American i^isitorical Hs^gociation EIGHTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING ifc NEW YORK CITY HEADQUARTERS: STATLER HILTON HOTEL DECEMBER 28, 29, 30 Bring this program with you Extra copies SO cents Virginia: Bourbonism to Byrd, 1870-1925 By Allen W. Moger, Professor of History, Washington and Lee Uni versity. Approx. 400 pp., illiis., index. 63/^ x ps/^. L.C. 68-8yp8. $y.yo This general history of Virginia from its restoration to the Union in 1870 to the election of Harry Flood Byrd as governor in 1925 illuminates the tools and conceptions of government which originated during the impoverished and bitter years after the Civil War and which remained useful and vital well into the twentieth century. Westmoreland Davis: Virginia Planter—Politician, 1859-1942 By Jack Temple Kirby, Assistant Professor of History, Miami University, via, 21 y pp., fontis., ilins., index. 6 x p L.C. 68-22yyo. 55.75 Mr. Kirby's biography of this distinguished twentieth-century Virginia gov ernor, reformer, agricultural leader, lobbyist, publisher, and opponent of the state Democratic machine is a fresh interpretation of the progressive era in Virginia. Westmoreland Davis's life illuminates the role of agrarians and the influence of scientific methodology, efficiency techniques, and Democratic fac tionalism in Virginia's government as well as the rise and early career of Harry Byrd. Old Virginia Restored: An Interpretation of the Progressive Impulse, 1870-1930 By Raym )nd H. Puli.ey, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Approx. 224 pp., illits. 6 x p. L.C. 68-8ypp. Price to be announced. As paradoxical as it may .seem, the reforms undertaken in the Old Dominion during the progressive era returned the state to a political and social system as stable and resistant to innovation as any that had existed before the Civil War. In other words, the reform impulse sprang from the conserving or reac tionary tendencies inherent in the culture of the Commonwealth rather than from a desire to reconcile the state to the march of modern America. also of interest The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803 Collected and Edited by David John Mays, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in ipyy, former president, Virginia Historical Society, senior member. Mays, Valentine, Davenport, ir Moore. 2 vols., xxvii, xiii, 755 pp., frontis., tables, index. 63/^ x p3/^. L.C. 6y-iy6po. Virginia Historical Society Docu ments $20.00 the set. "The work will be useful to students of many different aspects of colonial and Revolutionary Virginia and America, but perhaps it will be primarily valuable because it provides an unusually rich and convenient source for the study of the most remarkable feature of the society in which Pendleton lived: its extraordinary political culture, which by almost any criteria has been rarely equalled and never surpassed in American history." — Jack P. Greene Virginia Qiiarterly Review University Press of Virginia Charlottesville PROGRAM of the EIGHTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING of the American ^isitorical BIsfsiociation December 28, 29, 30 1968 THE NAMES OF THE SOCIETIES MEETING WITHIN OR JOINTLY WITH THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ARE LISTED ON PAGE 130 JOHN K. FAIRBANK Francis Lee Higginson Froficssor of History and Director, East Asian Research Center, Harvard University, President of the American Historical Association The American Historical Association 400 A Street, S.E., Washington, D. C. 20003 Officers President: John K. Fairbank, Harvard University Vice-President: C. Vann Woodward, Yale University Treasurer: Elmer Louis Kayser, George Washington University Executive Secretary: Paul L. Ward Managing Editor: R. K. Webb Assistant Executive Secretary: Robert L. Zangrando Council Ex Officio, the President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Executive Secre tary, and Managing Editor Former Presidents Samuel Flagg Bemis, Yale University Julian P. Boyd, Princeton University Carl Bridenbaugh, Brown University Merle Curti, University of Wisconsin Louis R. Cottschalk, University of Chicago Hajo Holborn, Yale University Frederic C. I^ane, The Johns Hopkins University William L. Langer, Harvard University Kenneth Scutt Latourette, Yale University Charles H. McIlwain, Harvard University Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University Allan Nevins, Huntington Library Roy F. Nichols, University of Pennsylvania Dexter Perkins, Rochester, New York Bernadotte E. Schmitt, University of Chicago Elected Members Thomas C. Cochran, University of Pennsylvania Philip D. Curtin, University of Wisconsin David M. Potter, Stanford University Caroline Robbins, Bryn Mawr College Carl E. Schorske, University of California, Berkeley John L. Snell, Jr., University of North Carolina Lynn White, Jr., University of California, Los Angeles William B. Willcox, University of Michigan Pacific Coast Branch Officers President: Gekald White, University of University of Southern California California, Irvine Managing Editor, Pacific Historical Re Vice-Frcsidcnt: Earl Pomeroy, Univer view: Norris Hundley, Jr., University sity of Oregon of California, Los Angeles Secretary-Treasurer: John A. Schutz, Planning and Arrangements, 1968 Meeting Committee on The Program Chairman: Lawrence W. Towner, The Otto P. Pelanze, University of Minne Newberry Library sota Richard H. Brown, Amherst College Jacob M. Price, University of Michigan and The Newberry Library Robert V. Remini, University of Illinois, David J. Herhiiy, University of Wis Chicago Circle consin James E. Sheridan, Northwestern Uni Harold M. Hyman, University of Illi versity nois, Urbana Chester G. Starr, University of Illinois, Herbert S. Klein, University of Chicago Urbana Joseph R. Levenson, University of Cali Alfred F. Young, Northern Illinois Uni fornia, Berkeley versity Committee on Local Arrangements Chairman: Robert W. Shoemaker, Co-Chairman: Douglas W. Houston, North Central College Fordham University George R. F. Baker, Hunter College of Ralph A. Austen, University of Chicago the City University of New York SuMNER Benson, University of Chicago Robert H. Bass, Queensborough Com Shirley A. Bill, University of Illinois, munity College Chicago Circle Samuel D. Ehrenpreis, Bronx Com Carolyn A. Edie, University of Illinois, munity College Chicago Circle Joseph A. Ellis, City College of the Hanns Gross, Loyola University City University of New York Paul Johnson, Roosevelt University Jacob Judd, Herbert H. Lehman College Thomas A. Knapp, Loyola University Richard H. Kohn, City College of the Robert J. Kovarik, Chicago State Col City University of New York lege Pedro Thomas Meza, Queensborough Martin J. Lowery, De Paul University Community College Magne B. Olson, Chicago State College Pierre Oberling, Hunter College of the City University of New York Royal Schmidt, Elmhurst College Stanley Plastrik, Staten Island Com Eric T. Stevens, Chicago City College munity College GENERAL INFORMATION HEADQUARTERS: Nearly all sessions listed in the Program, the AHA offices, the Professional Register, and all exhibits will be in the Statler Hilton Hotel, Seventh Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Streets, although some sessions will be in the Hotel New Yorker, two blocks away (34th Street at Eighth Avenue). One thousand five hundred rooms have been reserved at the Statler Hilton and an equal number at the Hotel New Yorker. Room rates and more detailed information are given on the enclosed Hotel Information-Reservation Form. For room reservations, please send the form to the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau; do not apply directly to the hotel. AHA REGISTRATION; For the first time this year, AHA members will be able to preregister for the Annual Meeting by completing the form which appears on the enclosed preregistration envelope, enclosing a check for the registration fee, and mailing the envelope back to the AHA Business Office. The Business Office will proc ess the registration and send registrants their badges within three weeks. Requests for preregistration received after December 10 will be returned, however, and mem bers who miss that deadline may register at the Registration Desk in the Main Lobby, Statler Hilton. The desk will be open Friday, December 27, from 2 to 9 p.m.; Satur day, December 28, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sunday, December 29, from 8:30 a.m. to 4130 p.m.; and Monday, December 30, from 8130 a.m. to 12:3o p.m. LOCATOR LIST; An added innovation which will benefit members who pre register will be the publication of a pocket-size Locator List of Annual Meeting registrants and their addresses at the Annual Meeting, available to all who attend for a 25^ charge which will include the pocket-size Schedule of Sessions. The Locator List will include the names and addresses of all members who preregister and/or make their hotel reservations before the December 10 deadline. Members who register after that deadline may be located through a Locator Desk in the Rotunda, Ballroom Floor, Statler Hilton. The Locator List may be purchased at the same desk. MEAL MEETINGS: All luncheons are scheduled for 12:15 p.m. and priced at $6.00; the dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. and priced at $10.00. Prices include gratuities. Tickets desired should be bought at the Meal Tickets desk in the Rotunda, Ballroom Floor, Statler Hilton. Because the AHA must give advance notice to the hotel of the number to be served, it is essential to purchase tickets as soon after arrival as possible. The schedule of meal meetings is as follows: Saturday, December 28 Luncheon, Phi Alpha Theta Luncheon, Conference on Slavic and East European History Luncheon, Conference