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Call for Papers

The Society of Civil War Historians will host a conference from June 17 through 19, 2010, at the Marriott Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. The SCWH welcomes panel proposals or individual papers on the Civil War era, broadly defined. The goal of the conference is to promote the integration of social, military, political, and other forms of history on the Civil War era among historians, graduate students, and professionals who interpret history in museums, national parks, archives, and other public facilities. The deadline for receipt of proposals is September 15, 2009. Proposals should include a title and abstract for the papers (approximately 250–300 words) and a short curriculum vitae of participants. Panel submissions should have an overall title and statement about the thrust of the session. Submit all proposals to Dr. William Blair, Director, Richards Civil War Era Center, 108 Weaver Building, State College, PA 16802. Phone: (814) 863-0151. Email: RichardsCenter@psu.edu. Website: www.richardscenter.psu.edu. Final decisions on panels will be made at the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association in Louisville. The program committee consists of J. Matthew Gallman (chair), assisted by Carol Reardon, Wendy Venet, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, and Thavolia Glymph.

Awards

The Society of Civil War Historians is pleased to announce the First Annual Tom Watson Brown Book Award. The inaugural Tom Watson Book Award will recognize an outstanding scholarly book published in 2009 on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War with a $50,000 prize to be awarded at the 2010 Southern Historical Association meeting. All genres of scholarship within the [End Page 318] field will be eligible, including, but not limited to, monographs, synthetic works presenting original interpretations, and biographies. Works of fiction, poetry, and textbooks will not be considered. Jurors will consider nominated works' scholarly and literary merit as well as the extent to which they make original contributions to our understanding of the period. The award is sponsored by the Tom Watson Brown Foundation, which funds and administers undergraduate fellowships, research in southern history, and historic preservation. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009. Submission instructions can be found on the SCWH website at: http:// scwh.la.psu.edu/book_award.shtml.

In Memoriam

Dr. John Hope Franklin, Duke University's James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, died March 25, 2009. A native of Oklahoma and a graduate of Fisk University, Dr. Franklin received his A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Harvard University and then taught at Fisk University, St. Augustine's College, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University. In 1956 he went to Brooklyn College as Chairman of the Department of History, and in 1964 he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he served as Chairman of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970 and was the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor from 1969 to 1982 (when he became Professor Emeritus). Dr. Franklin's best known book is From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans, now in its seventh edition. His numerous other publications include The Emancipation Proclamation; The Militant South; The Free Negro in North Carolina; Reconstruction After the Civil War; A Southern Odyssey: Travelers in the Ante-bellum North; Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938–1988; and The Color Line: Legacy for the Twenty-first Century. Dr. Franklin's most recent book, My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin, is an autobiography of his father that he edited with his son, John Whittington Franklin.

Dr. Franklin's many awards include the Clarence L. Holt Literary Prize, the Jefferson Medal, the Cleanth Brooks Medal of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Charles Frankel Prize for Contributions to the Humanitites, the inaugural W.E.B. DuBois Award from the Fisk University Alumni Association, the Organization of American Historians' Award for Outstanding Achievement, the Alpha Phi Alpha Award of Merit, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1996 Professor Franklin was elected to the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame, and in 1997 he received the Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award. In addition to his many awards, Dr...

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