Endnotes

Announcements

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on February 10, 2005, announced that it awarded a total of $7.4 million in fellowships to 195 U.S. scholars for their individual research in the humanities. Among the 2005 NEH fellows are Carla Peterson, University of Maryland, College Park, for "Reconstructing African-American Life in 19th-century New York City," and Stanley Harrold of South Carolina State University for "Border War: The Long War before the Civil War."

Gettysburg National Military Park held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the opening of its new Museum and Visitor Center on June 2, 2005. 

The Library of Congress recently made available online thousands of original Civil War maps at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/collections/civil_war_maps/. The collection includes battle maps dated between 1861 and 1865.

Tougaloo College and Brofin University announce a new web site. Freedom Now! focuses on the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi and its legacy. The site includes a searchable database that links to electronic scans of the documents. The site also contains lesson plans for teachers who want to use the documents in class, essays written by college students about clusters of documents, and essays by faculty members.

The James A. Barnes Club, Temple University's graduate student history organization, and the U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation announce the inaugural

Russell F. Weigley U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation Award for an original research paper on military history.  The award is named in honor of the late

Russell F. Weigley, Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple. The $400 award is funded by the Barnes Club and the U.S. Army Heritage Center Foundation. The Weigley Army Heritage Center Foundation Award competition will occur as a part of the annual Barnes Club Graduate Student History Conference at Temple. For more information, see the Web site at http://astro.temple.edu/~jabgrad/.

Conferences

The Fifth Annual Jerry and Edgar Wilson Lecture entitled "Inside the Confederate Hospital: Community and Conflict during the Civil War" was presented by Nancy Schurr on April 5, 2005, at the University of Tennessee. The lecture series is sponsored by the Center for the Study of War and Society and the Department of History at the University of Tennessee.

The Association for African American Historical Research and Preservation will hold a conference on "Reexamining the History Books: Uncoffiering and Discoffiering the African American Experience" at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, Washington, on February 4, 2006. Visit the website at http://www.aaahrp.org.

The Seventh Annual Southern Conference on Women's History will be held June 8–11, 2006, on the campus of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Presentations will reflect the diversity of women's historical experiences and explore histories of women from a wide range of racial, class, and ethnic backgrounds. For more information, visit the conference website at http://mailer.fsu.edu/%7Eegreen/SAWH_Call_for_Papers_2006.html.

On August 16–18, 2006, the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, will conduct a Centennial Symposium to commemorate the Niagara Movement. The symposium will be held at the Storer College campus, the site of the historic second meeting of the Niagara Movement, and is being organized in conjunction with the Association for the Study of African American Life and History and the Harpers Ferry Historical Association. The planning committee is seeking papers from scholars and laypersons addressing the history, consequences, and legacies of this historic organization. For information, consult the web site at http://www.nps.gov/hafe/niagara/.

Awards

The Organization of American Historians presented the annual Avery O. Craven Award to C. Wyatt Evans for The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy (University Press of Kansas, 2004). This prize recognizes the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history.

The Museum of the Confederacy announced the recipients of its 2004 book awards competition. The...