Endnotes

Awards

Frederick Douglass Book Prize: The fourth annual award featured two books on slavery sharing in the $25,000 prize. ROBERT HARMS, professor of African studies at Yale University, received first prize and $15,000 for his book The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade, published by Basic Books. JOHN STAUFFER, associate professor of English and American civilization at Harvard University, was awarded second prize for The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race, published by Harvard University Press. Honorable mention went to MICHAEL SALMAN, associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, for his work, The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines, released by University of California Press.

Lincoln Prize: The thirteenth annual prize of $20,000 went to GEORGE C. RABLE, Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History at the University of Alabama, for Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg! published by University of North Carolina Press. The book also received the 2002 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award from the Military Order of the Stars and Bars. In addition, the e-Lincoln Prize was awarded to Harpweek.com's recently introduced website, <http://lincolnandthecivilwar.com>, a digital resource with the complete contents of forty wartime newspapers published in both the North and the South. The $50,000 award goes to its founder, John Adler.

Mayflower Award for Nonfiction: The prize for 2002 went to DAVID S. CECELSKI for The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, published by University of North Carolina Press.

Nevins-Freeman Award: The 2002 honor went to HAROLD HOLZER, vice president for Communications and Marketing at The Metropolitan Museum. The award is a lifetime achievement honor for the field of Civil War studies presented by the Chicago Civil War Roundtable. Holzer has authored, co-authored, or edited more than twenty books relating to Lincoln and the Civil War and has written more than three hundred articles for both popular magazines and scholarly journals.

Announcements

The 2003 Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecturer will be MICHAEL F. HOLT, Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History of the University of Virginia. The Fortenbaugh Lecture is presented each year on November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. For information call the Civil War Institute at 717-337-6590; e-mail <civilwar@gettysburg.edu>, or visit the website at <http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/cwi/index.html>.

Conferences

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts; the DuBois Institute, Harvard University; the Museum of Afro-American History, Massachusetts; the National Park Service; The Omhundro Institute for Early American History and Culture, and Suffolk University will hold a conference on New England Slavery and the Slave Trade in Boston, Massachusetts, April 21-23, 2004. The program committee for the conference includes: Ira Berlin, University of Maryland (chair); James Horton, George Washington University; and Joanne Melish, University of Kentucky.

The Southern Historical Association's sixty-ninth annual meeting of the will be held November 6-9, 2003, in Houston, Texas. For information, visit the website at <http://www.uga.edu/~sha>.

The Pennsylvania Historical Association will hold its annual meeting October 23-25, 2003, in Harrisburg, Pa. This meeting will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Pennsylvania State Archives. For more information contact Jean R. Soderlund, Department of History, Lehigh University, 9 W. Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015-3081; e-mail <jrsa@lehigh.edu>.

The North American Labor History Conference will hold its twenty-fifth annual meeting October 16-18, 2003, at Wayne State University in Detroit. The theme of the conference is "Labor, War, and Imperialism." For information contact Elizabeth Faue, coordinator, North American Labor History Conference, Department of History, 3094 Faculty Administration Building, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202; phone (313) 577-2525; e-mail <ad5247>@wayne.edu>.

The 2004 Organization of American Historians will be organized around the theme of American Revolutions. The program will explore a wide variety of political, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, diplomatic, military, technological, and environmental transformations in American history as well...