1986 Beveridge, Kraus and Littleton-Griswold Research Grants

At its spring meeting, the Association’s Re­search Division selected thirty-two individ­uals to receive grants for further research in the history of the Western hemisphere and also selected the first recipient of the newly­ endowed Michael Kraus Research Grant.

Previously, Beveridge grants were limited to research in American history, but to con­form with the coverage of the Albert J. Beveridge Award for books in American, Canadian, and Latin American history, the division proposed, and the Council ap­proved, that the grants be offered for re­search in the history of the Western hemi­sphere. The Littleton-Griswold grants-in-aid program for research in American legal his­tory and the field of law and society is also administered by the division. The number of grants awarded each year depends on the balance of income from the funds after other continuing obligations are met. The Kraus grant seeks to recognize the most deserving proposal relating to work in progress on a research project in American colonial his­tory, with particular reference to the inter­cultural aspects of American and European relations.

The following AHA members, and their proposed research projects, were selected from the ninety-eight applications reviewed:

Kraus Grant: James P. P. Horn (Institute of Early American History and Culture) “In Forraign Plantacons”: The Transfer of En­glish Ways of Life to the Seventeenth-Centu­ry Chesapeake

Littleton-Griswold Grants: Daniel R. Ernst (Princeton Univer­sity) A Liberal Law for the Industrial Work­place; James E. Goodman (Princeton Universi­ty) Scottsboro and the American Culture of the 1930s; M. Catherine Miller (Texas Tech University) Law Entrepreneurship in Cali­fornia: Miller and Lux and California Water Law, 1879-1928; James R. Perry (Washing­ton, DC) The Conflict between Federal and State Judiciaries in the Early National Peri­od; Paula Petrik (Montana State University) Occasions of Unhappy Differences: The De­velopment of Divorce Law on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier, 1860-1900

Beveridge Grants: Hal S. Barron (Har­vey Mudd College) Rural Life and Organiza­tional Society in the Northern US, 1880- 1930; Ronald H. Bayor (Georgia Institute of Technology) Race and Urban Development: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta; Jules R. Benjamin (University of Rochester) The Influence of the US on Cuban Society in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Robert W. Cherny (San Francisco State Univer­sity) A Biography of Harry Bridges; Steven Deyle (Columbia University) The Domestic Slave Trade in the Antebellum United States; Toby L. Ditz (Johns Hopkins University) Kinship and Economic Life among Mer­chants and Farmers in Early America; A. Roger Ekirch (Virginia Tech) Revolutionary Justice: The Problem of Crime in America, 1760-1810; Lee W. Formwalt (Albany State College) Dougherty County in the Nine­teenth Century; Dana Frank (Yale University) The Fate of the American Labor Movement in 1920: Seattle, Washington; John D. Garri­gus (Johns Hopkins University) Three Par­ishes in Eighteenth Century Saint-Domin­gue; Andrea Y. Huginnie (Yale University) Labor Activity and Struggle in the Arizona Copper Industry, 1910-1920; Glen Jeansonne (University of Wisconsin) A Study of the Life of Huey P. Long; Lyman L. Johnson (Universi­ty of North Carolina, Charlotte) The Wealth Distribution in Buenos Aires during the Ro­sas Period; Gary L. Kornblith (Oberlin Col­lege) From Artisans to Businessmen: Master Mechanics and the Industrialization of New England, 1785-1860; Nelson Lichtenstein (Catholic University of America) Walther Reuther and the Political Economy of Labor­ Liberalism; Douglas J. Little (Clark University) Eisenhower and the Arabs, 1956-1961; L. Michelle Mannering {Indiana University) American-Egyptian Relations between 1945-1952; Stephanie McCurry (Smithsonian Insti­tution) Yeoman Farmers in the South Caroli­na Low-Country, 1820-1861; C. Stuart McGe­hee (Bluefield College) Wake of the Flood: A Southern City in the Civil War, Chattanooga, 1838-1873; Donald G. Nieman (Kansas State University) Race and the Politics of Justice in the American South, 1865-1890; Charles K. Piehl (Mankato State University) White Society in the Black Belt, 1870-1920; Joanne Rei­tano (La Guardia Community College) 1888: The Great Debate Between Free Trade and Protection; Michael Shirley (Rhodes College) Moravians and Millhands: Textile Opera­tives and Patriarchal Authority in Salem, North Carolina, 1836-1865; Sherry L. Smith (University of Texas, El Paso) “Civilization’s Guardians”: US Army Officers’ Reflections on Indians and the Indian Wars in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1848-1890; Susan Smulyan (University of Texas, San Antonio) “And Now a Word From Our Sponsors . . .”: Commercialization of American Broadcast Radio, 1920-34; William B. Taylor (University of Virginia) Rural Parish Priests in Eigh­teenth-Century Mexico; Thomas M. Truxes (Westbrook, CT High School) Irish-Ameri­can Trade, 1660-1783

All members of the Association are eligible for the three grants. Information and appli­cation forms can be obtained from the office of the executive director at the American Historical Association, 400 A St. SE, Washington, DC 20003. The deadline for the next round of competitions is February 1, 1987.