The AHA’s eight-year-old program of small (under $1,000) grants to researchers is one of our most successful and popular services to members. In 1980 an acute need in the profession, with the drying up of history department controlled research funds, to find ways to help scholars completing or advancing independent research projects on the margin of their regular employment was recognized. The need was equally acute for public and academic historians.
With encouragement from long-time member Albert J. Beveridge III, the Research Division and the Council decided to use the income from the Albert J. Beveridge fund, set up by the family and friends in memory of Senator Beveridge, following his death in 1927, to make small grants to researchers in American history. Later income from the Littleton-Griswold fund, commemorating other early patrons of the AHA, and from a recent gift from Michael Kraus to aid researchers were added. In 1988, for the first time, income from the Bernadotte Schmitt bequest became available to add research projects from the Eastern hemisphere to our coverage.
With the 1988 award of twenty-one Beveridge (of sixty-one proposals), six (of twelve) Littleton-Griswold, one (of six) Kraus, and seven (of fourteen) Schmitt grants, totalling $25,000, the cumulative eight-year total of grants has reached over $141,000 to 227 grantees. The program is administered by the Research Division. We are proud to announce this year’s grantees and their topics below:
Beveridge
Jeffrey S. Adler (University of Florida) “Sectionalism and the Urban West”
Guy Alchon (University of Delaware) “Expert Women: Mary Van Kleeck, Lillian Gilbreth, and the Social Science of Social Feminism”
John Campbell (University of Minnesota) “The Darlington Riot of 1858 and the Breakdown of Slaveholder Hegemony”
Joanne L. Goodwin (University of Michigan) “Gender, Politics, and Welfare Reform in Chicago, 1900-1930”
Laura L. Graham (University of Rochester) “The Education of the Body: From Republicanism to Social Darwinism”
Julia M. Greene (Yale University) “The Weapon of a Free Man: The American Federation of Labor, Local Trade Union Leadership, and Electoral Politics, 1985 to 1916”
David L. Hay (University of Notre Dame) “The Military-Intellectual Complex: The U.S. Army Air Forces and the Ascendancy of Quantitative Management Control, 1940-1946”
Steven J. Hirsch (George Washington University) “Populism, Labor, and Political Change in Peru 1931-1948”
Roger Horowitz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “The Roots and Evolution of Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking: The United Packinghouse Workers of America, 1933-1959”
Larry R. Jensen (Vanderbilt University) “Religion is Done For: The Secularization of Catholic Atlantic Societies, 1750-1900″
Daniel L. Letwin (Yale University) “Race, Class, and Industrial Labor in the New South: The Coal Miners of Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1921”
Mary Ann Mahony (Yale University) “Society and Politics in the Cacao Zone: Southern Bahia, Brazil, 1880-1942”
Luis Martinez-Fernandez (Duke University) “The Hispanic Caribbean Be tween Two Empires: The Transition of Power in the Region from the Formal Spanish Empire and Informal British Empire to the North American Empire (1840-1878)”
Edward R. Morawetz, Jr. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “The In ternal Crisis of the Civil War South: The Politics of Dissent in the Confederate Interior”
Margaret Newell (University of Virginia) “Economic Ideology and Development in New England, 1629-1820”
Claire Bond Potter (New York University) “Guarding the Crossroads: The FBI’s War on Crime, 1934-37”
Leo P. Ribuffo (George Washington University) “Limits of Moderation: Jim my Carter and the Ironies of American Liberalism”
Philip Scranton (Rutgers University Camden) “Endless Novelty: Flexible Production and American Industrialization, 1860-1940”
Michael Weis (Ohio State University) “Roots of Estrangement: The United States and Brazil, 1945-1961”
Julie Winch (University of Massachusetts, Boston) “A Biographical Study of James Forten (1766-1842)”
Nan E. Woodruff (University of Pennsylvania) “Transformation in Plantation Agriculture in the Mississippi and Ar kansas Delta, 1880-1970”
Kraus
James H. Merrell (Vassar College) “Between Two Worlds: The Cultural Brokers of Colonial Pennsylvania”
Littleton-Griswold
Eileen Boris (Howard University) “Gender and the Making of Labor Stan dards Legislation: Regulating Industrial Homework in the United States, 1880s-1980s”
Vivian Bruce Conger (Cornell University) “Being Weak of Body but Firm of Mind and Memory: Widowhood in Colonial America, 1630-1750”
Deborah A. Rosen (Columbia University) “Law and Economic Development in Eighteenth Century New York”
David L. Stebenne (Columbia University) “Arthur J. Goldberg, New Deal Liberal”
Christopher L, Tomlins (La Trobe University, Australia) “Law, Labor, and Ideology in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts”
Sandra F. VanBurldeo (Wayne State University) “Toward Moral Justice: Civilian Influence in the Development of Nineteenth Century American Contract Jurisprudence”
Schmitt
Kathryn E. Amdur (Emory University) “Between Syndicalism and Commu nism: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in an Era of Technological Transformation, 1930-1950”
Geoffrey Cocks (Albion College) “Pro ductivity and Social Control in Nazi Germany: The Role of Medicine and Psychology”
Florence Gilkesson (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Changing Labor Patterns of the Grebo Ethnic Group in Maryland County, Liberia, 1875 to 1950”
Sally J. Marks (Rhode Island College) “The Western Entente and Germany, 1920-1926”
Kristin B. Neuschel (Duke University) “Noble Women, Noble Men: The Construction of Gender, Power, and the State in Early Modern France”
William G. Staples (University of California, Los Angeles) “The State and the Reproduction of Labor Power: A Return to the British Metal Trades, 1891-1939”
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (Georgetown University) “Nationalist Chinese Policy and Views of American Policy, 1949-1980s.”
