Affiliates, September 1988

The American Printing History Associa­tion (APHA) conference, “The Book Arts in Philadelphia, 1785–1840,” is scheduled to begin on September 24, 1988 in Philadelphia. The conference is being held in conjunction with the exhibition, “The Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries.”

The exhibition features 250 rare books, manuscripts, and works of art from sixteen special collections libraries in the Philadelphia area and is on view at the adjoining galleries of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Library Company of Philadelphia. For more information contact APHA, P.O. Box 4922, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163.

The American Catholic Historical As­sociation (ACHA) named AHA member James M. Powell, professor of history, Syracuse University as the winner of the association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize for his book, Anatomy of a Crusade, 1213–1221, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

The association’s annual Howard R. Mar­raro Prize was awarded to Gary Ross Mor­mino, professor of history, University of Florida for his book, Immigrants on the Hill: Italian-Americans in St. Louis. 1882–1982, published by the University of Illinois Press.

Both awards were announced at the association’s annual meeting last December. First Vice-President Bernard F. Reilly, distinguished professor of medieval history, Vil­lanova University, was also elected ACHA president at the meeting as well.

Alexander Keyssar, professor of history, Duke University, was the winner of the 1987 New England Historical Association Book Award for his book, Out of Work: The First Cen­tury of Unemployment in Massachusetts, published by Cambridge University Press.

The fall meeting of the Association will be held at the University of Hartford on Satur­day, October 22. Professor Barbara Solow of the DuBois Institute, Harvard University is in charge of the program and should be contacted with any queries on the topics to be presented.

Anna K. Nelson, former professor of history, American University, now adjunct professor of history, Tulane University. was awarded the Society for History in the Federal Government‘s Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize. The prize which is awarded every three years, honors an individual for outstanding contribu­tions to the furtherance of the study of federal government history. The Society’s Thomas Jefferson Prize which alternates between documentary editions and research tools, was given this year for a research tool. The recipient was Gerald K. Haines’ A Reference Guide to United States Department of State Special Files. Dwight Pitcaithley won the Society’s James Madison Prize for an article of superior quality on federal government history. The article, “Historic Sites: What Can Be Learned From Them?” appeared in the jour­nal The History Teacher. The Henry Adams Prize for outstanding accomplishment result­ing in publication of a book in the field of the history of the federal government was Roger M. Anders for his book Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts from the Office Diary of Gor­don E. Dean.

Joan Hoff-Wilson, professor of history, In­diana University and executive secretary of the Organization of American Historians, ad­dressed the Society’s annual meeting on April 28, 1988 on the topic of the pitfalls of re­searching the recent presidency. She is cur­rently pursuing research in the Richard Nixon Papers.

The large number of attendees to the meet­ing were also treated to two illuminating panels, “Dealing with Crisis,” chaired by Mary Ronan of the National Archives, which dis­cussed the Granada Invasion, the Challenger Crisis, and the AIDS epidemic, and “Recover­ing the Neglected Past,” chaired by Donald A. Ritchie, Senate Historical Office which dealt with three groups Japanese-Americans inter­ned in WWII, freed black slaves following emancipation, and the rural poor during the ’30s and ’40s.