Activities of Members

Dr. Thomas L. Altherr of Denver, Co. has been awarded the EAIA Grant-in-Aid for his project, "Plow Design in the Jeffersonian Era, 1760-1825."

Harry H. Anderson, Milwaukee County Historical Society, executive director, retired at the end of June. He was executive director for thirty-five years.

Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin, Professor of History and Urban Studies, has received the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for her project, "The State Encounters the Household."

Arlene Avakian, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, recently published Through the Kitchen Window: Women Explore the Intimate Meaning of Food and Cooking.

Robin Bachin, University of Miami, Charlton W. Tebeau Assistant Professor of History, received the 1997 John Reps prize for best dissertation in American Planning History, from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. Her dissertation is titled, "Cultural Boundaries: Constructing Urban Space and Civic Culture on Chicago's South Side, 1890-1919" (Michigan, 1996). She was also awarded a Mellon Foundation Fellowship from the Newberry Library for winter 1999.

Ronald H. Bayor, Georgia Tech, has received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for his book Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America.

Caryn Crossé Bell, Worcester State College, received the American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the book Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868.

David Bell, Johns Hopkins University, Associate Professor of History, has received the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for his project, "The National and the Sacred in Early Modern France."

Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, member of the Department of History, has been presented the 1998 Douglass Adair Memorial for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly for his article, "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America," which appeared in the April 1996 issue of the William and Mary Quarterly.

Roger E. Bilstein, University of Houston-Clear Lake, had a recent history, The American Aerospace Industry: From Workshop to Global Enterprise named as "one of the outstanding academic books of 1997," as selected by the editors of CHOICE, the journal of the American Library Association.

Kevin Boyle, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, recently published Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Working Class Life in Detroit, 1900-1930, along with Victoria Getis.

Marty Blatt, Boston National Historical Park, was elected to the Organization of American Historians nominating board and to the National Council on Public History board of directors. He received, as well, the 1997 Founders' Day Award from the Charles River Museum in Waltham.

Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut, Professor of History, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "Family violence and community justice in the early American republic."

Leslie Butler, Reed College, visiting Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for her research topic, "James Russell Lowell and the Cultural Politics of Antebellum American Nationalism." She has also been presented the Massachusetts Historical Society Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for her research topic "The Mugwump Dilemma: Democracy and Cultural Authority in Victorian America."

Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College, recently published After King Phillip's War: Presence and Persistence in Indian New England.

Paul H. Carlson, Texas Tech University, won the American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the book Empire Builder in Texas.

Francis M. Carroll, St. John's College, Professor of History, was awarded the Bicentennial Fellowship to study the American presence in Ulster during the past two hundred years. He will spend six months in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Scott E. Casper, University of Nevada, Reno, Associate Professor of History, is the recipient of the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for his research topic, "First Families: Presidents at Home in the American Imagination, 1789-1920." Casper is also the recipient of the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library Fellowship. He will receive long-term support funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Paul A. Cimbala, Fordham University, recently published Under the Guardianship of the Nation: The Freedmen's Bureau and the Reconstruction of Georgia, 1865-1870.

Catherine Cocks, University of California, Adjunct Lecturer, is a recipient of the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library Fellowship for her topic "A Nice Place to Visit: Urban Tourism and the Commodification of Social Relations in the United States, 1850-1915."

Robert E. Cray, Jr., Montclair State University, has been awarded the 1998 Ralph D. Gray best article prize by the Society for the Historians of the Early American Republic for his article "Major John Andre and the Three Captors: Class Dynamics and Revolutionary Memory Wars in the Early Republic, 1780-1831," which was published in the Fall, 1997 issue of the Journal of the Early Republic.

Scott Culclasure, High Point High School, International Baccalaureate Coordinator, received the Library of Congress American Memory Fellowship.

Jim Cullen, Harvard University, recently published The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States.

John P. Daly, Louisiana Tech, won the American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the Summer Teacher Institute Southern History in Film and Fiction.

Robert L. Daniel, Ohio University, won the American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the book Athens, Ohio: The Village Years.

Colin J. Davis, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Associate Professor of History, has received a New York State Archives Grant under the Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program for his research topic, "African American Longshoremen in New York City: the Post WWII Era of Challenge and Confrontation."

John D'Emilio, University of North Carolina, Professor of History, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "A biography of Bayard Rustin."

James Deutsch, George Washington University, received a Fulbright Lectureship for 1998-99 to teach American Studies at the University of Veliko Turnovo in Bulgaria.

Konstantin Dierks, Brown University, Ph.D. candidate in history, has been awarded the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for the research topic, "Letter Writing, Gender, and the Middling Sort in America, 1750-1800."

Candace Falk, University of California, Editor and Director of The Emma Goldman Papers, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "Essays on Emma Goldman."

Ann Fidler, Ohio University, Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded the American Antiquarian Society Stephen Botein Fellowship for her research topic, "A Cultural History of the American Law Book, 1700-1900."

Bridget Ford, University of California, Davis, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of the American Antiquarian Society Legacy Fellowship for her research topic, "People of Sorrow, Children of Grace."

William M. Fowler, Jr., Northeastern University, is the new director of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Alison Games, Georgetown University, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the Massachusetts Historical Society Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for her research topic, "Agents of Empire: English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1558-1660."

Victoria Getis, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, recently published Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Working Class Life in Detroit, 1900-1930, along with Kevin Boyle.

Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Loyola University, Associate Professor of History, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "George Appo and the Urban Underworld of 19th-Century America."

Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has been invited by the American Studies Institute, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China to give a series of lectures on American immigration history in early September with a grant from the State Education Commission.

Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University, Assistant Professor of History and Law, has been awarded the Massachusetts Historical Society W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship to support research for her work, "The Evolution of Legal Culture in Early American Cities: Boston, Charleston, and Philadelphia."

Nancy L. Hagedorn, St. John's University, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for her research topic, "Interpreters Among the Iroquois, 1664-1775."

Matthew Hale, Brandeis University, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library Fellowship for his topic, "The Making of the American Nation, 1789-1830."

Robin O. Harris, Georgia Tech, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of the William Bacon Stevens Award, presented every other year to the best article written by a student for the Georgia Historical Quarterly for her article, "'To Illustrate the Genius of Southern Womanhood': Julia Flisch and her Campaign for the Higher Education of Georgia Women."

Mark Herlihy, Brown University, Ph.D. candidate, Department of American Civilization, has been presented the Massachusetts Historical Society Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for his research topic, "Leisure, Space, and Collective Memory in Boston, 1890-1980."

R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson, University of Oregon, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of the Massachusetts Historical Society Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for the research topic, "Roads to the Modern State: Fiscal Policy in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Oregon, and Nevada."

Harwood P. Hinton, Austin, Texas, OAH Life Member, has been newly elected to the Board of Directors, Friends of the Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Richard R. John, University of Illinois, Chicago, Associate Professor of History, has received the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for his project, "Visions of Enterprise: The Political Origins of the Modern Communications Infrastructure in the United States, 1837-1917."

John F. Kasson, University of North Carolina, Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of American Studies, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "The White Male Body and the Crisis of Modernity in America, 1893-1917."

Michael Kazin, American University, Professor of History, is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for his project, "The People and William Jennings Bryan."

Robin D. G. Kelley, New York University, recently published Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America.

Alan Kraut, American University, has been newly appointed as the Program Chair of the Immigration History Society.

Gary Laderman, Emory University, has been awarded a Louisville Institute Summer Stipend grant for "The Business of Death: The Funeral Industry in American Cultural History."

Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University, Associate Professor of History, has received the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for her project, "Race and Etiquette in America from the 1960s to the 1990s."

Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia, Professor of History, received the 1998 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for "A History of the United States, 1941-2000."

Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin, won the American Association for State and Local History Award of Merit for the book History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past.

Charles H. Lippy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been awarded a Louisville Institute Summer Stipend grant for "Pluralism Comes of Age: American Religious Culture in the Twentieth Century."P>

Howard Lurie, Greylark Regional High School, Technology Coordinator, received a Library of Congress American Memory Fellowship.

Timothy P. McCarthy, Columbia University, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of the Massachusetts Historical Society Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship to support research for his work, "An Abolitionist America: Antislavery culture and the Making of a Nation."

Colin McCoy, University of Delaware, Ph.D. candidate in history, has received the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for his research topic, "Partisans and Pamphleteers: The Literature of Persuasion in Jacksonian America, 1820-1845."

Margaret T. McFadden, Yale University, received the ASA's Ralph Gabriel Dissertation Prize for "Anything Goes: Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930s."

Phillip McGuire, Fayetteville State University, Professor of History, recently won the University of North Carolina Board of Governors' Award for Excellence in Teaching for 1998 for Fayetteville State University. He received a bronze medallion and $7,500.

Barbara Melosh, George Mason University, Professor of English and History, has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for her project, "Strangers and Kin: A History of Adoption in the United States.

Patrick B. Miller, Northeastern Illinois University, Associate Professor of History, has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to lecture in Germany at Westfalische Wilhelms-Univeristat in Munster during the 1998-99 academic year.

Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University, has been named the David Meid Mentor for 1998 at Marymount College in California.

Brian C. Mitchell, Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP), President, was recently elected the eleventh president of Washington and Jefferson College.

Laura Mitchell, National Museum of American History, received a Library of Congress American Memory Fellowship.

Jessamyn Neuhaus, Claremont Graduate School, received the Newsletter of the North East Popular Culture Association Prize for the best paper by a graduate student at the 1996 conference at Quinnipiac College. The prize was a certificate of merit and $200 for the paper "Punctured: Body Piercing and Power Plays in Contemporary United States Popular Culture."

Jean M. O'Brien, University of Minnesota, Assistant Professor of History, has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship through the American Antiquarian Society for the research topic, "Changing Identities: Native American Peoples in Early New England."

John E. O'Connor, Rutgers University, and Peter C. Rollins, Oklahoma State University, recently published Hollywood's Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film.

Tod M. Ottman, State University of New York at Albany, Ph.D. candidate in history, is the recipient of a New York State Archives Grant under the Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program to support research for his work, "The Impact of World War II on the Policies and Politics of New York State Government."

Phillip S. Paludan, will deliver "War and Home: The Civil War Encounter," the seventh annual Frank L. Klement Lecture, at Marquette University on October 19, 1998.

Donald J. Ratcliffe, University of Durham, senior lecturer in history, has been awarded the American Antiquarian Society Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship for his research topic, "Political Responses in the United States to Participation in the British Informal Empire, 1783-1865."

Paul Schadewald, Indiana University, has been awarded a Louisville Dissertation Fellowship for "Remapping Race, Religion, and Community in St. Louis: St. Elizabeth's Parish and the Legacy of Black Catholicism."

Bruce Schulman, Boston University, is the new director of the American and New England Studies Program at Boston University.

Ruth Shackelford, Long Island University, is now an Assistant Professor of History.

Barry Shank, University of Kansas, Associate Professor of American Studies, is the recipient of the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library Fellowship for his research topic, "A Token of My Affection: A Cultural History of Greeting Cards in America."

Gerald E. Shenk, California State University, Professor of History, is the recipient of the E. Merton Coulter Award for best article to appear in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in 1997 for his article, "Race, Manhood, and Manpower: Mobilizing Rural Georgia for World War I."

John David Smith, North Carolina State University has been named Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universitat, Munich, Germany, for 1998-1999.

Jonathan Soffer, Polytechnic University, is the recipient of a grant-in-aid from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library for "American Business and the Moral Economy of Military Keynesianism."

Daniel Soyer, Fordham University, recently published Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939.

Helen Stephan, McLean High School, History Department Chair, received the Library of Congress American Memory Fellowship.

Karim M. Tiro, University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. candidate in history, has been awarded a New York State Archives Grant under the Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program to support research for his work, "The People of the Standing Stone: the Oneida Indian Nation from Revolution through Removal, 1768-1850."

Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary, Professor of History, is the recipient of the American Antiquarian Society-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Fellowship and a Louisville Institute Summer Stipend grant for his research topic, "Religion, Moral Discipline, and the Market in Early America."

Sean Wilentz, Princeton University, Professor of History and Director of Program in American Studies, has been awarded the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship for his project, "The Rise of American Democracy, 1787-1860."

James C. Williams, won an American Association for State and Local History Certificate of Commendation for the book Energy and the Making of Modern California.

Lawrence Wittner, State University of New York/Albany, received a 1998 summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities for research on volume 3 of his award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb.

James Wright, Dartmouth College, Professor of U.S. History, was named the college's 16th president. He has been a professor at Dartmouth since 1969.

Kyle F. Zelner, The college of William & Mary, Ph.D. candidate in history, has been awarded the Massachusetts Historical Society W.B.H. Dowse Fellowship for his research topic, "New England's Two Militias: A Social History of English Military Precedent and American Militia Practice during King Philip's War, 1675-1676."

Awards Grants and Fellowships.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Ortho Pharmaceutical Corporation jointly sponsor two $5,000 fellowships in the History of American Obstetrics and Gynecology each year. The fellows spend one month in the Washington DC area working full-time to complete their specific historical research project. Deadline is September 1, 1998. Contact: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Susan Rishworth, History Librarian/Archivist, 409 Twelfth Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024-2588; (202) 863-2578; fax (202) 484-1595; srishwor@acog.com

The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians invite applications for two $500 Graduate Student Awards to assist women graduate students in the completion of dissertation work. Deadline is September 15, 1998. Application may be downloaded from www.plu.edu/~hamesgl/ Contact: Professor Gina Hames, CCWH Awards Committee Chair, History Department, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA 98447; hamesgl@plu.edu

The Gerald R. Ford Library is accepting applications for researchers in national politics, government, or related topics, especially in the 1970s, to apply for travel grants up to $2000 to use the Gerald R. Ford Library collections. Deadlines are March 15 and September 15 of each year. Contact: Mr. Geir Gundersen, Grants Coordinator, Gerald R. Ford Library, 1000 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109; (734) 741-2218; fax (734)741-2341; library@fordlib.nara.gov www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ford/

The American Philosophical Society offers grants which average $3000 towards the cost of scholarly research in all areas of knowledge (excluding those which may receive government grants) for those who have held the doctorate for at least one year. Preferred grants to projects which will have scholarly publications. There are three different deadlines during the year, March 1, October 1, and December 1. For more information, contact: (215) 440-3429; eroach@amphilsoc.org; forms and information available through www.amphilsoc.org

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of Washington, D.C. annually awards residential fellowships to approximately 20 individuals with outstanding project proposals in the humanities and social sciences on national and international issues. Fellows receive many benefits. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: Fellowships Office, Woodrow Wilson Center, 1000 Jefferson Drive, S.W., SI MRC 022, Washington, DC 20560; (202) 357-2847;fax (202) 357-4439; wcfellow@sivm.si.edu http://wwics.si.edu

The Irish American Cultural Institute is accepting applications from research individuals to investigate the Irish experience in America. The Institute welcomes applications from all disciplines. Primary research is the focus of this program. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: Irish Research fund, Irish American Cultural Institute, 1 Lackawanna Place, Morristown, NJ 07960; (973) 605-1991; irishwaynj@aol.com.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens are offering approximately one hundred fellowships for research in British and American literature, history, art, and history of science, using materials at the Library. Huntington Research Awards are for one to five months and carry monthly stipends of $1,800. The W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowships for Young Scholars intend to support the completion of a dissertation or the beginning of a new project and may be held for one to three months and carry monthly stipends of $2,300. The Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended to support a non-tenured faculty member who is revising a manuscript for publication, carrying a stipend of $30,000 for nine to twelve months. The NEH Fellowships offer stipends of up to $30,000 for four to twelve months. Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are for nine to twelve months with a stipend of $30,000. Deadline is October 1- December 15, 1998. Contact: Chair, Committee on Fellowships, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108; (626) 405-2194; cpowell@huntington.org

The National Endowment for the Humanities has a Summer Stipends program, which supports two months of full-time research on a project in the humanities with an award of $4,000. If an applicant is a faculty member of a college or university, then they should be nominated by their institution, but those not affiliated with an institution need no nomination. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: NEH Summer Stipends, Room 318, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20506; (202) 606-8551; stipends@neh.gov

The American Antiquarian Society will award to qualified scholars a number of short and long term visiting fellowships during the period of June 1, 1999 - May 31, 2000. Research Associate status (without stipend) will be available to qualified applicants. The AAS also sponsors fellowships for creative artists and writers whose work is intended for the general public rather than for the academic community. Deadline is October 15, 1998. Contact: John B. Hench, Vice President for the Academic and Public Programs, Room A, American Antiquarian Society, 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA 01609-1634; (508) 752-5813 or 755-5221; cfs@mwa.org

The National Humanities Center offers 35-40 fellowships for advanced study in all fields of the humanities. Deadline is October 15, 1998. Contact: Fellowship Program, National Humanities Center, P.O. Box 12256, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709-2256; www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080.

The Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University announces its postdoctoral fellowship competition for the 1999-2000 academic year. Fellows newly appointed for 1999-2000 must have received the Ph.D. between January 1, 1993 and July 1, 1999. Deadline for receipt of completed application is October 15, 1998. Contact: Director, Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Mail Code 5700, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, New York 10027.

The Pew Program in Religion and American History announces a fellowship and research grant competition for historians entering the college and university teaching profession whose scholarship stresses interrelationships between religion and American history in any era and region from 1600 to 1980. Deadline is October 16, 1998. Contact: Pew Program in Religion and American History, Yale University, P.O. Box 208287, (320 Temple St.), New Haven, CT 06520-8287.

The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago announces the Nebenzahl Prize for dissertations in the History of Cartography. Deadline is November 1, 1998. Contact: James Akerman, Director, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, the Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610-3380; (312) 255-3523; akermanj@newberry.org.

The James H. Hill Reference Library will award a number of grants of up to $2,000 to support research in the James J. Hill and Louis W. Hill papers. The Hill papers are a rich source for the study of the railroad industry, tourism and Glacier National Park, political developments in the nation and the Northwest, national and regional economic development, agronomy, and many other topics concerned with the Upper Midwest, pacific Northwest, and Western Canada. Deadline is November 1, 1998. Awards will be announced in early 1999. Contact: W. Thomas White, Curator, James J. Hill Reference Library, 80 West Fourth Street, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102; (612) 265-5441; fax (612) 222-4139; twhite@jjhill.org

The Harvard Business School and the Newcomen Society of the United States announce a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 1999-2000. The stipend is $46,000 for twelve months plus travel, book funds, and administrative support. Deadline is November 6, 1998. Contact: Professor Nancy Koehn, c/o Elizabeth Sampson, Morgan Hall 290, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA 02163; esampson@hbs.edu.

The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites submissions for its annual article competition. The Society will give an award of $500 for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection between September 1997 and August 1998. Authors must become members of the Society. Deadline is November 15, 1998. Contact: Sheila Skemp, Department of History, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677.

The Stanford Humanities Center will offer six to eight external fellowships for 1999-2000 in the following categories: senior fellowships for well-established scholars; junior fellowships for scholars who at the beginning of their fellowship year will be at least three years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. For 1999-2000 junior Fellows will be offered stipends of up to $25,000 and senior Fellows stipends of up to $40,000. In addition, a housing/travel subsidy of up to $12,500 is offered. Deadline is November 15, 1998. Contact: Stanford Humanities Center, Mariposa House, 546 Salvatierra Walk, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-8630; (650) 723-3052; fax (650) 723-1895.

The Rockefeller Archive Center invites applications for its program of Travel and Research Grants at the Rockefeller Archive Center for 1999. Applicants from any discipline may apply for the program which awards grants of up to $2,500 to U.S. and Canadian researchers and $3000 to researchers from other countries. Eligible applicants, usually graduate students or post-doctoral students, should be engaged in research that requires use of the Center's collections. In addition the Center will also award grants to support research on topics related to the history of conservation and ecology and the history of Rockefeller University. Deadline is November 30, 1998. Contact: Darwin H. Stapleton, Director, Rockefeller Archive center, 15 Dayton Avenue, Pocantico Hills, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591-1598; (914) 631-4504; fax (914) 631-6017; archive@rockvax.rockefeller.edu.

The American Philosophical Society now has applications for the John Clarke Slater Fellowship which supports doctoral dissertation research in the history of the twentieth-century physical sciences. Candidates for the doctorate may apply but must have passed all preliminary examinations or the equivalent and the topic must focus on the history of the physical sciences in the twentieth century. Deadline is December 1, 1998. Contact: Slater Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, 104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106; (215) 440-3429; eroach@amphilsoc.org; information and forms available at www.amphilsoc.org

The Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies is offering a limited number of research fellowships in connection with its historical and comparative study of "Conversion: Sacred and Profane," a series of weekly seminars and periodic conferences devoted the study of the range of processes by which individuals and groups come to accept or engage beliefs, ideas, rituals or social and material practices different from those with which they began. These fellowships run for one semester either in the fall or spring and are for younger scholars who have recently completed their dissertation and senior scholars. Fellows are expected to live at Princeton in order to participate in the Seminar. Deadline is December 1, 1998. Contact: The Manager, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, 129 Dickinson Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1017.

The Journal of the History of Ideas awards each year the Morris D. Forkosch Prize for a book in intellectual history, the stipend of which is now $2000. Submissions are limited to the first book published by any author and to books published in English (no translations or collections) pertaining to one or more of the major disciplines associated with "intellectual history" broadly conceived. Deadline is December 31, 1998. Contact: Professor Donald R. Kelley, Editor, Journal of the History of Ideas, 88 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8542; (732) 932-1227; fax (732) 932-8708; dkelley@rci.rutgers.edu

The Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University will be offering four to six postdoctoral fellowships tenurable from September 1999-May 2000 providing a stipend of $30,000 per academic year. The program endeavors to optimize the intellectual links between Western and non-Western studies, contemporary and historical work, the social sciences and the humanities in the context of research of rural life and society. Fellows must have completed the dissertation and have a full-time paid position to which they may return. Fellows are expected to pursue their own research and participate in the program's colloquium series while residing in New Haven. Deadline for initial applications is January 1, 1999. Contact: James C. Scott, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, Box 208300, New Haven, CT 06520-8300; fax (203) 432-5036.

The John Carter Brown Library of Providence, RI, announces twenty-five short- and long-term Research Fellowships for the period from June 1, 1999- May 31, 2000. The fellowships are open to foreign nationals as well as to U.S. citizens who are currently engaged in pre- and post-doctoral, or independent research. The Library concentrates on the history of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (ca. 1492 to ca. 1825). All fellows must relocate to Providence for the year. Deadline is January 15, 1999. Contact: John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, RI 02912; (401) 863-2725; JCBL_Fellowships@brown.edu http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission invites applications for its 1999-2000 Scholars in Residence Program and its newly inaugurated Collaborative Residency Program. The program provides support for full-time research and study at any Commission facility, including the State Archives, The State Museum, and 26 historical sites and museums. They will fund original research which relates to the interpretive mission of PHMC sites and museums and advances a specific programmatic goal of the host site of museum. Residencies are available for four to twelve weeks between May 1, 1999 and April 30, 2000, at the rate of $1200 per month. Deadline is January 15, 1999. Contact: Division of History, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108; (717) 787-3034; Robert_Weible@PHMC.state.pa.us; www.state.pa.us/PA_EXEC/Historical_Museum.

The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies in the Department of History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas welcomes applications for three research fellowships: the Clements Research Fellowship in Southwest Studies; The Carl B. and Florence E. King Research Fellowship in southwestern history; and the Summerfield-Roberts Research Fellowship in Texas history. The fellowships are designed to provide time for senior or junior scholars to bring book-length manuscripts to completion. Fellows would be expected to spend the 1999-2000 academic year at SMU, teach one course during the two-semester duration of the fellowship, and participate in Center activities. Each fellow will receive the support of the Center and access to the holdings of the DeGolyer Library. Fellowships carry a stipend of $30,000, health benefits, a modest allowance for research and travel expenses, and a subvention for the publication of the book. Deadline is January 15, 1999. Contact: David J. Weber, Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Dept. of History, SMU, Dallas, TX 75275-0176; www.smu.edu/~swcenter The Minnesota Humanities Commission offers a variety of grants supporting humanities programming. Grants are awarded to a wide-range of humanities activities from the individual to the organizational level. Contact: MHC Grant Office; (612) 774-0105.

The American Association for the History of Medicine is sponsoring the Shyrock Medal Essay Contest for Graduate students in the U.S. and Canada. The medal honors Richard Harrison Shryock (1893-1972), a pioneer among historians interested in the history of medicine. The award is given for an outstanding, unpublished essay on any topic in the history of medicine. The essay must be the result of original research. The winner will be invited to attend the meeting of the Association to be held May 6-9, 1999 in New Brunswick, New Jersey where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses for the winner will be provided. Deadline is February 1, 1999. Contact: Thomas P. Gariepy, Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science Program, Stonehill College, 320 Washington Street, Easton, MA, 02357.

The Quaker Collection of Haverford College announces the availability of three $1500 Guest Fellowships for one month of research using Quaker Collection materials to study a topic that explores the connections and relationships between various ways of expressing religious belief in the world. The fellowships, which are available for pre- or post-graduate study, may be used for any one month period between July 1, 1999 and January 31, 2000. Deadline is February 1, 1999. Contact: Ann W. Upton, Quaker Collection, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041; (610) 896-1161; fax (610) 896-1102; aupton@haverford.edu.

Monticello's International Center for Jefferson Studies in Charlottesville, VA is announcing a program of residential fellowships and travel grants. This fellowship program is supported by the Coca-Cola Foundation and the Batten Foundation and is open to all scholars working on Jefferson or Jefferson-related projects. Fellowships for those in U.S. and Canada are $1,500 and for international fellows, the fellowship is $2000. There are also travel grants for scholars and teachers who wish to make short-term visits to Monticello. Deadline is March 1, 1999. Applications should include a description of applicant's project, a current curriculum vita, and the names and addresses of three references. Contact: Saunders Director, International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, P.O. Box 316, Charlottesville, VA 22902.

The Western Association of Women Historians invites applications for its 1998 Graduate Student Fellowship. Applicants must be members of the WAWH, advanced to candidacy, writing the dissertation at the time of application, and expecting to receive the Ph.D. no earlier than December 1999. The $1,000 award may be used for expenses related to the dissertation. Deadline is March 1, 1999. Contact: Nancy Page Fernandez, Department of History, CSU Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330; nancy.fernandez@csun.edu.

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era announces its biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of American history between 1865 and 1917. The article must have appeared in journals dated 1997 or 1998. Deadline is December 1, 1999. Contact: Robert E. Weir, Chair, SHGAPE Prize Committee, Liberal Studies Department, Bay Path College, Longmeadow, MA 01106.

The Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma seeks applicants for its Visiting Scholars Program, which provides financial assistance to researchers working at the Center's archives. Topics that can be studied include the Great Depression, flood control, soil conservation and tribal affairs, etc. Graduate students involved in research for publication, thesis, or dissertation are encouraged to apply. Interested undergraduates and lay researchers are also invited to apply. Contact: Archivist, Carl Albert Center, 630 Parrington Oval, Room 101, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0375; (404) 325-6372; fax (405) 325-6419; kosmerick@ou.edu.

Calls for Papers

The Pioneer America Society seeks proposal for papers, special sessions, and panel discussions for its annual conference, "Wilmington: A Port Town and its Hinterlands in the Early British Colonial South," November 5-7,1998 in Wilmington, North Carolina. Proposals may cover any facet of folk and vernacular material culture. Abstracts should be submitted no later than August 15, 1998 and should include the title, author(s), affiliation and a typed, single-spaced, 200 word paragraph. Contact: W. Frank Ainsley, ERS Department, University of North Carolina. Wilmington, North Carolina 28403; (910) 962-3493; fax (910) 962-7077; ainsley@uncwil.edu.

The Artificial Parts and Practical Lives, an interdisciplinary anthology on the history of modern prosthetic devices, seeks contributions from scholars and graduate students that explore prostheses as historical objects or as forms of material culture. Deadline is August 31, 1998. Send a 250 word abstract to Katherine Ott; ott@nmah.si.edu; fax (202) 633-9290.

The Western History Association invites paper and panel proposals for the organization's 39th annual conference to be held October 6-9, 1999 in Portland, Oregon. The conference theme is: "The American West, Promise and Prospect." Proposals should be sent as one- or two-page abstracts. Deadline is August 31, 1998. Contact: Professor L. G. Moses, Co-chair, 1999 WHA Program Committee, Department of History, LSW 501, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 74078-3054; (405) 744-8180; fax (405) 744-5400; Mos7538@Okway.okstate.edu.

The American Culture Association is seeking proposals for its paper sessions for the "Cemeteries and Gravemarkers" permanent section at the ACA's 1999 annual meeting to be held March 31- April 3, 1999 in San Diego, California. Topics can be from any appropriate disciplinary perspective. A 250 word abstract or proposal and a 50 word description is requested by the deadline. Deadline is September 1, 1998. Contact: J. Joseph Edgette, Ph.D., Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013; (610) 499-4241; fax (610) 876-9751; j.j.edgette@widener.edu.

The Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina will host a conference examining "Slavery in Early South Carolina" on February 12-13, 1999. Deadline is September 15, 1998. Contact: Thomas J. Brown, Assistant Director, Institute for Southern Studies, Gambrell Hall, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; www.cla.sc.edu/ISS.

The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS) invites proposals for paper and full sessions for "Reunions, Celebrations, and Anniversaries," a conference signifying SEASECS' 25^th Anniversary meeting to be held March 4-6, 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Proposals may cover any aspect of the "long eighteenth century." Prizes will be awarded to graduate students presenting the best papers at the conference. Please send proposal along with a c.v. for each participant. Deadline is September 15, 1998. Contact: Dr. Barbara Schnorrenberg, 3824 Eleventh Ave. South, Birmingham, AL 35222; fax (205) 595-2191.

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of Connecticut will sponsor a conference on "Microhistory: Advantages and Limitations for the Study of Early American History," October 15-17, 1999, at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Practitioners and critics are invited to submit proposals (up to 10 pages) that either employ or assess microhistorical methods. Studies dealing with persons, places, or events from the era of exploration through the early national period will be welcomed. Deadline is September 18, 1998. Seven copies of each proposal, together with a short form c.v., should be sent to Professor Richard D. Brown, Microhistory Conference, Department of History, University of Connecticut, 241 Glenbrook Road, Storrs, CT 06269-2103.

The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture seeks proposals for papers for its fifth annual conference to be held June 4-6, 1999 at the University of Texas at Austin. The conference hopes to provide a forum for the study of early America including all aspects of the lives of North America's indigenous and immigrant peoples during the colonial, Revolutionary and early national periods of the U.S. and the related histories of Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, the British Isles, Europe and Africa from the sixteenth century to approximately 1815. Deadline is September 18, 1998. Contact: Professor John J. McCusker, Program Chair, Fifth Annual OIEAHC Conference, Trinity University, Department of History, 315 Stadium Drive, San Antonio, TX 78212; www.utexas.edu/academic/oieahc.

The Trustees for Harvard University invite papers for their Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks 2000 symposium. Papers should focus on the practice of landscape design along with the experience of motion in a landscape. Deadline is September 30, 1998. Contact: Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd St. NW, Washington, DC 20007; (202) 339-6460; fax (202) 628-0432; landscape@doaks.org.

The Women's History Faculty at the Graduate Center, City University New York, invites proposals to re-examine existing paradigms and explore emerging ones in the field at a conference to be held in New York City, March 12-13, 1999. Established scholars are urged to apply in pairs with a graduate student or recent Ph.D. Deadline is September 30, 1998. Contact: Ph.D. Program in History, City University of New York Graduate Center, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, Attn. Prof. Bonnie S. Anderson.

The Office of Historic Alexandria requests papers that examine any aspect of the social cultural, political or economic history of Alexandria from 1749-1819 for a scholarly conference to be held October 15-16, 1999 celebrating the 250th anniversary of its founding. Presenters will receive a $300 honorarium and travel expenses. Deadline is September 30, 1998. Send a proposal no longer than 250 words and a resume or vita to: Patrick H. Butler, Chair, Education Committee, c/o The Office of Historic Alexandria, Box 178, City Hall, Alexandria, VA 22313; (703) 838-4554.

The American Association for the History of Medicine will hold their 1999 Annual Meeting May 5-9, 1999 in New Brunswick, New Jersey and are inviting proposals for presenting a paper at the conference. Any subject in the history of medicine is suitable, but the paper must represent original work not already published. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: Dr. Elizabeth Fee, Chief, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bldg. 38, Room 1E-21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894.

The Pratt Bicentennial Celebration Committee invites junior and senior scholars to submit proposals for presentations to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Daniel Pratt, Alabama's most celebrated antebellum industrialist at a conference on February 19 and 20, 1999 in Prattville, Alabama. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Submit a one page abstract to the Pratt bicentennial Celebration committee, P.O. box 680869, Prattville, Alabama 36068-0869.

The Armenians of New England Committee invite paper proposals on the history, development, and characteristics of Armenians in New England for their regional conference on April 9-10, 1999. Publication of selected papers will follow the conference. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: Armenians of New England Committee, c/o National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, MA 02178; (617) 923-4542; armnec@aol.com.

Shorter College is sponsoring a symposium called "Georgia Women Meeting Challenges" in conjunction with the Eighth Annual Induction Ceremony and Luncheon of Georgia Women of Achievement, Inc. on March 26-27, 1999 in Rome, GA. Deadline is October 1, 1998. Contact: Dr. Alice Taylor-Colbert, Shorter College, 315 Shorter Ave., Box 256, Rome, GA 30165; (703) 233-7258; fax (706) 236-1515; atcolbert@shorter.peachnet.edu.

The Great Lakes American Studies Association invites proposals for individual papers, presentations, sessions, and workshops for submission for its annual conference at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, March 12-14, 1999. The conference theme is "Labor and Leisure in Everyday Lives." Deadline is October 5, 1998. Contact: Linda J. Borish, Conference Chair, (616) 387-4631; fax (616) 387-3999; linda.borish@wmich.edu.

The University of Houston is holding a "Houston's Black History Workshop," March 25-28, 1999 and are requesting papers for the workshop's theme of "The Atlantic Slave Trade and New World Slavery." Participation in the workshop is limited to senior graduate students, those who plan to defend their dissertation in the next year, and junior faculty members, those who have defended their dissertation in the last three years. Cost of travel and accommodations will be covered by the workshop. Participants will also be offered a modest honorarium of $200. Deadline is October 15, 1998. Contact: Richard Blackett and Linda Reed, Department of History, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-3785.

The Society for Military History requests papers for its 1999 annual meeting April 15-18, 1999 at Penn State University. The conference's all-inclusive theme will be "War in History, Myth, and Memory: An End-of-Millennium Retrospective." Proposals for individual papers and complete sessions on any topic in "old" or "new" military history are welcome. Deadline is October 15, 1998. Contact: Professor Carol Reardon, 1999 SMH Conference, Department of History, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802; (814) 863-2658; CAR9@psu.edu.

The North American Society for Oceanic History requests papers that relate to its 1999 Annual Meeting theme, the maritime history and archaeology of the Lake Champlain, Lake George, St. Lawrence, Hudson and Mohawk river and canal corridors. Deadline is October 31, 1998. Submit proposal packages as complete sessions of no more than three papers per session to: Dr. Joseph F. Meany Jr., 1999 NASOH Program Chair, New York State Museum, Room 3097 CEC, Albany, New York 12230.

The Hagley Museum and Library will hold a conference "Beauty and Business" on March 26, 1999 to mark the opening of the Avon Products, Inc. archive to researchers. Proposals for papers are invited which address historically the role played by business in the development and transformation of modern notions of beauty, and the ways in which changing conceptions of beauty have in turn influenced business practices. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 500 words. Deadline is November 1, 1998. Contact: Dr. Roger Horowitz, Associate Director, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington, DE 19807; rh@udel.edu.

The University of Delaware-Hagley Fellows Conference invites paper proposals for 1999 conference , "Private Time, Private Space, Private Parts: negotiating the Boundaries of Private and Public in History" to be held February 26, 1999 in Wilmington, Delaware. Deadline is November 1, 1998. Submit paper proposals of no more than 500 words and a brief CV to: Hagley Fellows Conference, Attention Deborah Kreiser, Department of History, University of Delaware, 236 Munroe Hall, Newark, DE 19716; (302) 831-2371.

The Western Social Science Association Annual Conference will be held April 21-24, 1999 in Fort Worth, Texas. Proposals for papers and panels on American Studies topics are welcome. Proposals should be 150 word abstracts. Deadline is November, 1, 1998. Contact: Daniel J. McInerney, WSSA-American Studies Program Coordinator, Utah State University, 0710 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-0710; (435) 797-1283; fax (435) 797-3899; danielj@wpo.hass.usu.edu.

The Rural Studies Section of the Western Social Science Association also requests papers for the annual conference dealing with any aspect of rural or agricultural studies. Deadline is also November 1, 1998. Contact: Elaine Naylor, History Dept., York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; (416) 516-1991; fax (416) 736-5836; enaylor@yorku.ca.

The interdisciplinary Association for Arid Lands Studies invites abstracts of papers on the history, geography, politics, environment, and development of the world's arid regions. Papers will be presented during the Western Social Science Association conference April 21-24, 1999 in Fort Worth, TX. Abstracts should be no longer than 150 words. Deadline is November 15, 1998. Contact: Charles Coate, Department of History, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR 97850-2899; fax (541) 962-3898; ccoate@eou.edu.

The 42nd Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, March 11-13, 1999. Proposals for papers and sessions in all areas of history are welcome. Proposals, consisting of a cover letter, abstract(s), and vitae are requested. Deadline is November 15, 1998. Contact: Oliver B. Pollak, MVHC Program Coordinator, Department of History, University of Nebraska at Omaha, NE 68182; opollak@cwis.unomaha.edu (only inquiries may be made through e-mail, no submissions).

Siena College requests papers for is fourteenth annual, international, multidisciplinary conference on the 60th anniversary of World War II, June 3-4, 1999. Although the focus of the conference will be 1939, papers dealing with a wide-range of topics are welcome. Deadline is November 15, 1998. Contact: Professor Thomas O. Kelly, II, Department of History, Siena College, 515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NY 12211-1462; (518) 783-2512; fax (518) 786-5052; legendziewic@siena.edu.

The 24th annual meeting of the Economic and Business Historical Society will be held at The Menger Hotel in San Antonio, TX, April 8-11, 1999. The Society welcomes proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of North American, European, and non-Western economic and business history, of all time periods. Proposals and abstracts should be a two page maximum. Deadline is January 15, 1999. Contact: Douglas Steeples, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of History, Mercer University, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, GA 31207-0001; fax (912) 752-4120; steeples_dw@mercer.edu.

The Journal on Firearms and Public Policy seeks articles for its forthcoming volume 10 (1998) and volume 11 (1999). The journal is interdisciplinary, and prints original articles dealing with all aspects of the firearms issue, including both legal and historical aspects. There are no minimum or maximum page limits for articles. Contact: David B. Kopel, Editor-in-Chief, Independence Institute, 14142 Denver West Parkway, Suite 185, Golden, CO 80401; (303) 279-6536; david@i2i.org.

The Program Committee of the North American Labor History Conference invites proposals for panels and papers on the theme, Class and Politics in Historical and Contemporary Perspective, for their meeting to be held October 21-23, 1999, at Wayne State University in Detroit. Deadline is March 15, 1999. Submit panel and paper proposals to: Elizabeth Faue, Coordinator, North American Labor History Conference, Department of History, 3094 Faculty Administration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202; (313) 577-2525.

The Oral History Association invites proposals for papers and presentations for its annual meeting to be held October 7-10, 1999 in Anchorage, Alaska. The theme of the meeting is "Giving Voice: Oral Historians and the Shaping of Narrative." Proposals are welcomed that explore the relationship of interviewers and narrators as well as those that discuss the implications of editing decisions in subsequent writing and production. Contact: Susan Armitage, Editor, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Washington State University, Women's Studies Program, Pullman, WA 99164-4007; (509) 335-8569; armitage@wsu.edu.

Meetings and Conferences

The Pembina State Museum, which features North Dakota's historic sites, is now open for the 1998 season until September 15, 1998. There are museum theater programs, traditional folklife demonstrations, youth programs, and other special programs. Contact: Claudia M. Pratt, State Historical Society of North Dakota; (701) 328-2666; fax (701) 328-3710; histoc@state.nd.us; www.state.nd.us/hist.

The American Association for State and Local History and the California Council for the Promotion of History are joining forces to hold their 1998 Annual Meeting in Sacramento from September 9-12, 1998. This year's theme "It's A Living: The Business of History," provides a stimulus for program sessions and workshops that will excite, educate, and entertain. Contact: AASLH, 530 Church St., Suite 600, Nashville, TN 37219; (615) 255-2971; fax (615) 255-2797; www.aaslh.org.

The Fourth National Conference on Battlefield Preservation will occur on September 16-19, 1998 in Charleston, South Carolina. The Conference is titled "Defining Battlefields: Why, How, and What Then?" The fee for the conference is $90, and the registration deadline is August 21, 1998. Contact: NCSHPO, Hall of States, Suite 342, 444 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001-1512; www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp.

The University of Tulsa's third Supreme Court conference, "The Rehnquist Court: Farewell to the Old Oder of the Court?" will be held on September 16-18, 1998 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The conference will examine decisions of the Court and its impact on the United States constitutional corpus under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. Session topics will be lead by eminent national and international judges, attorneys, and journalists. The conference costs $250 per person, and includes printed materials, 14.5 hours of continuing legal education credit approved by the Oklahoma Bar Association, luncheons and receptions. Contact: Vicki Jordan or Terry Saunders, (918) 631-2430; law_tls@centum.utulsa.edu.

The American Heritage Center is having their seventh annual symposium entitled "Schoolmarms and Scholars: Women Educators of the American West" to be held September 17-19, 1998 at the University of Wyoming. During the conference, a photographic exhibit about America's country schools will be on display. The symposium is free and open to the public, but space is limited so reserve a space by September 7, 1998. Contact: The American Heritage Center, P.O. Box 3924, Laramie, WY 82071-3924; (307) 766-4114.

Bowling Green State University, Department of History, will be sponsoring "The Sixty Years' War for the Great Lakes, 1754-1814," a conference to be held September 18-20, 1998. The program includes a variety of speakers and a dozen panels of scholars from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Contact: 60 Years' War Conference, Department of History, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0220; dskaggs@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

The Yale Child Study Center and the Yale Section of History of Medicine in conjunction with the National Institute on Drug Abuse are sponsoring "The Centennial of Heroin," a conference exploring the initial marketing of heroin for medical purposes in 1898 and the drug's subsequent role as a public health problem. The conference is scheduled for September 18-20, 1998 in New haven, Connecticut. Contact: David F. Musto M.D., Yale Child Study Center, P.O. Box 207900, New Haven, CT 06520; (203) 785-4258; david.musto@yale.edu.

The Conference on Faith and History will hold its biennial fall meeting on September 24-26, 1998 at David Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. The theme of the conference is "Globalization and the Historian's Craft." Contact: Charles W. Weber, Department of History, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL 60187; (630) 752-5863; fax (630) 752-5294; Charles.W.Weber@wheaton.edu.

Advanced Computing in the Humanities is organizing the conference "The Future of the Humanities in the Digital Age," for September 25-28, 1998 in Bergen, Norway. The conference will focus on, among other topics, educators working with academic development, university reform, humanity organizations, and educational software developers. Contact: University of Bergen, HIT, Harald Harfagresgate 31, 5020 Bergen, Norway; tel. 47 5558-8008; fax 47 5558-8600; futurehum@uib.no; www.futurehum.uib.no.

The National Archives and Records Administration-Great Lakes Region, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago Civil War Round Table, and the Public History Program at Loyola University announce the second annual Civil War symposium. "The Experience and Meaning of Combat in the Civil War" will take place September 25, 1998 at the Chicago Historical Society. Contact: Ms. Lorraine Mason, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 North Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614; (312) 642-5035; mason@chicagohs.org.

The National Archives and Records Administration and the University of Maryland announce a jointly sponsored conference titled "The Power of Free Inquiry and Cold War International History." The conference will examine issues in relation to Cold War documentation and will be held September 25-26, 1998 at the National Archives at College Park. The conference will also examine how newly-declassified U.S. materials affect research and interpretation of Cold War history. Contact: Tim Wehrkamp; (301)713-6655 timothy.werhkamp@arch2.nara.gov.

The Western Museum Association Conference is to be held at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art in Anchorage, Alaska on September 25-28, 1998. The Conference theme is "Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude." Contact: Patricia B. Wolf, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 121 West Seventh Ave., P.O. Box 196650, Anchorage, Alaska 995119-6650; (907) 343-4326; www.ci.anchorage.ak.us.

The National Coalition of Independent Scholars presents its 1998 conference, "The Future of Scholarship...Independent?" The conference will examine the future of scholarship and is to be held October 2-4, 1998 at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Contact: Diane M. Calabrese, Program Chair, 1000 Robin Road, Silver Spring, MD 20901-1873; tel./fax (301) 681-3671; augustdmc@aol.com.

The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, Marist College, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library will sponsor an international conference on "FDR, the Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in America, 1933-1945", October 7-9, 1998 at the Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, NY. For further information, contact the Institute at (914) 229-5321; jhamrah@idsi.net

The Department of History and Center for Neighborhood and Community Studies, University of Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati Historical Society announces the Cincinnati Seminar on the City to begin October 14, 1998 and to continue on various dates through May 12, 1999. The Seminar's first session begins with guest speaker, Ken Emerson, author of Doo-dah: Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Popular Culture and consultant to the Twentieth Century Fund, and Anschutz Distinguished Fellow in American Studies, Princeton University with the topic, "Stephen Foster's Cincinnati." Contact: Zane Miller, University of Cincinnati, History Department, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0373; (513) 556-2144.

The College of Charleston's Program in the Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World will host an international conference from October 15-17, 1998 on the impact of the Haitian Revolution outside Haiti. The conference organizer is Professor David Geggus of the University of Florida. Contact: Professor Rosemary Brana-Shute, Department of History, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424; (843) 953-5711; fax (843) 953-5711; branashuter@cofc.edu.

The National Oral History Association will hold its thirty-second national meeting October 15-18, 1998, in Buffalo, New York. The conference, "Crossing the Boundary, Crossing the Line: Oral History on the Border," will include the topics of migration, ethnic and gender identity, relationships in interviewing, interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational issues, and new technologies. Contact: Oral History Association, P.O. Box 97234, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76798-7234; (254) 710-2764; fax (254) 710-1571; oha_support@Baylor.edu; www.baylor.edu/~OHA/.

The National Genealogical Society is holding a Regional Conference in Troy, Michigan, October 16-17. Contact: National Genealogical Society; (800) 473-0060; conference@ngsgenealogy.org; www.ngsgenealogy.org.

The Pennsylvania Historical Association will hold its annual meeting at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, October 16-17, 1998. A number of sessions will be held on the theme of "Regionalism and Pennsylvania History," but others cover a wide range of topics from the 18th century to the present. Contact: Ed Baldrige, Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104; (610) 821-3322; cramella@muhlenberg.edu.

The National Preservation Conference will be held October 20-25, 1998 in Savannah, Georgia. The conference will explore the theme 'The Art and Economics of Preservation." More than 70 different sessions will examine the interplay of preservation and the arts in revitalizing downtown and commercial districts, the use of economic tools such as preservation revolving funds. Contact: (800) 944-6847.

The United States Air Force Academy announces its 18th Military History Symposium, "Future War: Coalition Operations in Global Strategy." The symposium will address the history of coalition warfare and explore its role in future conflicts. The symposium will be held October 21-24, 1998 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Contact: Captain George Stamper; (719) 333-3622/3230; 18mhs.dfh@usafa.af.mil; www.usafa.af.mil/dfh.

The University of North Carolina at Wilmington, in association with the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, will host "The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot and Its Legacy: A Symposium," October 23-24. The symposium will commemorate the centennial of the riot and examine the events surrounding the incident. Duke University Professor of History Emeritus, John Hope Franklin, will deliver the keynote address. Contact: Jo Ann Williford; (919) 733-7305.

The Wisconsin Veterans Museum and the Midwest Consortium of the Society for Military History announce their program "The American Military Experience in Asia, 1898-1998" which will take place October 24-15, 1998 in Madison, WI. The conference will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of major American military commitments in the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, contact: Richard H. Zeitlin, Wisconsin Veterans Museum; (608) 264-1009; fax (608) 264-7615; rzeitlin@mail.state.wi.us.; http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/dva/museum/wvmmain.html.

The Hagley Museum and Library will have a conference on October 30, 1998 called "Technology and Artistic Practice." Speakers will consider the relationship between art and technology in a number of settings, including the Internet, sculpture, painting, and exhibitions. The conference is free, but prior registration is required. Contact: Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, P.O. Box 3630, Wilmington DE 19807; (302) 658-2400; crl@udel.edu.

The 25th Annual Washington Historical Studies Conference, co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Washington, DC, the District of Columbia Public Library, and the Center for Washington, will be held October 30-31, 1998 at the District of Columbia Library. The conference will explore the intricacies of the city in light of the development of the Washington freeway. Contact: Mary Alexander, Historical Society of Washington, DC, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037; (202) 785-2068; fax (202) 887-5785l; malexander5@juno.com.

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is hosting a History Forum in Williamsburg, Virginia on November 5-7, 1998. The Forum will discuss an historical question which will attempt to link the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the twentieth. Contact: Deborah Chapman, (757) 220-7255; fax (757) 565-8630; dchapman@cwf.org.

Historic Deerfield continues its forum series with "Eighteenth Century Massachusetts Furniture." The weekend program will be held November 6-8, 1998 and includes lectures by curators, connoisseurs and craftsmen, workshops and museum tours. Contact: Philip Zea, Deputy Director and Curator; (413) 774-5581.

The Texas Historical Society invites professional staff members or experienced volunteers in museums or historical organizations to participate in the Winedale Museum Seminar to be held November 8-19, 1998. The seminar is designed to promote the continuing development of all types of community and regional museums and cultural institutions. Enrollment will be limited to 20 people. Contact: Texas Historical Commission, P.O. Box 12276, Austin, TX 78711-2276; (512) 463-5756; kneumann@access.texas.gov.

The Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield, Inc. and The Grace Slack McNeil Program in the History of American Art at Wellesley College will present a symposium entitled "Reading the American Landscape" November 14, 1998 which features speakers who will explain the landscape in regards to the present and in historical terms. Contact: Kenneth Hafertepe, Director of Academic Programs, Historic Deerfield, Inc.; (413) 774-5581; hafertepe@historic-deerfield.org.

The annual Commonwealth Fund Conference in American History will be held at University College London on January 29-30, 1999. The theme is "Two Souths: Towards an Agenda for Comparative Study of the American South and the Italian Mezzogiorno." The conference builds upon recent writing on the two regions and explores the possibilities of comparison. Professor Peter Kolchin will deliver the keynote address. Contact: Enrico Dal Lago, Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK; ucaeda@ucl.ac.uk.

The History Teacher and its sponsor, the Society for History Education, are holding a conference on "Teaching History with Critical Thinking" on January 29-30, 1999, at California State University Long Beach. The Conference will be held as the Fourth Annual Southern California History Teaching Retreat. Participants can be from middle and high schools, two-year colleges and universities. The goal of the conference is to promote a common discourse among history teachers from different areas of education. Contact: The Society for History Education, Conference Office, P.O. Box 1105, Julian, CA 92036; (760) 765-2205.

The Supreme Court Historical Society and the University of South Carolina School of Law will hold a conference on "Teaching American Constitutional History in the Colleges" on March 18-20, 1999. The meeting will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Conference Center. Attendance will be by invitation, and successful applicants will be provided with room, board, and a modest allowance for local expenses. For more details and application procedure, contact Professor Herbert A. Johnson, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, South Carolina 29208; (803) 777-6654; fax (803) 777-8613; hjohnson@law.law.sc.edu.

The Glen Burnie Museum and Shenandoah University are sponsoring a conference called "The Eighteenth-Century American Frontier in the Next Millennium: Recent Scholarship and Future Opportunities," on April 16-18, 1999 in Winchester, Virginia. Presentations will review current scholarships on North American frontiers during the eighteenth century and propose needs and opportunities for future research in both academic and museum contexts. Contact: Jennifer Esler, (540) 662-1473; Warren Hofstra, (540) 665-4587; www.su.edu/history/frontiers.

The seventh annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing will take place July 14-17, 1999, in Madison, Wisconsin, under the auspices of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the State historical Society of Wisconsin. Deadline is November 19, 1998. Submit a one-page abstract to: Maureen Hady, Conference Coordinator for SHARP 99, c/o State historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin, 53706-6598; fax (608) 264-6532; printcul@macc.wisc.edu.

The University of Carolina, Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site, the North Carolina Division of Archives and History, and surrounding counties will observe the bicentennial of the first gold rush in the U.S. that began with the discovery of gold in Cabarrus County. A symposium will be held on September 17-19, 1999 called "Gold in Carolina and America: A Bicentennial Perspective" at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Contact: (919) 733-8807.

The National Oral History Association announces its 1999 annual meeting with the theme, "Giving Voice: Oral Historians and the Shaping of Narrative" to be held October 7-10, 1999 in Anchorage, Alaska. Presentations and discussions will deal with the collaborative nature of oral history research and how the relationships between participants and their prospective audiences shape what is produced. Contact: William Schneider, Alaska and Polar Regions Dept., E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska Fairbanks, P.O. Box 756808, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6808; (907) 474-5355; ffwss@aurora.alaska.edu.

Miscellaneous

The Library of Congress announces a major new exhibition, "The African American Odyssey," in all three of the Library of Congress building on Capitol Hill. The exhibition showcases over 200 items including literature, music, films and photographs, relating to the life, culture and history of African Americans. The exhibit will run through early May. Contact: (202) 707-4606; (202) 707-6200.

The Library of Congress presents a new on-line collection from the American Memory Project of the Library of Congress, "The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures." This collection features films made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and taken during the Spanish-American War, the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera played a part. The site can be found at www.loc.gov.

A National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Bulletin was released by Archivist of the United States John W. Carlin to the heads of all Federal agencies on the creation and disposition of electronic records to help ensure that agencies are adequately documenting activities. The full text of the Bulletin is available on NARA's web site, http://www.nara.gov/records.grs20/bltn-grs.html.

Recently, the family of Albert Ray Newsome, the former chairman of the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coauthor with Hugh Talmage Lefler of North Carolina: The History of a Southern State, began an endowed professorship in the university's College of Arts and Sciences. This scholarship will allow the university to recruit or retain a nationally distinguished scholar.

The American Association for History and Computing announces the inaugural electronic on-line issue of The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, June 1998. The AAHC, as constituted, promotes the use of computers used in historical studies, in both teaching and research. The editor of the journal is Dr. Jeffery G. Barlow, Professor of History at Pacific University. The journal may be found at: http://ssd1.cas.pacificu.edu/history/jahc/jahcindex.htm.

The Oregon Historical Society is pleased to announce the next phase of a community partnership with the Portland Area Library System (PORTALS) to make the OHS library catalog accessible over the Internet. Twenty thousand items from the OHS library collections are now available for view. The catalog is accessible through the Oregon Historical Society web site www.ohs.org or through the PORTALS web site www.portals.org.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza has opened its collections and archives to researchers and members of the general public who are interested in gathering information and studying the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. The museum is located in the former Texas School Book Depository at the site of J.F.K.'s assassination and currently has over 13,000 items in its collections. Contact: Museum Registrar Megan Bryant, (214)7474-6660 x6619 or Archivist Gary Mack, (214) 747-6660 x6693.

The University of California Press has announced its acquisition of the journal Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. Each issue contains four articles and either a review essay or special "Forum" section which invites top scholars to discuss a central topic in relation to the study of religion in its American context. The journal, which is produced at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, will began publishing this winter with Volume 8:1. Free review copies are available upon request. Contact: Religion & American Culture, University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way #5812, Berkeley, CA 94720-5812; (510)643-7154; fax (510)642-9917; journals@ucop.edu; www.ucpress.edu.

Connections

The Organization of American Historians would like to introduce three new editors of CONNECTIONS who will be directing the course of all future issues.

CONNECTIONS is a leading information facilitator for the international American Studies community. It is currently received by 14,000 individuals, 93 USIA posts, and 70 American Studies centers and organizations around the world.

In order to be as vital and vibrant as possible, CONNECTIONS depends on your postings. All postings are welcome. Although we are new editors, we will depend on you to keep CONNECTIONS an important and up-to-date resource.

You will notice a few changes in the next issues as we try to make CONNECTIONS more user-friendly, but will keep the basic format consistent with the way it has been in the past. We welcome advice, feeback, and ideas on how to make CONNECTIONS more useful.

In future issues, we would like to recognize the expanding American Studies community by including the activities of museums, libraries, archives, and the cultural arts. Recognizing the growing diversity of communication, we will attempt to serve as a clearinghouse of information in an increasingly fragmented environment for the international American Studies community.

If you would like to make a posting, all you have to do is send your announcement either by mail, email, or fax, to one of the addresses below. Please keep postings as brief as possible; we may have to edit due to space. You may also submit your posting via the world wide web.

The new CONNECTIONS editors are: Robert Burchell, Director, The Eccles Centre, British Library, London (bob.burchell@bl.uk). Bob is responsible for the section on Calls for Papers and for Meetings; International Directory of Individual Scholars; and Announcements from Associations and Institutions. Mimi Clark, Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont USA (mimiclark@eudoramail.com). Mimi is responsible for the sections on Conversations and Research; Housing and Accommodations; Fellowships, Grants, and Internships. Steven Sarson, Department of History, University of Wales Swansea, at s.j.sarson@swansea.ac.uk. Steven is responsible for the sections on Teaching; Publications and Resources; and Publishing Opportunities.

A web-based form has been developed to collect postings. If you have something for the next issue of CONNECTIONS, please visit http://www.indiana.edu/~oah/connect\ ions/post.html.

Conference Details, Calls For Papers

"British and American Studies at the Turn of the Millennium", Ostrava University, Czech Republic, 23-26 September 1999. The Faculty of Arts, Ostrava University cordially invites teachers and students to the above conference. Proposed main section themes are: A Bridge over Epochs; British and American Literature at the Turn of the Millennium; and Linguistics as a Game? Address for application forms and queries: Stanislav J. Kavka, or Slanislav Kolar, Dept. of English and American Studies, ul. Realni 5, 701 03 Ostrava 1, Czech Republic. E-mail: kolar@tron.osu.cz and kavka@tron.osu.cz

Eighth Tampere Conference on North American Studies, 22-25 April 1999. The Eighth Tampere Conference on North American Studies, "Border Crossings", will be held April 22-25, 1999 in Tampere, Finland. Contact: Center for North American Studies, University of Tampere, P.O. Box 607, Tampere, FIN 33101, Finland. Phone: +358 3 215 7154, Fax: +358 3 215 6980, E-mail: NorthAmericanStudies@uta.fi, www: www.uta.fi/konferenssi/nam99.

"American Visions. . . ": American Studies Association of Turkey, Seminar, 4-6 November 1998. In consultation with USIS, the theme of the American Studies Association of Turkey's annual Seminar will be "American Vision: America's Vision of the World; the World's Vision of America." Proposals for either presentations or workshops can come from a variety of disciplines, including (but not limited to) film studies, American literature, international relations, history, popular culture, sociology or culture studies. Proposals for comparative papers are welcome, as are the proposals for mulitdisciplinary panels or presentations. Some suggested areas of inquiry are: the influence of America's view of the world on US foreign policy; images of the world in American art/literature; the underlying assumptions in the writing of American history; American exceptionalism: is America 'unique'?; the 'West' vs. Europe in American historical thought.

Paper abstracts of 200-300 words explaining theses and objectives for the 30-minute presentations are due by July 30 and should be sent via e-mail to buken@bilkent.edu.tr. If accepted participants will be asked in September for an expanded abstract for publication in the Seminar booklet. The Seminar will be held at the Hilton Hotel, Mersin. Board and breakfast expenses of those presenting papers will be on the USIS. Traval expenses to be met by participants.

Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA Meeting 24-27 February 1999, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Southwest/Texas PCA/ACA will be meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 24-27, 1999. Join us in the Sheraton Old Town Hotel and step into 300 years of history and culture. Our spacious southwestern style hotel is within one block of Albuquerque's historic Old Town (200 plus specialty shops, restaurants, art galleries, the Albuquerque Museum and New Mexico Museum of Natural History). Other nearby attractions include the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Rio Grande Zoological Park, Sandia Peak Tram (the world's larges aerial tram), National Atomic Museum, and Indian Petroglyph Park. Mike Schoenecke will serve as Program Chair and Host. If you are not on our mailing list or if you would like more information about the meeting, please contact Mike: Micheal Schoenecke, English Dept., Box 43091, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3091, tel (806) 742 2501, fax (806) 742 0989, e-mail CBMKS@TTACS.TTU.EDU.For evolving information see the Web site for SW/TX PCA at http://www2.okstate.edu/swpca. Please note that the deadline for proposals is 15 November, 1998.

Film and History Area of the Popular Culture Association, National Meeting, San Diego, March 31-April 3, 1999. The Film and History Area of the Popular Culture Association welcomes paper proposals for the forthcoming national meeting in San Diego in the Spring of 1999. There were over ten panels last year and we are delighted to be forming a community within PCA/ACA. Papers dealing with the impact of film and television on history or how films reflect history and values are welcome. We are also interested in the power of propaganda and persuasion. The papers need not be on American films, only. We are global in our interests. For details about our journal, our focus, and our scholarship over the last twenty-eight years, please check our web-site: http://h-net.msu.edu/~filmhis. Many questions will be clarified at this site. (Notice the availability of a CD-ROM for our first twenty-six years, a wonderful research tool.) Deadline for proposals is 1 September 1999. Please send an abstract of your projeect to the Area Chair, Robert Fyne at the following address. (Robert Fyne is also the Book Review editor for Film & History and is always looking for reviewers.) R.J. Fyne, 63 Wick Drive, Fords, NJ 08863-1406, tel (732) 636 8846, fax (908) 289 1067, e-mail RJFyne@aol.com. If all else fails contact Peter Rollins at RollinsPC@aol.com

International Directory: Institutions

A new organization for historians, The Historical Society, has just been established. The aim of this organization is to provide a framework within which serious debate on major historical issues will be possible. It will not be possible to be sectarian or exclusionary, and will not privilege any particular approach to history or any particular political stance. The Society's first annual meeting will be held in the Boston area in late May 1999. The Society also plans to have regional conferences. Meetings are now being scheduled to help set up those regional organizations. For more information please visit the web-site at http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/;. Alternatively e-mail fgavin@cfia.harvard.edu or write to: The Historical Society, P.O. Box 382602, Cambridge, MA 02238-2602.

Teaching

For a course in early African-American literature I have devised a syllabus with web links to texts and some critical information. The address is: http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~afroam131/syllabus/syllabus.html and I would be most appreciative of comments and suggestions. Werner Sollors, e-mail: sollors@fas.harvard.edu

An American Studies Center has recently opened with support from Yaroslav State University and International Academy of Psychology in Russia and is looking for opportunities to establish long-term academic contacts for purposes of mutual research (cross-cultural studies) and improving educational standards of teaching in the framework of American Studies. Any collaborative efforts from the corresponding departments of American Studies and faculty members are appreciated in advance. Thank you for your kind attention. Igor Kisselev, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Political Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, Yaroslav State University. E-mail: kisselev@univ.uniyar.ac.ru.

Publications and Resources

Borderlines, an international journal of American Studies, is as much concerned with the way in which the United States imagines and explains its `fate' from within as it is with the identity of those of us outside its borders. Isolationist or internationalist, democratic or dictatorial, experimental or conservative, the USA makes an unprecedented impact on the conduct and culture of the rest of the world. Borderlines examines this impact made in the past, follows it through to the present and projects likely outcomes into the future. American influence is not confined to a particular discipline or region and neither is Borderlines. It is idiomatic and irreligious and encompasses everything from theatre and film to fashion, industry, politics, and fast foods: a multi-faceted country that demands a multi-faceted response. Because Borderlines looks at the wider view, it offers a vibrant critique of the country. For details about subscriptions and article contributions contact Dr. Candida Hepworth and regarding book reviews contact Dr. Mike McDonnell at Department of American Studies, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, Wales, UK. E-mails c.n.hepworth@swansea.ac.uk and m.mcdonnell@swansea.ac.uk.

Publishing Opportunities

Detectives As Historians. Ray and Pat Brown and Lawrence Kreiser invite essays from interested scholars for a volume entitled Detectives as Historians to be published in Winter, 1998, by the Popular Press. Many authors for this collection have been assigned. Below are detective fiction authors still needing coverage. Also, feel free to suggest other writers to us; we may have forgotten an important figure or two! Caleb Carr, Lindsey Davis, P. C. Doherty, Michael Clynes, Paul Harding, C. L. Grace, Elizabeth Eyre, Susanna Gregory, Robert Lee Hall, Keith Heller, Edward Marston, Ian Morson, John Maddox Roberts, Steve Saylor, Kate Sedley, Leonard Tourney. Essays should be 15-20 pp in length, double spaced; notes should be at the end, in PMLA or Revised Chicago Style, and should be bibliographical in nature. Essays are due by September 1 1998. Essays should address three topics: depth and authenticity of the history involved; quality of the writing; overall value of the author's contribution. For further information, please contact Ray or Pat Browne, Popular Press, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Oh 43403. (419) 372 7861 and fax 8095. E-mail: rbrowne@bgnet.bgsu.edu.

The German-American Academic Council Foundation along with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Ministry for Education, Science, Research, and Technology will make TransCoop Program (Transatlantic Research Cooperation Program) funds available in 1999 to support research projects between German, U.S.-American and Canadian scholars in the humanities, social sciences, economics and law. Projects selected may receive a total of $50,000, which will be applied for in German currency. Deadline is October 30, 1998. Contact: Stiftung Deutsch-Amerikanisches Akademisches Konzil, TransCoop Program, Jean-Paul-Strasse 9, D-53173 Bonn; tel. 0228-95677-0; fax 0228-95677-19; lich-knight@gaac.org.

The Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (CSEA), Genoa, Italy, is sponsoring an international conference focusing on the issues of globalization. The conference entitled "'Which Global Village?' Society, Cultures and Political-Economic Systems in the Age of Globalization" will be held November 30-December 1, 1998. Contact: Valeria Gennaro Lerda, Director of CSEA; fax 39-10-2099 826; or Susanna Delfino, President Organizing Committee; fax 39-10-2099 099; susannedelfino@mail.gma.it.

The Department of American Studies & Mass Media, University of Lodz, has an opening for a teaching position at the visiting professor level for a period of up to two years (but not less than one semester) in one or a combination of the following areas: U.S. History and Politics, American Mass Media, America Society. Scholars planning to be on sabbatical leaves from their home institutions would be ideal candidates. The position should also be of interest to recent Ph. D. holders. Please contact: Prof. Elzbieta H. Oleksy, Chair, Dept. of American Studies & Mass media, Univ. of Lodz, Narutowicza 54/11, 90-136 Lodz, Poland; fax: 048 42 319-582; eloleksy@krysia.uni.lodz.pl.

The German-American Center for Visiting Scholars, Washington, D.C., will enable eight young German and American scientists and scholars, especially from the humanities and social sciences, to do research in Washington, D.C. for up to six months. Selections will be made twice per year. Please send applications (in English) with personal information and a description of the intended work to: German-American Academic Council Foundation, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St., NW, Suite 2020, Washington DC 20007; (202) 296-2991; fax (202) 833-8514; gaac@pop.access.digex.net.

The New Year brings enormous opportunities for the National Humanities Alliance to take a proactive stance in rebuilding the National Endowment for the Humanities, getting balanced and comprehensive copyrights laws passed, as well as the ongoing work of speaking on behalf of scholars, librarians, researchers, and all others concerned with the humanities. Join the NHA e-mail list by simply going to the web site at www.nhalliance.org then clicking on NHA-Forum or send a message to listserv@oah.org with the no subject line and the following text in the body of the message: subscribe advocacy

Professional Opportunities

The Indiana Historical Society, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to collection, preserving, and promoting Indiana's History, seeks candidates for the temporary, full-time position of editorial assistant. This assistant will assist with the William Henry Harrison documentary edition and assist the project director with the Wallace Papers projects. Position is projected at one year. Duties include: assisting with editing of documents, research, maintaining computer and paper files, preparing documents for filing and other duties assigned. A BA in history, English or American studies and good word processing and database management skills required. Salary range for this position starts in the high-teens to low-$20's; pay offered will be commensurate with experience and skills. Complete job description and requirements available upon request. Send a letter of application, resume, and the names, current addresses and telephone numbers of three references to: Susan P. Brown, Human Resources Director, Indiana Historical Society, 315 W. Ohio Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-3299.