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Conferences

The Society for Military History will host its 72d annual meeting at the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, in historic Charleston, February 24-27, 2005. The theme of the conference will be "The Rise of the Military Profession," with papers addressing the origins and growth of military professionalism as well as topics of general interest to military historians. For more information contact Professor Kyle S. Sinisi, Department of History, tel: 843-953-5073, email: sinisik@citadel.edu.

Calls for Proposals

The Virginia Historical Society is seeking proposals for research fellowships to use its vast collection of materials related to Virginia history and culture. Awards include the Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowships, the Betty Sams Christian Fellowships in business history, the Frances Lewis Fellowships in women's studies, and the Reese Fellowships in American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2005. For information contact Dr. Nelson D. Lankford at the Virginia Historical Society, tel: 804-342-9672, email: nelson@vahistorical.org, or visit the society's website at http://www.vahistorical.org/.

Announcements

The 2004 Robert Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture will be held Friday, November 19, 2004, at 8:00p.m. at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa. This year's lecturer will be Harold Holzer, a leading expert on Abraham Lincoln and author of more than thirty books and 300 articles related to the Civil War. The lecture is presented each year on November 19, the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, and is free and open to the public. For more information contact the Civil War Institute, tel: 717-337-6590, email: civilwar@gettysburg.edu.

On March 4, 2004, Representative Jim R. Ryun (R-KS) introduced H.R. 3909, "Bleeding Kansas" and the Enduring Struggle for Freedom National Heritage Area Act, which seeks to designate Lawrence and twenty-four Kansas counties as a National Heritage Area. The collection of sites would feature the struggle over slavery that helped spark the Civil War. Proponents of the bill hope that, if enacted, the legislation will draw as much as $10 million in federal funds to help northeast Kansas preserve its history and promote tourism. The bill was referred to the House Committee on Resources for action.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced ten grants to independent research institutions for individual and collaborative scholarship in the humanities. The awards include $378,000 to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., to support three fellowships each year for three years for work in the society's extensive collection in American history, literature, and culture through 1876; $138,000 to the Library Company of Philadelphia for one fellowship in the humanities each year for three years to work with collections documenting the history of American culture from the colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century; $215,000 and an offer of $20,000 in federal matching funds to the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston to support two humanities fellowships each year for three years in American history; $212,000 and an offer of $180,000 in federal matching funds to the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, N.C., for seven fellowships each year for two years; and an offer of $189,000 in federal matching funds to the New York Public Library to support three fellowships each year for three years at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

The George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War at Shepherd College has announced the finalists for the 2004 Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship. The award consists of a $5,000 prize to an outstanding nonfiction book that advances knowledge about the Civil War era. The finalists are Stephen W. Berry, All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (Oxford Univ. Press); James L. Huston, Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War (Univ. of North Carolina Press); Michael A. Ross, Justice of Shattered...