Oral History Association to Focus on “Voices of Dissent” at 2005 Annual Meeting
The Oral History Association invites proposals for presentations at its 2005 annual meeting to be held November 2–6 at Providence, Rhode Island. The meeting’s theme is “Voices of Dissent, Voices of Hope.” While the OAH Program Committee will, as always, welcome proposals on a variety of themes, the focus will be on oral history work dealing with freedom of expression, freedom from coercion, and freedom of conscience. The proposals (five copies of which are required) must be sent by mail or fax by January 15, 2005. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Details about the meeting and the submission procedures are available online at https://oralhistory.org/.
SHFG Announces Prizes for 2004, Calls for Papers for 2005 Meeting
The Society for History in the Federal Government announced two awards presented in 2004 for outstanding articles or essays that furthered understanding of the federal government’s history. The society awarded its James Madison Prize to Landon R. Y. Storrs for the article, “Red Scare Politics and the Suppression of Popular Front Feminism: The Loyalty Investigation of Mary Dublin Keyserling,” which appeared in the Journal of American History (September 2003). The society’s Charles Thomson Prize was awarded to Timothy Davis for the article, “Inventing Nature in Washington, D.C.,” which appeared in the anthology, Inventing for the Environment, edited by Arthur Molella and Joyce Bedi.
The society also issued a call for papers for its annual conference to be held March 17–19, 2005, in College Park, Maryland. The theme for the conference (being held in conjunction with the annual conference of Oral History in the MId-Atlantic region) will be oral history in the federal government. Proposals (of not more than 600 words) for papers should be sent by January 15, 2005. Proposals may be mailed to SHFG, 2005 Conference, Box 14139, Ben Franklin Station, Washington, DC 20044. For details, see https://shfg.wildapricot.org/.
NCPH 2006 Annual Meeting to be Held in Washington, DC
The National Council on Public History will hold its 28th annual meeting in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians April 19–22, 2006, in Washington, DC. The meetings will have the theme Our America/Nuestra America. For details, visit oah.org.
