News of the Organization

OAH and National Park Service Announce Fourth Jamestown Scholar

The Organization of American Historians and the National Park Service (NPS) are pleased to announce Mr. Carter Christian Hudgins, a M.Phil./Ph.D. candidate from the University of London, as the final Jamestown Scholar. Mr. Hudgins's dissertation topic, "English Metallurgy in the New World: The Origins and Functions of Copper Alloys at Jamestown," examines "how the presence of scrap copper at Jamestown is indicative of the interrelated entrepreneurial interests of England's copper industries and the contemporary ambitions and activities of those investing and settling in the New World." He seeks to "illustrate previously unidentified features of the settlement at Jamestown such as colonization motives, migration patterns, and factors surrounding the organization and development of the Virginia adventure."

The OAH-NPS Jamestown Scholarships provide support for Ph.D. candidates writing dissertations on Jamestown related topics.

Talking History Expands

Talking History has expanded once again, this time into the United States Virgin Islands. The OAH's public radio program can now be heard on WVGN throughout the islands. So now, even when you are on vacation, you can hear Talking History.

And don't forget to pick us up on the Voice of America when you are abroad. For several months, Talking History has been excerpted on the Voice of America and made available internationally. We are pleased to announce that the VOA has now begun to air the show in its entirety every week. Tell your colleagues abroad to tune us in.

This fall, the OAH executive office--with generous support from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Indiana--produced a new promotional Talking History flyer and sampler CD featuring a composite show as well as more than thirty minutes of interview excerpts. These materials were dispatched to more than one hundred OAH service committee members with the request that they make contact with their local public and community radio stations, asking that Talking History be aired in their areas.

If Talking History is not yet being aired in your area, please tell your local public radio station about us. Program Directors respond best to their listeners. If you would like to use the flyers or promotional CDs to bring the show to the attention of your local public or community radio station manager, please contact marketing director Annette Windhorn <>.

--Bryan Le Beau, Host