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THE 90TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 301 Mr. Ross Waggoner, 110 E. Red River St.,Victoria,TX 77901 Dr. Leigh Whaley, Department of History & Classics, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B4P 2R6, Canada Mr. James Woytek, 968 Kings Hwy., #W-9, West Deptford, NJ 08086 Dr. Neil J. Young, 117 E. 77th St., #6B, New York, NY 10075 Editor’s Report Volume XCV (2009) of The Catholic Historical Review came to 950 pages. It included fourteen articles,one review article,two review essays,282 book reviews, and no brief notices. The editor is grateful to those who gen- erously contributed to the fund for adding extra pages.2 2The following members contributed a total of $4,242 for the expansion of the jour- nal: Rev. Jon Alexander, O.P.;Ms. Charlotte A.Ames; Rev. Robert C.Ayers; Rev. Dr. Paul F. Bailey; Prof. Lawrence Barmann; Prof. Frederic J. Baumgartner; Dr. Christopher M. Bellitto; Dr. Martin J. Bergin, Jr.; Prof.Thomas E. Bird; Rev.Thomas E. Blantz, C.S.C.; Rev. Dr.Thomas Bokenkotter; Rev.John W.Bowen, S.S.; Prof.Thomas A.Brady,Jr.; Dr. Franklin W. Burch; Dr. David H. Burton; Prof.Anne M. Butler; Prof. Joseph F.Byrnes; Prof.William J. Callahan; Mr.Thomas J. Carty, III; Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. Carney; Prof. Dennis A. Castillo; Capt. James R. Collier; Rev. Peter Clarke; Prof. John Coakley; Rev. Rory T. Conley; Rev. James T.Connelly,C.S.C.;Prof.Frank Coppa;Rev.Richard F.Costigan,S.J.;Prof.Jay Corrin; Prof. George Dameron; Rev. Cyprian Davis, O.S.B.; Prof. Thomas Deutscher; Rev. Dr. Richard L. DeMolen; Ms. Maribel Dietz; Prof. Roy P.Domenico; Rev.John P.Donnelly,S.J.; Rev. Msgr.Thomas Duffy; Rev. James Farge, C.S.B.; Mr. Nicholas Falco; Rev. Terence Fay, S.J.; Rev. James Flint, O.S.B.; Cardinal John Patrick Foley; Prof.Alison Frazier; Prof. John B. Freed; Most Rev. Peter L. Gerety, D.D.; Rev. Paul E. Gins, O.S.M.; Dr. Philip A. Grant, Jr.; Rev. Peter N. Graziano; Prof. Paul F. Grendler; Rev. Conrad L. Harkins, O.F.M.; Prof. Thomas J. Heffernan; Dr. Sandra A. Horvath-Peterson; Prof.William B. Hudon; Rev. Msgr. Richard A.Hughes; Dr.Jane C.Hutchison;Rev.Leon M.Hutton; Prof.James J.John; Sister M. Camilla Kennedy, M.M.; Dr. Glenn J. Kist; Rev. Msgr. Raymond J. Kupke; Dr. Henry J. Lang;Rev.Vincent Lapomarda,S.J.; Most Rev.Oscar H.Lipscomb; Mr.Richard A.Loiselle; Rev. Michael P. Lyons; Dr. Ellen A. Macek; Prof. Sabine G. MacCormack; Prof. Margaret Mary Markman; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Prof. Frederick J. McGinness; Rev.Joseph M.McLafferty; Rev. Joseph R.McMahon; Dr.Martin R.Menke; Rev.Wilson D.Miscamble, C.S.C.; Dr. Edward J. Misch; Prof. John C. Moore; Dr. Victoria M. Morse; Dr. James M. Muldoon; Prof. Melanie Murphy; Rev.Lawrence Nemer, S.V.D.; Prof.Thomas F.X. Noble; Dr. William L. North; Prof. Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.; Prof. Francis Oakley; Prof. Joseph F. O’Callaghan; Mr. Francis X. O’Donoghue; Prof. Glenn W.Olsen; Mr. Paul F.O’Malley; Dr. Matthew L. Panczyk; Rev. Louis B. Pascoe, S.J.; Dr.W. Brown Patterson; Prof. Kenneth Pennington; Mrs. Sharon K. Perkins; Prof. James M. Powell; Dr.John F.Quinn; Rev.Vincent D. Ring; Prof. John F.Roche; Rev.Michael Rock, O. de M.; Dr. David M. Rooney; Mr. John Peter Rooney; Prof. Anne C. Rose; Mr. Michael de C. Rosenfeld; Prof. Francis J. Ryan; Dr. James D. Ryan; Dr. Daniel L. Schlafly; Rev. David G. Schultenover, S.J.; Rev. Dr. Robert Scully, S.J.; Rev. Msgr. Francis Seymour; Dr.William D. Sharpe; Rev. Msgr.Thomas Shelley; Mr. George T. Spera; Dr. Peter F. Steinfels; Dr. Neil T. Storch; Right Rev. Matthew Stark, O.S.B.; Rev. William B. Sullivan, O.S.B.; Rev. Prof. Charles J. T. Talar; Mr. Daniel F. Tanzone; Prof. Samuel J.Thomas; Rev. Dr.Thomas W.Tifft; Prof. James D.Tracy; Rev. Dr. 302 THE 90TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION The fourteen articles were distributed as follows: one ancient, one medieval, three early-modern, two late-modern, three American, two Latin American, and two African. Of the authors of the thirteen articles, two came from outside the United States (Belgium and Hong Kong/China). Subsidies allowed the date of publication to be moved up for one of the articles and allowed the authors in three cases to exceed the page limit. The book reviews were distributed among the following areas:general and miscellaneous (thirty-one), ancient (fifteen), medieval (seventy-three), early- modern (seventy-two), late-modern (forty-two), American (thirty-one), Latin American (thirteen), Canadian (one), Far Eastern/Australian (three), and African (one).The authors of the book reviews came from various countries: the United States of America (172 or 60 percent) and the United Kingdom (52 or 18 percent), with the remaining 22 percent from Canada (fourteen); Ireland (nine); Italy (eight); Germany,The Netherlands, and Peru (four each); Australia (three); Israel and Sweden (two); and one each from Belgium, Brazil, China, France, Greece, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, and Switzerland. As the tables below reveal,the editors dealt with eighty-one articles.Of the forty-one on hand from the previous years, fourteen were published in 2009, thirteen were accepted for publication, one was conditionally accepted, nine await a response from the authors, and four were rejected. Of the forty arti- cles received in 2009, one was published, three accepted, five conditionally accepted, eleven pending evaluations or responses, and twenty rejected. The editorial staff of the Review has seen some changes over the past year. In July the board of advisory editors was altered with the appointments of Liam M. Brockey (Princeton University,moving to Michigan State University), Simon Ditchfield (University of York),Thomas Kselman (University of Notre Dame), Maureen C. Miller (University of California, Berkeley), and Joseph White (The Catholic University of America).The editor wishes to thank the previous advisory editors, Jacques Gres-Gayer (The Catholic University of America) and Glenn Olsen (University of Utah), for their many years of dedi- cated service to the journal. In September Msgr. Robert Trisco graciously agreed to take over the book reviews. Ms. Elizabeth Foxwell continues to serve as the devoted staff editor and has capably assumed many of the copy- editing tasks and the indexing of the volume.With her expert assistance the journal has been able to be published on time. In September, Mr. Daniel Frascella resumed his former position as the industrious book-review assis- tant, when Mr. Jacob Wood retired to become a teaching assistant. Monsignor Edward R. Udovic, C.M.; Rev. Peter Vaccari; Very Rev. John Vidmar, O.P.; Dr. Karen T. Wagner; Rev. Andrew J. Walsh; Prof. Morimichi Watanabe; Rev. Msgr. Edward Wetterer; Rev. Martin N. Winters; Mr. Michael Sean Winters; Dr. Edward Woell; Mrs. Leah R. Wolf; and Rev. Dr. Martin A. Zielinski. THE 90TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 303 Trisco also continues to provide invaluable assistance as associate editor, taking responsibility for the Periodical Literature and Other Books Received sections, advising the editor on manuscript evaluations and books for review, and helping in countless other ways. Ms. Rita Bogley cheerfully assists him and the editor in these and in other tasks. For all of this expert assistance the editor is deeply grateful. NELSON H. MINNICH Editor TABLE 1. Manuscripts submitted before 2009. Awaiting Conditionally Author Published Area Accepted Accepted Rejected Response in 2009 TOTAL General 1 1 Ancient 1 1 2 Medieval 1 1 1 2 1 6 Early Modern 3 1 2 2 8 Late Modern 1 3 2 6 American 5 1 3 9 Latin American 1 1 2 4 Middle East 1 1 Far East 1 1 African 1 2 3 TOTAL 14 1 4 9 13 41 TABLE 2. Manuscripts submitted in 2009. Conditionally Published Area Accepted Accepted Rejected Pending in 2009 TOTAL General 0 Ancient 1 1 Medieval 4 4 8 Early Modern 2 3 4 1 1 11 Late Modern 1 2 3 6 American 1 1 7 1 10 Latin American 0 Canadian 1 1 Far East 2 2 African 1 1 TOTAL 3 5 20 11 1 40 304 THE 90TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION TABLE 3. Book reviews published in 2009. Area January April July October TOTAL General 11 2 10 8 31 Ancient 4 1 2 8 15 Medieval 27 11 14 21 73 Early Modern 6 38 9 19 72 Late Modern 13 8 6 15 42 American 5 5 7 14 31 Latin American 4 5 2 2 13 Canadian 1 0 0 0 1 Far East/Australian 1 0 2 0 3 African 0 0 0 1 1 TOTAL 72 705288282 Brief Notices 0.