Historical News and Notices

THE ASSOCIATION

The Southern Historical Association will hold its eighty-fourth annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama, on November 8–11, 2018, Thursday through Sunday. Printed programs will be mailed to members this month, but details are already accessible at thesha.org, where you will find meeting highlights and information on tours and the off-site functions organized by our Local Arrangements Committee, co-chaired by S. Jonathan Bass and LeeAnnG. Reynolds. The Sheraton Birmingham Hotel will serve as our headquarters. This year's Graduate Student Luncheon, "Publishing in the Twenty-First Century," will seat graduate students with publishers, bloggers, podcasters, and digital historians for intense small-group discussions of academic publishing, virtual networking, social media utilization, and more. To ensure that our groups cohere and because space is limited, the SHA's Graduate Student Council is asking that interested graduate students preregister for the luncheon by sending a short (150–200 word) abstract and c.v. to shagraduatecouncil@gmail.com by October 15, 2018. Participants must be members of the Southern Historical Association. Availability is limited. Please follow the SHA Graduate Council on Twitter (@SHAGradCouncil) for updates.

All graduate students and recent Ph.D.s (within three years of completion of their doctorates) who are presenting at this year's meeting are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration for the William F. Holmes Award, for the best paper given at the annual meeting. To be considered, papers should be submitted via email to manager@thesha.org by October 1, 2018. Each entry should have a cover sheet that includes the author's name, the paper title, and the author's institution, along with the expected month and year of graduation. This year's award committee consists of Charlene Boyer Lewis, Kalamazoo College, chair; Charles J. Holden, St. Mary's College of Maryland; and Jaime Amanda Martinez, University of North Carolina, Pembroke. See http://thesha.org/awards for further details.

The 2019 Program Committee, co-chaired by James C. Giesen and Anne E. Marshall, Mississippi State University, has issued a call for papers for the eighty-fifth annual meeting, which will be held in Louisville, Kentucky, on November 7–10, 2019. All submissions should be made electronically through thesha.org/proposals. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2018. As a reminder, the SHA's Executive Council modified one of its rules for program participants. Formerly the Association observed what is often called the "two-year off" rule, which required individuals who had been on a particular program to sit out the next two meetings. The new rule makes an exception for chairs and commentators, who will only be required to sit out one year. The Association strongly encourages proposals that reflect racial, gender, and institutional diversity. Individuals interested in finding prospective co-panelists may do so through the SHA's online partner, H-South.

The 2018 Nominating Committee, consisting of Lesley J. Gordon, University of Alabama, chair; Edward E. Baptist, Cornell University; Gaines Foster, Louisiana State University; Cherisse Jones-Branch, Arkansas State University; and Randy J. Sparks, Tulane University, calls for recommendations from the SHA membership for the office of vice president/president-elect and for members of the Executive Council. The committee will finalize and announce its nominees at the meeting in Birmingham. Recommendations for vice president/president-elect should take the form of letters detailing the significance of the nominee's scholarship and service to the SHA and should be sent to Lesley J. Gordon, University of Alabama, 255 ten Hoor, Box 870212, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Postcard forms included in the program can be used to recommend nominees for the Executive Council.

OBITUARY

Alton Parker Hornsby Jr., emeritus faculty at Morehouse College, died Friday, September 1, 2017, at the age of seventy-seven. He had been in poor health. He served on the Southern Historical Association Executive Council, 1990–1992. In 2012 the SHA awarded Hornsby its John W. Blassingame Award in recognition of his distinguished scholarship and mentorship in African American history.

A native of Atlanta and the son of Lillie Newton and Alton Parker Hornsby Sr., he is survived by his wife, Dr. Anne Hornsby, a professor of...