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ANNUAL REPORT· 1976 American Historical Association ANNUAL REPORT· 1976 American Historical Association ANNUAL REPORT· 1976 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION PRESS City of Washington For sale by the Superintendent of Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 ii Contents Page Letters of Submittal and Transmittal ................ v Act of Incorporation ............................. vii Presidential Address ............................. 1 Background .................................... 29 Constitution and Bylaws .......................... 33 Officers, Council, Nominating Committee, Committee on Committees, and Board of Trustees for 1977 ........ 45 Officers' Reports Vice-Presidents: Professional Division 47 Research Division ........................... 53 Teaching Division . .............. 59 Executive Director ............................. 65 Controller ................................... 81 Membership Statistics ............................ 98 Minutes of the Council Meetings ................... 103 Minutes of the Ninety-first Business Meeting .......... 115 Report of the Nominating Committee ................ 121 Report of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association ................. 123 Report of the Program Chairman ................... 129 Program of the Ninety-first Annual Meeting ........... 135 iii June 15, 1977 To the the United Stales. 1n accordance with the act of the American Historical Association. I have the honor of to of the Asso- ciation for the year l Respectfully, S. Dillon SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION WASHINGTON, D.C. June 15, 1977 the the Smithsonian Institution: As I submit to you herewith American Historical Association, comprising the of the Association and the report of its Pacific Coast Branch for 1976. This volume constitutes the Association's report on the condi- tion of historical study in the United States. Mack Executive Director AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D.C. v ct of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States America in Congress assembled, That Andrew D. White, of Ithaca, in the State of New York; Bancroft, of Washington, in the District of Columbia; Justin Winsor, of Cam­ bridge, in the State of Massachusetts; William F. Poole, of Chi­ cago, in the State of Illinois; Herbert B. Adams, of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland; Clarence W. Bowen, of in the State of New York, their associates and successors, are in the District of Columbia, a body corporate and politic by the name of the American Historical for the pro­ motion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America. Said Association is authorized to hold real and personal estate in the District of Columbia as far as may be necessary to its lawful to adopt a constitution, and make bylaws not inconsistent with law. Said Association shall have its principal office at Washington, in the District of Columbia, and may hold its annual meetings in such places as the said incorporators shall determine. Said Association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu­ tion, concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America. Said Secretary shall communicate to the whole of such report, or such portions thereof as he shall see fit. The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to permit said Association to deposit its collections, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, and other material for history in the Smithso­ nian Institution or in the National Museum, at their discretion, upon such conditions and under such rules as they shall prescribe. The real property situated in Square 817, in the city of Wash­ ington, District of Columbia, described as lot owned, occupied, and used by the American Historical Association, is exempt from all taxation so long as the same is so owned and occupied, and not used for commercial purposes, subject to the provisions of sections vii 2, 3, and 5 of the Act entitled, "An Act to define the real property exempt from taxation in the District of Columbia, approved December 24, 1942. [Approved, January 4, 1889, and amended July 3, 1957.] vlil PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS People of the United of a People's RICHARD B. MORRIS "IT is QUITE OBVIOUS," said Richard M. Nixon in March l "that there are certain inherently governmental actions which, if undertaken the in protection of the interest of the nation's are lawful but if undertaken persons are not. Nixon was responding in to the Senate Select Committee on cerning abuses of the executive power tration.1 That a former of the United the course of the Bicentennial year, advance the notion that the executive is the seems not ill-timed but curi­ ously at variance with the principles for which the American Revolution was and upon which the Federal Constitution was framed. Gouverneur whose felicitous choice of the "We the of the United States" the of the whole nation as the source of dent: "This is not the The People are the Morris He did not live to see the This presidential address was delivered Mr. Morris at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, D.C., December 28, 976. 1 New York Times, March 12, 1976, 14:2. C. C. Tansill, comp., Documents l/luslrative of tlie Formation of the Union of the American States (Washington, 1927), 421. AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOC/A was a national toward the commemoration tennial. The two words most muted History the 2 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS American Revolution forged an anticolonial principle, once cen­ tral, later peripheral, but still troubling the American conscience. That principle was in obeisance to the sentiments of sovereign people on the move, giving reality to the paper boundaries drawn by the Peace of Paris in 1783. It was popular apprehension about the aggrandizement of power that prompted the promulgation of novel constitutional principles governing the relation of the state to the people, that recognized certain rights of the individual to be inherent, and that under the rubric of federalism imposed limitations on the authority of the central government. That other dimension of the American Revolution, a transforming tarianism, was manifest in the spirit of reform which characterized the American Revolutionary epoch and in the of upward political mobility which was achieved. The Fathers never doubted the central role of the people in bringing about the final break with time felt impelled to pay obeisance to the tion from the start of hostilities in order to and British accusations that the break with the mother resulted from a deep-rooted conspiracy of the That last was so much Mason Hall in 1778 to an asserted: There never was an idler or a falser Notion than that which the British have upon the Nation "that this Revolution has been the Work of a of a Junto of ambitious Men against the Sense of the of America. On the nothing has been clone without the of the People, who have indeed out run their so that no capital Measure hath been until called for it: to any one who knows there needs no Proof than the cordial m which they have and the Patience and Persever- ence with which under their 'Among others, John fell impelled to December 1775, that the Congress aimed at "Proofs that the Colonies Do Not Aim at Independence" after 11, 1775]. in Richard B. Morris editors, John The lv!aking of a Revo/111ionary, Papers, 1745-1780 (New York, 1975), 198-201. 3 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS slave and free. It encompasses the stout-hearted Patriot and fair-weather Patriot. It embraces the or "Petticoat Gcn- whether from conviction or made haste to tear up their wives' underthings and affix red ribbon their hats. It includes fencesitters and that final group that confounds all took oaths of to both sides. For this paper "the inhabitants who contributed to the decisions of and reform. This of the nor am I. 8 Indians and blacks must excluded. Since the American revolutionaries for as their own freedom in the outside the mcnt in and the antislavery convictions of certain northern blacks were usually not considered were not, and the nature of their recruited for the Patriot cause. "Thomas Jefferson to the in Paul Leicester Ford, editor, 892-1899), 9:7. See also Joan "The Illusion of Women and the American F. Young, editor, American Rcro/11tio11: Exp/orations in American Radicalism (DeKalb, Ill., 1976). 383-445. 5 AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION of the Negro in the Revolution. Indeed it is doubtful that it could have overcome deep-seated resistance.!) Third, we must exclude the white bondsmen. lacked that proof of independence normally regarded as a requisite to political activity. True, their status was temporary. But, appren­ tices in the towns who participated in anti-British demonstra- 10 the indentured servants were not mobilized for the Revo- lution. Save in cases of bound servants their freedom by often over their masters' vehement the Revo- lution did to end and little to ameliorate white critical is that the eve of the war, thanks to a rising wave of redemptioner to traffic in white convict servants, and to an ment debtors sold into the number servants held indenture for limited terms exceeded the for any other period in colonial 11 Toward the Negro, success of almost within reach Slavery in the Age Rero/utio11, Edmund S. Morgan, "Slavery and Freedom: .loumal of American 59 (1972) :6. For the role of blacks in the Revolution, see Benjamin The Ner:;ro i11 the American Rero/ution Hill, 1961), 111-l H. Moore, "Historical Notes on the of in the Army the Revolution," llfaga- 1 ( 907); Richard Morris. Revo/Ulion Reconsidered York, J 967), For of some black Tory refugees, G. Halliburton, 'The Nova Settlers of 1792," Sierra No. 9 (December 1957): 16-25; Anthony Kirk-Greene, "David George: The Nova Scotia Experience," Sierra Leone Studies, N. S., No. 14 (December 1960): 93-120. 10 Dirk Hoerder, "Boston Leaders and Boston Crowds, 765-1776," in Young, editor, The For apprentices in the Philadelphia militia, see Rei·olutionary America (New York, 1976), 65, 126.
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