Historical news and notices

According to SHA bylaws, no one who participated on the previous two programs, in either Memphis or Atlanta, is eligible for participation on the New Orleans program. Because the chances of single-paper proposals being accepted are relatively slight, full-session proposals are strongly encouraged. The Program Committee for the 2006 meeting in New Orleans will be chaired by Joseph P. Reidy, Howard University, and consists of John J. Clune Jr., University of West Florida; William J. Cobb, Spelman College; Greta E. de Jong, University of Nevada at Reno; Thavolia Glymph, Duke University; Johnpeter H. Grill (EHS representative), Mississippi State University; Michael K. Honey, University of Washington, Tacoma; Angela Lakwete, Auburn University; Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University; Monica Perales, University of Houston; Bryant Simon, Temple University; and Charles Vincent, Southern University. Anna Bailey, University of Washington, Lumbee Indian identity; Margaret D. Bauer, East Carolina University, James Spence's Young Paul Green; David Brown, Sheffield University, Carolina Piedmont during the Civil War; Alice R. Gotten, independent scholar, Thomas Wolfe's manuscript collections; Gregg A. Hecimovich, East Carolina University, Hannah Crafts and North Carolina; Lloyd Johnson, Campbell University, Upper Cape Fear Valley in the eighteenth century; Benjamin R. Justesen, biographies of black legislators in North Carolina before 1901; Robert M. Owens, Wichita State University, North Carolina Cherokees; Peter Wallenstein, Virginia Tech, desegregation at the University of North Carolina; Emily Herring Wilson, Wake Forest University, correspondence of A. R. Ammons; and John G. Zehmer Jr., independent scholar, history of the Hayes Plantation. Since 1987 more than 240 Archie K. Davis Fellowships have been granted to assist scholars in their travels to sources of North Carolina's history and culture. The center's holdings include the papers of many former members of Congress, such as Robert S. Kerr, Fred Harris, and House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma; Helen Gahagan Douglas and Jeffery Cohelan of California; Sidney Clarke of Kansas; and Neil Gallagher of New Jersey. Besides the history of Congress, congressional leadership, national and Oklahoma politics, and election campaigns, the collections also document government policy affecting agriculture, Native Americans, energy, foreign affairs, the environment, the economy, and other areas.