Historical news and notices.

The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 6-9, 2002, in Baltimore, Maryland, with the Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel serving as the headquarters hotel. The opening session on Wednesday evening will be a talk by Taylor Branch entitled "Perishable History: Reconstructions Twice Distorted." The presidential address by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is entitled "Women Writers, the `Southern Front,' and the Radical Imagination."

The fifty-five regular sessions will include Community, Family, and Nation: Divided Loyalties in the Civil War South; Southern Military Institutions and Training in Transition, 1960-1973; American Indian Identity in the Modern South; The Orangeburg Massacre of 1968; Colonial Encounters: Sex, Language, Religion, and Identity in Spanish America; Religion and Race in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana; Imperial Visions: The Lower South and the British Empire, 1760-1850; German Central Europe Under Napoleonic Rule; World War I and Its Aftermath: A Consonance of Interest; Tribute to Frank Byrne (1928-2002); Indian Slavery in the Colonial South; Spinning Reconstruction: Law, Violence, and Perceptions of Social Change; Religion in the Old South: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Retrospective; Immigration and Diasporas in the New South; Disability and Southern History; New Perspectives on the Black Power Movement; Expanding the Civil Rights Agenda: The War on Poverty in the Deep South, 1965-1968; New Approaches in European Cultural and Intellectual History; An Equivocal Independence: Colonial Preservation, Popular Sentiment, and State Formation in Central America; Race and Medicine in the Jim Crow South; Women at War: Female Identity and Agency in the Civil War South; The Public and Private Lives of Early Georgia Women; Creating the New Old South: Antebellum Reform and Modernity; Crossing the Line: Sectionalism and the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1848-1865; Grassroots Politics and Racial Violence in the Reconstruction South; African American Crime and Criminal Justice; Films: The Intolerable Burden; Vae Victis: History and Its Victims; The Gay and Lesbian South: Queering Twentieth-Century Southern History; The Colonial Chesapeake: Historiographic Reevaluations: A Roundtable; Confederate Welfare and the Lost Cause: The Southern Welfare State During and After the Civil War; Markets, Merchants, and Manufacturing in the Antebellum South; Indios Conquistadores: Negotiating Power and Collective Identity in Colonial Mexico and Guatemala; The Urban Civil Rights Experience; The Place of Race: Scientific History and a New Southern Past, 1890-1930; Race, Gender, and the Law; The Past Revisited: New Approaches in European Historiography; Eighteenth-Century France and the Revolution: The Open Society and Its Enemies; The Kimberly S. Hanger Memorial Panel: Slavery in Cuba and the American South; Southern Responses to World War I and Postwar Imperialism; Popular Music Across Boundaries: From Banjos to Punk Rock; Indian and European Interaction on the Colonial Southern Frontier; Bound by Law: Race, Power, and Legal Justice; The Individual and the Experience of Dictatorship and War; Riots and Rebellions in Colonial Spanish America; To Make Life on the Farm Bright, Interesting, and Happy: Southern Women and Rural Uplift, 1890-1940; Women Organizers and the NAACP in the Early Civil Rights Years; Andean Spaces and Modern Visions of Latin America; Cherished Customs and Illicit Exchanges: Slavery's Informal Economies; Beleaguered Loyalties: New Perspectives on Southern Unionists; Reflections on the German Government and Military from the Nazi Era to the Present; Exporting Reconstruction and Circulating Southernness; Gender and African American Leadership in the Twentieth-Century South; Lynch Mobs and Press Coverage: The Framing of Three South Carolina Lynchings in Black and White Print Media; and Southern Health and Health Care.

In addition there will be three workshops: "Teaching American History" Grants: Collaborative Projects Between Two Universities and the Public Schools; SHA Women's Committee Job Interviewing; and More than a Trip into the Past: Civil Rights Movement Study Tours.

Graduate students attending this year's annual meeting in Baltimore are encouraged to attend the second annual luncheon given in their behalf and sponsored by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund. The luncheon will be held on Thursday, November 7, and will feature a panel discussion by five recently minted Ph.D.'s in history, who will discuss their experiences in getting jobs, adjusting to those jobs, getting published, and dealing with some of the special problems faced by older students and by spouses facing the job market together. This is also an opportunity for students to get to know each other, and this year students will be encouraged to sit with others working in the same field. The luncheon is free to all registered graduate students, but limited space and funding prevent our being able to include spouses or other companions. See the program for registration information.

All graduate students and junior faculty (those currently within three years of earning their doctorates) who are presenting papers at this year's meeting in Baltimore are eligible for the William F. Holmes Prize for the best paper presented at the conference. They should submit three copies of their paper, in the form in which it is to be presented, to the SHA office by October 1 in order to be considered. The winner will be announced at the presidential address on Thursday night, November 7. This year's prize committee consists of Catherine Clinton, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University, chair; Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Eastern Kentucky University; and Christine L. Heyrman, University of Delaware.

Delta Air Lines will provide special discounts for those attending this year's meeting in Baltimore. In order to make reservations using the discounted rate, please call Delta at 1-800-241-6760 and refer to file number 18874A.

A survey was sent in May to all women members of the SHA. If you have not yet filled out the survey, please do so as soon as possible. If you did not receive the survey, please contact Nancy Hewitt, head of the SHA Women's Committee, by e-mail at: [e-mail]. Completed surveys may be sent to her at Rutgers University, Department of History, Van Dyck Hall, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901.

The 2003 Program Committee has issued its call for papers and sessions for the sixty-ninth annual meeting of the SHA to be held in Houston, Texas, on November 6-9, 2003. The theme of the program will be "Transformations." The committee is particularly interested in sessions that explore how southerners have reinvented themselves and the region and how such transformations have been recorded and remembered. Proposals for single papers and entire panels are invited. Submissions should include a one-page summary of the proposed paper and a brief (single page) c.v. for each presenter.

According to SHA bylaws, no one who appeared on the previous two programs, those in New Orleans and Baltimore, should be part of the program in Houston. A single copy of each proposal should be sent to the Program Committee's co-chairs before October 1, 2002: Nancy A. Hewitt and Steven F. Lawson, Department of History, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-1108; or e-mail: [e-mail] and slawson@ rci.rutgers.edu.

The European History Section of the SHA invites submissions for the 2002 Charles Smith Book Award. The Smith Award is awarded in even-numbered years for the best book in European history authored by a member of the EHS, a faculty member at a southern university, or published by a southern university press. Books published between September 1, 2000, and September 1, 2002, are eligible for the prize. Submissions may be made by individuals or their publishers. One copy of the book should be sent to each of the three members of the 2002 Smith Award Committee: Alice-Catherine Carls, Department of History, University of Tennessee at Martin, Martin, Tennessee 38238-5001; Jesse L. Scott, Newberry College, P.O. Box 854, Newberry, South Carolina 29108; and June K. Burton (chair), 64 Waldorf Drive, Akron, Ohio 44313-4161. The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2002.

PERSONNEL

University of Alabama at Birmingham: George O. Liber promoted to professor; James F. Tent named chair; and Raymond A. Mohl is on leave spring 2003.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Heather Register appointed Community Historian; and Kristen Dutcher Mann and Charles G. Musgrove appointed assistant professor.

Arkansas Tech University: H. Michael Tarver appointed associate professor and chair.

Auburn University: Kenneth W. Noe promoted to professor and named Draughon Professor in Southern History.

University of Baltimore: Jessica Elfenbein promoted to associate professor. Berea College: Loft Brooks resigned; and D. Warren Lambert, professor emeritus, has died.

Centenary College: Karin H. Breuer appointed visiting assistant professor.

The Citadel: Joelle Neulander and Jennifer Speelman appointed assistant professor; Warren F. Kimball and Emory M. Thomas appointed Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor; J. William Gordon and David H. White Jr. have retired; and Keith N. Knapp is on leave.

University of Delaware: Christine L. Heyrman named Distinguished Professor of History; Farley Grubb appointed professor; Suzanne Austin Alchon, Anne Boylan, and John J. Hurt promoted to professor; Jonathan Russ appointed assistant professor; and Cara Delay and Susan M. Gauss appointed visiting assistant professor.

Florida State University: Sally Hadden promoted to associate professor; Neil Jumonville named chair; and Robert J. Rubanowice has retired.

Furman University: Ronald J. Granieri promoted to associate professor; and William E. Leverette, professor emeritus, died on March 11, 2002.

Georgia Southern University: Hewitt G. Joiner has retired.

Georgia Institute of Technology: Andrea Tone promoted to professor; and Michael T. Allen promoted to associate professor.

Hollins University: Ruth Alden Doan promoted to professor.

Huston-Tillotson College: Vanessa L. Davis named chair of the Division of Liberal Studies.

University of Louisville: Tracy E. K'Meyer and John E. McLeod promoted to associate professor; Susan J. Herlin has retired and been named emeritus; and Jonathan R. Ziskind is on leave.

Lyon College: David B. Stricklin promoted to associate professor and named chair of the Humanities Division; John F. Weinzierl appointed assistant professor; and Jane B. Fagg has retired.

University of Miami: Whittington B. Johnson has retired; and Janet L. B. Martin is on leave.

Miles College: David R. Campbell and Eric Tscheschlok appointed assistant professor.

University of Mississippi: Susan R. Grayzel and Charles K. Ross promoted to associate professor; Theresa Levitt appointed assistant professor; Ted Ownby and Les Field are on leave fall 2002; and Susan R. Grayzel is on leave spring 2003.

Christopher Newport University: James M. Morris has retired.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: W. Fitzhugh Brundage appointed William B. Umstead Professor of History; William R. Ferris appointed professor; John C. Chasteen promoted to professor; Chad Bryant appointed assistant professor; Lawrence D. Kessler and William E. Leuchtenburg have retired; and Donald M. Reid, Lloyd S. Kramer, and Kathryn J. Burns are on leave.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Jurgen Buchenau promoted to associate professor.

College of Notre Dame of Maryland: E. Susan Barker promoted to associate professor.

Radford University: Matthew M. Oyos promoted to associate professor.

Rhodes College: Michael J. LaRosa promoted to associate professor; Michael R. Drompp and Michael J. LaRosa are on leave; and Russell T. Wigginton is on leave fall 2002.

Rice University: Alex Lichtenstein appointed associate professor; David Slavin appointed visiting assistant professor; Laura E. Baker appointed lecturer; Alexander X. Byrd, Carol Quillen, Paula Sanders, and Richard J. Smith are on leave; and Eva Haverkamp and Michael Maas are on leave fall 2002.

Shorter College: Alice Taylor-Colbert promoted to professor and named dean of the School of Education and Social Sciences.

University of South Alabama: Harrison S. Miller appointed assistant professor; and Aaron Fogleman has resigned.

Southeastern Louisiana University: Barbara C. Forrest promoted to professor; and Judith Fai-Podlipnik, Margaret C. Gonzalez-Perez, and Andrew G. Traver promoted to associate professor.

University of Southern Mississippi: James P. Smith and Andrew A. Wiest promoted to professor; Louis M. Kyriakoudes and Greg O'Brien promoted to associate professor; Hayley Froysland appointed assistant professor; Orazio A. Ciccarelli has retired and been named emeritus; and Geoffrey R. Jensen is on leave.

Southwest Texas State University: William Liddle has retired.

University of Tennessee at Martin: J. Stanley Sieber promoted to professor; and Lonnie E. Maness has retired.

Tennessee Technological University: Susan D. Laningham appointed assistant professor; and William C. Schrader III has retired.

Texas A&M University: Chester Dunning promoted to professor; David Vaught promoted to associate professor; and Leor Halevi and Pekka Hamalainen appointed assistant professor.

Texas Lutheran University: Angelika Sauer named associate professor; and Judith Hoffmann-Dykes appointed visiting professor.

Texas Wesleyan University: Margaret N. Patoski has retired and been named emeritus.

Transylvania University: Melissa A. McEuen is on leave.

Tulane University: Rosanne Adderley promoted to associate professor.

Valdosta State University: Melanie S. Byrd promoted to professor.

Washington College: T. Clayton Black promoted to associate professor and named chair.

State University of West Georgia: Ronald Love, Ann McCleary, and Aran MacKinnon promoted to associate professor.

College of William and Mary: Kris Lane and Ronald Schechter promoted to associate professor; Nwando Achebe, Charles F. McGovern, and Paul Mapp appointed assistant professor; Rhys Isaac appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early American History; Paul Boyer appointed visiting James Pinckney Harrison Professor; Carl R. Lounsbury appointed visiting associate professor; Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Lisa Swartout, and Camille A. Wells appointed visiting assistant professor; and David Preston appointed visiting assistant professor and postdoctoral fellow in the National Institute of American History and Democracy.

Wingate University: Gregory S. Crider promoted to associate professor and named chair.

OBITUARIES

Frank L. Byrne, Professor Emeritus of History at Kent State University, died on April 21, 2002. He was born on May 12, 1928, in Hackensack, New Jersey, graduated from Trenton State College (B.S., 1950), and received his M.A. (1951) and Ph.D. (1957) from the University of Wisconsin, where he was a student of William B. Hesseltine. After service in the U.S. Army, he taught at Louisiana State University (1957-1958) and Creighton University (1958-1966). He joined the Kent State history faculty in 1966 and taught there until he retired in 1995. He was the author of four books and over fifty articles, the Project Editor of The Papers of Robert A. Tap (Kent, Ohio, 1997-), and the editor of a series of Civil War memoirs for the University of Tennessee Press. While at Kent State he directed twenty-one master's theses and nineteen doctoral dissertations. He was a mentor and friend to his graduate students, and they admired him as a masterful teacher. One said that "they knew him to be a serious scholar, yet he endeared himself to all because of his sense of humor, a memorable laugh, and a treasury of stories about the profession." Another spoke of "his encyclopedic knowledge of American history. His lectures were thorough, clear, stimulating, and his command of historiography was truly amazing. He always challenged his graduate students and was always supportive of them. Any success I enjoy in the profession I owe to Dr. Byrne." He was a life member of the Southern Historical Association and served on a number of its committees and programs. There is no record of his ever missing a meeting, especially in cities that boasted good restaurants. On April 12 he was honored as a fifty-year member of the Organization of American Historians. After the meeting he and Marilyn visited Colonial Williamsburg. Perhaps it is only fitting that his life ended as he was returning home from a scholarly conference and a side visit to a historical site. Frank is survived by his wife Marilyn; daughter Anne Boyles (Todd) and grandsons Ian, Sean, and Alec of Kent, Ohio; son Frank (Mary), assistant professor of history, SUNY Oswego; sisters Catherine Mitchell of Ledgewood, New Jersey, and Grace Byrne of Bloomingburg, New York; and many nieces and nephews. He also leaves a host of admiring friends and colleagues. [JOHN T. HUBBELL, Kent State University]

Hugh Davis Graham, the Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, died on March 26, 2002, at his new home in Santa Barbara, California. He was only 65, a victim of esophageal cancer. With unusual courage and grace, he had battled this almost always fatal affliction for five years, a near record not only for survival but for years of continued engagement in teaching and scholarship. He died just after the publication of his final book and just before an international conference on the Reagan presidency that he had helped plan and organize. At his death he was a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging a recent executive order by President George W. Bush that limits public access to the records of former presidents.

Graham, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and one of three talented Graham boys, was born on September 2, 1936, in Arkansas, but grew up in Nashville. A history undergraduate at Yale, Graham moved to Stanford for graduate work, where he completed his Ph.D. in history in 1964. For the next three years he taught in non-tenured positions at Foothills College, San Jose State, and Stanford, then served as a non-tenured associate professor at Johns Hopkins from 1967 to 1971, where he was the associate, and then acting, director of the Institute of Southern History. In the midst of several civic involvements, he co-directed a task force for the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence in 1968-69 and co-edited the commission's report, Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives. In 1967 he published his dissertation as Crisis in Print: Desegregation and the Press in Tennessee.

In 1971 Graham moved to a tenured position at the relatively new University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he remained until his move to Vanderbilt in 1991. During these years he won an unusual number of fellowships and grants (Guggenheim, two NEH, Wilson Center, National Institute of Education, American Enterprise Institute, Lyndon Johnson Foundation, and Social Science Research Council). His early interest in civil rights, and in southern politics, led him to join Numan V. Bartley in writing Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction (Baltimore, 1975), an update of the classic work by V. O. Key Jr.

During these busy years Graham began a new line of scholarship, examining the complex process of federal policymaking and its implementation. The fruit of this would be three major books: The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years (Chapel Hill, 1984); The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972 (New York, 1990); and, most recently, Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America (New York, 2002). These works, along with dozens of articles and book chapters, several co-authored, edited, or co-edited books, and his involvements with the major historical associations, all combined to give him a deserved national reputation as the most successful pioneer in the newly self-conscious field of policy history. Graham was also active in the Southern Historical Association; for example, he served as chair of the Program Committee (1973) and as a member of the JSH Board of Editors (1979-82) and the Executive Council (1984-86).

His appointment to the McTyeire chair in 1991 brought him home again. With his usual exuberance, he committed himself completely to Vanderbilt. In the next decade he served as department chair for two years, worked tirelessly to improve graduate work, served on numerous college and university committees, and won major awards for his teaching and service to the university. He was a model colleague, generous to a fault, full of good will, and optimistic even in the face of illness and pain. In such a brief survey, it is difficult to communicate the vibrant personality that lay behind all Hugh Graham's work, or to express the appreciation of all the colleagues and students who gained so much insight and support from his friendship and his teaching. [PAUL K. CONKIN, Vanderbilt University]

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) proudly announces its new officers for 2002-2003. Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, will lead the organization as its ninety-sixth president. Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will serve as the organization's president-elect. Joining the OAH Executive Board as members are Julie Roy Jeffrey of Goucher College, David M. Kennedy of Stanford University, and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich of Harvard University. Sylvia R. Frey of Tulane University, James B. Gardner of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and Merline Pitre of Texas Southern University were elected to the OAH Nominating Board.

James P. Whittenburg has been appointed Director of the National Institute of American History and Democracy, a joint venture between the College of William & Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation that sponsors educational programs for high school and college students in early American history, material culture, and museum studies.

The Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will meet at the University of South Carolina in Columbia from February 28 to March 1, 2003, with a conference titled "Saints and Sinners: Subversion and Submission in the Eighteenth Century." The plenary speakers will be Paula Backscheider of Auburn University and Heather McPherson of the University of Alabama--Birmingham. Other events include a reception and eighteenth-century exhibit at the rare book room of the Thomas Cooper Library and readings from Lessing's Nathan the Wise. A prize will be awarded for the best graduate student essay presented at the conference. Send proposals for papers or panels relating to the conference theme to Zeynep Tenger and Paul Trolander, Department of English, Berry College, Mount Berry, Georgia 30149. Phone: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail] or ptrolander@ berry.edu, or visit the conference website for further information at www. berry.edu/seasecs2003.

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 to $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 Harris, and House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Helen Gahagan Douglas and Jeffery Cohelan of California; and Neil 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 World Wide Web at http://www.ou.edu/special/albertctr/archives and in the publication entitled 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 set of materials 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: [e-mail].

The John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island, will award approximately twenty-five short- and long-term research fellowships for the year June 1, 2003-July 31, 2004. Short-term fellowships are available for periods of two to four months and carry a stipend of $1,400 per month. These fellowships are open to foreign nationals as well as to U.S. citizens who are engaged in pre- and postdoctoral, or independent, research. Graduate students must have passed their preliminary or general examinations at the time of application and be at the dissertation-writing stage. Long-term fellowships, primarily funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, are typically for five to nine months and carry a stipend of $3,500 per month. Recipients of long-term fellowships may not be engaged in graduate work and ordinarily must be U.S. citizens or have resided in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding the application deadline.

It should be noted that the library's holdings are concentrated in the history of the Western Hemisphere during the colonial period (ca. 1492 to ca. 1825), emphasizing the European discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of the Americas, the indigenous response to the European conquest, the African contribution to the development of the hemisphere, and all aspects of European relations with the New World, including the impact of the New World on the Old. Research proposed by fellowship applicants must be suited to the holdings of the library. All fellows are expected to relocate to Providence and to be in continuous residence at the library for the entire term of the fellowship.

Several short-term fellowships have thematic restrictions: the Jeannette D. Black Memorial Fellowship in the history of cartography; the Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowships for research in the comparative history of the colonial Americas, the Alexander O. Victor Memorial Fellowship in early maritime history; the Ruth and Lincoln Ekstrom Fellowship in the history of women and the family in the Americas; the William Reese Company Fellowship in bibliography and the history of printing; and the Touro National Heritage Trust Fellowship for research on some aspect of the Jewish experience in the New World before 1825. Maria Elena Cassiet Fellowships are restricted to scholars who are permanent residents of countries in Spanish America.

The application deadline for fellowships for 2003-2004 is January 15, 2003. For application forms or more information, contact: Director, John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Providence, Rhode Island 02912. Phone: [phone]; fax: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail]; website: www.JCBL.org.

The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, reports the following recently accessioned manuscript collections: Stratton-Marlin family papers, 1802-1931, primarily consisting of diaries and correspondence of Samuel Colwell Stratton (while serving with the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina, and Tennessee) and John Denniston Marlin (of the 112th Illinois Infantry in Kentucky); papers, 1807-1977, of the Crenshaw family of Richmond, primarily concerning merchant/manufacturer Spotswood Dabney Crenshaw, his wife, Winifred (Graves) Crenshaw, his son Lewis Dabney Crenshaw, owner/operator of the Haxall-Crenshaw Mills, and another son, William Graves Crenshaw, Confederate artillerist and fiscal agent in Great Britain; papers, 1837-1939, of the Baker family of "Burnett's," Hanover County, including financial and legal records of merchant and farmer Samuel Martin Baker (1815-1890), Civil War letters of his son Samuel Martin Baker Jr. (1844-1919), of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment at Charlottesville, and correspondence of his wife, Mary Anstes (Carver) Baker; papers, 1847-1889, of Virginia governor James Lawson Kemper of Madison County, primarily consisting of military and political commissions issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Confederate States War Department, and the U.S. War Department; letter, September 27, 1861, of Governor John Letcher of Virginia to Jefferson Davis concerning the Ladies Soldiers Aid Society of the Natural Bridge District of Virginia; letter, April 21, 1863, of Philip Alexander Taliaferro of "Burgh Westra," Gloucester County, to his brother, General William Booth Taliaferro, concerning the siege of Suffolk and slaves on plantations in Gloucester County; letter, October 3, 1904, of John Singleton Mosby to President Theodore Roosevelt concerning U.S. Army officer Edgar Mason Whiting; diaries, 1923-1924, of Eunice L. Allen of Keysville concerning her teaching career in Charlotte County and attendance at a summer session of the State Normal School for Women in Farmville (now Longwood College); papers, 1941-1963, compiled by Virginia (Kaufman) Gunst of Richmond concerning her service as commander of the Volunteer Service Motor Corps of the Richmond Office of Civilian Defense during World War II; diary, 1956, of Shirley Amelie Devlin Bridges kept while accompanying her husband, Charles Scott Bridges, president of Libby, McNeill, and Libby, on a trip through postwar Europe; and records, 1959-2000, of the Robert G. Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation of Richmond, a philanthropic trust (restricted access).