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The seventy-second annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association (SHA) will be held Wednesday through Saturday, November 15-18, 2006, at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Ernest J. Gaines will be the speaker for the opening night session, followed by a reception at the Birmingham Museum of Art. Other special sessions and activities will take place at the Civil Rights Institute, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, and the Sloss Furnaces. President Pete Daniel's presidential address, entitled "African American Farmers and Civil Rights," will be delivered on Thursday night. The SHA website (www.uga.edu/~sha) currently has the full program listed, as well as other information about the Birmingham meeting. The printed program will be mailed to all members later this month.

Graduate students attending this year's meeting in Birmingham are encouraged to attend the sixth annual luncheon given on their behalf and sponsored by the John and LaWanda Cox Fund. The program this year will be "Writing for the Web," a panel discussion of opportunities and options for historical research and writing for the internet. The luncheon is free to all students registered for the meeting.

All graduate students and junior faculty members (within three years of completion of their doctorates) who are presenting papers at this year's meeting are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the William F. Holmes Award for the best paper presented at the annual meeting. They should submit three copies of the paper, in the form in which it is to be delivered at the meeting, to the SHA office by October 1 in order to be considered. This year's award committee consists of Susan M. McGrath, Georgia Perimeter College, chair; Anthony E. Kaye, Penn State University; and Natalie J. Ring, University of Texas at Dallas.

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.

President-elect Nell I. Painter has appointed the following committees for 2007 and 2008: Program Committee: Jane Dailey, Johns Hopkins University, chair; Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University; Michael W. Fitzgerald, St. Olaf College; Maura E. Hametz, Old Dominion University; J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire; Wanda A. Hendricks, University of South Carolina; Cynthia A. Kierner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Jon Kukla, Patrick Henry Memorial Foundation; Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago; Heather Cox Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Joshua D. Rothman, University of Alabama; Claudio Saunt, University of Georgia; Mitchell Shay, Denison University; Diane Miller Sommerville, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Landon R. Y. Storrs, University of Houston; Patricia A. Sullivan, University of South Carolina; and Clive Webb, University of Sussex; John W. Blassingame Award Committee: Cynthia Griggs Fleming, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, chair; Kathleen Clark, University of Georgia; and Robert F. Engs, University of Pennsylvania; Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award Committee: Merline Pitre, Texas Southern University, chair; Stanley Harrold, South Carolina State University; and Heather A. Williams, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; William F. Hohnes Award Committee: Marie J. Schwartz, University of Rhode Island, chair; Gregory L. Mixon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Anastatia Sims, Georgia Southern University; H. L. Mitchell Award Committee: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Rutgers University, chair; Sally E. Hadden, Florida State University; and Clifford Kuhn, Georgia State University; Charles S. Sydnor Award Committee: Loren Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, chair; Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina; and Linda Reed, University of Houston; Bennett H. Wall Award Committee: Juliet Walker, University of Texas at Austin, chair; David L. Carlton, Vanderbilt University; and James B. McSwain, Tuskegee University; and C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize Committee: Alton Hornsby Jr., Morehouse College, chair; Christopher R. Waldrep, San Francisco State University; and Matthew Whitaker, Arizona State University.

Professor Painter has appointed the following to the Committee on Minorities for three-year terms: Daniel d'Oney, Albany College of Pharmacy; and Elizabeth Hayes Turner, University of North Texas; and to the Committee on Women: Allison Dorsey, Swarthmore College; and Amy Murrell Taylor, University at Albany, State University of New York.

To better reflect staffing at other major journals, to accommodate the teaching and research interests of John B. Boles, and to recognize the increasing experience of Randal L. Hall, several changes in title and duties have been effected at the editorial offices of the Journal of Southern History. Boles, who has been Managing Editor since July 1, 1983, will give up some of his routine editing and administrative duties and focus primarily on choosing articles and assigning book reviews in his new capacity as Editor of the Journal. Hall, who has served as Associate Editor since July 1, 2003, has been promoted to Managing Editor. As such he will take over most of the administrative details of the office and will be responsible for the copyediting, proofreading, and production of the Journal. These changes in many ways simply reflect an evolution of duties that has occurred over the past few years, and readers of the Journal should notice no changes. The commitment to careful refereeing, extraordinary attention to fact-checking and copyediting, and fidelity to the publishing schedule will remain the same.