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The 2005 Nominating Committee, consisting of J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire, chair; Anthony J. Badger, Cambridge University; Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University; Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania; and Patricia A. Sullivan, University of South Carolina, met at the annual meeting in Atlanta in November and made the following nominations:

FOR VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT: Leon F. Litwack, University of California, Berkeley 

FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL:

Thavolia Glymph, Duke University

Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University

Betty Wood, Cambridge University

Leon F. Litwack, nominee for vice president/president-elect, is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1964. He is the author and editor of several books, including North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (Chicago, 1965); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (New York, 1979), which won both the Pulitzer prize in history and the American Book Award; and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York, 1988). He served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 1986-1987. His service to the SHA includes the Membership Committee (1971, 1982), the International Committee (1992), the Program Committee (1987, 1999), the Simkins Book Award Committee (1999-2001), and the Executive Council (2003-2005).

Thavolia Glymph holds a joint appointment in History and African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation, and southern women. She co-edited Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy (College Station, Tex., 1985) and was co-editor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Cambridge and New York, 1985, 1990). She has served the SHA as a member of the Committee on Women (1996-1998), the Program Committee (2001, 2006), and the Nominating Committee (2003), which she chaired in 2004.

Lawrence N. Powell is a professor of history at Tulane University. He is the author of New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction (New Haven, 1980; reprint, New York, 1998) and Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana (Chapel Hill, 2000) and editor or co-editor of several other volumes. His service to the SHA includes the Program Committee (2002) and the Owsley Book Award Committee (1996-1997). He currently chairs the Ad Hoc Committee to Establish a John W. Blassingame Award Fund.

Betty Wood is Reader in American History in Girton College at Cambridge University. She is the author or co-author of eight books, including Slavery in Colonial Georgia, 1730-1775 (Athens, Ga., 1984); Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia (Athens, Ga., 1995); Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Caribbean to 1830, co-authored with Sylvia R. Frey (Chapel Hill, 1998); and Slavery in Colonial America, 1619-1776 (Lanham, Md., 2005). Her service to the SHA includes the Membership Committee (1988, 1993), Program Committee (2002), and Green-Ramsdell Award Committee (2006).

In accordance with Article IX of the SHA constitution, these nominations will become effective following the annual meeting in Birmingham this year, unless fifty members present a petition for an alternative nominee by September 1, 2006. For details on the procedure to be followed in that event, see the constitution on the SHA website: www.uga.edu/~sha.

The Nominating Committee for 2006, consisting of Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University, chair; Albert S. Broussard, Texas A&M University; Barbara J. Fields, Columbia University; Gall O'Brien, North Carolina State University; and Pamela Tyler, Tulane University, 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 Birmingham 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 curriculum vitae should be enclosed. Recommendations should be sent to Professor Fred A. Bailey, Department of History, Box 28130, Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX 79699.

The SHA is pleased to announce the establishment of a new book award. At the annual meeting in Atlanta, James A. Rawley, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska, donated the funding necessary to fund a prize recognizing a distinguished book on secession and/or the sectional crisis. Sadly, Professor Rawley died three weeks later, so the award will serve as a memorial to him and his own work in this field. The prize will be awarded in odd-numbered years, the first one to be given in 2007 to a book published in 2005 or 2006. President Pete Daniel has appointed the first Rawley Prize Committee: Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina, chair; Stephen W. Berry, University of North Carolina at Pembroke; and Mary A. DeCredico, Bucknell University.

The second John W. Blassingame Award for achievement in African American scholarship and mentorship will be presented at next year's meeting in Birmingham. The selection committee consists of Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University, chair; Drew Gilpin Faust, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University; and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Morgan State University. The committee welcomes nominations from the membership, which should include a candidate's curriculum vitae, a statement of why the candidate is deserving of this award, and letters of support. These materials should be sent to Professor Richard J. Blackett, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, VU Station B 351802, Nashville, TN 37235-2575; [e-mail]. To facilitate circulation among the committee members, submission by e-mail is encouraged.

Lawrence N. Powell at Tulane University is chairing an ad hoc committee that is currently raising funds to establish a permanent endowment to support the John W. Blassingame Award. Letters were mailed to the SHA membership in February, and the committee is encouraged by the response already. To contribute to the fund, please send checks made out to the Southern Historical Association and earmarked for the Blassingame Award Fund, to the SHA office in Athens. All contributions are tax deductible.

The 2007 Program Committee, chaired by Jane Dailey of Johns Hopkins University, has issued its call for papers and sessions for the seventy-third annual meeting of the SHA, which will be held in Richmond on October 31-November 3, 2007. 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 single-page c.v. for each presenter to Professor Jane Dailey, Department of History, Gilman Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.

The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2006. According to SHA by-laws, no one who participated on the previous two programs, in either Atlanta or Birmingham, is eligible for participation on the Richmond program. The make-up of proposed sessions accepted for the program is subject to revision and adjustment by the program committee. 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.

At the annual meeting in Memphis in November 2005, the Executive Council voted to raise the membership rates in 2007, in order for the Association to absorb more of the financial support of the Journal's operation, support that until now has been assumed by Rice University. Next year, the rates will be as follows: Individual, $40; Sustaining and Family, $50; Institutional, $60; and Five Years, $160. Student rates ($10) and Life Memberships ($600) will not change.