Susan D. Amussen, Connecticut College, was named Visiting Fellow to the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies during the 1988–89 Seminar on “Power and Responses to Power.”…The Association of American Geographers awarded its highest Honors Award to Daniel J. Boorstin, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, for his imaginative leadership of both the Library and the National Museum of American History, and for his exceptional contributions to historical scholarship, geographical exploration, and discovery….AHA life member Nicholas C. Burckel, Director of Public Services and Collection Development, Washington University Libraries was elected to the nine.member Council of the Society of American Archivists for a three-year term beginning October 1988. He was also appointed to a two-year term on the editorial board of College and Research Libraries News…The 1988 American Military Institute Best Book Award was presented to John Whiteclay Chambers II, associate professor of history, Rutgers University, New Brunswick for hisbook, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America, Free Press, Macmillan, 1987….Henry Steele Commager, professor emeritus of history, Amherst College was awarded the 1987 Jefferson Medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education for his “outstanding contributions to society.” John Hope Franklin was also a recipient of the medal….”Creating Chicago’s North Shore,” is the title of a new exhibit of 80 historic maps and photographs assembled by Michael H. Ebner, chair and professor of history, Lake Forest College. The exhibit is being shown at the Durand Art Institute at the college….Columbia University named Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History. The position incidentally was also held by Foner’s doctoral dissertation supervisor, the late Richard Hofstadter….The University of Oxford named Richard S. Dunn, University of Pennsylvania, and George M. Frederickson, Stanford University, Harmsworth Professors for 1987–88 and 1988–89 respectively….Former Jameson Fellow Elisabeth Griffith, former professor of history, American University, was selected as head of the 81-year-old Madeira School for girls….The University of Cambridge, England named Warren F. Kimball, Rutgers University, as the 1988–89 Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions….Akira Iriye, AHA president, was named to the Libra1y of Congress’s National Advisory Committee by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. The Committee will assist in seeking more effective ways to affirm and strengthen the Library’s mission as a dynamic center of research and scholarship….Gerda Lerner received the 1988 Lucretia Mott Award from Womens Way. Lerner joins other notable women recipients such as Coretta Scott King, Gloria Steinem, Emily Mudd, and Judith Jamison….Winner of the 1988 Book Award of the AHA Pacific Coast Branch is Linda Lewin for her book, Politics and Parentela in Paraiba: A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil, Princeton University Press, 1987….This September, Clara M. Lovett begins her new joint appointment as provost and tenured history professor at George Mason University. Lovett was the dean of arts and sciences at The George Washington University….Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University and Richard E. Neustadt, also of Harvard received the Grawemeyer Award of $150,000 for their book Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers, Free Press, MacMillan, 1986. The book received the award for its advocacy of more and better use of the lessons of history by those who influence public policy….The Bruce Catton Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Writing of History was awarded this last May to Richard B. Morris, Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus, Columbia University, by the Society of American Historians….John H. Morrow, Jr., will be spending this year in Washington as the Charles Lindbergh Fellow at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, after he will be transferring to the University of Georgia….Joanna Schneider Zangrando, chair of the American Studies Department at Skidmore College, was named Chief Reader-Designate by the Educational Testing Service for Advanced Placement exams in American history….The American Numismatic Society’s Curator of Medieval Coins, Alan M. Stahl, was a visiting professor this last spring at the Universita degli Studi, Venice where he gave a course entitled “L’Europa medievale attraver so la numismatica.”…The Conference on Latin American History Prize for 1987 was awarded to Mark D. Szuchman, professor of Latin American history, Florida International University, for his article, “Household Structure and Political Crisis: Buenos Aires, 1810–1860,” published in the Latin American Research Review….The 1988 G.K. Hall Award for Library Literature went to Wayne A. Wiegand, associate professor, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison for his book, Politics of an Emerging Profession: The American Library Association, 1876–1917, Greenwood Press, 1986….and US Archivist, Don Wilson received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Cincinnati at the 1988 June commencement exercises….other announcements can be found under the Affiliated Societies Column.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Four Historians
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences recently honored four prominent historians by election to the Academy’s ranks. Three of the four elected were AHA members: John Lewis Heilbron, University of California, Berkeley, Peter Stansky, Stanford University, and Gordon Stewart Wood, Brown University. Non-AHA member Simon Schama of Harvard University was also elected. The four historians were among eighty-three leading scholarly figures, who joined the Academy this past spring.
