the Covert Award in Mass Communication History. The $500 award will be presented to the author of the best mass communication history article or essay published in 2011. Book chapters in edited collections also may be nominated. Nominations, including seven copies of the article nominated, should be sent by March 1, 2012, to: Nancy L. Roberts, Communication Department, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Ave., SS-351, Albany, NY 12222.

Fellowships at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center

Harvard’s Charles Warren Center invites applications from scholars of U.S. cultural history, social history, performance studies, historical sociology and anthropology, and related fields to explore everyday life in the United States. Fellows will present their work in a seminar led by Robin Bernstein (African and African American Studies and Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality) and Lizabeth Cohen (History). Applicants may not be degree candidates and should have a Ph.D. or equivalent. Application deadline is January 13, 2012. For more information, please visit warrencenter.fas.harvard.edu/fsprogramfuture12-13.html.

United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship

Applications are invited for the twenty-sixth year of the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. The fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of the art and architecture of the United States Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one month to one year; the stipend is $2500 per month. Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2012. For more information, please visit www.uschs.org.

Post-Dissertation Fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society

Scholars who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate are invited to apply for the 2012-2013 Hench Post-Dissertation Fellowship, a year-long residential fellowship at the American Antiquarian Society. The purpose of the post-dissertation fellowship is to provide the recipient with time and resources to extend research and/or to revise the dissertation for publication. Information about the fellowship, along with application materials, is available on the AAS website. For more information, please visit www.americanantiquarian.org/post-diss.htm.

2012 OAH Community College Symposium

The OAH Community College Symposium is a three-day professional development experience for community college historians. The sixth annual OAH Community College Symposium will be held in Springfield, Illinois, June 14-16, 2012, on the campus of Lincoln Land Community College. Designed to enrich the teaching of the U.S. history survey, the symposium presents new historical themes-as well as the latest historical research in traditional themes-to those teaching the college survey course. To reach a wide audience of historians, the annual symposium is held in a different U.S. location each year. For more information, please visit cc.oah.org/.

Research Support Services for Scholars

Ithaka S+R is pleased to announce Research Support Services for Scholars, a new program that will comprise a series of discipline-specific research projects aimed to provide critically needed research about the evolving behavior and needs of scholars to the information support service providers who work with them. For more information, please visit www.researchsupportservices.net/?page_id=8.

Tune in to an OAH Podcast

Did you know that the OAH has three podcast series available for downloading anytime? Listen to the September episode of the Journal of American History Podcast on how borderlands history has gone from a “regional sideshow to a main attraction.” The OAH Distinguished Lectures Podcasts feature both audio and video of lectures by leading historians. To commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War the OAH’s Civil War at 150 project features a growing list of podcast conversations available for download.

William S. Hanable, 1938-2011

Converse College Conference on Southern Culture

Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Converse College Conference on Southern Culture, April 12-14, 2012. The focus of this conference is the “big picture” of southern culture, from okra to opera. We invite papers that examine the unique qualities of diverse southern cultures, interrogate the threads that bind these cultures together, and, we anticipate, propose divergent ways of thinking about the South. For more information, please visit www.converse.edu/academics/school-humanities-and-sciences/englishcreative-and-professional-writing/southern-culture-c.

Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History

The Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks paper proposals for its upcoming symposium, March 1-3, 2012. Submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history are invited. Submission Deadline: November 1, 2011. For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig at gendersymp@gmail.com.

International Conference on the History of Records and Archives

ICHORA 6: International Conference on the History of Records and Archives 6 invites proposals for papers for its upcoming international conference to explore work in progress, theoretical perspectives, and needs and opportunities for research in the broad area of the history of the shared, conflicting, and complementary heritage of archival enterprise with these related fields. Deadline for submission of proposals is Monday, December 12, 2011. For more information, please visit www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ichora6/.

2012 Reconciliation in America National Symposium

The John Hope Franklin Center for Reconciliation invites session proposals for its 2012 Reconciliation in America national symposium on “The Politics of Reconciliation,” scheduled for May 30-June 1. Deadline for proposals is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.jhfcenter.org/the-centers-work/national-symposium-june-2-4-2010/.

Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association

The 2102 Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association annual conference will be held April 11-April 14 at the Copley Marriott Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The Libraries, Archives, Museums, and Popular Culture area is soliciting papers dealing with any aspect of popular culture as it pertains to libraries, archives, museums, or research. Prospective presenters should email a one-page abstract with full contact information by December 20, 2011. For more information, please visit www.pcaaca.org/conference/national.php.

Tiya Miles Receives MacArthur Fellowship

The John D. and Katherine MacArthur Foundation has awarded Tiya Miles, University of Michigan, a 2011 MacArthur Fellowship for her work “reframing and reinterpreting the history of our diverse nation in works that illuminate the complex interrelationships between African and Cherokee peoples in colonial America.”

Call for Poster Sessions for 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting

The poster session is a format for history and public history presentations that use visual evidence. Poster sessions are an alternative medium for presenters eager to share their work through one-on-one discussion and can be especially useful for works in progress They may also be particularly appropriate for presentations where visual or material evidence is a central component of the project. The deadline for applications is November 1. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2012_Call_for_Posters.pdf.

Committee on Community Colleges Seeks Panels for 2012 OAH Annual Meeting

Each year, the OAH Committee on Community Colleges sponsors two panels at the OAH Annual Meeting. As stated in the OAH general call for proposals, the theme for the Milwaukee 2012 OAH Annual Meeting will be “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy.” The committee invites the submission of panels and presentations that deal with these and other issues and themes in American history. We urge presenters to continue the ongoing transition from simply reading papers to more actively “teaching” the topic of their sessions. Roundtables and workshops offer an excellent format for this. We prefer to receive proposals for complete sessions, but will consider individual paper proposals as well. Please submit proposals, both for individual and complete panels, to OAH Committee on Community Colleges Chair DeAnna Beachley at deanna.beachley@csn.edu by September 26, 2011.

Call for Workshop Presentations at 2012 OAH Annual Meeting

The OAH Committee on Community Colleges will sponsor its fourth annual Community College Workshop at the 2012 OAH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, April 18-22. These half-day workshops are intended to present in-depth discussions of issues of special interest to two-year college faculty, with a particular focus on teaching issues, such as designing and implementing online classes, hybrid classes, student writing issues. Past workshops have explored topics such as designing online classes, assessment, using public history in the community college classroom, and teaching in multilevel classrooms. The committee invites the submission of proposals for the 2012 workshop. Presenters can expect to have approximately 45 minutes in which to present their topic. Proposals should take into account the fact that these are workshops rather than panels, and as such should include activities and resources that will actively engage the audience in discussion and learning. We will consider both proposals for complete sessions and individual papers. Please submit proposals, for both individual and complete panels, to OAH Committee on Community Colleges Chair DeAnna Beachley at deanna.beachley@csn.edu by September 26, 2011.

2012 Spring Academy in American History, Culture and Politics

The ninth Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Spring Academy on American History, Culture, and Politics will be held from March 26-30, 2012. The HCA invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their projects. Participants are requested to prepare a 20-minute presentation of their research project, which will be followed by a 40-minute discussion. Proposals should be a maximum of 300 words with a provisional title. These will be arranged into ten panel groups. Deadline for applications is December 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.hca-springacademy.de.

2012 Virginia Forum

The 2012 Virginia Forum will be held on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, March 29-31. The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and professionals in all fields. The theme, “Greater Virginias,” emphasizes Virginia’s relationship across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. Application deadline is September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit www.virginiaforum.org/.

Updated Online Resources for Teaching American History Grants

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement has updated many resources on the Teaching American History Web site. In addition to new and updated resources, the new page also includes a list of current TAH project websites. For more information, please visit www2.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/resources.html.

Oral History Association Seeks a New Institutional Home

The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking a new home for its executive office and staff beginning in 2013. It also plans to hire an executive director to serve as its principal administrator after its new institutional home is determined. Institutions interested in hosting the OHA’s offices are invited to send an initial expression of interest to OHA by November 1, 2011. For more information contact the cochairs, Rina Benmayor (rbenmayor@csumb.edu) or Linda Shopes (lshopes@aol.com).

2012 SHFG Powell Prize for Historic Preservation

The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks nominations for its 2012 John Wesley Powell Prize for excellence in the field of historic preservation. The prize commemorates the explorer and federal administrator whose work demonstrated early recognition of the importance of historic preservation and historical display. Complete details regarding eligibility, criteria for evaluation, and submission requirements, are available at their website. Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2011. For more information, please visit shfg.org/shfg/awards/awards-requirements/.

2012 OAH Tachau Teacher of the Year Award

The Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau Teacher of the Year Award is given annually by the Organization of American Historians in recognition of the contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education within the field of American history. The award, to be given for activities which enhance the intellectual development of other history teachers and/or students, memorializes the career of Mary K. Bonsteel Tachau, University of Louisville, for her pathbreaking efforts to build bridges between university and precollegiate history teachers. Deadline for applications is December 1, 2011.

Filson Historical Society Fellowships and Internships

The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, Kentucky, invites applications for fellowships to support research in The Filson’s collections, and internships. Applications must be received by October 17, 2011. Detailed information about fellowships, internships, and application procedures can be found online. For more information, please visit www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html.

2012-2013 Research Fellowships at the Harry Ransom Center

The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin annually awards over fifty fellowships to support projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. Fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities. Application deadline is February 1, 2012. For more information, please visit www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html.

2012 Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowships

The Wilson Center invites scholars, practitioners, journalists, and public intellectuals to take part in its fellowship program. Fellows are in residence for the entire U.S. academic year, and are limited to the postdoctoral level. Scholarly development beyond the Ph.D. dissertation is expected. For more information, please visit www.wilsoncenter.org/fellowshipapplication.

2012-2013 Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2012. The award carries a year’s support to revise the applicant’s first book manuscript and the Institute’s commitment to publish the resulting study. For more information contact: Omohundro Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, OIEAHC, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg VA 23187-8781, e-mail: ieahc1@wm.edu. Applications must be postmarked by November 1, 2011.

2012-2014 Omohundro Institute/NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2012. A principal criterion for selection is that the candidate’s dissertation or manuscript have significant potential as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship. In addition to a beginning stipend of $50,400, the fellowship provides office, research, and computer facilities as well as some travel funds for conferences and research. For more information contact: Omohundro Institute/NEH Fellowship, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg VA 23187-8781, e-mail: ieahc1@wm.edu. Applications must be postmarked by November 1, 2011.

The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War Workshop

The international workshop, “The AFL-CIO and the International Cold War: Problems, Paradigms, and Pragmatic Responses,” at Congress Center ‘Het Pand’ in Ghent will explore the Cold War international history of US labor’s relations with worldwide organized labor. The presentations will demonstrate how the AFL-CIO played a significant and usually overlooked role in Cold War international political history. The workshop will take place October 7-8, 2011. For more information, please visit www.amsab.be/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=916&Itemid=591.

2011 Peace History Society Conference

“The Interpersonal as Political: Individual Witness for Peace and Justice in a Global Perspective” is the theme of the upcoming seventh international Peace History Society Conference, October 21-22 at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. The two-day conference will include panels on a wide range of topics, a plenary honoring the late Irwin Abrams, a banquet address by a representative of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, and more. For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org.

Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History

The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) invites graduate students enrolled in master’s degree, professional, and PhD programs to participate in the Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History to be held at the 2011 National Conference on Planning History in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17-20. The workshop will focus on the production and communication of research in planning history and continues SACRPH’s tradition of providing graduate students with an intellectual and social climate to launch their careers and contribute to the scholarship of city and regional planning. For more information, please visit www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph/conference/conference.html.

2012 Arkansas Historical Association Conference

The Arkansas Historical Association (AHA) invites presentation proposals for its 2012 conference in Fayetteville, April 12-14. The conference continues the AHA’s look at the Civil War years in Arkansas. For more information, please contact Carl G. Carlson-Drexler, program chair, at cdrexler@uark.edu. Proposal deadline is October 14, 2011.

2011-2012 Professional Seminars in Historic Preservation

The National Preservation Institute (NPI) is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 series of seminars and workshops in historic preservation and cultural resource management. For full descriptions of seminars, agendas, and faculty biographies, visit the NPI Web site. For more information, please visit www.npi.org/Seminars.

Manuscripts sought for Antisemitism Series

Professor Eunice G. Pollack, University of North Texas, is editing a multidisciplinary series on Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in America for Academic Studies Press. Please submit book manuscripts or book proposals for consideration for publication in this series to Professor Pollack via e-mail to epollack@unt.edu.

2012 Conference of the Appalacian Studies Association

The Center for Northern Appalachian Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) invites session and paper proposals for its 2012 conference of the Appalachian Studies Association, to be held March 23-25 on the IUP campus in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Proposals are welcome for scholarly research papers and sessions; poster sessions related to community work or presenting scholarly research; panels and community presentations; new and relevant films, videos, poetry, music, plays, art, and writing; and roundtable conversations on relevant, contemporary issues and topics. For more information, please visit www.appalachianstudies.org/conference/2012/ASA_CallforPartic2012.pdf.

2012 Virginia Forum

The Virginia Forum is interdisciplinary and welcomes proposals from scholars, teachers, and professionals in all fields. The theme, “Greater Virginias,” emphasizes Virginia’s relationship across political and geographical boundaries to broader ideas, patterns, and adjoining regions. The program committee invites proposals from fields including all the arts and sciences: economics, politics, geography, law, literature, history, politics, archaeology and anthropology, environmental studies, museum and library studies, preservation, and others. Deadline for proposals is September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit www.virginiaforum.org/.

John Hench Receives the 2011 DeLong Book History Prize

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) has awarded John B. Hench its 2011 DeLong Prize for Books as Weapons: Publishing, Propaganda, and the Battle for Global Markets in the Era of World War Two (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Call for 2012 National Council on Public History Awards

The National Council on Public History invites nominations for its 2012 Awards Program. Their website has submission and nomination guidelines. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/awards/.

Houston History Conference

The Houston History Association will hold its first annual Houston History Conference October 29, 2011 at the Hilton University of Houston. The conference is being held in conjunction with the 175th anniversary of the founding of Houston and the birth of the Republic of Texas in 1836. For more information, please visit www.houstonhistoryassociation.org.

Centennial Symposium on Franz Boas at Yale University

Two dozen scholars will gather September 15-17 at Yale University to rediscover Franz Boas, the so-called “Father of American anthropology,” and investigate the role of encounters between peoples in the development of our global society, the influence of Boas and his circle upon American modernity, and the impact of indigenous thought upon the revitalization of democracy. For more information, please visit www.yale.edu/glc/boas.

Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History

The Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) invites graduate students enrolled in master’s degree, professional, and Ph.D. programs to participate in the Graduate Student Workshop in Planning History to be held at the National Conference on Planning History in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 17-20, 2011. For more information, please visit www.dcp.ufl.edu/sacrph/conference/conference.html.

Robert W. Johannsen, 1925-2011

Robert W. Johannsen, J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Illinois, died in Urbana, Illinois, on August 16, 2011, six days shy of his 86th birthday.

Best known for Stephen A. Douglas (1973), his biography of the Little Giant, Johannsen also wrote extensively on Lincoln, the Pacific Northwest in the frontier period, and the U.S.-Mexican War.

A native of Portland, Oregon, Johannsen graduated from Reed College in 1948, after his studies were interrupted by combat service in World War II. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington. After teaching a year at Washington and five years at the University of Kansas, he joined the Department of History at Illinois in 1959.

He attracted hundreds of students to his courses on nineteenth-century American history, the Jacksonian era and the Civil War. He also directed more than 35 dissertations.

In his writings, he endeavored to document the importance of Douglas in his own day. He sought to explain, not to defend, the Little Giant. Conversely, he attempted to moderate the popular, and even the professional, tendency to magnify Lincoln, to lift him beyond his own time and place.

Johannsen published not only a number of books and anthologies but also dozens of articles and reviews. The list of his writings in Politics and Culture of the Civil War Era: Essays in Honor of Robert W. Johannsen (2006) runs to 20 pages.

Johannsen was deeply committed to the study of the past and devoted beyond measure to teaching it. Those fortunate to have known him will always cherish the gentleness, warmth, and civility that pervaded his conversation and demeanor.

Vincent DeSantis, 1916-2011

VINCENT P. DE SANTIS, noted historian of the Gilded Age, died in Victoria, British Columbia on June 5, 2011 at the age of 94. A faculty member at the University of Notre Dame for over sixty years, he was a native of Birdsboro, PA. where he was born on December 25, 1916 to an Italian immigrant and his American wife. After graduating from Birdsboro High School, he spent two years at manual labor earning money for college. He graduated from West Chester State Teachers’ College in 1941, at which time he entered the Army as a private and served with the 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division in New Guinea and the Philippine Islands. He left the service in December 1945 as a captain.

He used the GI bill to enter graduate school in history at Harvard University and then completed his doctoral degree at Johns Hopkins, studying under the eminent C. Vann Woodward. He began teaching at Notre Dame in 1949 and continued his tenure until 2010, producing fifteen doctoral students and being a favorite undergraduate teacher. He received three Fulbrights for teaching and research in Italy, India, and Australia.

His first book Republicans Face the Southern Question, The New Departure Years, 1877-1897 is the definitive work on southern politics and the freed people in the late 19th century. His textbook, which covered the Gilded Age through the Progressive Period, is widely used in college classrooms around the nation. He meticulously kept a daily diary beginning with his college days in the 1930s. He continued to research and write until his last days, still able to hold his own on the latest historiography.

He was a regular attendee at history conferences and was well known for his ability to tease his friends and colleagues. He could remember jokes about them for years. He also financially supported a variety of individuals and academic institutions.

He was married twice, his first marriage producing four sons. He is buried in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.

John F. Marszalek
Ulysses S. Grant Association
Mississippi State University

The Nominating Board announces the 2012 OAH Slate of Candidates

The OAH Nominating Board has announced the slate of candidates for the 2012 OAH election. In addition to voting for three candidates for OAH Executive Board, OAH members will vote for candidates to the OAH Nominating Board. The election opens December 1, 2011 and closes February 1, 2012.

Fourteenth Civil War Symposium and Reenactment

The Fourteenth Civil War Symposium and Reenactment will be held Saturday, October 1, 2011 at the First Division Museum at Cantigny, in Wheaton, Illinois. The all-day event will include presentations, living history displays and outdoor activities, and a book sale. For more information contact the National Archives at Chicago, 7358 South Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL 60629-5898, telephone: (773) 948-9001, e-mail: .

2012 SfAA Call for Papers

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts for sessions, papers and posters, for its 2012 annual meeting program in Baltimore, MD, March 27-31. The theme of the program is “Bays, Boundaries, and Borders.” The Society is a multidisciplinary association that focuses on problem definition and resolution and welcomes papers from all disciplines. The deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.sfaa.net.

Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era invites submissions for a planned special issue around the theme, “Women’s and Gender History in Global Context.” Any subject is welcome, so long as the manuscript in some way addresses the theme, focuses on the time period (roughly 1870-1920) covered by the journal, and has a U.S. component. Deadline for submissions is January 31, 2012. For more information, please visit www.jgape.org.

George Washington Encyclopedia

George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate, Museum, and Gardens (http://www.mountvernon.org/) welcomes submissions for entries on a variety of topics to be included in this new online encyclopedia. Scholars of eighteenth century America are particularly encouraged to apply, however applications are also welcome from academics and graduate students with an advanced degree in any period of American History. The George Washington Encyclopedia will be the first and only online encyclopedia exploring the life, career, and legacy of the first president. More information contact Adam D. Shprintzen, Ph.D., Project Editor/Coordinator, George Washington Encyclopedia, (703) 799-6882, e-mail: . For more information, please visit www.mountvernon.org/learn/collections/index.cfm/pid/1365/.

Business History Conference Annual Meeting

Proposals for presentations to the 2012 annual meeting of the Business History Conference are invited. The conference will take place March 29-31 in Philadelphia, PA at the Hyatt Regency Penn’s Landing. The theme of this year’s conference is “Business and the State.” The program committee is interested in substantive research on all aspects of business and the state. For more information contact bhc2012@hagley.org, or in writing to: Roger Horowitz, Secretary-Treasurer, Business History Conference, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807. Phone (302) 658-2400.

OAH Announces New Public History Manager

The Organization of American Historians is pleased to welcome Aidan J. Smith as its Public History Manager. Before arriving at the OAH in August 2009 as assistant editor of the Journal of American History, Smith served as reference librarian at the Southern Historical Collection Manuscripts Department at the Wilson Library housed on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Smith will begin September 1, 2011.

Foreign Relations of the United States Research Online

The Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State, announces new content highlighting the office’s research into the history of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series. For more information, please visit history.state.gov/frus150/research.

David Stanley Gebhard Award

The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH) invites the submission of articles and books on the subject of Minnesota architectural history to the eighth David Stanley Gebhard Award, which honors the late Minnesota-born SAH president and nationally renowned writer. For additional information, contact Kristin Anderson (anderso3@augsburg.edu). Submissions must be received no later than November 30, 2011.

SHGAPE 2012 Fishel-Calhoun Prize

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) announces its biennial competition for the Fishel-Calhoun Prize for the best article dealing with any aspect of United States history between 1865 and 1917. The prize is open to new scholars, defined as graduate students or PhDs who received their doctorate since 2002 and who have not yet published a book. Questions and entries should be directed to David I. Macleod (macle1d@cmich.edu), chair, Fishel-Calhoun Prize Committee, Department of History, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859. Deadline: December 15, 2011.

Fellowships at the Davis Center for Historical Studies

During the academic years 2012 and 2013, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University will focus on belief and unbelief and how they have interacted in history. The Center will offer a limited number of research fellowships for one or two semesters, running from September to January, and from February to June. For more information, please visit www.princeton.edu/dav.

NEH Enduring Questions Course Development Grants

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the development of an undergraduate course on an enduring question. This course will encourage undergraduates and teachers to grapple with a fundamental question addressed by the humanities, and to join together in a sustained program of reading in order to encounter influential thinkers over the centuries and into the present day. The application deadline is September 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.

Hagley Museum and Library Conference

On November 17 and 18, the Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Hagley Museum and Library will cosponsor the conference, “The Life of New Materials.” Conference sessions will explore the ways in which the development, use, and re-use of new materials is an embedded feature of industrial society. For more information, please visit www.hagley.org/library/center/conferences.html.

OAH Members Named ACLS Fellows

The OAH congratulates Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Ellen Herman, University of Oregon; Kristin L. Hoganson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; and Christina Snyder, Indiana University, Bloomington, who are among sixty-four scholars receiving fellowships in 2011 from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

American Historical Association Establishes Equity Awards

The American Historical Association (AHA) has established a new annual equity award. The AHA Equity Awards are meant to recognize and publicize individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. Deadline for submissions is August 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.historians.org/prizes/EquityAwards.cfm.

NEH Invites Proposals on Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invites proposals for projects that advance the role of the humanities at community colleges through curriculum and faculty development on a theme of “bridging cultures.” Proposals should provide support for community college faculty and administrators to create new courses on “bridging cultures” themes or topics; design new course sequences, concentrations, and core curricula; or conduct scholarly research that will improve faculty preparation and enrich teaching. Deadline for applications is August 23, 2011. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/BridgingCulturesCCRFP.html.

Women in Early America: A Call for Contributors

Women in Early America is an anthology on women in America from contact through the Revolutionary era. Proposals are sought for essays that employ a transnational approach and especially those that rewrite master narratives. As the volume is largely intended for use in undergraduate courses, essays that are written for that audience and that address major themes in women’s and gender history courses are also particularly desirable. If you are interested in proposing an essay for this volume, please send an abstract and cv via e-mail to Tom Foster, Depaul University ().

The Civilian Public Service Story Web site

The Civilian Public Service Story Web site (http://www.civilianpublicservice.org) tells the story of nearly twelve thousand conscientious objectors to war who chose Civilian Public Service (CPS) in World War II, performing “work of national importance” rather than bearing arms. The Web site includes the origins of the CPS program, a comprehensive listing of the draftees who served in CPS, as well as the communities, occupations, and denominations from which they entered, and the camps and units to which they were assigned.

DeBenedetti Prize In Peace History

Congratulations to Melissa R. Klapper, whose article in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History won the Peace History Society’s Charles DeBenedetti Prize.

Welcome New OAH Distinguished Lecturers

The Organization of American Historians is pleased to welcome forty-seven outstanding historians who have joined the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program for 2011-2012. Visit the Web site for a complete list of this year’s incoming lecturers. If you are looking for a great speaker for your next campus event, workshop, or seminar, the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program is the best way to identify and contact leading historians who can share their expertise with your audience.

Elwin F. Hartwig

Professor Elwin F. Hartwig - 1929-2011

Integrating Women’s History Workshop

The National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites (NCWHS) and the National Park Service is conducting a training workshop on integrating women’s history into programs at historic sites. The workshop will be held prior to the 2011 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 7-9 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For more information, please visit www.ncwhs.org/.

Native American Symposium and Film Festival

The Ninth Native American Symposium and Film Festival (http://www.se.edu/nas/) will be held November 2-4, 2011, at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. The symposium invites proposals for papers, presentations, panel sessions, creative projects, and films, on all aspects of Native American life. Send abstracts of no more than 250 words by June 25, 2011 to Mark B. Spencer, Department of English, Humanities, and Languages, Box 4121, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK 74701-0609, e-mail: mspencer@se.edu.

The Civil War at 150: An OAH Commemorative Project

During the sesquicentennial of the Civil War (2011-2015), the OAH is committed to bringing the best current thinking on this complex era to a wide audience. Our commemoration efforts began in March at the OAH Annual Meeting in Houston and continue with the current issue of the OAH Magazine of History, which focuses on the origins of the Civil War. Read more >

We also invite you to visit our “Civil War at 150” Web site where you can listen to a series of podcasts and explore additional resources as we examine the history of the war from its beginnings through its aftermath. Read more >

OAH Members Awarded Pulitzer Prize and Guggenheim Fellowships

The OAH congratulates Eric Foner, the OAH Past President and a professor of history at Columbia University, who was awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in history for The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. The organization also recognizes the Pulitzer Prize in history finalist Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, for Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South; and two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in biography: Michael O'Brien, University of Cambridge, for Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon, and Alan Brinkley, Columbia University, for The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century.

Carter, Moran, and Williams Named 2011 Newcombe Fellows

The OAH congratulates members Heath Carter, Notre Dame University, Rachel Moran, Pennsylvania State University, and Shannen Williams, Rutgers University, recipients of the 2011 Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Newcombe Fellowships. Newcombe Fellows are doctoral candidates writing dissertations on topics involving religious and ethical values.

Research Center for Urban Cultural History Fellowships

The Research Center for Urban Cultural History at the University of Massachusetts Boston is offering a short-term visiting fellowship for Spring 2012. The visiting fellow will pursue a research project pertaining to urban cultural history; the project must be interdisciplinary, and be focused on the cultural history of cities, urban life, urban networks, urban materials or urban experience. For more information, please visit www.rcuch.umb.edu.

American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting

The 2011 annual meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory will be held October 19-22, at the Westin Pasadena. For more information, please visit www.ethnohistory.org.

Department of State Publishes Foreign Economic Policy, 1973-1976

The Department of State’s Office of the Historian in the Bureau of Public Affairs convened a conference on March 7, 2011, cohosted by the George Mason University School of Public Policy, which focused on the Foreign Economic Policy, 1973-1976 volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series. Transcripts and audio recordings may be accessed on the Office of the Historian website at their website. For more information, please visit history.state.gov/conferences/2011-foreign-economic-policy/audio-transcripts.

The Society of Military History Announces 2011 Award Winners

The Society of Military History (SMH) will hold its 2011 annual meeting June 10, in Lisle, Illinois. In recognition of academic excellence in and service to the field of military history, the Society of Military History has announced this year?s winners of its awards and prizes. For more information, please visit www.smh-hq.org/awards/awards.html.

NEH on the Road Program

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has issued a request for proposals for continuation of its “NEH on the Road” program. The program is a special initiative designed to create wider access to exhibitions funded by the Division of Public Programs. First implemented in 2005, the program offers smaller, object-based, low-security versions of some exhibitions, which circulate to small and mid-sized museums nationwide. The deadline for applications is July 6, 2011. Details and proposal guidelines may be found online at their website. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov.

House Introduces Bill to Eliminate TAH Grants

On May 13, 2011, the House of Representatives introduced legislation to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History (TAH) grants program. The bill (H.R. 1891), the “Setting New Priorities in Education Spending Act,” would terminate forty-three K-12 federal education programs that the House Republican leadership contends are wasteful, ineffective, and duplicative. The OAH joins the National Coalition for History (NCH) in strongly resisting this legislation. Please check back for information on how to contact your representative to register your opposition. For details of the bill, visit the NCH website.

Minutes of the 2011 OAH Annual Business Meeting

Read brief reports from the OAH President, OAH Treasurer, OAH Executive Director, OAH Executive Editor, and OAH Nominating Board chair, at the 2011 annual business meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Houston, Texas.

History Programs Face Major Cuts in FY2011 Federal Budget

On April 12, the House Appropriations Committee released a list of proposed cuts in federal programs for the remainder of the government’s 2011 fiscal year that ends on September 30. For more information, please visit historycoalition.org/2011/04/13/history-programs-face-major-cuts-in-fy-11-federal-budget/.

Jay S. Goodgold Appointed OAH Treasurer

On April 15, 2011 the OAH Executive Board voted unanimously to approve the five-year appointment of Jay S. Goodgold as the next treasurer of the Organization of American Historians. Read more >

OAH Reaches out to its Members in Japan

OAH President Alice Kessler-Harris, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, and OAH Executive Director Katherine Finley, contacted OAH members in Japan offering assistance after the devastation caused by the recent natural disaster in their country. Read more >

NARA Tightens Security to Prevent Thefts, Mutilation

Over the years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has faced many physical and environmental threats to its holdings including fire, water, insects, and mold. We have been open about these risks and forthcoming about our efforts to combat them. However, there’s another risk to our collection. Read more >

Action items from the Spring 2011 OAH Executive Board Meeting

At its spring 2011 meeting held on March 17 at the Hilton Houston-Americas in Houston, Texas, the OAH Executive Board took action on various items on its agenda.

Action items from the Fall 2010 OAH Executive Board Meeting

At its fall 2010 meeting at the Hilton Washington in Washington, D.C., on November 13-14, the OAH Executive Board took the following actions:

An Open Letter to OAH Members in Wisconsin

In an open letter to Wisconsin members, OAH Past President David Hollinger, the Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley, shares his thoughts on the collective bargaining situation in Wisconsin and its impact on the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee. Read more >

2011 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Conference

The National Park Service and the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program invites proposals for its 2011 conference to be held in Clermont County, Ohio, June 15-18. For more information, please visit www.ugrconference.com.

Conference on Critical Refugee Studies

The Conference on Critical Refugee Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee requests proposals for its upcoming conference to be held in November, 2011. Conference organizers invite paper proposals that chronicle and reflect on the experiences and representations of refugee populations. Abstracts are due by May 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www4.uwm.edu/letsci/ethnic/pdf/conference2011_call.pdf.

British Historians of Women in the Americas

The British Historians of Women in the Americas (BHWA) will hold their annual conference on Wednesday July 6, 2011 at Brunel University, West London, and will run in parallel with the Feminist and Women?s Studies Association?s Futures of Feminism conference. For more information, contact Rachel Ritchie rachel.ritchie@brunel.ac.uk

Mercedes Graf publishes book

OAH member Mercedes Graf’s book, On the Field of Mercy: Women Medical Volunteers in the Civil War to the First World War, was published by Prometheus Books in December 2010. Graf provides the first comprehensive overview of the role of women medical volunteers in early American wars.

Judith N. McArthur wins Carpenter Award

OAH member Judith N. McArthur won the 2010 Texas State Historical Association?s Carpenter Award for her book, coauthored with Harold L. Smith entitled, Texas Through Women?s Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience. Published by the University of Texas Press, the book is a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Scholarly Book Award.

Urban History Association Best Book Award

The Urban History Association, sponsor of the best books on U.S. and non-U.S. urban history, seeks submissions for its 2010 prize competition. Criteria for selection includes significance, originality, quality of research, sophistication of methodology, clarity of presentation, cogency of arguments, and contribution to the field of urban history. Deadline for submission is June 15, 2011. For more information, please visit uha.udayton.edu/.

2011 Michigan Historical Review Student Essay Contest

The Michigan Historical Review announces its competition for the 2011 student essay prize. The Review will accept papers written by senior-level and graduate students relating to Michigan’s political, economic, social, and cultural history. For more information, please visit clarke.cmich.edu/michigan_historical_review_tab/2011_student_essay_contest/2011_student_essay_contest_index.html.

Fellowships at the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study

The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, invites twenty scholars to be in residence for the full academic year to pursue research in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Application deadline is November 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.sss.ias.edu/applications.

2011 National Archives Research Fellowship

The National Archives and Records Administration is accepting proposals for a research fellowship beginning in July 2011. Proposals will be considered on any topic that uses the historical records of Congress housed in the National Archives' Center for Legislative Archives (http://www.archives.gov/legislative/). PhD candidates who have advanced to candidacy and have an approved dissertation proposal at the time of application, or individuals who received their PhD within the last five years, are encouraged to apply. For more information, e-mail legislative.archives@nara.gov and place "Fellowship Inquiry" in the subject line.

2011 Fulbright Scholar Program

Institutions are now invited to apply to the Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence Program. The program brings scholars from abroad to teach at U.S. colleges and universities, which can help internationalize curricula and campuses. The deadline is October 17, 2011. The competition for the 2012-2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Core Program is also underway. For more information, please visit www.cies.org/sir/.

Summer 2011 Seminar at the Institute for Constitutional History

The Organization of American Historians, cosponsor of the Institute for Constitutional History (ICH), is pleased to announce the twelfth annual residential summer research seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty. Entitled Academic Freedom, Free Speech, and the First Amendment, this year's seminar will take place June 26 through July 2. For further information, please contact Dr. Maeva Marcus at (202) 994-6562, or send an email to MMarcus@nyhistory.org.

Fall 2011 Seminar at the Institute for Constitutional History

The Organization of American Historians, cosponsor of the Institute for Constitutional History (ICH), invites graduate students to the 2011 Robert H. Smith Seminar at the ICH this fall. The seminar is designed for graduate students and junior faculty in history, political science, law, and related disciplines. Application deadline is April 30, 2011. For further information, please contact Dr. Maeva Marcus at (202) 994-6562 or send an email to MMarcus@nyhistory.org.

Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War

Life and Limb: The Toll of the Civil War is a new traveling exhibition from the National Library of Medicine, touring U.S. libraries through 2013. Life and Limb describes the damage caused by the weapons of the time, the treatment of wounds, and their consequences for the young men who survived. Information on the current schedule and details about booking the exhibition are available online. For more information, please visit www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/exhibition/travelingexhibitions/lifeandlimb.html .

Call for Peer Reviewers for the FY 2011 TAH Grant Competition

The U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program seeks reviewers with expertise in U.S. history content, K-12 professional development initiatives, and evaluation. Reviewers will independently read, score, and provide written comments for proposal submissions. If you would like to be considered as a TAH peer reviewer, please complete the TAH Reviewer Checklist found at: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dERhR0d4UWpsVGlEemVsWXlxMGF4bWc6MQ and e-mail a copy of your current resume to the Teaching American History Program at: TAHReviewer@ed.gov

OAH Executive Board Approves Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty

At its 2011 annual meeting, the OAH Executive Board approved five standards and best practices for how colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher education should employ and utilize nontenured and non-tenure-track history faculty. Read more >

OAH Speaks out on Academic Freedom

The Executive Committee of the Organization of American Historians issued a statement on March 30, 2011, supporting academic freedom and deploring the recent efforts of Wisconsin politicians to intimidate OAH member and professor William Cronon. Read more >

Katz and Wood receive National Humanities Medals

President Obama awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal to OAH members Stanley N. Katz, OAH Past President and director of the Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, and Gordon S. Wood, the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history emeritus at Brown University. For more information on the 2010 National Humanities Medalists, click here.

Save Teaching American History Grants
Contact Your United States Senator Now!

The Organization of American Historians is asking you to email letters to your U.S. Senators as soon as possible regarding saving the Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program and Civic Education funding (through competitive grants). Legislation is currently being drafted in the Senate that would fund federal programs for the rest of this fiscal year, FY2011. Read more >

Founding Fathers’ Papers Headed for Internet

At the National Archives, we often note that we have ten billion pieces of paper in our holdings, containing the history of our nation from its beginnings in the Revolutionary period up to present. Now, we know that we don?t have all the documents that tell the story of our democracy. That?s why we are active in ensuring that historical documents not in our holdings are also preserved and made easily available to everyone. We do this through our grant-making arm, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Read more >

OAH Launches Online Career Center

The OAH is pleased to announce the opening of the OAH Career Center, a new benefit for OAH members. Individuals wishing to make professional career connections may browse available jobs, or use advanced search tools to target positions by keyword, location, and other criteria. To get started, visit: For more information, please visit careers.oah.org/.

OAH Seeks New Treasurer

Applications and nominations are now welcome for the office of Treasurer of the OAH. The late Robert Griffith, who served admirably in the post, was forced by illness to resign effective January 1, 2011. Jay Goodgold is serving as Interim Treasurer until a new Treasurer can be found. Read more >

Minutes: 2010 OAH Business Meeting

The OAH President presides at the annual business meeting of the Organization of American Historians, which takes place each spring during the annual convention. In addition to hearing reports from the president, executive director, treasurer, executive editor, and nominating board, the membership welcomes to office the newly-elected officers and board members. Read the minutes from the meeting at For more information, please visit www.oah.org/about/papers/reports/.

2011 OAH Election Results

We are pleased to announce the results of the 2011 OAH Election. This year’s ballot also included a referendum on proposed changes to the OAH Constitution which passed by an overwhelming margin. Total ballots cast in the 2011 OAH Election: 1,718 (21.8%). Please join us in congratulating our new officers and board members whose terms begin after the 2011 OAH Business Meeting in Houston, Texas, Saturday March 19. View Results >

Otis Pease

Professor Otis A. Pease, September 6, 1925 - September 16, 2010, was a member of OAH since 1953. Read more >

Robert Griffith

As his colleagues, we remember these gentle and generous ways as we mourn the loss of Robert Griffith, professor and chairman of the history department at American University in Washington, D.C. and OAH Treasurer, who passed away on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at the age of sixty-nine. Read more >

Publishing Begins with Oxford University Press

January 2011 marks the beginning of the OAH's publishing partnership with Oxford University Press. In addition to publishing the Journal of American History and the OAH Magazine of History each quarter, Oxford University Press will assume the online hosting of both titles from the History Cooperative. Follow this link to access the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History online: For more information, please visit www.journalofamericanhistory.org/issues/972/.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship

The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) invites applications for the first competition for the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship. The museum seeks applications from recent PhDs in the fields of urban history, American studies, decorative arts, architectural history, or related fields who wish to gain hands-on experience in curatorial work and to pursue an independent research project related to MCNY’s collections or programs. The selected fellow will be in residence at MCNY for a two-year period beginning in September 2011. For more information, contact . Deadline for applications is March 4, 2011.

State Historical Society of Iowa Research Grants

The State Historical Society of Iowa (SHSI) announces a grant program for the 2011-2012 academic year. SHSI will award up to ten stipends of $1,000 each to support original research and interpretive writing related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Grant recipients will be expected to produce an annotated manuscript targeted for The Annals of Iowa, SHSI’s scholarly journal. Deadline for applications is April 15, 2011. For more information, visit: For more information, please visit www.iowahistory.org/publications/the-annals-of-iowa/research-grants-for-authors.html.

Critical Thinking in World History Seminar

The National Humanities Center and the National Council for History Education are pleased to present an online professional development seminar on Chronological Reasoning and Critical Thinking in World History, Wednesday, April 6, 2011. This seminar will seek to help teachers pace out the year using a variety of periodization models and timelines, and to consider what level of detail students need to know. For more information: For more information, please visit nationalhumanitiescenter.org/ows/register/regdates.html.

Summer Seminar for K-12 Educators

Illinois College is now accepting applications from K-12 educators for a four-week summer seminar funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The seminar, specially designated as a “We the People” project of the NEH, encourages and strengthens the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture. The theme of the seminar, which will take place at Illinois College from June 26 to July 23, is “The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest.” Applications must be postmarked by March 1. For more information visit: For more information, please visit www2.ic.edu/neh2011.

2011 Civil War Trust Teacher Institute

The 2011 Civil War Trust Teacher Institute is a four-day professional development workshop for K-12 educators focused exclusively on the American Civil War. This year’s workshop will be held July 14-17 in Nashville, Tennessee. For more information, visit: For more information, please visit www.civilwar.org/aboutus/events/teacher-institute/.

Great Lakes History Conference

The 37th annual Great Lakes History Conference, sponsored by Grand Valley State University, will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on October 7-8, 2011. The Great Lakes History Conference is a general history conference with an interdisciplinary emphasis. The program committee seeks panels and papers on the history of education broadly considered, from national and transnational perspectives, with particular focus on providing a historical context to current crises in education, whether at the elementary and secondary level or in higher education. For more information and a link to the conference, visit the Grand Valley State University History Department website at: For more information, please visit www.gvsu.edu/history.

Expositions: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities

Expositions is an online journal where scholars from various disciplines gather as colleagues to converse about common texts and questions in the humanities. Expositions seeks to publish two types of contributions: articles that either have an interdisciplinary character and appeal or are exemplary in their respective disciplines while being of interest to those from other disciplines or notes, insights and reflections on Teaching the Great Books that benefit teaching, research, and the life of the academy. For submission guidelines contact managing editor Greg Hoskins (). For more information visit For more information, please visit expositions.journals.villanova.edu.

White House History

White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association, is published twice each year and features articles on the historic White House, especially those that relate to the building itself, its uses, and life as lived there through the years. Authors interested in submitting an article are asked to complete the White House History abstract submission form available online. Abstracts are due March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit: For more information, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_publications/publications_whitehousehistory-call.html.

2011 Peace History Society Conference

The Peace History Society invites paper proposals for its 2011 meeting, October 20-22, to be held at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida. The program committee seeks presentations that focus on the theme for its conference: Inter-personal as Political. Strong conference papers will be considered for publication in Peace and Change to be co-edited by the program co-chairs. Deadline for proposals is April 30, 2011. For more information visit: For more information, please visit www.peacehistorysociety.org.

Graduate Research/Education Intern in Latino History

The American Social History Project (ASHP)/Center for Media and Learning seeks a graduate student intern for Summer 2011 or Fall 2011 to research and compile a collection of teaching materials on the Latino experience in the United States. Founded in 1981 and based at the City University of New York Graduate Center, ASHP produces award-winning print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the richly diverse social and cultural history of the United States. The internship will be part-time for 10-12 weeks. For more information visit: For more information, please visit ashp.cuny.edu/about-us/internships/internship-in-latino-history/.

American History TV on C-SPAN3

Every weekend on C-SPAN3 American History TV, watch 48 hours about people and events that help document the American story. For schedule and programming information visit: For more information, please visit c-span.org/history.

Direct an NEH Summer Program in 2012

Since 1967, the National Endowment for the Humanities has funded residential summer programs for college and university faculty and, since 1982, K-12 teachers. These include two- to five-week Summer Seminars and Institutes and one-week Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops. The application deadline is March 1, 2011. For information on NEH Summer Seminars and Institutes and for application materials, visit: For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/seminars.html.

Call for Reviewers: American Journalism

American Journalism, the quarterly journal sponsored by the American Journalism Historians Association, recognizes the importance of peer reviewers in refining individual manuscripts and the contributions they make to the credibility and reputation of the journal. If you wish to apply to review manuscripts for American Journalism, please contact Barbara Friedman, University of North Carolina, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, CB #3365, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, or e-mail:

Michael Ellery selected as James Madison Memorial Fellow

OAH member Michael Ellery, a teacher at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisconsin, was selected as one of 58 James Madison Memorial Fellows in 2010. Fellowships are awarded to teachers to expand their knowledge and ability to teach issues related to the United States Constitution. Ellery will attend the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee where he will study American history with an emphasis on constitutional and civil rights issues. For more information, visit their website.

OAH Treasurer Steps Down

Robert Griffith has resigned as OAH Treasurer for reasons of health, effective January 1. OAH President David Hollinger has appointed Jay Goodgold as interim OAH Treasurer. Goodgold will serve until a search for a new Treasurer has been conducted. In announcing this transition, Hollinger expressed his gratitude to Griffith for his dedicated service as Treasurer and expert supervision of the OAH’s finances during his tenure. “Bob has been an exemplary Board member in every way,” said Hollinger, “and a Treasurer of rare wisdom and technical acuity.”

Printed Program Hits the Streets

The 2011 OAH Annual Meeting Program was mailed to all current members of the organization at the end of December. In addition to the printed program, you may download a copy online at: For more information, please visit annualmeeting.oah.org/.

In Houston, Diversity Is on the Menu

Houston, the host for OAH’s 2011 annual meeting, is a city of neighborhoods–a big city with a small-town feel. Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Houston, takes us on a culinary tour of the city and shares with us Robb Walsh’s “Top Ten H-Town Ethnic Eateries.” Read more at: For more information, please visit annualmeeting.oah.org/about/houston_2011/diversity_is_on_the_menu.html.

January OAH Magazine of History Focuses on Colonial America

The January 2011 issue of the OAH Magazine of History, the first to be published with Oxford University Press, focuses on teaching the history of colonial America. It includes articles by the issue’s consulting editor Karin Wulf, Juliana Barr, Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, and James Horn, as well as teaching strategies by Erik Seeman, William White, and Matt Moore. Editor Carl Weinberg’s column and Seeman’s article on teaching the history of death in colonial North America are also featured online. Follow this link to view the table of contents, selected articles, and supplementary documents: For more information, please visit www.oah.org/publications/moh/issues/251/.

Dr. Robert J. Rusnak

Long time OAH member, Dr. Robert J. Rusnak, passed away November 21, 2010. For more information, please visit www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=robert-jay-rusnak&pid=146822720.

Dr. Craig Wollner

Dr. Craig Wollner, Portland State University, Oct. 17, 1943 - Nov. 20, 2010. For more information, please visit obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=craig-evan-wollner&pid=146922016.

Lawrence Gelfand

Distinguished OAH member and Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Iowa, Lawrence E. Gelfand passed away in Irvine, California on November 30, 2010. For more information, please visit www.press-citizen.com/article/20101207/NEWS02/12070325/Lawrence-Gelfand-84.

2011 Annual Meeting & Humanities Advocacy Day

Join the National Humanities Alliance Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8 for the 2011 Humanities Advocacy Day, a national gathering of the humanities community for an annual conversation on the state of the humanities and to make their voices heard on Capitol Hill. For more information, please visit www.nhalliance.org/events/2011-upcoming-events/index.shtml.

Gilder Lehrman Institute 2011 Summer Seminars

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History invites K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers to apply to the 2011 Summer Seminar series. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the U.S. and the U.K., these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history. For more information, please visit www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_overview.php.

NEH 2011 Summer Seminars and Institutes

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities supports national residential seminars and institutes for faculty who teach American undergraduates. These two- to six-week study opportunities allow faculty and a select number of graduate to increase their knowledge of current scholarship and advance their own teaching and research. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/si-university.html.

NEH Summer Seminar for on the Early Republic

A four-week seminar held at The Library Company of Philadelphia entitled “The Early American Republic and the Problem of Governance” will focus on the experience of governance under the U.S. Constitution during the first two generations after independence. Information on eligibility, stipends, and application materials is available on their website. For more information, please visit www.librarycompany.org/governanceseminar/.

The 2011 Albert H. Small Student/Teacher Institute

National History Day announces an exciting and unique summer institute for teachers and students led by World War II historians. In June 2011, fifteen student/teacher teams will participate in a scholarly study of World War II monuments in the D.C. area and walk in the footsteps of history on the beaches of Normandy. Deadline for applications is February 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.nhd.org.

NEH 2011 Workshops for Community College Faculty

NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops are national residential workshops for community college faculty. These one-week projects take place at sites of historical or cultural significance across the nation. Participants receive stipends to defray travel and living expenses. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/projects/landmarks-college.html.

Congressional Research Awards

The Dirksen Congressional Center invites applications for grants to fund research on congressional leadership and the U.S. Congress. The Center encourages graduate students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus to apply and awards a significant portion of the funds for dissertation research. Deadline for proposals is March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.dirksencenter.org/print_grants_CRAs.htm.

American Antiquarian Society Fellowships

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2011-12 visiting academic fellowships. At least three AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships will be awarded for periods extending from four to twelve months. Long-term fellowships are intended for scholars beyond the doctorate; senior and mid-career scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.americanantiquarian.org/fellowships.htm.

Historians of Twentieth Century United States (1890-present)

The Historians of the Twentieth Century United States has issued a call for papers for its fourth annual conference to be held at St. Anne?s College, University of Oxford, in July 2011. Proposals from scholars outside the United Kingdom as well as those undertaking postgraduate study are especially welcome. For more information, please visit www.hotcus.org.uk.

Conference on Illinois History

The Conference on Illinois History invites proposals for individual papers or panels on any aspect of Illinois history, culture, politics, geography, literature, and archaeology as well as proposals for teacher workshops. For more information, please visit www.IllinoisHistory.gov/conference.htm .

2010 OAH Treasurer’s Report

OAH Treasurer Robert Griffith discusses the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2010.

Online Balloting Opens for the 2011 OAH Election

The online balloting system for the OAH 2011 Election is now open. Members will receive an e-mail containing voting instructions and a direct link (with an embedded access code) to the system. The election closes on February 1, 2011. In addition to the slate of candidates for OAH offices, the 2011 ballot contains a question regarding changes to the OAH Constitution. The proposed changes, recommended by the OAH Executive Board, are meant to either clarify sections of the OAH Constitution or to meet best practices in nonprofit governance. For more information about the ballot including proposed changes to the Constitution, click here.

Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

The thirty-third annual meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) will meet in Philadelphia, July 14-17, 2011. The Program Committee invites proposals for sessions and papers exploring all aspects of the history and culture of the early American republic. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/ctfriend/SHEAR1.htm.

Dictionary of Literary Biography: American Writers of the Second World War

Contributors are needed for a monograph on American war correspondents during World War II. This monograph is already under contract (Dictionary of Literary Biography) and due for production by the end of 2010. Please direct proposals and inquiries to Professor Jeffery B. Cook, Department of History, North Greenville University, by e-mail at jcook@ngu.edu

Joint Journalism Historians Conference

The American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division invite submissions for completed papers, research in progress, or panel discussions for presentation at the Joint Journalism Historians Conference–the American Journalism Historians Association and the AEJMC History Division joint spring meeting. For more information, please visit journalism.nyu.edu.

2011 ASALH Black History Luncheon

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is pleased to announce its eighty-fifth annual black history luncheon, February 26, 2011, at the Renaissance Washington DC Hotel. Lerone Bennett, author and editor emeritus of Ebony Magazine, will provide the keynote address. The deadline to purchase tickets is February 2, 2011. For more information, please visit www.asalh.org.

Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies Fellowship

During the current and next academic years, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies will focus on problems of authority and legitimation. The center welcomes proposals that explore the popular claims of authority. The center will offer a limited number of research fellowships for one or two semesters, running from September to January and from February to June. For more information, please visit www.princeton.edu/dav/program/new_topic/index.xml.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellowships

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH) seeks applications that are intellectually rigorous, imaginative, and accessible to the public. There are no restrictions on topic, but the VFH encourages proposals on the history, literature, and culture of the South Atlantic region, African American studies, and projects that compliment VFH programs in folk life and Indian heritage. Application deadline is December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.virginiafoundation.org.

John Carter Brown Library Fellowships

The John Carter Brown Library will award approximately forty research fellowships for the year June 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012. Fellowships are reserved for scholars and writers whose work considers the early history of the Americas, including all aspects of the European, African, and Native American experience. The deadline for mailing all application materials is January 3, 2011. For more information, please visit www.jcbl.org.

Fellowships at the Lemelson Center, Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center is seeking proposals for its 2011-2012 Fellowship Program, supporting the study of invention and innovation in American society. Fellowships are awarded for a maximum of ten weeks and carry a prorated stipend. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2011. For more information, please contact: Eric S. Hintz via e-mail at hintzesi.edu. For more information, please visit invention.smithsonian.org/fellowships.

University of Texas at Austin Research Fellowships in the Humanities

The Harry Ransom Center annually awards over fifty fellowships to support scholarly research projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The fellowships support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. Application deadline is February 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships.

Research Fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library

Applications are now available for Summer 2011 research fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Fellowships are awarded to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students interested in working within the library’s collections. Areas of research may include women’s history, spirituality and health, religious studies, nineteenth-century history, architecture, and journalism. Application and supporting materials must be postmarked by February 7, 2011. For more information, please visit www.marybakereddylibrary.org/collections/fellowships.

Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, History of Home Economics Fellowship

The College of Human Ecology at Cornell University is accepting applications for the 2011 Dean’s Fellowship in the History of Home Economics. Relevant historical subject areas include: the history of food, nutrition, housing, the family, child development, clothing and textiles, and history of women in higher education among other key topics in American social history. The deadline for receipt of all application materials is March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.human.cornell.edu/che/Fellowship/index.cfm.

Massachusetts Historical Society Fellowships

The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) will offer short- and long-term research fellowships for the 2011-2012 academic year, including two MHS- National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowships, made possible by an award from the NEH. For more information, please visit www.masshist.org/fellowships.

Shryock Medal Essay Contest

The American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM) invites graduate students to enter its 2011 Shryock Medal Essay Contest. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay on any topic in the history of medicine. Essays must be postmarked or submitted electronically no later than January 15, 2011. For additional information, contact Alexandra Stern, Center for the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan by e-mail at amstern@umich.edu.

AASLH Leadership in History Awards

The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) invites nominations for the 2011 Leadership in History Awards. The AASLH Awards Program recognizes achievement in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history throughout America. Nominees need not be members of AASLH to qualify. Nominations are due to state award representatives on March 1, 2011. For more information, please visit www.aaslh.org/aaslh_awards.htm.

David Nord appointed head of HNS

David Nord, professor of journalism and adjunct professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington and former interim editor of the Journal of American History, has been appointed editor of the History News Service (HNS). For more information, please visit www.h-net.org/~hns/.

At NARA, Making Tough Choices in the Budget

The Archivist of the United States, David S. Ferriero, discusses many of the tough decisions his organization faces as a result of federal budget cuts for 2012. Read more >

Richard E. Herrmann

Richard E. Herrmann, January 17, 2010, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, Tennessee. For more information, please visit www.stategazette.com/story/1603436.html.

William H. Goetzmann

Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and OAH member, Dr. William H. Goetzmann, died September 7, 2010. For more information, please visit www.post-gazette.com/pg/10262/1088642-122.stm.

2011 OAH Election: Meet the Candidates

Each fall, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots in the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. Each candidate is asked to prepare a biographical outline, including five of their most important publications, grants, fellowships, honors and awards, along with a brief personal statement. Read more >

Register Now for the 2011 OAH Annual Meeting

Registration is now open for the 2011 OAH Annual Meeting in Houston, March 17 to 20! Members can save as much as $50 now by taking advantage of "early bird" registration rates. Read more >

Pi Lambda Theta Joins PDK International Family of Associations

PDK International, a membership association for educators, announced today the acquisition of Pi Lambda Theta (PLT), a national honor society of educators. This acquisition completes the PDK International family of associations, which includes PDK, Pi Lambda Theta, and the Future Educators Association®. Read more >

2011 OAH Election: Meet the Candidates

Each fall, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots in the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. Each candidate is asked to prepare a biographical outline, including five of their most important publications, grants, fellowships, honors and awards, along with a brief personal statement. Read more >

Nancy C. Carnevale Receives 2010 American Book Award

Nancy C. Carnevale, Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University, is the recipient of a 2010 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (University of Illinois Press, 2009).

Contingent History Faculty Survey

The OAH encourages all non-tenure track history instructors, adjuncts, teaching assistants, and postdoctoral fellows to participate in a national survey by the Coalition on the Academic Workforce. The survey aims to develop a detailed picture of how contingent historians and other teaching professionals are compensated and treated nationwide. Read more >

Journal of Illinois History seeks manuscripts

The Journal of Illinois History seeks manuscripts on all facets of the history of Illinois and its citizens. Contributions in social, political, economic, and cultural history are welcome, as are related midwestern and Civil War topics, the history of the Northwest Territory, and Illinois biography. Articles for publication are carefully chosen by the editors, who solicit the comments of at least two referees. Articles are judged on their quality and depth of research, originality, significance of the subject matter, and appropriateness for the JIH. For more information, please visit www.illinoishistory.gov/journal.htm.

White House History

White House History, the journal of the White House Historical Association, is published twice each year and features articles on the historic White House, especially those that relate to the building itself, its uses, and life as lived there through the years. Current topics to be considered are “Congress and the White House” and “The History of the Presidential Libraries.” Authors interested in submitting an article are asked to complete the White House History abstract submission form available online. Abstracts are due December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_publications/publications_whitehousehistory-call.html.

United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship

Applications are invited for the twenty-fifth year of the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of the art and architecture of the United States Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one month to one year; the stipend is $2,500 per month. Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2011. For more information, please visit www.uschs.org/72/Fellowship_and_Internships.htm.

History of the Academic Health Center and Health Sciences Travel Fellowships

The Travel Fellowship in the History of the Academic Health Center and Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota is intended to promote research on post-World War II developments in academic health centers and health science research using the University of Minnesota Archives. The University of Minnesota Program in the History of Medicine in conjunction with the Academic Health Center History Project will offer up to two fellowships per year to interested scholars whose research is well suited to the health science and administrative collections in the University Archives. Where possible, preference will be given to early career scholars, namely graduate students in the research stage of their dissertation and recent recipients of the PhD. Deadline for applications is October 15, 2010. For more information, please visit blog.lib.umn.edu/moore144/ahcarchives/travel/.

ACLS Fellowship Competitions

The American Council of Learned Societies invites applications for its 2010-2011 fellowships competition. The Online Fellowship Application (OFA) system opened in early July and the 2010-2011 ACLS fellowship competitions are underway. November 10, 2010 is the deadline for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships, Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowships in American Art, and East European Studies Programs. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/fellowships.

Thomas Jefferson Prize, Society for History in the Federal Government

The Society for History in the Federal Government (SHFG) seeks entries for its 2011 Thomas Jefferson Prize for documentary histories published in 2009 or 2010. The prize recognizes the editor(s) of a single volume or one or more volumes in a project that contributes significantly to the understanding of the history of the federal government. The award will be given at the SHFG annual meeting in College Park, Maryland in March 2011. For more information, please visit www.shfg.org.

Business History Conference Announces New Award

The Business History Conference announces a new annual award named for Dr. Ralph Gomory, an American businessman, author, mathematician, executive, and research professor. The Ralph Gomory Prize recognizes historical work on the effect business enterprises have on the economic conditions of a country in which they operate. Two prizes of $5,000 will be given: one for a book and one for an article. Deadline for submissions is December 31, 2010. For more information, please visit www.thebhc.org/awards/gomory10.pdf.

Grants available for Photographic Research

The Humboldt Area Foundation is now accepting grant applications for its Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research. The Fund supports the study of under-researched women photographers internationally, past and present, and under-researched Western American photographers before 1900. Individuals researching Western American photography before 1900 or women in photograph as well as nonprofit institutions conducting research in these fields, are eligible to apply. The deadline for applications is Monday, November 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.hafoundation.org/haf/grants/haf-grants.html.

The New-York Historical Society Launches Slavery Collection

The New-York Historical Society announces the launch of its online portal to nearly twelve thousand pages of source materials documenting the history of slavery in the United States, the Atlantic slave trade, and the abolitionist movement. The collections include account books and ship manifests documenting the financial aspects of the slave trade, legal papers such as birth certificates and deeds of manumission, and political works and polemics. The site also provides access to the archives of abolitionist organizations such as the New-York Manumission Society and the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, as well as the records of the African Free School, which document the education of free blacks in early nineteenth-century New York. For more information, please visit www.nyhistory.org/slaverycollections.

Robert Hohner

Robert A. Hohner, a historian of early twentieth-century southern politics, died on August 8, 2010, at his home in London, Ontario. In an educational career interrupted by service in the U.S. Navy, Bob received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Duke University. After teaching briefly at the U.S. Naval Academy, Bob took a position in 1965 at the University of Western Ontario (UWO), where he remained in the Department of History until his retirement in 2001. Read more >

National Archives Takes Leading Role on Declassification

David S. Ferriero discusses President Obama’s mission for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Read more >

OAH/NCPH 2012 Call for Papers

The OAH and the National Council on Public History are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Proposals on the theme “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy” will be accepted starting October 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.oah.org/programs/meetings/call_for_proposals/.

“Come Together”: Part-Time/Contingent Faculty in History

At the April 2010 OAH Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., members of the OAH Committee on Part-Time and Adjunct Employment assessed the growing role of part-time and contingent faculty in history by hosting a session entitled “Come Together”: Part-Time/Contingent Faculty in History. Read more >

ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the sixth annual competition for the ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. This program, through the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. The projects of successful applicants will help advance digital humanistic scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating such works. For more information, please visit www.acls.org/programs/digital/.

National Council on Public History: Call for 2011 Award Nominations

Each year the National Council on Public History offers more than $6,500 in awards recognizing excellence in the diverse ways public historians apply their skills to the world around us. Book prize submissions are due November 1, 2010; those for outstanding public history project, new professionals, excellence in consulting, and student project and travel awards are due by December 1, 2010. Submissions are also requested by December 1 for the Michael C. Robinson Prize for Historical Analysis, rewarding historical studies that contribute directly to the formation of public policy. Nominate a colleague or yourself. For more information, please visit ncph.org/cms/awards/.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Residencies

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a unit of the New York Public Library’s Research Libraries, announces its Scholars-in-Residence Program for the 2011—2012 academic year. The Fellowship Program encompasses projects in African, Afro-American, and Afro-Caribbean history and culture, with an emphasis on African diasporan studies and biography, social history and African American culture. Application deadline is December 1, 2010. For more information, please visit www.nypl.org/locations/tid/64/node/131.

The Filson Historical Society Fellowships

The Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky, invites applications for fellowships to support internships and research in the Filson’s collections. The mission of the Filson Historical Society, founded in 1884, is to collect, preserve, and communicate the significant stories of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley history and culture. The Filson anticipates that successful applicants receiving fellowships will publicize the results of their research in Ohio Valley History, the peer-reviewed journal published jointly by the Filson and the Cincinnati Museum Center. Applications must be received by October 15, 2010. For more information, please visit www.filsonhistorical.org/fellowships.html.

Omohundro Institute—NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC) offers a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2011. A principal criterion for selection is that the candidate’s dissertation or other manuscript have significant potential as a distinguished, book-length contribution to scholarship. A substantial portion of the work must be submitted with the application. Applications must be postmarked by November 1, 2010. More information may be obtained by contacting: Omohundro Institute-NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship, OIEAHC, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781; e-mail: ieahc1@wm.edu.

Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OIEAHC) invites applications for a one-year Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in any area of early American studies, to begin July 1, 2011. The award carries a year’s support to revise the applicant’s first book manuscript and the Institute’s commitment to publish the resulting study. Applications must be postmarked by November 1, 2010. More information may be obtained by contacting: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, OIEAHC, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8781; email: ieahc1@wm.edu.

David Weber

David J. Weber, the founding director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University, died on August 20, 2010, of multiple myeloma. Weber served the OAH in various capacities, most recently as a member of the OAH Executive Board (2006–2009) and as an OAH Distinguished Lecturer (1995–2001). For more information, visit www.smu.edu/News/2010/david-weber-dies-23aug2010.aspx.

Call for Papers: Southern Labor Studies Conference

To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University, the 15th Southern Labor Studies Conference proposes to turn a similar self-critical gaze on the materials labor historians rely on to produce the field of labor history. Read more >

Call for Papers: Popular Music Histories

The International Association for the Study of Popular Music welcomes proposals concerning all facets of popular music in the United States. and abroad, but especially encourage submissions that address the themes: canonical histories; alternative histories; archival approaches; historical methods; and local histories. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2010. Read more >

Call for Papers: Heidelberg Center for American Studies 8th Annual Spring Academy Conference

The eighth Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) Spring Academy on American History, Culture, and Politics will be held from March 21—25, 2011. The HCA invites applications for this annual one-week conference that provides twenty international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and discuss their Ph.D. projects. Read more >

2011 SHFG Powell Prize

The John Wesley Powell Prize alternates annually in recognizing excellence in the fields of historic preservation and historical displays. In 2011 the prize will be awarded to either an individual or to principal collaborators for a single major historical display project completed in 2009 or 2010. The award for historical display is given for any form of interpretive historical presentation including, but not limited to, museum exhibits, historical films, CDs, Web-sites, or multimedia displays. Read more >

Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women

The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work, and gender theory. Read more >

Peggy Pascoe

Peggy Pascoe, long time OAH member, and 2009 winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Prize for the best book in American cultural history, died on July 23, 2010 at the age of 55. For a complete obituary and brief biography, please visit http://history.uoregon.edu/news/pascoe_obituary/.

OAH Endorses Recommendations for a Well-Rounded Education

The Organization of American Historians endorsed recommendations for how the federal government can better support core subjects beyond reading and math. Read more >

Thank you!

Please join us in thanking the individuals who gave OAH Lectures during the first half of 2010 and the institutions that hosted them. View complete list >

OAH Awards and Prizes

Each year the OAH sponsors or cosponsors awards, prizes, and grants given in recognition of scholarly and professional achievements in the field of American history. Many awards have an October 1 deadline. View a complete list of OAH Awards and Prizes >

New Membership Dues Structure Adopted

In conjunction with the recently adopted strategic plan, the Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians has enacted a simplified dues structure for individual members. Read more >

Deadline for JAH Special Issue Approaches

The deadline for receipt of submission for the JAH Special Issue on North American borderlands history is September 10, 2010. For more information, please visit The Journal of American History.

National Coalition for History

The OAH supports the National Coalition for History, which provides leadership in history-related advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill. Visit the National Coalition for History to read this week’s “Washington Update.” Read more >

Call for Proposals—Key Moments in Human Spaceflight

The NASA History Division and the National Air and Space Museum invite proposals for presentations to be held at its joint symposium, “1961/1981: Key Moments in Human Spaceflight,” at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on April 26–27, 2011. Proposals may address any area of human spaceflight history related to the theme. Submissions are due by October 15, 2010. For more information, please visit history.nasa.gov.

Elizabeth Whitaker

OAH member Elizabeth Whitaker passed away on April 10, 2010 at the age of 51. She was a published author, lecturer, and researcher. For a complete obituary and brief biography, please visit http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx.

Call for Papers—Libraries and the Cultural Record

Libraries and the Cultural Record, a peer–reviewed journal of history published by the University of Texas Press, invites submissions for a special issue devoted to exploring historical perspectives on state library agencies in the United States. Contributors are encouraged to consider the topic in diverse ways. Read more >

NEH Teaching Development Fellowships

The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Teaching Development Fellowships to support college and university teachers pursuing research aimed specifically at improving existing undergraduate courses. The application deadline is September 30, 2010. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/TD_Fellowships.html.

Roger Williams University—Call for Papers

Roger Williams University is seeking papers for its third conference on religion and the state. Researchers are invited to submit from any academic fields, especially, though not exclusively, from history, political science, literature, and religious studies. The conference, entitled “Religion and the State in the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and America,” will be held April 13, 2011, at the university. The deadline for submission is October 1, 2010. Read more >

Pennsylvania History: A Call for Civil War Papers

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, is seeking paper submissions for a 2011 special issue on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region. Papers concentrating on Pennsylvania history as well as papers on the broader Mid-Atlantic region are encouraged. Read more >

Vernacular Architecture Forum: Call for Papers

The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its 2011 annual meeting in Falmouth, Jamaica. Papers should address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions on all vernacular topics are welcome, but papers that explore topics related to the conference theme of heritage tourism are encouraged. The deadline for paper proposals is September 13, 2010. Read more >

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Now Available

The Newberry Library is pleased to announce the completion and release of its Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Web-site, publications.newberry.org/ahcbp. The Atlas will assist researchers find accurate and comphrensive county data from 1634 through 2000. Read more >

NEH Grant Opportunity Deadline September 15

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is offering grants of up to $25,000 for faculty to develop a new undergraduate course that fosters intellectual community through the study of an enduring question. The application deadline is September 15, 2010. For more information, please visit www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html.

Ferenc “Frank” Szasz

Distinguished OAH member and University of New Mexico Regents’ Professor of History Ferenc “Frank” Szasz passed away Sunday, June 20, at the age of 70. For a complete obituary and brief biography, please visit http://news.unm.edu/2010/06/history-professor-ferenc-szasz-dies/.

The History Department and the UNM Foundation will be sending out an announcement shortly vis a vis the Service of Celebration of Ferenc’s life. The service will be held at the UNM Alumni Memorial Chapel from 2–4 p.m. on Friday, 27 August, with a reception hosted by the History Department directly after.

The announcement will also include contact information for contributions to the Fellowship established in our names. I list that information below, which you are welcome to add to the OAH website:

The Ferenc Morton Szasz and Margaret Connell—Szasz PhD Dissertation Fellowship in History
University of New Mexico
College of Arts & Sciences
MSC03 2120

1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Attn: Jeff MacNutt

Oickle signs for 2 books

Alvin F. Oickle is under contract to publish two books in Spring 2011. Oickle’s 1998 biography, Jonathan Walker: The Man with the Branded Hand, will be reissued with new material and images by Westholme Publishing. The second book will be published by The History Press as part of its “disaster series” and will explore the steamboat Erie, which sank in 1841, carrying more than two hundred new immigrants to their deaths on Lake Erie.

Historical Associations Issue Recommendations About Rewarding Public History Work for Promotion and Tenure

“Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Academic Historian,” a report offering best practices for evaluating public history scholarship in history departments, was adopted by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) Executive Board on April 8, the National Council on Public History (NCPH) Board of Directors on June 3, and the American Historical Association (AHA) Council on June 5, 2010. Read more >

The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier

The fourth annual National Underground Railroad Conference will be held in Topeka, Kansas from July 28–31, 2010. The four-day conference, entitled “Battleground for Freedom: The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier,” will include renowned speakers, educational workshops, panel discussions, an exhibit hall, a film screening, and tours of local museums and historic sites. Read more >

Luebke receives award for Outstanding Achievement

The Society for German-American Studies awarded its Outstanding Achievement Award for 2010 to Frederick Luebke, Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln.

Library of Congress Seeks Applicants For Kluge Fellowships

The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is accepting applications for Kluge Fellowships that offer post-doctoral scholars an opportunity to conduct humanistic and social-science research in the Library’s large and varied collections. The fellowships are awarded for periods of up to 11 months at a stipend of $4,200 per month. Applications must be postmarked by Thursday, July 15, 2010. Read more >

Bell receives Grant

Karen B. Bell received a Research Support Grant from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University, Schlesinger Library for Women for the 2010-11 academic year.

OAH Nominating Board presents 2010 Election Slate

The OAH Nominating Board announces the slate of nominees for the 2011 OAH Election. Each fall, individual members of the Organization of American Historians cast their ballots in the annual OAH election using the slate of candidates prepared by the OAH Nominating Board. As outlined in Article V of the OAH Constitution, nominating and executive board candidates receiving the highest number of votes then serve a three-year term in office. Read more >

Howlett and Lieberman co-edit For the People

Chuck Howlett of Molloy College and Robbie Lieberman of Southern Illinois University have co-edited For the People: A Documentary History of the Struggle for Peace and Justice in the United States (Information Age Publishing).

Miami Architecture Guide Published

James F. Donnelly is co-author with Allan Shulman and Randall Robincon of Miami Architecture: An AIA Guide Featuring Downtown, the Beaches, and Coconut Grove. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2010. Link for more information: www.upf.com/index.asp.

Brown Publishes Thesis

Lisa Marie Brown published her Master's thesis entitled Posing As Nuns, Passing For White: The Gouley Sisters (Lisa Marie Brown, 2010). The book chronicles the history of three blood sisters who established an order of Catholic nuns for women of color in New Orleans in 1883.

Hollinger announces Spring Appeal for Contributions

OAH president David Hollinger is pleased to announce the annual appeal for contributions. The OAH has clarified its direction by adopting a new Strategic Plan and has achieved fiscal integrity by improving internal operations and through generous donations from our members and institutional sponsors. Your philanthropic gift allows us to continue our mission of promoting excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history. Read more >

OAH passes Texas Textbook Resolution

The Organization of American Historians supports the efforts of the professionally trained educators of Texas to achieve and maintain a history curriculum that reflects the basic consensus of scholarship. Read more >

Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center Visiting Scholars Program

The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, which provides grants of $500 to $1000 to researchers working at the center’s archives. Awards of $500–$1000 are normally granted as reimbursement for travel and lodging. Read more >

AHA Equity Award

The AHA has established two equity awards to be given annually: one for individuals and another for academic units. The award can be conferred for new initiatives and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession. Read more >

Interviews with Award Winners from the OAH Annual Meeting

The Organization American Historians sponsors or cosponsors more than twenty annual awards, prizes, fellowships, and grants, presented at the OAH Annual Meeting, to recognize scholarly and professional achievements in American history. In a series of interviews from the 2010 OAH Annual Meeting, Michael Regoli talks with a few of the winners. Read more >

Symposium on Executive Records in the 21st Century on May 20-21, 2010 in Albany, NY

The New York State Archives Partnership Trust and the Albany Law School’s Government Law Center have joined forces on a two-day event focused on the need for effective record keeping by elected government executives. Read more >

Journal of American History: Textbooks and Teaching, 2011

In March 2011, the annual “Textbooks and Teaching” section of the Journal of American History will focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning, in the context of college-level history courses. Essays of 15–20 pages may be submitted for consideration no later than July 31, 2010. Read more >

Melosi named Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor

Martin V. Melosi, Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston, has been named the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor.

Underground Railroad Conference, July 28–31, 2010

The 2010 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program Conference will be held July 28–31 at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Topeka, Kansas. “Battleground for Freedom: The Underground Railroad on the Western Frontier,” will explore how the underground railroad influenced the national and territorial struggle to bring Kansas into the Union—whether slave or free. For more conference and registration information, visit http://lanetrail.com/ugr/.

Freeberg recieves 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award

Ernest Freeberg has been selected the 2010 Eli M. Oboler Memorial Award recipient for his book, Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. The biographical study provides an framework for understanding how Eugene Debs legitimized dissent as an ethical stance supported by the First Amendment.

“Sixty-five Years of Bearing Witness: Our Commitment to Human Rights”

The Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education Center at Brookdale Community College will host “Sixty-five Years of Bearing Witness: Our Commitment to Human Rights” on May 12, 2010. Read more >

International Conference on the History of Freemasonry

Call for papers: The Third International Conference on the History of Freemasonry. Read more >

Call for Papers: New Directions in Long Beach Studies

Papers are invited for the first annual Long Beach Community Studies Conference to be held September 11, 2010 at the Historical Society of Long Beach, California. Read more >

AASLH announces Public History Workshops

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) announces three upcoming public history workshops. Expand your knowledge of collections management, explore new digital technologies, or learn best practices for maintaining historic textiles. For more information, please visit aaslh.org/workshops_000%28New%29.htm.

William Preston Jr.

William Preston Jr., a historian and activist whose 1963 book Aliens and Dissenters: Federal Suppression of Radicals, 1903–1933 helped open a new field of scholarly inquiry into government policies that repressed radicals and restricted civil liberties, died on April 19, 2010, at his home in Martha’s Vineyard. He was 85. Read more >

JAH Printing Error—Replacement Copy in the Mail

Due to a printing error, the March 2010 Journal of American History is missing 36 pages that should have appeared immediately after the volume index on page 1285. A complete, reprinted edition of volume 96, number 4 is now in the mail. Once your replacement copy arrives, please recycle the issue you received earlier this month.

OAH signs with Oxford University Press

The Organization of American Historians is pleased to announce a new partnership with Oxford University Press for the publication and dissemination of the Journal of American History and the OAH Magazine of History. Read more >

Howe elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

OAH Distinguished Lecturer Daniel Walker Howe has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Oxford, and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.

Seminar for Historical Administration

The Seminar for Historical Administration is an intensive three-week program that provides the tools, ideas, and connections that allow history professionals to become effective leaders and managers of history organizations. Read more >

Request for Faculty Field-Building and Student-Training Proposals

The Social Science Research Council seeks proposals from pairs of tenured faculty in graduate training programs of US universities to design and lead dissertation proposal workshops for graduate students within emerging or revitalizing interdisciplinary fields of the humanities and/or social sciences. Applications must be submitted by October 1, 2010. Read more >

Arista awarded Allan Nevins Prize

Noelani Arista has been awarded the Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians for the best doctoral dissertation on an American subject. Her Brandeis University dissertation, “Histories of Unequal Measure: Euro-American Encounters with Hawaiian Governance and Law 1793–1827,” addresses questions of law and jurisdiction in early nineteenth-century Hawaii. Arista is currently an assistant professor of American and Hawaiian history at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

AAUP report on the status of the profession released

No Refuge: The Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, 2009–2010 has been released by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). An authoritative source of data on faculty salaries and compensation for decades, the report lists average salary by faculty rank and gender at more than 1,200 colleges and universities and provides an important perspective on the economic challenges facing higher education. Read more >

Unveiling the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program

The Distinguished Lectureship Program section of the OAH Web site has been redesigned and updated. Visit http://lectures.oah.org to learn about the program or to browse the wide-ranging list of leading historians who can share their expertise with any audience. For more information, please visit lectures.oah.org.

LeCain receives George Perkins Marsh Prize

Timothy J. LeCain, associate professor in Montana State University’s Department of History and Philosophy, recently received the George Perkins Marsh Prize for the best new book in environmental history. His Mass Destruction: The Men and Giant Mines that Wired America and Scarred the Planet tells the history of two open-pit copper mines: the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana, and the Bingham Pit in Utah.

Partnership-in-Scholarship Grants for African American Historic Places

Partnership-in-Scholarship grants of up to $5000 for collaboration between scholars and African American historic places Read more >

Monetary awards for Missouri history dissertations and theses

The Lewis E. Atherton prizes recognize outstanding dissertations and theses on Missouri history or biography. The winning dissertation receives $1000; the winning thesis receives $500. Deadline for nominations is June 30, 2010. Read more >

Scholars-in-Residence program through the Institute for Advanced Study

The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study invites applications for its scholars-in-residence program. Scholars in economics, political science, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics are welcome to apply to focus on the 2011–2012 theme, Moralities. Read more >

Submission deadline extended for the JAH special issue: “Borderlands”

The deadline for paper submissions to the “Borderlands” special issue of the Journal of American History has been extended to September 10, 2010. Read more >

Carnevale receives NEH Fellowship

Nancy Carnevale has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She will spend the 2010–2011 academic year researching a comparative study of African American and Italian American relations in urban and suburban New Jersey from the early 1900s through the 1960s.

Call for Papers: Conference on Slavery and the University

Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies is an international conference that will be held at Emory University in February, 2011. Prospective presenters are invited to submit panel and paper proposals by April 26, 2010. Read more >

2010 OAH election results now available

The 2010 OAH election results are now available. The president is David Hollinger, the president-elect is Alice Kessler-Harris, and the vice-president is Albert Camarrillo. For a complete listing of results, click here. Read more >

Free online access to an online resource

Alexander Street Press celebrates Women’s History Month with free access to the online resources of Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600–2000. Read more >

2009 Treasurer’s report available online

The 2009 OAH treasurer’s report, compiled by Bob Griffith with assistance from Certified Public Accountant Michael Crouse, is now available online.

$1,000 for best student essay

The winning submission for the 2010 Michigan Historical Review Student Essay Prize will be published in the spring 2001 issue of the Review and its author will receive $1,000.00. Read more >

Sanchez receives award

George J. Sanchez has received the Outstanding Latino/a Faculty in Higher Education: Research in Higher Education Award, presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. The award honors individuals who, through their expertise, energy, productivity, and contributions, have improved the conditions of Latinos pursuing a college degree or a career in higher education.

$1,000 for the best U.S. naval history article

The Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval History is awarded to the best article on U.S. naval history published in a scholarly journal in 2009. The $1,000 award is given to heighten awareness of naval history and to encourage other scholars to research and write articles on innovative topics within the discipline. Nomination deadline is June 1, 2010. Read more >

Pfister wins Author’s award

The Jacob Ford Jr. Mansion: The Storied History of a New Jersey Home (Charleston , 2009), by Jude M. Pfister, has won the Eastern National Board of Directors’ 2009 Author’s Award. Pfister is chief of cultural resources at the Morristown, New Jersey, National Historic Park and is currently working on another publication for the History Press that focuses on the Ford family of Morristown.

$1,000 for the best U.S. naval history article

The Rear Admiral Ernest M. Eller Prize in Naval History is awarded to the best article on U.S. naval history published in a scholarly journal in 2009. The $1,000 award is given to heighten awareness of naval history and to encourage other scholars to research and write articles on innovative topics within the discipline. Nomination deadline is June 1, 2010. Read more >

$10,000 predoctoral fellowship in U.S. naval history

The Naval History and Heritage Command is offering the Rear Admiral John D. Hayes Predoctoral Fellowship in U.S. naval history for the academic year 2010–2011. The $10,000 fellowship will provide financial and scholarly aid for dissertation research and writing. The supported dissertations should significantly enhance knowledge of U.S. naval history. Application deadline is March 31, 2010. Read more >

$2,500 research grant in U.S. naval history

The Naval History and Heritage Command is offering two research grants (of up to $2,500) for research in U. S. naval history. The grants are intended to help defray the costs of travel, living expenses, and document duplication related to the research or writing processes for books or articles. Application deadline is March 31, 2010. Read more >

NEH Fellowships Available for 2011-2012

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers annual fellowships for faculty and independent scholars to pursue research projects in the humanities. Projects should entail advanced research that is of value to humanities scholars, general audiences, or both. The awards support six to twelve months of full-time work and carry a stipend of $4,200 per month. The 2010 application deadline is May 4. For a detailed program description, application guidelines, and contact information, please visit http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/fellowships.html.

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (UK) Third Annual Conference

The Historians of the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS) will hold its Third Annual Conference at the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South at the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, July 1-3, 2010. Nancy MacLean, of Northwestern University, will deliver the keynote address: “‘To Make Democracy Safe for the World’: The Southern U.S. Sources for the Global Push for Privatization”. Registration is now open. Read more >

$500 for the best article in the history of education

The History of Education Society awards a prize of $500 biennially for the best article in the history of education. The next award will be presented at the fall 2010 meeting of the History of Education Society. Articles (no book chapters) published in journals during 2008 and 2009 are eligible. Self-nominations are welcome. Read more >

Formwalt receives new appointment

Lee W. Formwalt was appointed executive director of the Albany Civil Rights Institute in Albany, Georgia, in December 2009.

Scroop’s essay published

Daniel Scroop’s essay “The Anti–Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption,” published in American Quarterly in December 2008, has won two prizes: the American Studies Association’s Constance P. Rourke prize of the for the best essay published in the American Quarterly in any given year and the Arthur Miller prize from the British Association of American Studies for the best essay on an American studies topic by a British citizen or non–British citizen based in the United Kingdom.

John Fea wins award: book honored

John Fea’s The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Philadelphia, 2008) was recently chosen as the best scholarly non–fiction book of 2008 by the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance and was chosen as an honor book for 2009 by the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Balleisen and Moss edit collection of essays

Edward Balleisen of Duke University and David Moss of Harvard Business School recently co–edited an interdisciplinary volume, Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation (Cambridge, Eng., 2009). The collection of essays by historians, political scientists, sociologists, economists, and legal scholars explores the latest research on regulatory policy, and it charts an ambitious intellectual agenda for the study of political economy and relations between business and the state.

Schneider wins book award

Eric Schneider’s book, Smack: Heroin and the American City (Philadelphia, 2008) won the Kenneth B. Jackson Award, given by the Urban History Association for the best book in North American urban history for 2008.

Gauger elected to Phi Beta Kappa Senate

At the October 2009 Phi Beta Kappa honor society’s triennial council in Austin, Texas, Michael Gauger was elected to a six–year term in the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, representing the north central district.

Loveland presents at Yale

Anne C. Loveland, the T. H. Williams Professor Emerita at Louisiana State University, presented “Military Chaplains in Cultural Transition, 1946 to the Present” at “Faith and Arms in a Democratic Society: A Working Conference on Religion in the Military,” held on November 13–14, 2009, at Yale University.

Diner receives book award

Hasia Diner’s book, We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962 (New York, 2009), received the National Jewish Book Award in the category of American Jewish studies. Diner is the Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish history and the director of the Goldstein–Goren Center for American Jewish History at New York University.

“New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism”

The 2010 Symposium on Comparative Early Modern Legal History, entitled “New Perspectives on Legal Pluralism,” will be held on April 23, 2010, from 9:00am to 5:00pm at the Newberry Library. Attendance is free and open to the public, but participants and attendees should preregister by contacting the Center for Renaissance Studies at renaissance@newberry.org. Read more >

Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program: Summer 2010

The Cultural Resources Diversity Internship Program (CRDIP) is seeking 12 diverse undergraduate and/or graduate students for paid internships in history, historic preservation, archeology, architecture, museum studies, ethnic studies, and other related fields. The student application deadline is March 1, 2010. Read more >

Call for Papers—Ab Initio: Law In Early America

The Legal History Consortium and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies together with the American Society for Legal History, the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Minnesota Law School, will sponsor a conference focusing on the legal history and historiography of North America to 1820. Paper proposals should be submitted by February 15, 2010. Read more >

Civil War Fellowships at Boston Athenaeum and MHS

The application deadline for the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship for 2010–2011 is February 15, 2010. The Boston Athenaeum and the Massachusetts Historical Society will offer one Loring Fellowship on the Civil War, its Origins, and Consequences for four weeks of research at each institution. The fellowship will provide a stipend of $4,000 for a total of eight weeks of research. For information on the Suzanne and Caleb Loring Fellowship—as well as on other fellowship competitions at the Massachusetts Historical Society—please see our website: www.masshist.org/fellowships.

Indiana Association of Historians Annual Meeting

The thirtieth annual meeting of the Indiana Association of Historians (IAH) will take place on February 26 and 27, 2010, at Anderson University’s Flagship Enterprise Center in Anderson, Indiana. Read more >

Social Science History Association Conference, Culture Network

The 35th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association will be held in Chicago, Illinois, November 18–21, 2010. The deadline for proposal submissions is February 15, 2010. Read more >

Summer 2010 Community College Workshop Series

Community college professors teach the U.S. history survey course more often than their peers at other institutions. To assist these professors, the OAH has developed a series of regional workshops to provide professional enhancement opportunities and instructional materials. Workshops in Philadelphia in June 2010 will include plenary-style panels and small group break-out sessions focused on U.S. survey curriculum development, regional resources, and pedagogy. For more information, please visit the OAH Community College Workshops website.

Annual National Underground Railroad Summit

The National Park Service, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program and friends, invite proposals for the upcoming annual conference to be held in Topeka, Kansas, July 28–31, 2010 Read more >

Urban History Association—deadline extended

The deadline has been extended to February 15, 2010, for proposals for the Fifth Biennial Urban History Association Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20–23, 2010. Read more >

OAH Launches New Web Site Design

The OAH is launching a newly designed Web site, including a new home page. Development of the site is ongoing, and we expect to finish it by July 1, 2010. The new OAH.org will feature enhanced navigation, rss feeds, and one-click access to the OAH’s most popular publications and resources. Check back frequently as we make these improvements, and let us know what you think.

Gilder Lehrman Announces 2010 Summer Seminars

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, a nonprofit organization supporting the study and love of American history through a wide range of programs and resources, holds a series of Summer Seminars in American History for Teachers. The application deadline is February 15, 2010. The Gilder Lehrman Institute also partners with schools on Teaching American History (TAH) Grants, offering TAH Grant services to school districts. For more information, please visit www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_course_offerings.php.

Dr. Eric Walther to Deliver Fifth Annual Hinson Lecture

On March 11, 2010, Dr. Eric H. Walther, professor of history at the University of Houston, will deliver a lecture entitled “William Lowndes Yancey, the Conventions of 1860, and the Coming of the Civil War?” as this year’s installment of the University of Mobile’s Billy G. Hinson Lecture Series. Read more >

Louis R. Harlan

Louis R. Harlan, Distinguished University Professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, died on January 22, 2010, in Lexington, Virginia, where he and his wife Sadie had lived in retirement since 2003. He ranks among the leading historians of his generation whose body of work on Booker T. Washington and his study Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901–1915 (1958) leave an enduring legacy. He will also be remembered for his many contributions to the historical profession, holding the distinction of being the only person to serve concurrent terms as president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Southern Historical Association. Read more >

Summer Seminar in the History of the Book

The American Antiquarian Society announces its 2010 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, “The Global American South and Early American Print Culture.” The seminar will be held Monday, June 14 through Friday, June 18, 2010. Application deadline is March 12, 2010. For more information, please visit www.americanantiquarian.org/summersem.htm.

National Humanities Alliance 2010 Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day

The National Humanities Alliance 2010 Annual Meeting and Advocacy Day will be held Tuesday, March 9, 2010, Washington, DC. For more information, please visit www.nhalliance.org/events/2010-am-had/.

Georgia Historical Society presents Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball

The Georgia Historical Society presents “Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball,” featuring a lecture by Scott Simon, host of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday, on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at 6:00 p.m. For more information, please visit www.georgiahistory.com.

Pennsylvania Historical Association: Call for proposals

Call for proposals for “New Perspectives on Pennsylvania’s Past,” the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2010 Annual Meeting, October 14–16 2010, in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Read more >

Margaret Fuller and Her Circles

The Massachusetts Historical Society is sponsoring a conference entitled “Margaret Fuller and her Circles” on April 8–10, 2010, in Boston. Read more >

European Union-United States Atlantis Program Grant Competition

Grants to support higher education and vocational training available through the European Union-United States Atlantis Program. For more information, please visit www.ed.gov/fipse.

Slave Narratives Seminar for History and English Faculty Members

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of Independent Colleges, with the United Negro College Fund, will cosponsor a seminar on slave narratives to be held at Yale University on June 13–16, 2010. Read more >

Fellowships support research at the Mary Baker Eddy Library

Applications are now available for summer 2010 research fellowships at the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Application and supporting materials must be postmarked by February 8, 2010. Read more >

History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of the Space Sciences

The History of Science Society Fellowship in the History of Space Sciences is supported by the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) History Division will annually fund one Fellow, for up to one academic year, to undertake a research project related to the history of space science. Applications must be received by March 3, 2010. For more information, please visit www.hssonline.org/publication/Newsletter2009/October-space-science.html.

Wall Street Journal—Historian 5th Best Job

The Wall Street Journal has released its 2010 list of “Best and Worst Jobs,” compiled by CareerCast.com using the following five criteria: environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands, and stress. This year “historian” ranks 5th—up 2 positions from 2009. For more information, please visit online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/st_BESTJOBS2010_20100105.html.

Conference Military History, Potsdam

Announcement for the conference “On the Path to Reunification: West and East Germany in their Alliances from 1970 to 1990” convened by the Military History Research Institute in Potsdam from September 22–24, 2010. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of German reunification, the 51st International Conference for Military History focuses on the role security and military policies played in the long run-up to 1989–1990. The conference is open to everyone interested in the topic. For more information, please visit www.mgfa.de.

Segal Wins Book Award

Howard Segal, a professor of history at University of Maine, received the 2009 book award from the Henry Ford Heritage Association for his Recasting the Machine Age: Henry Ford’s Village Industries. The book describes Henry Ford's life and enterprises.

Summer Institute for High School Teachers

Secondary school teachers of U.S. history and government are invited to apply for a summer institute, “Federal Trials and Great Debates in United States History,” to be held June 27–July 2, 2010, in Washington, D.C. Read more >

Funding for collaborative research available through TransCoop Program

Funding for collaborative research in the humanities, social sciences, economics, and the law available through the Transatlantic Cooperation in Research Program. Application deadlines are April 30, 2010 and October 31, 2010. Read more >

Greenwood Press is seeking authors

Greenwood Press seeks authors for a four-volume reference set entitled Chronology of the U.S. Presidency. Read more >

NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops

Participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops for Community College Faculty Summer Program in 2010. Read more >

Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference: Labor and Immigration: Past and Present

The Southwest Labor Studies Association will host its 36th Annual Conference, May 7–8, 2010, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. This year’s theme is “Labor and Immigration: Past and Present.” The conference will feature plenary sessions on labor and U.S. immigration policy and on immigrant worker organizing in Silicon Valley and the Monterey Bay area. For more information contact David Brundage at brundage@ucsc.edu or Pedro Castillo at pcastle@ucsc.edu. Read more >

The Role of the West in the Reunification of the US after the Civil War

The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “The Role of the West in the Reunification of the U.S. after the Civil War” on February 25, 2010. Read more >

The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century

The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “The Idea of Progress in the 19th Century” on February 18, 2010. Read more >

Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs

The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Picturing America in the 1930s: Reading Farm Security Administration Photographs” on February 23, 2010. Read more >

Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry—An American Experience Workshop

The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Walt Whitman’s Civil War Poetry: An American Experience Workshop” on March 18, 2010. Read more >

Hamilton’s America—Jefferson’s America: An American Experience Workshop

The National Humanities Center is sponsoring a live, online professional development seminar for literature and history teachers entitled “Hamilton’s America—Jefferson’s America: An American Experience Workshop” on March 24, 2010. The deadline to register is March 17, 2010. Read more >

OAH Appoints New Executive Director

At its fall 2009 meeting, the OAH Executive Board appointed Katherine Finley as the new executive director of the Organization of American Historians. Finley holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in history and has worked for history museums and associations; she is also a seasoned nonprofit executive. Finley’s experience and talents will be useful as the OAH works toward the goals adopted in its newest strategic plan. Read more >

San Francisco Rights Conference

San Francisco State University will host a conference September 16–17, 2010, exploring the question and place of rights in history, politics, and society. The deadline for papers and proposals is March 15, 2010. Read more >

Student Activism, Southern Style: Organizing and Protest in the 1960s and 70s

Call for papers on any aspect of student activism among southern students in the 1960s and 70s for a conference at the University of South Carolina, March 19-21, 2010. Proposals for full panels welcomed, individual papers will be considered. Send a brief panel or paper abstract, along with a CV to sasshist@mailbox.sc.edu by December 1, 2009. For full panels, include information for each presenter. Selected presenters will be informed by January 1, 2010. If you are interested in serving as a chair/commentator, please send a CV to sasshist@mailbox.sc.edu.

NCHE National Conference 2010

Each spring, the National Council for History Education holds a national conference. The national conference is a place where everyone who loves to teach and learn history can come together and share. NCHE encourages conference proposals that illustrate collaboration and history education. The 2010 Conference theme is Crossroads of Peoples and Places Over Time and will be held at the Town & Country Resort in San Diego, CA. For more information, please visit www.nche.net/conference.

United States Capitol Historical Society

Applications are invited for the twenty-fourth year of the United States Capitol Historical Society Fellowship. This fellowship is designed to support research and publication on the history of the art and architecture of the United States Capitol and related buildings. Graduate students and scholars may apply for periods ranging from one month to one year; the stipend is $2000 per month. Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2010. For further information contact Dr. Barbara Wolanin, Curator, Architect of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. 20515, (202) 228-1222 or the United States Capitol Historical Society at www.uschs.org.

AHA offers an opportunity to mentor a graduate student with disabilities

Graduate study in history is arduous for all students, but students with disabilities face distinctive challenges. The American Historical Association (AHA) Task Force on Historians with Disabilities believes that historians who understand disability experiences firsthand could help such students deal with disability-related issues in graduate historical studies and in the development of their careers. If you are interested in mentoring a disabled graduate student, contact Paul Longmore at longmore@sfsu.edu. The task force will keep all provided information strictly confidential.

Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities

Newberry Library Fellowships in the Humanities support research in our wide-ranging, rich, and sometimes eccentric collections. We invite short-term fellowship applications from teams of two or three scholars who plan to collaborate intensively on a single, substantive project. Application deadline is March 1, 2010. Read more >

W. Curtis Worthington Research Paper Competition

The Waring Library Society and the Waring Historical Library at the Medical University of South Carolina invite entries for the W. Curtis Worthington Jr. undergraduate and graduate research papers competition. Entries must be received by April 30, 2010. Read more >

New England Journal of History

The New England Journal of History is accepting articles for its Fall 2010 Journal on American domestic issues. The deadline is March 2010. The Spring 2011 issue will be a general issue, open to any aspect of history, and the deadline is September 2010. The Journal uses The Chicago Manual of Style, and articles and questions can be sent to Dr. Joseph Harrington, Editor, cacg1@aol.com.

Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship

The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience invites applications for the Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship to support outstanding writing on American history and culture by scholars and nonacademic authors. Deadline for applications is February 15, 2010. Read more >

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