BUSINESS OFFICE EDITORIAL OFFICE Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director David Thelen, Editor Organization of American Historians Journal of American History 112 North Bryan Street 125 East Atwater Street Bloomington, IN 47408-4199 Bloomington, IN 47408 Phone: (812) 855-7311 Phone: (812) 855-2816 FAX: (812) 855-0696 FAX: (812) 855-9939
HISTORY
From its beginnings as a small regional group, the Organization of American Historians has grown to a large international association with approximately 9,000 members and 3,000 institutional subscribers interested in the full scope of United States history.
The Organization was founded in 1907 as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association and was headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska, for nearly half a century. Originally focused on the history of the Mississippi Valley, the association evolved into the primary organization of specialists in United States history. In 1965, when the MVHA became the OAH, the office moved to Salt Lake City, and, in 1970, to Bloomington, Indiana. Membership is open to anyone interested in the Organization's goals: the promotion of historical study and research in American history. The Organization of American Historians publishes the Journal of American History, the Magazine of History, the OAH Newsletter, and an Annual Meeting Program for the convention.
OAH STAFF
Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director Roark Atkinson, Assistant Editor, OAH Newsletter Bradley J. Birzer, Assistant Editor, OAH Magazine of History Jeanette Chafin, Business Manager John Dichtl, Assistant for Professional Affairs David Fisher, Editor, Connections Ginger L. Foutz, Membership Director Kara Hamm, Award and Prize Committee Coordinator, Member Services Assistant Monica Hendren, Service Committee Coordinator Andrew Junker, Member Services Assistant Tamzen A. Meyer, Marketing and Advertising Coordinator Michael Regoli, Director of Publications Sheri L. Sherrill, Convention ManagerEXECUTIVE BOARD
Officers
Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa, President George M. Fredrickson, Stanford University, President-Elect Gale Peterson, The Cincinnati Historical Society, Treasurer Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director David Thelen, Editor, Journal of American HistoryPast Presidents Michael Kammen, Cornell University Gary B. Nash, University of California at Los Angeles Eric Foner, Columbia University
Elected Members Jack P. Greene, Johns Hopkins University Jacquelyn Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Bender, New York University Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin Vicki L. Ruiz, Arizona State University Ellen Carol DuBois, University of California at Los Angeles Michael Frisch, State University of New York at Buffalo Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University
BUDGET REVIEW COMMITTEE
Linda K. Kerber, President, Chair George M. Fredrickson, President-Elect Michael Kammen, Past President Gale Peterson, Treasurer, ex officio Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director, ex officio David Thelen, Editor, Journal of American History, ex officio
COMMITTEE ON EDUCATIONAL POLICY
Paul S. Boyer, Incoming Chair Jacquelyn Hall, Outgoing Chair Bryan LeBeau, Chair, Magazine of History Advisory Board Gary W. Reichard, Chair, Committee on Teaching Linda K. Kerber, President, ex officio George M. Fredrickson, President-Elect, ex officio Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director, ex officio
NOMINATING BOARD
Nancy Hewitt, Duke University James O. Horton, George Washington University Albert L. Hurtado, Arizona State University Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, Chair Patricia U. Bonomi, New York University David G. Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD
David W. Blight, Amherst College Linda Gordon, University of Wisconsin at Madison Michael H. Hunt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Robert A. Gross, College of William and Mary Robin D.G. Kelley, New York University Daniel T. Rodgers, Princeton University Norma Basch, Rutgers University at Newark Lizabeth Cohen, New York University Nancy F. Cott, Yale University Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director, ex officio
MAGAZINE OF HISTORY ADVISORY BOARD Michael Frisch, Incoming Executive Board Liaison Jack P. Greene, Outgoing Executive Board Liaison Karen L. Harris, Highland Park High School Elizabeth A. Kessel, Anne Arundel Community College Henry Kiernan, West Morris Regional High School District Bryan LeBeau, Creighton University, Chair Gloria E. Miranda, El Camino College John Pyne, West Milford Township Public Schools Gary W. Reichard, Chair, Committee on Teaching, ex officio David Vigilante, San Diego City Schools Sarah Wyman, Fort Lewis College
OAH NEWSLETTER EDITORIAL BOARD Douglas Greenberg, Chicago Historical Society, Chair Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University John Patrick, ERIC Clearinghouse, Indiana University Harvard Sitkoff, University of New Hampshire
1997 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Brian Balogh, University of Virginia Michele H. Bogart, State University of New York at Stony Brook Jon Butler, Yale University Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of California at San Diego, Co-Chair Evelynn M. Hammonds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joanne Meyerowitz, University of Cincinnati Mary P. Ryan, University of California at Berkeley, Co-Chair Allen Steinberg, University of Iowa
1997 CONVENTION SPECIAL EVENTS AND PUBLICITY COMMITTEE Philip Choy, Chinese Historical Society of America L. Thomas Frye, Oakland Museum of California, Co-Chair Paul Groth, University of California, Berkeley, Co-Chair Stephen Haller, National Park Service, San Francisco Michael McCone, California Historical Society Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, Sacramento State University Helen Tryon, Oakland Museum of California Charles Wollenberg, Vista College
1998 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Thomas L. Haskell, Rice University Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University, Co-Chair Stephen Innes, University of Virginia Jacqueline Jones, Brandeis University Earl Lewis, University of Michigan James Oakes, Northwestern University Michael Perman, University of Illinois at Chicago Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin at Madison Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York at Binghamton, Co-Chair
COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF MINORITY HISTORIANS AND MINORITY HISTORY Paul S. Boyer, Executive Board Liaison Robert L. Harris, Jr., Africana Studies & Research Center, Cornell University Douglas Monroy, The Colorado College Barbara M. Posadas, Northern Illinois University Arvarh E. Strickland, University of Missouri at Columbia, Chair
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COMMITTEE R. David Edmunds, Indiana University Barbara Franco, The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Michael Frisch, State University of New York at Buffalo Joan M. Jensen, New Mexico State University Edward T. Linenthal, University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh Gary B. Nash, University of California at Los Angeles, Chair Constance B. Schulz, Chair, Committee on Public History
COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HISTORY Mary Maples Dunn, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, Radcliffe College Hugh D. Graham, Vanderbilt University David E. Kyvig, University of Akron Vicki L. Ruiz, Executive Board Liaison Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina, Chair
COMMITTEE ON RESEARCH AND ACCESS TO HISTORICAL DOCUMENTATION Thomas Bender, Executive Board Liaison Philip L. Cantelon, History Associates Incorporated Kathleen Neils Conzen, The University of Chicago Gerda W. Ray, University of Missouri at St. Louis Jane Aikin Rosenberg, National Endowment for the Humanities, Chair
COMMITTEE ON TEACHING Lewis Perry, Vanderbilt University, Incoming Executive Board Liaison Gary W. Reichard, California State University at Long Beach, Chair Victoria Z. Straughn, La Folette High School Joe W. Trotter, Outgoing Executive Board Liaison Mitch Yamasaki, Chaminade University of Honolulu Charles A. Zappia, San Diego Mesa College
COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION Ellen Carol DuBois, Incoming Executive Board Liaison Susan Englander, University of California at Los Angeles Jacquelyn Hall, Outgoing Executive Board Liaison Emma J. Lapsansky, Haverford College Mary Logan Rothschild, Arizona State University, Chair Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE Jean H. Baker, Goucher College T. H. Breen, Northwestern University, Chair Dan T. Carter, Emory University Darlene Clark Hine, Michigan State University Richard S. Kirkendall, University of Washington Robert Middlekauff, University of California, Berkeley James Patterson, Brown University Linda K. Kerber, President, ex officio George M. Fredrickson, President-Elect, ex officio Michael Kammen, Past President, ex officio Gale Peterson, Treasurer, ex officio Arnita A. Jones, Executive Director, ex officio
INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE William H. Chafe, Duke University, Chair Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies Maeva Marcus, Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. David Thelen, Editor, Journal of American History
TASK FORCE ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES Nadine Ishitani Hata, El Camino Community College, Chair Elizabeth A. Kessel, Anne Arundel Community College Lawrence W. Levine, University of California at Berkeley Myron Marty, Drake University John M. McLeod, Miami-Dade Community College George Stevens, Dutchess Community College Charles A. Zappia, San Diego Mesa College
JOINT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS-AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR LEGAL HISTORY
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ACCESS TO LAWYERS' FILES Organization of American Historians Representatives: Paul Finkelman, University of Miami Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies Maeva Marcus, Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Rayman L. Solomon, Northwestern University School of Law, Co-Chair American Society for Legal History Representatives: Michael Churgin, Co-Chair Mary Dudziak Harold M. Hyman Michael McReynolds
OAH MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
* Denotes Outgoing Committee Member ** Denotes Member of Membership Executive Committee Chair/Minnesota Annette Atkins, Saint John's University** Alabama Douglas Wertsch, Athens State College Alaska Appointment Pending Arizona Appointment Pending Arkansas Stephen Strausberg, University of Arkansas California Joan R. Gundersen, California State University at San Marcos Two Appointments Pending Colorado Mark T. Gilderhus, Colorado State University Connecticut Cecelia F. Bucki, Fairfield University Delaware Appointment Pending D.C. Appointment Pending Florida Ray Arsenault, University of South Florida Georgia Lee W. Formwalt, Albany State University Guam, P.R., V.I. Marilyn F. Krigger, University of the Virgin Islands* Hawaii Appointment Pending Idaho William R. Swagerty, University of Idaho Illinois Russell Lewis, Chicago Historical Society Jeffrey Mirel, Northern Illinois University Indiana Robert G. Barrows, Indiana UniversityPurdue University at Indianapolis*/** Iowa John W. Johnson, University of Northern Iowa Kansas Ann Schofield, University of Kansas* Kentucky Thomas C. Mackey, University of Louisville Louisiana Maxine F. Taylor, Northwestern State University of Louisiana* Maine Daniel Levine, Bowdoin College Maryland Appointment Pending Massachusetts Donald M. Jacobs, Northwestern University* Neal Salisbury, Smith College** Michigan Elizabeth Faue, Wayne State University Mississippi John F. Marszalek, Mississippi State University Missouri Stephen Kneeshaw, College of the Ozarks Montana Billy G. Smith, Montana State University Nebraska Dennis N. Mihelich, Creighton University Nevada Joanne Goodwin, University of Nevada at Las Vegas* New Hampshire W. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire New Jersey William J. Gilmore-Lehne, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey New Mexico Elizabeth Jameson, University of New Mexico New York Charles Pete Banner-Haley, Colgate University New York Lynn Hudson Parsons, State University of New York at Brockport Barbara Winslow, Hunter College, City University of New York* North Carolina David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte North Dakota Bethany Andreasen, Minot State University Ohio Edward F. Haas, Wright State University Oklahoma David W. Levy, University of Oklahoma* Oregon Peter Buckingham, Linfield College Pennsylvania Donald B. Hoffman, Allentown, Pennsylvania* Margaret Marsh, Temple University Rhode Island Susan Smulyan, Brown University* South Carolina Edmund L. Drago, The College of Charleston South Dakota Steven J. Bucklin, University of South Dakota Tennessee Thomas A. Schwartz, Vanderbilt University Texas David E. Narrett, University of Texas at Arlington** Utah L. Ray Gunn, University of Utah Vermont Barbara Bellows, Middlebury College Virginia John Kneebone, Library of Virginia** Washington E. Wayne Carp, Pacific Lutheran University* West Virginia Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University Wisconsin Robert Gough, University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire Wyoming Appointment Pending Canada Bruce C. Daniels, University of Winnipeg Michael Fellman, Simon Fraser University Foreign Countries Susan-Mary C. Grant, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON HISTORICAL DIPLOMATIC DOCUMENTATION Michael J. Hogan, The Ohio State University, OAH Representative
OAH PARLIAMENTARIAN Gordon Morris Bakken, California State University, Fullerton
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES Jane S. De Hart, University of California, Santa Barbara, OAH Delegate to the ACLS
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION William H. Chafe, Duke University, OAH Representative