Endnotes

In Memoriam

Historian Frank L. Byrne died April 21, 2002. Byrne received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1957 and taught at Louisiana State University and Creighton University before arriving at Kent State University in 1966, where he spent twenty-nine years on the history faculty. At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus. His publication record includes authoring four books and more than fifty articles, book chapters, and significant encyclopedia essays. Since 1987, he was Project Editor of the Robert A. Taft Papers (The Kent State University Press), and in 1994 he assumed the editorship of a series of Civil War memoirs for the University of Tennessee Press.

Awards

The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond, Virginia, has chosen Dr. William W. Freehling as the recipient of the Davis Award for his work The South vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the War.

Conferences

The Society of Military History will hold its 70th annual meeting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 1-42003. The conference theme is "The Military and Society During Domestic Crisis." For more information contact Dr. G. Kurt Piehler, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, email: <gpiehler@utk.edu>.

The Sixth Southern Conference on Women's History, sponsored by the Southern Association for Women Historians, will be held June 5-7, 2003 on the campus of the University of Georgia, Athens. For further information about the conference, contact Kathleen Clark, email: <katclark@arches.uga.edu>.

The Citadel announces its Conference on the History of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina, March 6-7, 2003, at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina. The meeting will feature approximately ten panel sessions where visiting scholars present and comment on papers dealing with aspects of the civil rights movement in the Palmetto State from 1890 to the present. Contact The Citadel Conference on the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina, c/o Bob Moore, The Citadel, Department of History, Charleston, SC, 29409.

The 117th annual meeting of the American Historical Association will be held in Chicago, January 2-5, 2003, at the Chicago Hilton and the Palmer House Hilton. For more information contact Anand A. Yang, email: <Anand.Yang@Yang@m.cc.utah.edu> or Margaret Washington, email: <mw26@cornell.edu>.

The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Conference will be held in New Orleans at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, January 22-25, 2003. This event is a collaboration between the Louisiana Historical Association and the Historic New Orleans Collection, with support from the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism. The conference will examine the impact of the Louisiana Purchase on the history of the United States from 1793 to 1860. It will also analyze the long-term effects of the Louisiana Purchase on the national development of a diverse society. For information, contact Dawn Hebert, Event Coordinator, PO Box 9061, New Iberia, LA 70562-9061; (337) 367-6447; email: <dmhebert@cox-internet.com>.

The Stephen A. Douglas Symposium will be held March 29, 2003, in Decatur, Illinois. For more information contact Brent Wielt, Macon County Conservation District, 3939 Nearing Lane, Decatur, IL 62521; email: <bwielt@maconcountyconservation.org>.

The fourth triennial Frank and Virginia Williams Symposium on Abraham Lincoln will be held October 17, 2003, at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. Proposals for papers and panels dealing with Lincoln's legacy abroad are especially encouraged. For information, contact William D. Pederson, International Lincoln Center, LSU Shreveport, Shreveport, La., 71115-2301, email <wpederso@pilot.lsus.edu>.

Internet Resources

The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities announces the availability of an expanded and revised website, now titled "The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record," compiled by Jerome Handler (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) and Michael Tuite (Digital Media Laboratory, University of Virginia). This new version contains more than 800 images; these will be added to over the next several months. Visit the website at <http://groupius.lib.virginia.edu/Slavery>.

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