Endnotes

Announcements

The American Association for the History of Medicine invites submissions in any area of medical history for its 82nd annual meeting, to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, April 23–26, 2009. Abstracts must be received by September 15, 2008 (e-mail or faxed proposals cannot be accepted). The association welcomes submissions on the history of health and healing; history of medical ideas, practices, and institutions; and histories of illness, disease, and public health. Besides single-paper proposals, the program committee accepts abstracts for sessions and for luncheon workshops. Because the Bulletin of the History of Medicine is the official journal of the AAHM, the association encourages speakers to make their manuscripts available for consideration by the Bulletin. The AAHM uses an online abstract submissions system, which can be accessed at http://histmed.org.

The Organization of American Historians seeks proposals for its 2009 conference, which will be themed "History Without Boundaries." The program committee seeks an eclectic program that will highlight the creative use of history in research, education, the media, and public presentations, and seeks proposals reflecting the broad chronological and subject diversity of American history, including race, gender, disabilities, economic, social, cultural, political, diplomatic, and military studies, by those teaching at four year colleges, universities, community colleges, and secondary schools, public historians, and independent scholars. Meeting on the West coast, the program should feature sessions on the history of the West and the borderlands, rural life, Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans, and issues of immigration and environmental policy. Proposals should be submitted electronically beginning October 1, 2007. For more details visit the OAH website at http://www.oah.org/meetings/2009/call.html.

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine announces its 16th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine to be held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 3–5, 2008. The Baltimore location boasts attractions such as the USS Constellation, dining at the Inner Harbor, historic Fells Point, the Walters Art Museum, the Frederick Douglass Museum, the Flag House where the Star Spangled Banner was sewn and much more. This year's conference hotel is the Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel, named "best in class" for overall guest satisfaction in 2006 and #5 in North America. Connected by a skywalk to the largest mall in Baltimore County, it is within 15 minutes of Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Oriole Park at Camden Yards and Ravens Stadium. Interested parties may contact Karen Thomassen at Museum@civilwarmed.org or call (301) 695-1864.

The Pioneer America Society: Association for the Preservation of Artifacts & Landscapes (PAS: APAL) will hold its 40th annual conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on October 16–18, 2008. The theme of the conference is "Landscapes at Risk." For complete information, contact Dr. Craig E. Colten, Chair of the Department of Geography & Anthropology at the Louisiana State University, at (225) 578-6180 or at ccolten@lsu.edu. Information is also available on the PAS: APAL website at http://www.pioneeramerica.org.

Awards

The Military Order of the Stars and Bars has awarded Eric H. Walther the 2007 Douglas Southall Freeman History Award for his William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War (UNC Press, 2006), a comprehensive biography of William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63), one of the leading secessionists of the Old South. Dr. Walther examines the personality and political life of the uncompromising fire-eater and presents a nuanced look at the roots of Southern honor, violence, and understandings of manhood as they developed in the nineteenth century.

Brian Dirck has been awarded the Benjamin Barondess Award from the Civil War Round Table of New York for his book Lincoln the Lawyer (Illinois, 2007). The award, created in 1962 to recognize excellence in scholarship on Abraham Lincoln, has gone to such well-known authors as Gore Vidal, Garry Wills, and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The Austin Civil War Round Table of Austin, Texas, has awarded its 2007 Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize to A. Wilson Greene's Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War (Virginia, 2006). The Laney Prize is given for distinguished scholarship and writing on the military and political history of the American Civil War.

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