Endnotes

Announcements

The Organization of American Historians (OAH) and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) have created a fund to award travel grants in memory of John Higham (1920–2003), past president of both organizations, and a towering figure in immigration, ethnic, and intellectual history. Travel grants of $500 are awarded to three (3) graduate students (minimum ABD preferred) each year. Funds are to be used by graduate students toward costs of attending the OAH/IEHS annual meeting. Successful candidates will have a preferred area of concentration in American Immigration and/or American Ethnic and/or American Intellectual history. Application deadline is December 1, 2009. For more information see www.oah.org/activities/awards/higham/index.html .

The National Museum of Civil War Medicine’s 17th Annual Conference on Civil War Medicine will be held October 2–4, 2009, in Towson, Maryland. The conference will feature new and unique lectures on Civil War medicine and a Saturday afternoon bus tour. Also included are a Thursday evening pre-conference special event, Friday evening social hour, and Saturday evening dinner. The conference hotel is the Sheraton Baltimore North Hotel. If you have questions, please contact Karen Thomassen at Museum@civilwarmed.org or call 301-695-1864.

The Southern Illinois University Press announces a Legal History of the Civil War Era: From the Mexican War to Jim Crow, a series of books to be edited by Christian G. Samito. This is the first series to focus on the rich legal history of the period from the Mexican War to Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow. The series will explore legal history from different angles, ranging from presidential leadership to legislative mandates, and from judicial interpretation to the impact society had on legal development, and how law, society, and politics mixed during this period to shape American legal development. Books in the series will be written with a high scholarly caliber and will also be accessible to an interested non-academic audience. Although the majority of the books will be overviews and monographs, themed essay compilations and selected edited collections of papers from important legal thinkers will be welcome in the series. Ideally, books in the series will be up to 95,000 words in length and may include as many as twenty graphic images. Scholars interested in learning about or potentially contributing to the series may contact Christian Samito at ChrisHCHLS@aol.com.

Awards

The Society of Civil War Historians is pleased to announce the first annual Tom Watson Brown Book Award. The inaugural Tom Watson Brown Book Award will recognize an outstanding scholarly book published in 2009 on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War with a $50,000 prize to be awarded at the 2010 Southern Historical Association meeting. All genres of scholarship within the field will be eligible, including, but not exclusive to, monographs, synthetic works presenting original interpretations, and biographies. Works of fiction, poetry, and textbooks will not be considered. Jurors will consider nominated works’ scholarly and literary merit as well as the extent to which they make original contributions to our understanding of the period. The award is sponsored by the Watson-Brown Foundation, which funds undergraduate scholarships, historic preservation, and grants for southern studies. The deadline for submissions is December 31, 2009. Submission instructions can be found on the SCWH Web site at http://scwh.la.psu.edu/bookaward.shtml .

Two books that redefine Abraham Lincoln’s command of the largest army and navy of the 19th century have won the 2009 Lincoln Prize, which is endowed by Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman and administered by Gettysburg College. The winners are James McPherson for Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief and Craig Symonds for Lincoln and His Admirals: Abraham Lincoln, the U.S. Navy, and the Civil War. Each author received $25,000 and a bronze replica of Augustus Saint-Gaudens life-size bust, “Lincoln the Man.” McPherson, who won the prize in 1998, is the George Henry Davis Professor of American History Emeritus at Princeton University. Symonds, who was a finalist in 1993, is Professor of American History Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy...