flIsTOQICAL ASSOCIflIO9[ 7/’ - ANNUAL MEETING. 1991 CHICAGO Mellen THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS (1862-1865) OF PRIVATE HENRY KAUFFMAN “The Harmony Boys Are All Well” . • These letters will add to the corpus of primary materials. glimpses of a rather innocent young man caught up in a larger encounter over which he had no control and yet which threatened his very life. They also reveal aspects of the more ordinary dimensions of soldiering. — John Howe, University of Minnesota. David McCordick 0-7734-9684-X [SNCAH 1*1 $49.95 A STUDENT’S VIEW OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. JAMES ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR The Letters of W. Wilkins Davis (1842-1866) Awarded the Certificate of Commendation from the American Association for State and Local History a brief, tantalizing glimpse of a student, a college, and a country on the brink of catastrophe. 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LEUCHTENBURG William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of History University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill President of the American Historical Association AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION 400 A Street SE, Washington, DC 20003 202/544-2422 1991 OFFICERS President WilLIAM E. LEUCHThNBURG, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill President-elect FREDERIC F. WAKEMAN, JR., University of California, Berkeley Executive Director SAMUEL R GAMMON Deputy Executive Director: JAMES B. GARDNER Editor: DAVID L. RANSEL, Indiana University Controller: RANDY B. NORELL COUNCIL WiLLIAM F. LEUCHTENBURG DAVID HERLIHY,t past president FREDERIC E. WAKEMAN, Jr. SAMUEL R. GAMMON, ex officio MARY K. BONSThEL TACHAUt SUSAN SOCOLOW vice-president vice-president Teaching Division (1991) Professional Division (1992) University of Louisville Emory University BLANCHE WIESEN COOK, vice-president Research Division (1993) John Jay College CUNY MARGARET STROBEL (1991) MARTINI. WiENER (1991) University of Illinois, Chicago Rice University BARBARA HANAWALT (1992) ROBERT L. KELLEY (1992) University of Minnesota University of California, Santa Barbara CAROLE K. FINK (1993) NELL IRVIN PAINTER (1993) Ohio State University Princeton University PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OFFICERS President: C. WARREN HOLLISThR, University of California, Santa Barbara Vice-President: DAVID BRODY, University of California, Davis Secretary-Treasurer: LAWRENCE I. IELINEK, Loyola Marymount University Managing Editor: NORRIS HUNDLEY, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles PRESIDENTS OF THE AMERICAN ifiSTORICAL ASSOCIATION 1884-85 Andrew Dickson White 1939 William Scott Ferguson 1885-86 George Bancroft 1940 Max farrand 1886-87 Justin Winsor 1941 James Westfall Thompson 1887-88 William Frederick Poole 1942 ArthurM. Schlesinger 1889 Charles Kendall Adams 1943 NeffieNeilson 1890 John Jay 1944 William L Westennann 1891 William Wirt Hensy 1945 Carlton J. H. Hayes 1892-93 James Burrill Angell 1946 Sidney B. Fay 1893-94 Henry Adams 1947 Thomas J. Wertenbaker 1895 George frisbie Hoar 194$ Kenneth Scott Latourette 1896 Richard Salter Storrs 1949 Conyers Read 1897 James Schouler 1950 Samuel E. Morison 1898 George Park Fisher 1951 Robert L, Schuyler 1899 James Ford Rhodes 1952 James G. Randall 1900 Edward Eggleston 1953 Louis Goitsehalk 1901 Charles Francis Adams 1954 Merle Curti 1902 Alfred mayer Mahan 1955 Lynn Thomdilce 1903 Henry Charles Lea 1956 Dexter Perkins 1904 Goldwin Smith 1957 William Longer 1905 John Bach McMaster 1958 Walter Prescott Webb 1906 Simeon F. Baldwin 1959 Allan Nevins 1907 J. Franklin Jameson 1960 Bemadotte F. Schmitt 1908 George Burton Adams 1961 Samuel Hagg Bemis 1909 Albert Bushnell Hart 1962 Carl Bridenbaugh 1910 Frederick Jackson Turner 1963 Crane Brinton 1911 William Milligan Sloane 1964 Julian P. Boyd 1912 Theodore Roosevelt 1965 Frederic C. Lane 1913 William Archibald Dunning 1966 Roy F. Nichols 1914 Andrew C. McLaughlin 1967 Hajo Holbom 1915 H. Morse Stephens 1968 John K. Fairbank 1916 George Lincoln Burr 1969 C. Vann Woodward 1917 Worthington C. Ford 1970 R. R. Palmer 1918-19 William Roscoc Thayer 1971 David M. Potter Joseph R. Strayer 1920 Edward Channing 1972 Thomas C. Cochran 1921 Jean Jules Jusserand 1973 Lynn White, Jr. 1922 Charles H. Haskins 1974 Lewis Hanke 1923 Edward P. Cheyney 1975 Gordon Wright 1924 Woodrow Wilson 1976 Richard B. Morris 1924-25 Charles M. Andrews 1977 Charles Gibson 1926 Dana C. Munro 197$ William J. Bouwsma 1927 Henry Osbom Taylor 1979 John Hope Franklin 192$ James H. Breasted 1980 David H. Pinkney 1929 James Harvey Robinson 1981 Bernard Bailyn 1930 Evans Boutell Greene 1982 Gordon A. Craig 1931 Carl Lotus Becker 1983 Philip D. Cusiin 1932 Herbert Eugene Bolton 1984 Arthur S. Link 1933 Charles A. Beard 1985 William H. McNeffl 1934 William E. Dodd 1986 Carl N. Degler 1935 Michael I. Rostovtzeff 1987 Natalie Z. Davis 1936 Charles Mdllwain 1988 Akiralriye 1937 Guy Stanton Ford 1989 Louis R. Harlan 1938 Laurence M. Larson 1990 David Herlihy Frederic L. Paxson 1991 William E. Leuthtenburg PLANNING AND ARRANGEMENTS, 1991 ANNUAL MEETING Program Committee Chair: LINDA HALL STEPHEN R. MacKINNON University of New Mexico Arizona State University Cochair: RICHARD GRISWOLD JOANN McNAMARA San Diego State University Hunter College-CUNY EARL BELL CARLA RAHN PHILLIPS University of Chicago Lab Schools University of Minnesota DON FDUCO JOHN C. RULE University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Ohio State University WALDO HENRICHS LINDA K. SALVUCCI Temple University Trinity University LINDA M. HEYWOOD DONALD TREADGOLD Howard University University of Washington FREDERICK HOXW The Newberry Library LocatArrangements Committee Chair: ALBERT ERLEBACHER THOMAS 0. KAY DePaul University Wheaton College THOMAS W. BLOMQUIST IGNACIO 3. MENDEZ Northernlllinois University Northeastemlllinois University ROBERTO. BUCHOLZ SUSAN M. MIKULA Loyola University Chicago Illinois Benedictine College ROBERT BUTLER MARK NEWMAN Blmhurst College University of illinois at Chicago JEFFREY CHARLES MARY DEMS O’GRADY North Central College Saint Xavier College ANDREW EISENBERG HAMILTON PIIT Northeastern Illinois University Wilbur Wright College TIMOTHY I. GILFOYLE ROBERT PRICE Loyola University Chicago Chicago State University E. MARVIN GOODWIN CHRISTOPHER R. REED Kennedy-King College Roosevelt University ANN HARRINGTON ROBERT RUSNAK Mundelein College Rosary College JEAN HUNT BARBARA C. SCIACCHITANO Harold Washington College North Central College DONALD W. JACKAMCZ GREGORY H. SINGLETON National Archives, Great Lakes Region Northeastern Illinois University MARY ANN JOHNSON CORNELIUS SIPPEL Jane Adams Hull House Museum DePaul University WALTER E. KAEGI ARTHUR ZJLVERSMTT University of Chicago Lake forest College AHA Editorial Staff Editor and Convention Manager: Sharon K. Tune Editorial Assistants: Tflnette Stewart and Tammy Morris / 1. ChIcago Hilton & Towers 720 South Michigan Avenue 2. The Palmer House 17 East Monroe Street 3. The Congress Hotel 520 South Michigan Avenue TABLE OF CONTENTS Map of Chicago: Hotel Locations 6 General Infonnafion $ Meetings of Affiliated Societies and Other Groups 14 floor Plan of Hotels 31, 32, 33 Daily Schedule of AHA Sessions 34 Joint and Sponsored Sessions 41 AHA Sessions 43 Luncheons 55, 79, 80 Topical Index 116 Index of Participants 11$ Scholars from Abroad 127 Exhibitors 130 Awards and Prizes for 1991 134 fifty-Year Members 136 Annual Reports of the Executive Director 138 Editor, AHR 143 Controller 145 Advertisers 162 GENERAL INFORMATION The Association’s 106th annual meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois, headquartered at the Chicago Hilton and Towers. Many of the profession’s most distinguished members will be present to deliver papers, and over seven hundred scholars, including fifty-six foreign scholars, will participate in the three-day meeting. In addition, over two dozen specialized societies will be meeting in conjunction with the AHA. Each society will be holding its own sessions, luncheons and/or meetings, as well as joint sessions with the Association. William F. Leuchtenburg of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, will deliver the presidential address on the evening of December 28, and the recipients of the 1991 book awards, honorary foreign membership, Awards for Scholarly Distinc tion, and the Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award will be announced. Noted below are the locations of various events: AHA Sessions Hilton Hotel Affiliated Society Events Hilton and Congress hotels AHA Headquarters/Staff Office Hilton, P.D.R. #7 Press Room Hilton, P.D.R, #6 Local Arrangements Committee Office Hilton, P.D.R. # 5 AHA Job Register Hilton, International Ballroom North Second Level AHA Meeting Registration Hilton, Northeast Exhibit Hall, Lower Level Meal Ticket Cashiers Hilton, Northeast Exhibit Hail, Lower Level Book Exhibits Hilton, Northwest Exhibit Hall, Lower Level ACCOMMODATIONS The AHA has reserved substantial blocks of rooms at three downtown Chicago hotels: the Chicago