Endnotes

Conferences and Institutes

The National History Center, American Historical Association, the Community College Humanities Association, and the Library of Congress will host “Rethinking America in a Global Perspective,” a summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. The four-week institute will take place at the Library of Congress from June 16 through July 11, 2008. In an era of increasing global interaction and interdependence, those concerned with the historical, geographical, and cultural dimensions of America are actively rethinking the geographical and chronological boundaries of their subject of study. The institute will be directed by Carl Guarneri and John Gillis. They will be joined by such scholars as Charles C. Mann, Elizabeth Mancke, Laurent DuBois, Eliga Gould, Donna Gabbacia, Paul Kramer, Penny Von Eshen, and Alan Dawley. For more information, visit the event’s web page at http://www.historians.org/projects/rethinkingamerica/2008/.

The Society for Women and the Civil War, an organization dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding of women’s lives and roles in the American Civil War through original and innovative research, presents “Women at Gettysburg: The 10th Conference on Women and the Civil War” on July 25-27, 2008, at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Topics include women soldiers in the battle of Gettysburg, businesswomen in Gettysburg at the time of the war, the Cleveland and Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, the Civil War legacy of Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, Civil War nurses and the pension system, North Carolina women during the war, pregnancy during the Civil War era, pertinent manuscript sources at the Library of Congress, and women’s letters to Confederate prisoners at Point Lookout, MD. For more information on speakers, topics, field trips and other conference-related events, visit swcw.org .

Awards

James M. McPherson, noted historian of the Civil War era, has won the first Pritzker Military Library Literature Award, a $100,000 prize presented for lifetime accomplishments in military history. McPherson, professor emeritus of history at Princeton University, won the Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), part of the Oxford History of the United States. He has written about what motivated Civil War soldiers to fight and about Abraham Lincoln’s “second American Revolution.” The Pritzker Award, presented to McPherson on October 6th, 2007, is sponsored by the Chicago-based Tawani Foundation. McPherson also received the 2007 Samuel Eliot Morison Award from the Society for Military History, is a member of the advisory boards of the National Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar and of the Gettysburg Foundation, and is a past president of both the Society of American Historians and the American Historical Association.