Historical news and notices.

THE ASSOCIATION

The seventieth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 3-6, 2004, in Memphis, Tennessee, with the Memphis Marriott Downtown serving as the headquarters hotel, along with the Memphis Convention Center. The opening session on Wednesday evening will be held at the Peabody Hotel and will focus on Memphis, the Peabody, and the SHA, 1955-2004. The reception afterward will celebrate John Hope Franklin's ninetieth birthday. The presidential address by Wayne Flynt is entitled "Religion for the Blues: Evangelicalism, Poor Whites, and the Great Depression."

The forty-six regular sessions will include Conflict in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina; Merchants, Markets, and the Middle Class: Southern Identity in Antebellum Virginia Towns; Changing Notions of Manhood and Womanhood During the Civil War; The New Eugenics Historiography: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Disability; Breaking and Unbreaking Barriers: Race and Gender in Southern Education; Black and White and Red All Over: Southern Anticommunism and the Civil Rights Movement; Roundtable: George Brown Tindall and the Modern South; Defining Women's Spheres in Early Twentieth-Century Europe: Gender, Religion, and Nation; State Power and the Definition of Citizenship: Case Studies from Twentieth-Century Europe; The Kimberly S. Hanger Memorial Panel: African Americans in Colonial Latin America and the Circum-Caribbean; Paternalism, Masculinity, and Heroism in Antebellum Southern Literature; The Kansas-Nebraska Act: A Reappraisal; Constructing the "Lost Cause": Mythology in the Postbellum South; Fundamentalism in a Southern City: Memphis, 1920-2000; Bennett H. Wall and the SHA: A Video Tribute and Panel Discussion; Black College Presidents and the Civil Rights Movement; Religion in Early Modern Europe: Confession, Belief and Superstition; Germany and the United States: Affinities and Reservations; Women and Children under Slavery and Colonialism; Wives, Widows, and the World in the Early South; Roundtable: "Going Public": Interpreting Andrew Jackson for Public Audiences; Theoretical and Psychological Approaches to Slave Resistance; Considering an Economic Interpretation of the Civil War; Religion and Reform in the Mountain South; Gender and Political Mobilization from Reconstruction to the Black Freedom Struggle; Southern Photographers of Civil Rights, Counter-Culture, and Change, 1946-1968; Liberty, Regulation, and the Making of Modern Europe; Not Quite Capitalism? West Germany's Postwar Economy; Community and Culture in Colonial Mexico; New Perspectives on the Chickasaws; Secession Revisited; The Contested Image of the Black Child; "For Such a Time as This": Women in the Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements; The Road to Thunder Road: The Automobile and the Modern South; Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Southern Educational Tradition; Daisy Bates and Her Role in the Little Rock Crisis; Ideology and Complicity in the Third Reich; Caribbean/Southern Connections: Religious, Cultural, and Political; Gender, Family, and Nation in the American South; Contesting Citizenship in the Confederacy; "The Ties That Bind": Southern Baptist Women and the Creation of a Modern Denomination; Southern Labor in War and Peace: Local Stories, National Transitions, 1942-1970; The Soul of Segregation: Religion and Resistance in the Post-Brown South; Roundtable: New Approaches to State and Local History: Florida from a Global Perspective; Contested Realities in the Soviet Union; United States-Latin American Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; and Myths and Images in Southern Music.

In addition there will be a preliminary session on Wednesday afternoon on Memphis History: Visible Today and three workshops: Unlocking the Archival Vault: Documenting the Lives of Southern Women; Pedagogy, Practice, and Place; and Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South, which is sponsored by the Southern Industrial Project.

Graduate students attending this year's meeting in Memphis are encouraged to attend the fourth annual luncheon given on their behalf and sponsored by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund. The luncheon will be held on Thursday, November 4, and the program will consist of a panel discussion of "Beyond Campus and Classroom: Alternative Career Options for Ph.D.'s in History." The luncheon is free to all students registered for the meeting, but limited space and funding prevent our being able to include spouses and other companions.

All graduate students and junior faculty (those within three years of completion of their Ph.D.'s) who are presenting papers at this year's meeting in Memphis are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the William F. Holmes Award for the best paper presented at the conference. They should submit three copies of the paper, in the form in which it will be delivered at the meeting, to the SHA office by October 1 in order to be considered. The winner will be announced at the presidential address on Thursday evening, November 4. This year's award committee consists of Elizabeth Jacoway, Newport, Ark., chair; Brooks Blevins, Lyon College; and Harvey H. Jackson, Jacksonville State University.

The Nominating Committee for 2004, consisting of Thavolia Glymph, chair; Laura F. Edwards, Duke University; J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire; Michael Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma; and Ted Ownby, University of Mississippi, requests suggestions from the SHA membership for the office of vice president (president-elect) and members of the Executive Council. The committee will make its nominations at the meeting in Memphis in November. A suggestion should take the form of a letter of recommendation detailing the significance of the individual's scholarship and service to the Association. If possible, his or her c.v. should be enclosed. Recommendations should be sent to the chair: Professor Thavolia Glymph, Department of History, Duke University, Box 90719, Durham, North Carolina 27708.

Vice President Charles W. Joyner has appointed the following Program Committee for 2005: Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, chair; Millicent E. Brown, North Carolina A&T State University; Lee Ann Caldwell, Georgia College and State University; Bobby J. Donaldson, University of South Carolina; Craig Friend, University of Central Florida; Sarah E. Gardner, Mercer University; Virginia M. Gould, Tulane University; Randal M. Jelks, Calvin College; Hannah Joyner, Takoma Park, Md.; Brian Kelly, Queen's University Belfast; Robert R. Korstad, Duke University; Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University; Winfred B. (Bo) Moore Jr., The Citadel; Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; George C. Rable, University of Alabama; Julia M. Walsh, Webster University; Brian Ward, University of Florida; Jeannie M. Whayne, University of Arkansas; and Russell T. Wigginton, Rhodes College.

The 2005 Program Committee has issued its call for papers and sessions for the seventy-first annual meeting of the SHA, which will be held in Atlanta on November 2-5, 2005. It is strongly encouraged that proposals be submitted electronically through the SHA website: www.uga.edu/sha. To submit proposals by more traditional means, send a one-page summary of each proposed paper and a brief (single-page) c.v. for each presenter.

The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2004. According to SHA bylaws, no one who participated on the previous two programs, in either Houston or Memphis, should be part of the program in Atlanta. Mailed proposals should be sent to Professor Vernon Burton, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3697.

Because the chances of single-paper proposals being accepted are relatively slight, full session proposals are strongly encouraged. Individuals interested in using the SHA website to organize a session with others of like interest may send an e-mail to Gloria Davis at [e-mail], including name, e-mail address, and proposed paper topic. She will post this information on our website, which anyone may then consult to find compatible co-panelists.

The Latin American and Caribbean Section (LACS) of the SHA has elected the following officers: Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University, president; Virginia M. Gould, Tulane University, vice president; Theron Corse, Tennessee State University, secretary; Andrew F. McMichael, Western Kentucky University, treasurer; Todd A. Diacon, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Timothy J. Henderson, Auburn University Montgomery, and Richmond Brown, University of South Alabama, past presidents; Jurgen Buchenau, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, SHA representative; and Tamara Spike, Florida State University, Fred Smith, University of Southern Mississippi, and Richard M. Conway, Tulane University, graduate student representatives. The LACS also has selected Thomas F. O'Brien, University of Houston, as the 2004 luncheon speaker.

PERSONNEL

University of Arkansas: Kathryn A. Sloan appointed assistant professor; Jeannie M. Whayne promoted to professor; Charles F. Robinson promoted to associate professor; Lynda L. Coon and Beth Barton Schweiger are on leave 2004-2005; and Alessandro Brogi is on leave fall 2004.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Johanna Miller Lewis named chair; Milen V. Petrov appointed assistant professor; Sarah Wiggins appointed visiting assistant professor; and Laura Ackerman Smoller is on leave 2004-2005.

Berry College: Amy J. Johnson and Laurence W. Marvin promoted to associate professor.

The Citadel: H. P. (Ned) Willmott appointed Mark W. Clark Visiting Professor of History.

Columbus State University: Alice K. Pate named acting chair; Virginia E. Causey appointed assistant professor; Becky F. Matthews promoted to assistant professor; and John S. Lupold has retired.

Covenant College: Alicia Jackson appointed assistant professor.

Davidson College: Jane E. Mangan and Barak Kushner appointed assistant professor; Christopher W. Wells appointed visiting assistant professor; Jonathan P. Berkey promoted to professor; Daniel W. Aldridge III promoted to associate professor; John Wertheimer is on leave 2004-2005; and Robert C. Williams has retired.

Duke University: Sally Deutsch named chair; Reeve Huston appointed associate professor; John Hart appointed visiting assistant professor; Edward Balleisen promoted to associate professor; and Ronald Witt has retired.

Francis Marion University: John A. Britton named Francis Marion University Trustees Research Scholar.

Furman University: Jennifer Jill Davis appointed assistant professor; and John P. T. Barrington and Erik K. Ching promoted to associate professor.

Georgia College and State University: Jesse Hingson appointed assistant professor.

Howard Payne University: Robert G. Mangrum named chair of newly combined history, political science, and geography department.

Jacksonville State University: Paul Richard Beezley appointed assistant professor; Antoinnette Hudson appointed instructor; and Timothy Joe Pitts appointed visiting instructor.

Louisiana Tech University: E. Glynn Ingram has retired.

University of Lousville: John E. McLeod named chair; Gregory Matthew Adkins appointed assistant professor; Thomas C. Mackey promoted to professor and is on leave spring 2005; and Benjamin T. Harrison is on leave fall 2004.

Mary Baldwin College: Amy J. Tillerson appointed instructor and director of the Institute for Decisive Events in American History.

University of Missouri at Kansas City: Diane Mutti Burke appointed assistant professor.

University of New Orleans: Catherine Candy, Andrew Goss, and Michael Jack Mizell-Nelson appointed assistant professor; Ida L. Altman and Mary Niall Mitchell are on leave 2004-2005; and John T. O'Connor has retired.

Northwestern Oklahoma State University: J.W. Platt appointed instructor; and David Kovarovic has retired.

Randolph-Macon College: James Edward Scanlon has retired.

Rice University: Carol E. Quillen named director of the Boniuk Center for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance; Thomas A. Foster appointed visiting assistant professor; Alexander X. Byrd, Ira D. Gruber, Thomas L. Haskell, Ussama S. Makdisi, and Gale Stokes are on leave 2004-2005; Kerry R. Ward and Lora Wildenthal are on leave fall 2004; and John B. Boles and Patricia Seed are on leave spring 2005.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University: L. David Norris has retired.

Southern Methodist University: O. T. Hargrave and James O. Breeden have retired and been named professor emeritus.

University of Southern Mississippi: Kyle F. Zelner appointed assistant professor; Douglas P. Mackaman promoted to professor; and Glenn T. Harper has retired.

Stephen F. Austin State University: Timothy B. Neary appointed assistant professor; and Stephen R. Taaffe promoted to associate professor.

Texas A&M University: Lauren Clay, Leah Devun, Olga Dror, and Katherine Engel appointed assistant professor; Di Wang and April Hatfield promoted to associate professor; David R. C. Hudson promoted to senior lecturer; and Roger A. Beaumont and Betty M. Unterberger have retired.

Texas State University--San Marcos: Anadelia A. Romo appointed assistant professor; and Eugene J. Bourgeois II promoted to professor.

Texas Wesleyan University: Elizabeth Urban Alexander appointed assistant professor.

Transylvania University: Gregg Bocketti appointed assistant professor.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Daniel B. Thorp named chair; Mark V. Barrow Jr. named associate chair; Helen Schneider appointed assistant professor; E. Thomas Ewing promoted to associate professor; Glenn R. Bugh and Richard F. Hirsh are on leave 2004-2005; and Frederick J. Baumgartner and Peter Wallenstein are on leave spring 2005.

Webster University: Julia M. Walsh promoted to associate professor.

State University of West Georgia: John E. Ferling and Melvin T. Steely have retired.

Western Kentucky. University: John A. Dizgun appointed assistant professor; and Robert V. Haynes has retired.

College of William and Mary: Carl Strikwerda appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and professor; Gail M. Bossenga appointed associate professor; Kveta E. Bene, Andrew H. Fisher, and Hiroshi Kitamura appointed assistant professor; Karin Wulf appointed Visiting Scholar in History and American Studies; Lisa Fernanda Sedrez, Walter A. Skya, and Bin Yang appointed visiting assistant professor; Philip H. Daileader promoted to associate professor; and Edward P. Crapol and Judith Ewell have retired.

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Gulf South Historical Association has issued a call for papers and panels for the 23rd Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, with special theme sessions on maritime and ethnicity issues. The conference will be held October 7-9, 2004, at the Hilton Garden Inn on beautiful Pensacola Beach, Florida. An annual event, the conference is sponsored by the Gulf South Historical Association, a consortium of Gulf South colleges and universities from Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. The host of this year's conference, the University of Southern Mississippi, encourages all researchers and scholars to propose papers, panels, roundtables, performances, and workshops exploring all aspects of the history and cultures of the Gulf South and Caribbean Basin. The association will present the 2004 Gulf South History Book Award, with a $500 cash prize, for the best publication within the calendar year highlighting the Gulf South and will award the William S. Coker Prize in Gulf South History for the best graduate-level paper presented at the conference. The prizewinning paper receives a $250 cash award and is eligible for publication in the association's juried journal, the Gulf South Historical Review. Proposals will be accepted if postmarked by the deadline of September 1, 2004. To submit an individual paper, send a brief c.v., the title of the paper, and a short abstract. Panels should include three or more presenters, a chair, and a commentator (or a chair/commentator); panel organizers must submit a c.v., paper title, and short abstract for each participant. Please send proposals to: Dr. Bradley Bond, President, Gulf South Historical Association, 118 College Drive, Box 5024, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406; phone: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail].

The Museum of the Confederacy is pleased to announce that Guarding Greensboro: A Confederate Company in the Making of a Southern Community by G. Ward Hubbs, published by the University of Georgia Press, is the recipient of the 2003 Jefferson Davis Award. The museum has presented the award annually since 1971 to recognize outstanding narrative works on the Confederate period. Dr. Hubbs is assistant professor and archivist at Birmingham-Southern College. In addition to writing Guarding Greensboro, he has edited Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, also published by the University of Georgia Press and a nominee for the museum's 20032004 Founders Award. The award judges had high praise for Hubbs's work. "Guarding Greensboro presents an intellectually intriguing look at a southern community," wrote one judge. "It combines political, social, and military history into a well-crafted analytical narrative based on creative and exhaustive research. The book offers a unique analysis of a single Confederate company in a broad context and at the same time addresses questions of central importance about the nature of southern identity." "It is a marvelous book," declared another of the judges. "I know of no other quite like it." The award consists of a framed certificate bearing a wax impression from the Great Seal of the Confederacy. The judges for the 2003 award--all previous award winners--were George C. Rable of the University of Alabama, William J. Cooper Jr. of Louisiana State University, and Michael B. Chesson of the University of Massachusetts Boston. The museum is now accepting nominations for the 2004 Jefferson Davis Award and for the 2003-2004 Founders Award (recognizing outstanding editing of primary sources about the Confederate period). For more information, please contact John Coski ([e-mail]).

The Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) is pleased to announce the annual NCSA Article Prize, which recognizes excellence in scholarly studies of the long nineteenth century. The winner will receive an award of $500 to be presented at the annual NCSA meeting in March 2005. Articles published between September 1, 2003, and August 31, 2004, are eligible and may be submitted by the author or the publisher of a journal, anthology, or volume of essays. The deadline for submission is October 15, 2004. Send three offprints or photocopies, along with an e-mail address, to the chair of the Article Prize Committee: Professor Kevin Lewis, Department of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208. Queries may be directed to Professor Lewis by e-mail at [e-mail], but electronic submissions will not be accepted.

LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES

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. Awards of $500-$1,000 are normally granted as reimbursement for travel and lodging. The center's holdings include the papers of many former members of Congress, such as Robert S. Kerr, Fred R. Harris, and Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Helen Gahagan Douglas and Jeffrey Cohelan of California; Sidney Clarke of Kansas; and Cornelius Gallagher of New Jersey. Besides the history of Congress, congressional leadership, national and Oklahoma politics, and election campaigns, the collections also document government policy affecting agriculture, Native Americans, energy, foreign affairs, the environment, the economy, and other areas. Topics that can be studied include the Great Depression, flood control, soil conservation, and tribal affairs. At least one collection provides insight on women in American politics. Most materials date from the 1920s to the 1970s, although there is one nineteenth-century collection. The center's collections are described on the Internet at http:// www.ou.edu/special/albertetr/archives/ and in the publication titled A Guide to the Carl Albert Center Congressional Archives (Norman, Okla., 1995), by Judy Day et al., available at many U.S. academic libraries. Additional information can be obtained from the center.

The Visiting Scholars Program is open to any applicant. Emphasis is given to those pursuing postdoctoral research in history, political science, and other fields. Graduate students involved in research for publication, thesis, or dissertation are encouraged to apply. Interested undergraduates and lay researchers are also invited to apply. The center evaluates each research proposal based upon its merits, and funding for a variety of topics is expected. No standardized form is needed for application. Instead, a series of documents should be sent to the center, including: (1) a description of the research proposal in fewer than 1,000 words; (2) a personal vita; (3) an explanation of how the center's resources will assist the researcher; (4) a budget proposal; and (5) a letter of reference from an established scholar in the discipline attesting to the significance of the research. Applications are accepted at any time. For more information, please contact Archivist, Carl Albert Center, 630 Parrington Oval, Room 101, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019; phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: channeman@ ou.edu.

The Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies in Athens, Georgia, is pleased to announce that the Lewis R. Morgan Papers, 1961-1995, are now open for research. The papers document Judge Morgan's thirty-five-year judicial career with the United States District Court (19611968) and the United States Fifth (1968-1981) and Eleventh (1981-1996) Circuit Courts of Appeals. Papers include case files (typically opinions, briefs, judicial memoranda, reports, administrative forms, and correspondence), dockets, bench books, case indexes, printed opinions, committee files, charge books and notes, news clippings, photographs, and maps. Of note are Judge Morgan's files relating to highly publicized cases, such as Wallace Butts v. Curtis Publishing Company, civil rights cases heard in district court in Georgia and the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits, and materials relating to the split of the Fifth Circuit into the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits in 1981. These papers join over 120 collections documenting public policymaking and political culture centered in Georgia that are available for research at the Russell Library. To view the finding aid for the papers or to learn more about the collections, programs, and services of the Russell Library please visit the library website at http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell. For more information please contact Jill Severn at [e-mail] or [phone].