Endnotes

Conferences

East Carolina University will be hosting a conference on Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation in September 2004. The first scholarly conference addressing Lincoln's presidency and the meaning and impact of emancipation ever to be held in the Old South, this event will focus on the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation on the course of the Civil War; the lives of African Americans; race relations and citizenship; and the cultural, economic, social, and racial attitudes and experiences of southerners. For more information contact David E. Long, East Carolina University, tel: 252-328-6956 or email longd@mail.ecu.edu.

The Department of History at the University of Alabama, in conjunction with the Bankhead Lecture Series, will be hosting the Third Annual Race and Place Conference: The Struggle for Civil Rights in America, at the University of Alabama, March 11-13, 2004. The conference is designed to promote cutting-edge scholarship on the study of race broadly defined. For more information visit the Department of History's website at http://www.as.ua.edu/history, or contact Professor Gregory M. Dorr at gdorr@bama.ua.edu.

The U.S. Army Center of Military History will be hosting its 2004 biennial Conference of Military Historians in Crystal City, Virginia, July12-14, 2004. The theme of the conference will be "Military Professionalism: The Quest for Excellence." Programs will address the influence of military professionalism on military institutions throughout history. For more information contact Dr. Robert Rush at robert.rush@hqda.army.mil, or visit the Center's website at http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/.

The Tennessee Historical Society and the Battle of Nashville Preservation Society will host a 140th Anniversary Symposium to commemorate the 1864 Atlanta-Nashville campaign. The conference will present new examinations and assessments of the campaign and the late-Civil War experience in the western theater more generally. Themes to be addressed include the context of the battle, the campaign and battle themselves, and their aftermath and legacy. For more information contact Ann Toplovich, executive director, Tennessee Historical Society, at tnhissoc@tennesseehistory.org.

The Alabama Historical Association will host its annual meeting in Birmingham on April 23 and 24, 2004. Presentations will address all aspects of Alabama history and culture. For more information contact Dr. Kathryn H. Braunk, Department of History, Auburn University, at braunkh@auburn.edu.

Announcements

In July 2003 the American Battlefield Protection Program announced the recipients of twenty-one grants totaling $464,560 to assist in the preservation and protection of America's significant battlefield lands. Among the sites selected are several related to the Civil War, including the Loundoun County, Virginia, battlefields, the Shenandoah Valley, and the Vicksburg campaign trail.

On June 30, 2003, the Gilder Lehrman Collection, consisting of some 40,000 manuscripts, documents, diaries, maps, books, photographs, and iconography tracing four centuries of American history, was placed on deposit at the New York Historical Society. The collection includes signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment to the Constitution, along with tens of thousands of historically significant letters from American leaders ranging from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. For more information visit the Gilder Lehrman Institute's website at http://www.gilderlehrman.org.

Awards

Harriet Hyman Alonso, City College of New York, received the 2003 Warren F. Kuehl Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for Growing Up Abolitionist: The Story of the Garrison Children.

Thomas J. Brown, University of South Carolina, received the Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Foundation Fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society for a research project entitled "The Reconstruction of American Memory: Civic Monuments of the Civil War."

Brian Kelly, Queen's University, Belfast, was awarded the National Humanities Center Fellowship for a research project entitled "Black Workers, Black Elites, and the Labor Question in the Jim Crow South."

Jeffrey Sklansky, Oregon State University, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship by the Newberry Library to be applied toward a research project entitled "Currency Crusaders: Money and American Political Culture in the...