1987 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.

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 proposals 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 applications reviewed:

KRAUS GRANTS: Michael J. Crawford (Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC) The Evolution of the Concept of a Religious Revival in Great Britain and the North American Colonies, 1660-1750; Peter C. Man­call (Connecticut College) Environment and Economy: The Upper Susquehanna Valley in the Age of the American Revolution; Cathy D. Matson (University of Tennessee, Knox­ville) Fair Trade, Free Trade: Economic Ideas in Eighteenth-Century New York City Commerce.

LITTLETON-GRISWOLD GRANTS: William Doezema (Houghton College, NY) Maneuvering Within the System: Railroad Responses to State and Federal Regulation, 1870-1916; Mary L. Dudziak (University of Iowa) School Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative; Joseph G. Hylton, Jr. (Harvard University) The Virginia Lawyer from Re­construction to the Great Depression; Steven Wilf (Yale University) The Decline of the Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Execution Ritual.

BEVERIDGE  GRANTS:  Robert  F. Burk (Muskingum College) The Corporate State and the Broker State: The duPonts and American National Politics, 1920-1940; An­drew J. Carlson (Brown University) White Man’s Revolution: “The Democracy” and the State in North Carolina, 1875-1930; Joan E. Cashin (Southern Illinois University) Family, Kinship, and Migration in the Antebellum South, 1810-1860; David B. Castle (University of Oregon) The Intellectual Foundations of US Latin American Policy, 1921-1933; Cheryll A. Cody (University of Florida) Demo­graphic and Anthropological Study of Marriage, Family and Inheritance among the Planter Elite of the South Carolina Low Country; Sandra McGee Deutsch (University of Texas, El Paso) The Argentine, Brazilian, and Chilean Right, 1900-1940; Frank F. (Mike) Foster (Denver, CO) Biography of Ge­ologist and Educator Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, 1829-87; Daniel J. Greenberg (Uni­versity of Washington) “The Dictatorship of the Chimneys”: Sugar, Politics and Agrarian Unrest in Tucuman, Argentina; Peter P.  Hinks (Yale University) “We Must and Shall Be Free”: David Walker, Evangelicalism, and the Building of Antebellum Black Solidarity; Colette A. Hyman (University of Minnesota) Culture as Strategy: Workers’ Theatre and the American Labor Movement in the 1930s; Thomas J. Jablonsky (University of Southern California) Tough Times, Stubborn People; Steven H. Jaffe (Harvard University) Publicity, Privacy, and the Urban Press: The Rise of the New York City Newspaper Journalist, 1800-1860; Cynthia A. Kierner (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) Tenant Living Conditions at Eighteenth Century Livingston Manor; Regina G. Kunzel (Yale University) The Professionalization of Benevolence Evangelical Workers, Social Workers, and Unmarried Mothers in Maternity Homes, 1915-1945; Erick D. Langer (Carnegie-Mellon University) A Social History of the Francis­ can Missions Among the Chiriguanos 1840- 1930; Robert M. Levine (University of Miami) The Ideology and Aftermath of the Canudos Uprising of 1897; Paula M. Nelson (Dubuque, IA) The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own; Rob­ert A. Olwell (Johns Hopkins University) Slav­ery and the American Revolution in South Carolina, 1762-1792; Robert L. Paquette (Hamilton College) William Walker and His “Immortals” in Nicaragua, 1855-1860; Roy Rosenzweig (George Mason University) The Park: A Social History of New York’s Central Park; Thomas D. Schoonover (University of Southwest Louisiana) The United States in Central America, 1821-1929; Karin A. Sha­piro (Yale University) The East Tennessee Coal Miners’ Rebellion of 1891-92; John D. Smith (North Carolina State University) George H. Moore, Northern Sectionalism, and the Origins of Slavery and the African Slave Trade; Judith Stein (City College of New York) Afro-Americans and the Labor Move­ment in the Inter-War Period; James C. Turner (University of Michigan) Biography of Charles Eliot Norton, 1827-1908.

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, 1988.