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2010-2011 Annual Report of the Organization of American Historians. Copyright (c) 2012 Organization of American Historians. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission of the Organization of American Historians, 112 North Bryan Avenue, Bloomington IN 47408. Telephone (812) 855-7311. http://www.oah.org First edition March 21, 2012.

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Table of Contents A Message from the OAH President .................................................................. 5 From the OAH Executive Director ..................................................................... 7 From the OAH Executive Editor ......................................................................... 9 Report of the OAH Treasurer ............................................................................ 15 Financial Statements ........................................................................................... 17 Administration .................................................................................................... 21 OAH At a Glance................................................................................................. 23 Membership ......................................................................................................... 25 Meetings and Conferences ................................................................................. 27 OAH Magazine of History .................................................................................. 29 National Park Service Collaborative Project ................................................... 31 Distinguished Lectureship Program ................................................................. 33 The Civil War at 150............................................................................................ 35 Advocacy .............................................................................................................. 37 Career Center....................................................................................................... 39 Communications ................................................................................................. 41 Development and Philanthropy ........................................................................ 45 Awards and Prizes ............................................................................................... 51 Volunteer Leadership .......................................................................................... 57 Staff........................................................................................................................ 71

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A Message from the OAH President Alice Kessler-Harris

In accord with the mandate of our strategic plan, which is now in the third year of a five-year cycle, we have begun to examine the challenging question of how to imagine our membership in the future and how to reconfigure our resources to accommodate what is likely to be a broader membership base. We are still aiming for what our plan calls “a big tent,” and to achieve it requires rethinking many of the ways we function as an organization. For example, we have now begun to explore the location and content of our annual meetings to see if they can more flexibly serve an expanded membership base. We also are considering how to better serve the needs of historians studying disability and LGBTQ issues, as well as how to accommodate historians who identify with these groups. Our Journal of American History continues to be ranked among the leading historical journals in the world. And we are taking a close look at our OAH Magazine of History to see what larger audiences it might serve.

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THE PERIOD SINCE MARCH, 2011 when I took office has been one of exhilarating behindthe-scenes work on the part of board members and the Organization of American Historians’ staff, and especially Kathy Finley, our new Executive Director. We have tightened our belts, stabilized our finances, and in the past several months, we have begun to turn to questions of future planning and growth. Much of this work had begun under the previous presidencies of Elaine Tyler May and David Hollinger, and the organization owes much to them for their foresight and insight into the OAH.

Alice Kessler-Harris

As I write, our program for the 2012 Milwaukee meeting has just been put to bed. Planning for this program began almost a year before we held our 2011 annual meeting in Houston (which you can learn more about on page 27 in this annual report). I am delighted to note that the 2012 meeting successfully meets an array of challenges sufficient to daunt any program committee. Through panels, special events, and the participation of Wisconsin activists, the meeting will highlight the political and labor-related issues that set off a political furor in Wisconsin. It will include special events for K-12 teachers, who will be encouraged to remain for the entire convention. The program also experiments with a variety of new formats including sessions featuring presentations by senior scholars whose papers are posted online in advance to allow for in-depth discussion. Among the plenary sessions at the convention will be one that addresses the question of how an organization like ours balances its fiduciary responsibilities against the political and social commitments of its members. We have great hopes that this convention will prove to be an enticing occasion for all our members, as well an entry point for significant numbers of new members. Among the new initiatives in which we are engaging this year is an exchange program with Chinese scholars of U.S. history. With the generous support of the Ford Foundation, planning Organization of American Historians

meetings for these exchanges will take place with Chinese delegates in Milwaukee and with three OAH representatives in Shanghai at the end of May 2012. Together these meetings will produce plans for a long-term program on the model of our U.S./Japan exchanges. On another front, the OAH has enhanced its public visibility by taking a strong position against the expanding oversight of Institutional Review Boards over the arena of oral history. In a statement to the Department of Health and Human Services, which is re-evaluating the role of the IRB, we insisted that the professional ethics of historians vitiated the need for any oversight. Our organization thrives on continuing discussion and debate among our members. I am pleased to report that this year has witnessed an enthusiastic spurt of energy on many fronts, and one that will continue to stand historians of the U.S. in good stead. â&#x2013; Alice Kessler-Harris is the president of the Organization of American Historians and the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of History at Columbia University.

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From the OAH Executive Director Katherine M. Finley FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS, fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011) was one of internal focus and change. For me, it was my first full year as executive director of this most venerable organization. A year prior to my arrival, the OAH adopted a new strategic plan that was designed to help the organization widen its reach while at the same time better serve its current members. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization, it was decided that an internal reorganization was necessary. As with most organizations, the OAH must do more with less. As part of this reorganization, the OAH transferred the production, publication, advertising, and institutional subscription sales of the Journal of American History and OAH Magazine of History to Oxford University Press. The OAH staff who handled these functions were assigned new duties including much needed marketing and communications, and desktop publishing and graphic design. Also, as part of the 2009 OAH Strategic Plan, we have created a new Web-based database to more adequately meet the needs of our members. The database is still in testing but should go live by spring of 2012. All the procedures and policies of the office were examined to help expedite operations and improve service to members.

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Not all of OAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s focus during fiscal year 2011 was on internal processes and procedures. Much effort was spent improving the look and functionality of the OAH Web site and improving communications with members. Once completed, the new online database will be integrated into our Web site so dues renewals and conference registration will be simplified. In addition to posting pertinent information on our Web site, we have instituted a monthly e-mail newsletter to members, and the OAH Executive Board approved resuming a quarterly print newsletter to carry timely articles of professional and scholarly interest to members. The first issue of this newsletter, OAH Outlook, was mailed to members in August 2011. In December 2011, OAH Outlook received a Star Award from the Indiana Society of Association Executives (ISAE) in the best association bulletin and newsletter category. (The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program was recognized as well by ISAE with a Star Award for the best non-dues revenue program for associations.) The OAH Executive Board also appointed a number of task forces to study issues such as increasing membership and improving the format and content of the OAH Annual Meeting. These task forces reported to the OAH Executive Board in November 2011. The OAH Magazine of History Task Force met during the past year and made suggestions for changes and improvements to this publication. With Oxfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vast marketing networks, it is hoped that both the OAH Magazine and the Journal will enjoy wider distribution to a variety of new audiences.

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The OAH continues its awards and prizes program by offering 21 different awards and prizes for scholarship and teaching in the field. It is OAHâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intent to recognize the best and the brightest in the profession. The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program, celebrating its thirtieth anniversary, presented 99 lectures around the country in fiscal year 2011. Also, the collaborative agreement with the National Park Service (NPS) has seen the number of projects grow from 21 in the first eight years of the program to 124 at the end of the current fiscal year. This program helps NPS improve its historical interpretation at its many sites. 2011 marked the sesquicentennial anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The OAH recognized this anniversary by establishing a special Civil War at 150 project and companion Web site which contains selected articles from the OAH archives, podcasts, links to Recent Scholarship Online, and other resources to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Increasingly, more and more OAH members are either part-time, adjunct, or contingent faculty. Therefore the OAH board approved standards for part-time, adjunct, and contingent faculty employment. These best practices recommend the fair treatment and effective use of non-tenure track history faculty at all levels of higher education. Moreover, there are more and more members who work in public history, especially in the academy. The OAH, along with a number of other organizations, supported a statement on tenure for these professionals. Even with its internal focus this year, OAH has worked with a number of organizations and focused on a number of external markets. Financially, the OAH finished the year in the black. However, the recession continues to take its toll on the history profession as travel funds at universities are being curtailed. While Congress remains focused on the budget deficit, all eyes were on funding for the Teaching American History Grants and the National Park Service. Working with the National Coalition for History, the OAH has actively advocated the preservation of funding for these programs. Unfortunately, at the end of 2011, and despite our best efforts at advocacy, funding for TAH was eliminated from the federal budget. As we look to next year, we anticipate greater collaboration, more outreach, and increased advocacy efforts. We appreciate your support as members, donors, colleagues, and collaborators. â&#x2013;

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From the OAH Executive Editor A Report on the Journal of American History Edward T. Linenthal

I WRITE MY ANNUAL EDITOR’S REPORT1 in the early days of June 2011, in the middle of a heat wave in Bloomington, Indiana. While campus and town are quieter, however, the Journal of American History never sleeps. We are busy for many reasons: early summer always sees a deluge of manuscript submissions; books arrive every day—annually we receive approximately 3,000 from which we select about 600 to review and 1,250 to list in Recent Scholarship; our contributing editors continue their work on important sections of the JAH; our copy editors continue their painstaking work through the summer months; our director of operations and our production and administrative assistants are at the center of daily life in the office and help organize my days; our technical support staff, responsible for both OAH offices in Bloomington, keep us functioning digitally, and they continue to work on our quarterly JAH podcasts and other Web projects; and our editorial assistants—graduate students at IU—are at work on a variety of important tasks. It has been my great pleasure to work with members of this extended family for the past six years. They are deserving of our gratitude for their devotion to the JAH and by extension to all members of the OAH.

Edward T. Linenthal

Our first issue of the JAH with Oxford University Press (OUP) was published in March 2011. We are excited about the opportunity for the OAH to partner with OUP for publication of both the JAH and the OAH Magazine of History. There are many reasons for our enthusiasm, among them the potential for worldwide marketing of both publications. Several members of the staff continue to spend significant amounts of time working out the inevitable technical issues that arise in such a move. We continue to work as part of a larger OAH team on a multiyear project, “The Civil War at 150.” (For more details, see http://www.oah.org/programs/civilwar.) Themes for each year from 2011 to 2015 are: Origins, Mobilizing for War, Turning Points, Total War, and Legacies. Each year, a call for papers on those particular themes will be posted on the JAH Web site. Published articles this past year reflect the fact that we are receiving considerably more submissions in pre-twentieth-century U.S. history; we trust that this trend will continue. We hope readers found valuable a September 2010 project spearheaded by a former associate editor John Nieto-Phillips, “Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects,” which included ten participants and featured an “Interchange Supplement: Selected Book Reviews in Latino History.” We continued our quarterly podcast interviews with selected JAH authors: in June ——— 1 Edward T. Linenthal, “Editor’s Annual Report, 2010-2011” Journal of American History, 98 (September 2011), 616–620. Organization of American Historians

2010, Terri L. Snyder, the author of “Slavery, Suicide, and Memory in North America” was featured; in September 2010, John Nieto-Phillips interviewed Virginia Sánchez Korrol, a participant in the Latino history Interchange; Associate Editor Khalil G. Muhammad spoke with Heather Ann Thompson, the author of “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History,” for our December 2010 installment; and in March 2011 Associate Editor Stephen D. Andrews interviewed Rachel Louise Moran, the author of “Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal.” The June 2011 issue featured a state-of-the-field essay by Beverly Gage, “Terrorism and the American Experience.” We also spoke with Professor Gage for a podcast. I want to thank John Nieto-Phillips, who served as issue editor for “Margins to Mainstream: The Brave New World of Borderlands History,” which appears in the September 2011 issue. I also thank Susan-Mary Grant and Jay Sexton, who were crucial to every part of the Interchange conversation, “Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War,” which also appears here. They performed a variety of important tasks, from selecting participants to working with me on the edits of a huge amount of text. Readers can expect a number of interesting projects to appear in the coming months. Kim Phillips-Fein has written a splendid state-of-the-field essay on contemporary American conservatism that we will publish in December 2011, with responses from a number of colleagues. I expect to receive drafts of three state-of-the-field essays on women’s history, sports history, and environmental history very soon. In anticipation of the 2012 OAH annual meeting, we will be publishing a special online Interchange conversation, “Professional Organizations and Political Engagements.” We also continue to work hard on an ambitious special issue for June 2012, “Oil in American History,” which will consist of twenty-two essays and a Web site component. I am privileged to work on this project with three superb consulting editors: Brian Black, Karen Merrill, and Tyler Priest. While state-of-the-field essays and special-issue essays are commissioned, they still must go through a rigorous peer-review process. First drafts of essays for “Oil in American History” are read by two of us in-house, a JAH Editorial Board member, and all three contributing editors. I join the consulting editors in reading second and subsequent drafts and in asking for further evaluation, if necessary. There has never been the presumption that a commissioned piece will be published in the JAH without question. Such essays, like everything else that appears in the Journal, must pass muster with readers. I conclude the content section of my report with thanks to Richard S. Kirkendall, editor of The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History, published in 2011 by Oxford University Press. I was honored when Dick asked me to join former JAH editors Lewis C. Perry, David Thelen, and Joanne Meyerowitz in writing short reflections for the book, contained in a section called “Editing the Journal.” I hope that readers find these and the many other essays in the collection interesting. I wish to thank colleagues who have served so well on the editorial board: Dee E. Andrews, Paul S. Boyer, Alison Games, and Dylan Penningroth. After serving as co-consulting editor for exhibitions for more than six years, we bid farewell to Benjamin Filene—whose contributions will continue through June 2012—and we also bid farewell to Pelzer Prize Committee member John S. Schlotterbeck and Thelen Award Committee member Udo Hebel. We also had to say good-bye to several members of our own staff, whom we will greatly miss. John Nieto-Phillips returned to the Indiana University history department after three years as an associate editor; and after serving one year as an associate editor Khalil G. Muhammad left the JAH in the summer of 2011 to become the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in 10

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Black Culture in New York City. Kimberly M. Stanley’s last day as one of our editorial assistants was in June 2011. While it is always hard to see friends and colleagues leave, it is always exciting to extend a welcome to new arrivals. The work of the JAH will be greatly enriched by our incoming associate editor, Claude A. Clegg III, a professor in the IU Department of History. Claude’s most recent book, Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South, was published in 2010 by the University of Illinois Press. We welcome Carl Suddler, who joined us as a new editorial assistant in June. Four new Editorial Board members also join us this year: Eileen Boris, Nancy Isenberg, Maurice Jackson, and Mark Silk. We also welcome Randall M. Miller to the Pelzer Prize Committee and Max Edling to the Thelen Award Committee. Finally, we thank those who have offered thoughtful evaluations of manuscripts. These reports are a crucial component of the scholarly conversation between editor, author, and reader. All of you enrich the JAH greatly.

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We always enjoy hearing from our colleagues. Please feel free to contact us at jah@oah.org or, if you wish to contact me directly, at etl@indiana.edu or by telephone at 812-855-0335. Our deepest thanks to Henry Abelove, Annmarie Adams, Ulrich Adelt, José M. Alamillo, Robert J. Alderson, Catherine Allgor, Lee J. Alston, Henrice Altink, Julius A. Amin, Carol Anderson, J. L. Anderson, Kenneth T. Andrews, R. Scott Appleby, Cindy S. Aron, Jonathan Auerbach, Thomas Augst, Allan W. Austin, Beth Bailey, Davarian L. Baldwin, Edward Balleisen, Edward E. Baptist, Raffaella Baritono, Elliott R. Barkan, Mark V. Barrow, Mia E. Bay, Douglas C. Baynton, Daniel H. Bays, Maurine H. Beasley, E. M. Beck, John M. Belohlavek, Michael Les Benedict, Katherine Benton-Cohen, Carol Berkin, Edward D. Berkowitz, Iver Bernstein, Eugene H. Berwanger, John Bezís-Selfa, Darrel E. Bigham, W. Roger Biles, Sam Binkley, Brian Birdnow, Brian C. Black, Richard J. M. Blackett, Mansel G. Blackford, Ned Blackhawk, Carlos Kevin Blanton, Kathleen M. Blee, Mary H. Blewett, Avital H. Bloch, Jack S. Blocker, Howard Bodenhorn, Lori Lyn Bogle, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Dennis K. Boman, Mary C. Brennan, Douglas Brinkley, Janice Brockley, Jamie Bronstein, Charlotte Brooks, Canter Brown, Jeffrey P. Brown, Scot Brown, Thomas J. Brown, W. Elliot Brownlee, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, Paul Buhle, Garin Burbank, Susan Burch, Trevor Burnard, Orville Vernon Burton, Robert Bussel, Lendol G. Calder, Charles W. Calhoun, Ardis Cameron, Duncan Andrew Campbell, Malcolm Campbell, Dominic J. Capeci, Daniel Carpenter, Lois Green Carr, Anne Elizabeth Carroll, Mina Carson, Francine Cary, Marion T. Casey, Scott E. Casper, Robert Cassanello, Edward Caudill, Douglas B. Chambers, George Chauncey, Eileen Ka-May Cheng, Emma Christopher, Robert Churchill, Emily Clark, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Dave A. Clary, Paul G. E. Clemens, Daniel Cobb, Bruce Cohen, Daniel A. Cohen, Lizabeth Cohen, Stephanie Cole, Steven Conn, William J. Cooper, Margaret S. Creighton, Joseph Crespino, Stephen E. Cresswell, Spencer Crew, Donald T. Critchlow, Ruth Crocker, Emilye Crosby, Michael E. Crutcher, Lawrence Culver, Thomas F. Curran, Pete Daniel, Roger Daniels, Stewart Davenport, Mary Kemp Davis, Joseph G. Dawson, Jared N. Day, Jennifer de Forest, Matt Delmont, Jeannine Marie DeLombard, Jennifer Delton, Sarah Deutsch, William Deverell, Gilbert C. Din, Hasia R. Diner, Darren Dochuk, L. Mara Dodge, Ronald E. Doel, Kate Dossett, Russell Duncan, Thomas R. Dunlap, Daniel Dupre, Martin Durham, Nancy Schrom Dye, Charles W. Eagles, Jonathan H. Earle, Carolyn Eastman, Mary Ebeling, Gary R. Edgerton, Douglas R. Egerton, Marc Egnal, Ellen M. Eisenberg, Sarah Elvins, Sterling Evans, Nora Faires, David Farber, Matthew Farish, Kathleen Feeley, Crystal Feimster, Fred Fejes, Michael Feldberg, Glenn Feldman, Michael Fellman, Lee Finkle, Fritz Fischer, Gerard J. Fitzgerald, Ellen Fitzpatrick, Donald L. Fixico, Maureen A. Flanagan, Cynthia Griggs Fleming, Kenneth Fones-Wolf, Gaines M. Foster, Andrew K. Frank, V. P. Franklin, Scot French, Jack Fruchtman, Michael F. Funchion, J. Matthew Gallman, Jesús Velasco Garjales, Daniel Geary, H. Michael Gelfand, Edith Gelles, Larry R. Gerlach, Louis S. Gerteis, Paula Giddings, Paul A. Gilje, Jill K. Gill, William R. Glass, Jack Glazier, Myra C. Glenn, Jonathan A. Glickstein, David Goldfield, Sarah Barringer Gordon, Van Gosse, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mark A. Graber, Andrew R. Graybill, Elna C. Green, James Green, Amy S. Greenberg, Cheryl Greenberg, Marilyn Greenwald, Maurine W. Greenwald, Katherine C. Grier, Matthew J. Grow, Organization of American Historians

Larry Grubbs, Anita Guerrini, Matthew Pratt Guterl, Edward F. Haas, Evan Haefeli, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Jacob Darwin Hamblin, David E. Hamilton, Douglas Hamilton, John Craig Hammond, Robert L. Harris, Stanley Harrold, John Mason Hart, Mark Harvey, Brian Masaru Hayashi, M. J. Heale, Timothy J. Henderson, Glenn Hendler, Susan E. Henking, David Henry, Bernard Herman, Ellen Herman, Earl J. Hess, William L. Hewitt, Georgina Hickey, Patricia R. Hill, Peter Proal Hill, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Lawrence D. Hogan, E. Brooks Holifield, Daniel Horowitz, James Oliver Horton, Andrew J. Huebner, Timothy S. Huebner, Margaret Humphreys, Daniel Hurewitz, James L. Huston, Colette Hyman, Sarah Igo, Alison Isenberg, Bryan Jack, John P. Jackson, Thomas F. Jackson, Meg Jacobs, Thomas James, Kenneth R. Janken, Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Judson L. Jeffries, Randal Maurice Jelks, John B. Jentz, Edward P. Johanningsmeier, Robert David Johnson, Sherry Johnson, Charles O. Jones, Howard Jones, Patrick D. Jones, Susan D. Jones, William Jordan, Mitch Kachun, David Isaac Kaiser, Michael Kammen, Mark E. Kann, Alan L. Karras, Peter J. Kastor, Patricia Kelleher, Mary C. Kelly, Kevin Kenny, Stephanie Kermes, Charles R. Kesler, Jimee Dee Kille, Rebecca Klatch, S. J. Kleinberg, Ronald R. Kline, James T. Kloppenberg, Franklin W. Knight, Anne Meis Knupfer, Rui Yazawa Kohiyama, Peter Kolchin, Clayton R. Koppes, Michael J. Kramer, Paul A. Kramer, David Krasner, John D. Krugler, Kevin M. Kruse, Catherine J. Kudlick, Gary M. Laderman, Angela M. Lahr, Jane G. Landers, Ned Landsman, Clarence Lang, Estelle T. Lau, Bruce G. Laurie, Rodrigo Lazo, Erika Lee, Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Stuart W. Leslie, George A. Lévesque, Charles H. Lippy, James W. Loewen, Paul K. Longmore, Margaretta M. Lovell, Ralph E. Luker, William J. Mahar, Earl M. Maltz, Jane Marcellus, Cathie Martin, Michael Kenji Masatsugu, Carol Mason, Matthew Mason, Gary May, Christopher Maynard, Melani McAlister, Kathleen McCarthy, John T. McCartney, John G. McCurdy, Roderick A. McDonald, James Lee McDonough, Mark D. McGarvie, Brian D. McKnight, Robert J. McMahon, Sally A. McMurry, Timothy J. Meagher, Joanne Pope Melish, James H. Meriwether, Karen R. Merrill, Peter C. Messer, Richard E. Meyer, Peter Mickulas, Yanek Mieczkowski, Brian Craig Miller, Joseph C. Miller, Karen Miller, Kerby Miller, Steven Mintz, Mary Niall Mitchell, Brett Mizelle, Natalia Molina, Francesca Morgan, Margaret M. Mulrooney, Alice Yang Murray, Phillip E. Myers, Mark Naison, Linda Nash, William E. Nelson, Richard S. Newman, Simon P. Newman, Mae Ngai, Kim E. Nielsen, Janet Nolan, Justin Nordstrom, William Novak, Walter T. Nugent, David E. Nye, Alice O’Connor, Karen M. O’Neill, James M. O’Toole, Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar, Marilyn Ogilvie, Katherine Ott, Ted Ownby, Susan J. Pearson, Thomas R. Pegram, Richard H. Pells, Carla Gardina Pestana, Christopher Phillips, Kim Phillips-Fein, G. Kurt Piehler, Michael D. Pierson, Millery Polyné, Lisa Joy Pruitt, Brian Purnell, John W. Quist, Bruce A. Ragsdale, Elena Razlogova, Marcus Rediker, Tracy J. Revels, Chris Rhomberg, Serge Ricard, Heather Cox Richardson, Joseph T. Robertson, Greg Robinson, David W. Robson, Kenneth W. Rose, Doug Rossinow, Margaret W. Rossiter, Joshua D. Rothman, Andrew J. Rotter, Michal J. Rozbicki, Edward B. Rugemer, Edmund P. Russell, Catherine E. Rymph, Marcy S. Sacks, Lucy E. Salyer, Dominic Sandbrook, Beryl Satter, Claudio Saunt, Nathan F. Sayre, Ronald W. Schatz, John Schlotterbeck, William Michael Schmidli, Dorothee Schneider, Gregory L. Schneider, Ellen Schrecker, Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Leslie Schwalm, Beth Barton Schweiger, Dorothy Schwieder, Wilbur Scott, Daniel Scroop, George Selgin, M. N. S. Sellers, Milton C. Sernett, David E. Settje, Robert E. Shalhope, Andrew Shankman, James Roger Sharp, Colleen A. Sheehan, Melanie ShellWeiss, Connie A. Shemo, Francis Shor, Josh Sides, Mark Silk, Jeffrey Sklansky, Richard Slotkin, Mark M. Smith, Ryan K. Smith, Suzanne E. Smith, Christina Snyder, Jason Sokol, Randy J. Sparks, Bartholomew Sparrow, Paul R. Spickard, Jason Stahl, Charles G. Steffen, Judith Stein, Robert J. Steinfeld, James B. Stewart, Timothy Stewart-Winter, Steven M. Stowe, Christopher Barry Strain, Thomas Streeter, Reginald C. Stuart, Larry E. Sullivan, Paul Shriver Sutter, Carol Lynne Tatlock, Nikki Taylor, Robert A. Taylor, Philip Teigen, Leslie W. Tentler, Samuel J. Thomas, C. Bradley Thompson, Joseph S. Tiedemann, Stewart E. Tolnay, James W. Trent, William Tsutsui, Fred Turner, James Turner, John W. Tyler, Richard Valelly, John V. Van Cleve, William L. Van Deburg, William E. Van Vugt, Stephen Vaughn, David Vaught, Keith J. Volanto, Vernon L. Volpe, Penny M. Von Eschen, Michael Vorenberg, Grant Wacker, Steve Waksman, Christopher Waldrep, Casey Walsh, Lorena Walsh, Eric H. Walther, Kenneth Waltzer, David C. Ward, Steven Watts, Walter B. Weare, Timothy Weber, Lynn Y. Weiner, Ronald A. Wells, David Wheat, T. Stephen Whitman, 12

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John Wigger, H. Mark Wild, Craig Steven Wilder, Mira Wilkins, Yohuru R. Williams, Michael Willrich, Carol Wilson, Charles Reagan Wilson, Jamie Jaywann Wilson, Julie Winch, Raymond Wolters, Marie Rose Wong, Amy Louise Wood, Christine Woyshner, Robert E. Wright, David M. Wrobel, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Donald Yacovone, Melvin Yazawa, Edward H. Yelin, David K. Yoo, Elliott Young, Rosemarie Zagarri, Robert L. Zangrando, Huang Zhaoqun, and Jonathan Zimmerman. â&#x2013;

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Report of the OAH Treasurer Jay Goodgold

FISCAL 20112012 MARKS AN IMPORTANT TRANSITION year for the finances of the OAH. While we remain fiscally prudent and are current with all of our payments and have no arrearages or debt, this year we will have several significant changes to the collection of our revenues. First, the revenues from Oxford University Press will be distributed to the OAH in several lump sums. In fiscal year 2011, we recognized $125,000, and received an additional $40,000 in support of the Journal of American History, the OAH Prize Funds, and the community college program. In fiscal year 2012, we will recognize $250,000 and will receive a distribution from our portion of the profit sharing agreement above the gross yearly payment of $350,000. Second, since we have streamlined our dues structure, we should be receiving the bulk of the payments during the first half of the fiscal year rather than spread out throughout the year. Third, while the funds in the OAH General Fund and the Fund for American History have been steady, we will be hard pressed to rely on this source for our operational needs.

Jay Goodgold

The result is that our cash flow projections on a month-by-month basis will need to be revised. Our overall yearly cash flow projection should remain unchanged, but due to the ‘lumpy’ nature of the revenue stream, we will see considerable variance on a month-by-month basis. On first inspection this might seem alarming, but with careful management of the existing available funds, the payments to our vendors, and in particular Indiana University, should be made in a timely manner without incurring any penalties or charges. Indiana University has been very focused on receiving its payments on time and will charge us significant penalties if we are past due. The accounting department at the OAH is currently reviewing our cash flow projections and should have a revised statement in the very near future. The OAH ended the June 30, 2011 fiscal year on a positive note. On an operating basis, we finished with a surplus of $16,288 when the transfer of $83,128 to the Community College Fund (CCF) is excluded. This is essentially a non-recurring issue as the CCF winds down this fiscal year. There is approximately $33,000 left in the CCF, and it will be used for the 2012 event in Springfield, Illinois. Should the OAH board decide it would like to continue the community college initiative, it could consider teaming up with a financially stable community college program that could provide the financial support while the OAH could provide the administrative and professional aspects. One area of focus is revenue. While we have made some important changes in our revenue collection, the old model of relying on dues is precarious at best. There are several initiatives underway to help us augment this area:

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1. A completed tally of our membership noted that we had 2,473 lapsed members from last fiscal year. OAH undertook a recent reclamation effort to these former OAH members by sending them the first issue of the OAH newsletter, OAH Outlook. This effort produced a very positive response with more than 300 lapsed members renewing. We will continue to pursue these lapsed members and redouble our efforts on membership retention. 2. The new policy of a sending a yearly appeal for funds (instead of two appeals a year) to the OAH members resulted in $52,000 being sent to us. This was higher than we had expected. 3. We are in the process of organizing a planned giving effort, a very important long-term effort. Currently, we are in a fact-finding mode, gathering the necessary administrative tools to affect a smooth and orderly process. Our goal is to have this area operational by the end of the current calendar year. Since the revenues from this area are long-term in nature, we must have a careful and thoughtful plan that will appeal to our membership. This venue could be an important source to help replenish our important long-term funds, including the OAH Prize Fund, the General Operating Fund and the Fund for American History. Our status as a 501(c)(3) organization can be marketed professionally to allow us to expand our fundraising activity. 4. Institutional relationships and support: The History Channel remains our largest annual supporter at $50,000. Our efforts to enhance our working relationship could allow us to see this number rise over time. Our expanded role with Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI), while not resulting in any direct monetary donation, could allow us to expand membership and our visibility within the broader history community. This remains an area of potential growth for the OAH. These initiatives, along with the new dues collection structure and the Oxford University Press relationship, should help us grow our revenue base. As we enter our second year with Oxford, our relationship with them continues to be solid. One new area of assistance that Oxford has launched is helping associations such as the OAH expand their membership. We will be watching this area closely. Oxford indicates that, year to date, revenue projections are in line with the budget and that institutional support is improving. They have also noted that an improvement in advertising and subscription should occur after the first year of operation. Again, we will be monitoring this closely. All the initiatives noted above do not require any additional monies and should not have any negative impact on our expenses. The annual meeting in Milwaukee, while a smaller regional market than Houston, should have a higher attendance due to its juxtaposition to other major academic centers in the midwest. We are also hoping to draw more K-12 interest through our expanded relationship with GLI which plans to have a regional session in Milwaukee prior to our meeting. Lastly, the hotel room rates of $159/$169 for the two hotels are significantly lower than we experienced at prior annual meeting sites. Overall, we have designed a very cautious budget. We have not budgeted any new items to cause any expense variation, and we will continue to look for additional ways to lower our costs. We continue to be in a very volatile economic environment, and we must continue to watch our membership levels as well as find ways to make the annual meeting and the OAH accessible to our broad audience. ■ —November 2011

Note: Jay Goodgold was appointed treasurer of the OAH at the March 2011 OAH Executive Board Meeting. Prior to his appointment, Robert Griﬃth served as OAH Treasurer until his sudden passing in January, 2011.

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Highlights, Organization of American Historians Financial Statements, June 30, 2011 and 2010 The following highlights are from the independent audit of the Organization of American Historians by the accounting firm of Crowe Horwath, Indianapolis, Indiana. To request a complete copy of the statements of financial position of the Organization of American Historians, as of June 30, 2011 and 2010, please contact the OAH office.

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Agreement with Oxford University Press We are in the first year of our agreement with Oxford University Press. There have been a number of changes that our members have seen. Access to the full run of both the Journal of American History and the OAH Magazine of History is available on the Oxford pages. These are open to current members of the OAH. With this new agreement members also receive a 25 percent discount on books published by Oxford University Press. We are excited about the possibilities that Oxford brings to our members and will continue to look for more opportunities for additional benefits.

Production The staff in the publications office has been diligently working with Oxford to establish new procedures for the production of our two publications, the Journal of American History and the OAH Magazine of History. This has taken longer than anticipated, but we now believe there is a workable schedule for everyone concerned. Beginning in January 2012, our members have seen their publications and online content arrive early. Our goal is to have in-home delivery before the second week of the month of issue.

New OAH member database We are putting the final touches on the new OAH member database. In the spring of 2012 members will be able to update their member records online through the member portal. Renewal notices will be automatically populated with the most recent information that the OAH has on each member. All information of the organization—publications, meetings, business, and membership—will be found in one convenient location. This has been needed for a long time, and we are very excited to have this new database available to staff and members.

Information Technology at the OAH The Web site continues to grow with such items as new podcasts introducing an article from each issue of the Journal and the addition of new pages such as the Civil War at 150. Posting news of the profession and Clio’s Kudos for our members is an ongoing venture. We are trying out new social media and always appreciate helpful suggestions and praise as we continue to improve the public face of the OAH. By mid-October 2011 all offices of the OAH will be connected to fiber optics. This will substantially increase the speed of applications and connections that staff use daily and will have a major positive impact on productivity. This is an upgrade we have long been awaiting. ■

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The OAH at a Glance THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS OAH, formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. Founded in 1907, the organization’s members in the U.S. and abroad include college and university professors; historians; students; precollegiate teachers; archivists, museum curators, and other public historians; and a variety of scholars employed in government and the private sector. The OAH publishes the Journal of American History, the OAH Magazine of History, and a quarterly newsletter, OAH Outlook. Among its various programs, OAH conducts an annual meeting each spring, and has a robust roster on its OAH Distinguished Lecturership Program. The Organization of American Historians promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners of history. The year at a glance: • 7,466 individual members and 3,418 institutional subscribers • $3.4 million operating budget • 212 sessions proposed for the 2011 annual meeting; 109 selected • 265 proposals submitted for the 2012 OAH/NCPH Annual Meeting • 1,317 attended the 2011 OAH Annual Meeting in Houston • 65 book publishers were represented in the OAH Exhibit Hall • 40 committees with 260 total volunteers • Two Star Awards from the Indiana Society of Association Executives for OAH Outlook, and the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program, for the best association newsletter and best non-dues revenue program, respectively • 99 OAH Distinguished Lectures held in 32 states and the District of Columbia • 124 OAH/NPS collaborative projects • 96,970 total visits to our Web site ■

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THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS ended fiscal year 2011 with 7,466 members. Because of the small increase in membership dues in 2010, there was a modest monetary surplus, but membership numbers were 552 less than the previous year. (Please refer to page 18 of the OAH Treasurer’s Report for the audited financial statement for membership dues revenues received in FY 2011.) OAH membership during Fiscal Year 2011 witnessed changes to the renewal date for members (moving from an anniversary to a universal annual date), a simplification of the dues categories, and the migration to a new, online database. These administrative changes allowed less time for marketing efforts to new members. The loss of the Teaching American History (TAH) Grant Program also contributed to a decline. However, our core membership (i.e., individual members) remained constant.

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The OAH membership staff continues to assist members by answering questions, providing instructions regarding online member benefits and the new interactive database system, and working to create a positive experience for users. Providing exemplary customer service to existing and prospective OAH members is crucial as individuals choose their professional association for the coming year. Increasing membership in 2012 will require an aggressive marketing plan which will be developed specifically for each target group selected by the Membership Director and Executive Director beginning in January 2012. Membership outreach will consist of at least a dozen campaigns using e-mail, direct mail, advertising, social media, and/or phone solicitation. The distribution of printed membership materials will be accomplished by OAH volunteers on the Membership Committee in communities across the U.S. If history serves as an indicator of things to come, the OAH will be successful in adjusting to the recent changes and continue to find new ways of growing the organization. â&#x2013;

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Meetings and Conferences

THE OAH MEETINGS DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE for the annual meeting held each year in the spring, as well as the Community College Workshop held during the summer. These meetings give American historians an opportunity to keep up to date with the profession and latest research in the field, as well as network with peers.

2011 OAH Annual Meeting: An Overview More than thirteen hundred people attended the 2011 OAH Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, Thursday, March 17 to Sunday, March 20. The meeting theme was “Americans Divided and United: Multiple and Shifting Solidarities.” The theme was developed by the president, David Hollinger, and the program committee chairs, Joanne Meyerowitz and Peter Kolchin. Blocks of approximately eighteen sessions were held each day, and plenary sessions were scheduled for Thursday and Friday. Luncheons, breakfasts, and receptions also were held. The exhibit hall was open Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Total attendance at the 2011 meeting was 1,317. The exhibit hall hosted sixty-five book publishers, university presses, and online services. Several universities, history departments, publishers, and organizations sponsored the meeting. The largest sponsors were the History Channel; Oxford University Press; Bedford/St. Martin’s; University of California, Berkeley; C-SPAN; Basic Books; CIES; and Forrest T. Jones & Company. The OAH Program Committee evaluated 170 full The Exhibit Hall at the OAH Annual Meeting provides a friendly gathering place for attendees to visit publishers and enjoy conversation and refreshments. session proposals and 43 single paper proposals. From these submissions, the committee accepted 94 of the proposed full session proposals (72%), and 15 of the single papers (35%). They solicited 29 sessions. Sessions and events were cosponsored by the following organizations: The College Board, Advanced Placement, the Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the Labor and Working-Class History Association, the Community College Humanities Association, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Organization of American Historians

In addition to these partner organizations, several sessions, luncheons, and other events were hosted by service committees from the OAH: the OAH Membership Committee, the OAH Committee on the Status of Women in the Historical Profession, the OAH Committee on National Park Service Collaboration, the OAH Committee on Public History, the OAH Committee on Community Colleges, the OAH International Committee, and the OAH/JAAS Japan Historians Collaborative Committee.

2011 OAH Community College Workshop The 2011 workshop was held in Denver, Colorado, on the campus of the Community College of Denver. The theme for the first day of the workshop was environmental history. Speakers were Patricia Limerick, Thomas Andrews, and Paul Sutter from the University of Colorado. Pedagogy sessions on geography and maps and using online resources finished the day. Day two of the workshop included a walking tour of downtown Denver and a visit to the Denver Public Library. The group toured the extensive archive at the library and had a brief discussion with the chief archivist about ways to use archives in the community college classroom.

Participants in the 2011 Community College Workshop immerse themselves in Denver’s rich history.

The final day of the workshop focused on the Civil War in the West. Speakers were Michael Green, College of Southern Nevada, Dwight Pitcaithley, New Mexico State University, and Edward Crowther, Adams State University. Cynthia Stout, an independent historian from Colorado, closed the workshop with a session on student assessment strategies.

2012 OAH Annual Meeting The 2012 annual meeting will be held in conjunction with the National Council on Public History (NCPH) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The theme of the meeting is “Frontiers of Capitalism and Democracy.” The collaboration between the OAH and the NCPH has produced more than two hundred sessions and events. The meeting will also host twice the usual number of workshops, tours, and offsite events. Registration opened December 16, 2011.

2012 OAH Community College Conference The 2012 OAH Community College Conference will be held on the campus of Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, Illinois. The symposium will focus on Abraham Lincoln, from his time in Springfield and beyond. For more information, visit http://cc.oah.org/. ■

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PUBLISHED QUARTERLY SINCE 1985, each issue of the OAH Magazine of History focuses on a theme in U.S. history. Articles draw upon recent scholarship, survey the historiography, and provide practical teaching strategies. The OAH Magazine’s goal is to enhance the teaching and presentation of U.S. history in secondary and college classrooms, as well as in public history settings. Contributors include top scholars doing cutting-edge research, award-winning classroom teachers, public intellectuals, and public historians. A subject specialist serves as consulting editor for each issue.

Edited at the OAH publications office in Bloomington, Indiana, the OAH Magazine is published by the OAH in a partnership with Oxford University Press. Individual subscribers, both OAH members and non-members, as well as institutional subscribers, receive the print magazine by mail. It is also available online through Oxford University Press Journals online at http://maghis.oxfordjournals.org/ and through the OAH at http://magazine.oah.org/. In the 2010–2011 fiscal year, the OAH published four issues of the Magazine: • History of Technology (July 2010): http://magazine.oah.org/issues/243/. From personal computers to canned food to the airplane, new technology changed the fabric of American life in the twentieth century. But as the contributors to this issue show us, technological change is best understood in its rich social, political, and cultural context. • The Cold War Revisited (October 2010): http://magazine.oah.org/issues/244/. More than twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, historians are still rewriting the way we view the Cold War. Connections to the civil rights movement, the experiences of children in the Cold War–era, and spying are among the subjects covered in this wide-ranging survey. • Colonial America (January 2011): http://magazine.oah.org/issues/251/. One of the oldest topics in U.S. history, the story of colonial America continues to be retold in fascinating ways. These authors reframe the period by focusing on the diversity of colonization—English, Spanish, and French—and how European colonizers, Native Americans, and African Americans experienced this chapter of our common history.

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Civil War at 150: Origins (April 2011): http://magazine.oah.org/issues/252/. In this issue, the first in our planned series on the Civil War at 150, the authors explore the touchy issue of the war’s origins. Articles equip teachers to help students examine this topic through a variety of lenses: politics, economics, gender, slavery, and commemoration.

New OAH Magazine online marketing initiatives included: • A new OAH Magazine Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/OAHMagazine?sk=wall. • A podcast interview with historian Elizabeth Varon, one of the contributors to the April 2011 issue: http://www.oah.org/programs/civilwar/podcast/program/201104.mp3. • Promoting the mobile version of the OAH Magazine, available through Oxford University Press, which is a mobile-optimized edition of the online issue, which can be accessed from all mobile devices, iOS (iPhone and iPod Touch), Blackberry OS and Android smartphones. ■

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National Park Service Collaborative Project

THE PURPOSE OF THE OAHNPS COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM is to ensure that the history being presented to the American public in the units of the National Park Service is in line with the latest scholarly understandings of the past. The program also seeks to expand the dialogue taking place among professional historians, by exposing academic historians to the methodologies of public history and enabling public historians to take part in a larger scholarly debate. While the OAH was collaborating on individual projects with NPS as early as 1989, the formal relationship between the organizations began in 1994, at the height of the culture wars, when there was a growing awareness within the historical profession that academic history was not having much impact on public perceptions of the past and that public historians working to present thoughtful, nuanced information about the past needed professional support as they came increasingly under fire amid public controversy. The beauty of the OAH-NPS relationship is that it provides an infrastructure within which to experiment and be creative in the service of historical goals. Indeed, the type of relationship enjoyed by the OAH and NPS is distinct from most of the agency’s work-forhire precisely because it strays outside of established types of government work and offers a benefit both to the park service and to the wider historical profession. As stipulated by our collaborative agreement, all projects we undertake with NPS must prove a mutual benefit for both organizations. That being said, our collaborative work does tend to fall into the general categories of primary research, historical synthesis, peer review, professional development, and consulting.

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In the first eight years of the program, the OAH and NPS completed 21 joint projects. In the subsequent nine years, since the creation of the public history manager position at the OAH, we have been involved in 103 projects. All told, as of 2011, we have collaborated with NPS on 124 projects, and in Fiscal Year 2011 enjoyed working on 41 active agreements. In fiscal year 2011, we took on the following new projects: • • • •

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Cape Lookout Historic Resource Study, Phase II Civil War Sesquicentennial Web Site Peer Review Educational Workshops: Using Place to Teach History Space Shuttle Columbia Women’s Rights Administrative History

For more information about these projects, for a complete list of our current projects, and for a cumulative list of all projects completed in the OAH-NPS partnership, please visit www.oah.org. For any other questions about the OAH-NPS partnership, please contact Aidan J. Smith (aidsmith@oah.org), OAH Public History Manager. ■

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Distinguished Lectureship Program

FOUNDED BY OAH PRESIDENT GERDA LERNER in 1982, the OAH’s speakers bureau continues today to advance the organization’s mission of promoting excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history while also contributing a steady non-dues revenue stream to the organization’s general operating fund.

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During the past fiscal year, 99 OAH Distinguished Lectures were presented in 32 states and the District of Columbia. OAH volunteer speakers engaged audiences at colleges and universities, historical societies, museums, and libraries around the country. They also led numerous K-12 teacher workshops, funded by U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History grants, and participated in National Council for History Education state conferences and other symposia for teachers.

Despite the economic downturn, the program generated more than $125,000 in revenue for the organization for the fourth consecutive fiscal year. In fact, in December 2011, the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program received a Star Award for best association non-dues revenue program from the Indiana Society of Association Executives.

The Civil War Sesquicentennial As anticipated, the program experienced increased demand for Civil War historians as the Civil War sesquicentennial began in early 2011. Sixteen OAH Distinguished Lectures on this subject were presented during FY2011 in a variety of venues, including the Idaho Council for History Education conference and the Tennessee Conference of Historians, teacher workshops in Illinois and New York, and multiple-lecture series at Southern Methodist University and Miami University Hamilton.

New Media Selected OAH Distinguished Lectures were made available in podcast form for the first time in the past year. The inaugural podcast lectures focus on Civil War history, and include a video recording of Steve Hahn on “Why the Civil War Mattered” and an audio recording of Stephanie McCurry on “Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South.”

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The OAH Executive Board commends and thanks the following OAH Distinguished Lecturers for giving one lecture each on the OAH’s behalf during 2010-2011: Virginia DeJohn Anderson, Fred Anderson, David Armitage, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Raymond O. Arsenault, Edward L. Ayers, Robert Bain, Mia Bay, Stephen Berry, Richard J. M. Blackett, Elizabeth K. Borgwardt, Terry Bouton, Kevin Boyle, Catherine A. Brekus, Edwin G. Burrows, Jon Butler, Albert Camarillo, Lizabeth Cohen, Bettye Collier-Thomas, Stephanie Coontz, Daniel Czitrom, Brian DeLay, Tom Dublin, Lynn Dumenil, David C. Engerman, Todd Estes, John Ferling, Leon Fink, Michael W. Flamm, Joanne B. Freeman, François Furstenberg, Matt Garcia, Linda Gordon, Elliott J. Gorn, James Green, James N. Gregory, Claudrena N. Harold, Woody Holton, Heather A. Huyck, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Caroline E. Janney, Jacqueline Jones, Jane Kamensky, Walter D. Kamphoefner, Michael Kazin, Alice Kessler-Harris, Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Robert Korstad, Alan M. Kraut, Karen Ordahl Kupperman, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Leon F. Litwack, James Marten, Elaine Tyler May, Stephanie McCurry, Danielle McGuire, Sally G. McMillen, Marla R. Miller, Kevin Mumford, Mae M. Ngai, Mary Beth Norton, Susan O’Donovan, James T. Patterson, Matthew Pinsker, Jack N. Rakove, Daniel T. Rodgers, Virginia Scharff, Donald Schwartz, Nina Silber, Bryant Simon, Sheila L. Skemp, Cynthia Stout, Patricia Sullivan, Jeremi Suri, Barbara L. Tischler, Robert Brent Toplin, Lara Vapnek, Frank J. Williams, Rhonda Y. Williams, and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu. The OAH Executive Board offers special thanks and commendations to the following OAH Distinguished Lecturers for giving more than one OAH Lecture each during 2010-2011: Eric Arnesen, Orville Vernon Burton, Lesley J. Gordon, Steven Hahn, Christopher W. Phillips, Eric Rauchway, Bruce J. Schulman, Thomas Alan Schwartz, who each gave two lectures, and Paul Finkelman, who gave three OAH Lectures during 2010-2011. ■

During the past fiscal year, 99 OAH Distinguished Lectures were presented in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

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DURING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (2011-2015), the Organization of American Historians is committed to bringing the best current thinking on this complex era to a wide audience. In keeping with our mission to promote excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of all American history, we aim to explore the war from its beginnings through its aftermath, considering a single, broad theme during each anniversary year.

In 2011, we created a Web project (http://www.oah.org/ programs/civilwar/) to gather the OAH’s diverse resources Civil War at 150: on this topic and examined the theme of the war’s origins Origins through: • Several sessions devoted to Civil War history at the 2011 annual meeting in Houston, Texas, in April, including a plenary chaired by Michael Holt and entitled, The April 2011 issue of the OAH Magazine of History helped launch the ﬁrst year of the OAH’s “Dividing a Nation: The Origins of the Secession Crisis Civil War at 150 project. and the Civil War” • The April 2011 OAH Magazine of History, “Civil War at 150: Origins,” with consulting editor Matthew Pinsker http://magazine.oah.org/issues/252/ • Podcast conversations with Dwight Pitcaithley about presenting Civil War history in the nation’s parks, and with Elizabeth Varon about the role of women in the Civil War http://www. oah.org/programs/civilwar/podcast/ • OAH Distinguished Lectures by Steve Hahn, Stephanie McCurry, and others, available as a podcast from http://lectures.oah.org/podcast/ • “Nationalism and Internationalism in the Era of the Civil War,” a discussion in the September Journal of American History that places the war in context of nationalist developments around the world during the period http://www.oah.org/programs/civilwar/publications.html ■ sponsor

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DURING 2010-2011, ADVOCACY BECAME AN IMPORTANT ISSUE for the OAH as

Congress became deadlocked over funding and tax issues. The OAH is a dues-paying, founding member of the National Coalition of History (NCH). Based in Washington, D.C., NCH is comprised of over fifty dues-paying history-related organizations that provide advocacy and lobbying support for the historical and archival communities. Since 2001, Congress has appropriated money for the Teaching American History (TAH) grants program. The Teaching American History Grant program was a discretionary grant program funded under Title II-C, Subpart 4 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The goal of the program was to support programs that raise student achievement by improving teachers’ knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of American history. The program supports competitive grants to local educational agencies. The purpose of these grants is to promote the teaching of traditional American history in elementary and secondary schools as a separate academic subject. The strongest advocate for the TAH program was Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia who unfortunately passed away on June 28, 2010. Intent on cutting expenses and not raising taxes, Congress eliminated funding for the TAH program for 2011 and then at the end of 2011, completely eliminated the program. The OAH joined the NCH as well as a number of other history organizations in fighting to maintain funding for this program, but unfortunately our efforts were not successful. In an effort to preserve some federal funding of history education, OAH joined with NCH and its members in supporting an amendment to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to create a “well-rounded” education fund in which school districts could use the money to fund programs in history, civics education, social studies, and eight other subject areas. This amendment was passed in October, 2011 but still awaits funding authorization. Advocacy efforts in 2011-2012 will focus on funding for this legislation. During the 2010-2011 fiscal year, the OAH, in collaboration with NCH, helped lobby to retain funding for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, and was able to obtain $5 million in funding (cut by $2 million). Historic preservation programs at the National Park Service received a small increase in funding, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services received a relatively minor cut of $500,000 to its budget.

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The OAH also works with the National Humanities Alliance in its lobbying efforts. To further strengthen advocacy and public relations efforts for history, an informal group of history and social studies organizations met in Washington, DC during the summer of 2011 and agreed to work together on strategies to improve the public image of history and history education. The OAH joined the Citizens Litigation Group (at no charge to the OAH) to advocate for the release of the Nixon grand jury materials. A district court judge ordered that the tapes be unsealed, and these materials became available in the fall. The OAH also worked with the NCH in opposing encroachments on two high profile Civil War battlefields â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Gettysburg and the Wilderness. A casino was proposed at the Gettysburg National Military Park, and the building of a Wal-Mart was proposed near Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial site. In both cases, the construction plans were abandoned. â&#x2013;

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Career Center

IN JANUARY 2011, THE OAH ANNOUNCED the opening of the OAH Career Center, a new benefit for OAH members. Individuals wishing to make professional career connections may do so by visiting http://careers.oah.org. The OAH Career Center allows individuals to easily browse available jobs, or use advanced search tools to target positions by keyword, location, and other criteria. Job seekers may also place their vita and/or resume online using the OAH Career Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confidential resume posting service, which allows complete control over when to release information and to which interested employers. For more information, visit http://careers.oah.org. The number of resumes in the database as of June 30, 2011 was 105. During the same period, there were twenty active job seachers, six new job postings received during that time, across 42 registered employers. During fiscal year 2011, advertised positions spanned the following categories within the historical profession: African American, Early Republic, Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Intellectual and Cultural, Latino/a, Public History and Memory, Science and Technology, Sexuality and Gender, and Social History. As the OAH Career Center becomes more widely-known and utilized by the membership, we expect to see its popularity grow. â&#x2013;

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Communications

THE OAH CREATED A NEW POSITION THIS YEAR—a communications and marketing

specialist—to promote the OAH to its members and the public. Michael Regoli, formerly the OAH Director of Publications, now holds this position.

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proposed increasing funding so the organization could publish four issues of the newsletter annually. The OAH Newsletter appeared three times in 1981 and was enlarged to a tabloid-sized format. The OAH expanded the newsletter's newspaperlike appearance to include opinion pieces and more substantive articles on issues facing the profession. In 1996 the organization entered the digital age and created its first Web site. While the tabloid-sized newsletter continued until 2010, discussion over the dissemination of timely information from the OAH via pixels or print continued apace. By 2010 the printing of a newsletter seemed to be an unnecessary expense, since many organizations and associations had opted to move exclusively online with e-mail newsletters and expanded Web sites. Moreover, given the time required f or writing, editing, laying out, printing, and mailing, the OAH Newsletter seemed to be losing ground in providing timely information to the membership. News could now flow more quickly and inexpensively through e-mail, the OAH Web site, and electronic newsletters. In practice, however, e-mail newsletters have not been as effective at reaching their audience as expected. Research by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that fewer people trust

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ear the end of his three-year tenure, the outgoing OAH Executive Secretary Thomas D. Clark persuaded the OAH Executive Board that the establishment of a newsletter would be “of real assistance in making the Organization better known in areas where it needs friendly acceptances.” To that end, the OAH Executive Board moved to establish the OAH Newsletter at its April 1973 meeting and recommended that its content include “activities and memberships of the standing committees, decisions of the Executive Board and the Executive Committee, changes in procedures in the [business office] and any news which is pertinent to the member’s relationship to this professional body.” In essence, the proposed newsletter was to be what all association or organization newsletters are—a way of conveying timely information about the organization, its programs, and its publications. The first issue, published in July 1973 was 8½" x 11" and only four pages in length. It included a letter to the membership from the retiring executive secretary, who was “very happy that we have progressed to the stage of producing this Newsletter” and pleased to have a venue for the executive secretary to speak directly to the membership. Until 1981 the OAH Newsletter was biannual, appearing in July and December. That year, OAH President Gerda Lerner

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At its spring 2011 meeting in Houston, the OAH Executive Board voted to resume a quarterly print newsletter for the membership. The inaugural issue of OAH Outlook: A Membership Newsletter of the Organization of American Historians appeared in August 2011 and provided a major boost in communication with the members. In addition to appearing in print each February, May, August, and November, back issues will be available as an exclusive membership benefit through OAH Online Member Services. The August issue received very favorable reviews by the membership. In fact, the inaugural issue won a 2011 Star Award for nonprofit association newsletters from the Indiana Society of Association Executives.

e-mail because of spam, and due to the increasing quantity of messages, individuals are more selective regarding which e-mail messages they read. In the OAH’s case, only one member in four takes the time to open our monthly e-mail newsletters. Furthermore, five different generations are represented by OAH membership, ranging from the Greatest Generation or the “G.I. generation” (born between 1901 and 1924), through “Generation Z” (born as late as the 1990s), which requires the organization to reach members who are uncomfortable with digital publications as well as members who are happier to receive news through social networks. See Finley / 2 u

The OAH E-News: A Monthly E-Mail to Members

Each month we send via e-mail the OAH E-News, which contains timely updates from the organization as well as the profession. The message is sent to all current members for whom we have an e-mail address (approximately 83 percent). While each monthly e-mail is opened by approximately 1 in 3 individuals, we feel it is an important means of disseminating timely updates to the membership, and provides a meaningful point of contact with members each month. The 30 percent “open rate” on our messages may seem discouraging, but it is above the industry average of 20 percent for e-mail metrics in higher education.

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nently display the OAH name, logo and message. This past year, we have exhibited at the annual meetings of the National Council for History Education (NCHE) in Charleston, SC; the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in Richmond, Virginia; and the Missouri Council for History Education (MOCHE) in St. Louis, Missouri. We have found it beneficial to have an enhanced OAH presence in our own exhibit hall at the OAH Annual Meeting and at our community college conference. Thanks to the new publishing partnership with Oxford University Press, Oxford has helped extend our publicity reach by exhibiting at various academic and library trade shows as well. An OAH banner stand on display at the annual meeting of the Missouri Council for History Education.

Printed Materials

In keeping with goals outlined in the recently adopted strategic plan, we have increased the number of print materials as both outreach mechanisms and to attract and retain members, with a careful eye to describe the benefits of membership for both current and prospective members. In late 2010, we designed and printed a new membership brochure which was on display at the recent OAH meeting in Houston. More than seven thousand copies were printed, and we are refreshing it for its second printing later this year. We continue to design and mail inexpensive and attractive postcards to various groups and individuals. In an attempt to reclaim recently lapsed members, we sent a complimentary print issue of the August issue of OAH Outlook. Two weeks later we followed up with a postcard which carried the message “We miss you as an OAH member.” As of this writing, that initiative was successful in bringing back more than three hundred individuals to the OAH.

Public Relations, Outreach, and Social Media The OAH is making more deliberate use of Facebook and Twitter, as well as LinkedIn. In addition to a main Facebook page for the organization, we have worked with the editorial team of the OAH Magazine of History to create one devoted specifically to the OAH Magazine. On Facebook, we routinely post news of the organization (updates from our various programs such as awards, prizes, lectureship, podcasts, and so on, as well as quarterly announcements of new issues of our publications, upcoming meetings, and timely advocacy news impacting the profession) and we do the same on our LinkedIn account. As with URLs included in the monthly e-mail to members, each public URL is tracked for performance and interest. This summer we expanded our LinkedIn presence by using its new “LinkedIn Groups” feature that will allow us to The OAH maintained a central presence in the exhibit hall at its 2011 annual reach those individuals from meeting in Houston, Texas. OAH who use that platform with timely messaging.

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Twitter provides the OAH with yet another way to share short “instant messages” to individuals and groups who “follow” our account. We created our Twitter account (The_OAH) in July 2009 and have enjoyed a steady growth in the number of people who “follow” us. As of this writing, we have nearly 700 followers.

OAH Web Sites The primary OAH Web site (http://www.oah.org) received approximately 96,670 visits and 62,491 unique visitors from January 1-September 30, 2011. (Due to online tracking codes, these numbers also include the two Web sites for the OAH Magazine of History—http://magazine.oah.org/ and the OAH Community College Conference—http://cc.oah.org/). Web site “traffic” is split between those who find us through search (48 percent), direct hits (30 percent) and referral sites (22 percent). The most popular content among visitors is the home page, receiving 25 percent, followed by annual meeting information (4.2 percent), membership (2.95 percent) and OAH awards and prizes (2.5 percent). The Journal of American History Web site (http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/) received approximately 86,000 visits and 65,800 unique visitors from January 1-September 30, 2011. Web site traffic is split between search (63 percent), referring sites (18.5 percent), and direct hits (18.4 percent). As with the OAH Magazine of History, it is important to note that these figures do not include the content of JAH articles hosted at Oxford University Press. The OAH Distinguished Lectureship Web site (http://lectures.oah.org) received approximately 27,500 visits and 22,400 unique visitors from January 1-September 30, 2011. Web site “traffic” is split between search (72.4 percent), referring sites (18.1 percent), and direct hits (9.4 percent).

Press Releases The OAH Strategic Plan calls for an increase in dissemination of news of the OAH and its members to non-members via well-placed advertisements, news stories, and announcements in both Web and print publications. In addition to our efforts to serve as an online clearinghouse for announcements on our Web site of jobs in the field through the OAH Career Center (http:// careers.oah.org/), as well as grants, fellowships, meetings, calls for papers, and other news of the profession (http://www.oah.org/news/), we have worked with media outlets to disseminate news of OAH activities, its awards program, lectureship program, events, and its publications. Over the past year, press releases were sent out to media outlets regarding the statement issued by the OAH Executive Board concerning the attacks on William J. Cronon and academic freedom, and to the Houston and Denver area for the 2011 OAH Annual Meeting and the 2011 OAH Community College Workshop, respectively. Press releases were sent to more than one dozen media outlets and other groups (such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Times, Inside Higher Education Web site, H-Net, American Association for University Professors, etc.) announcing the release of the OAH Committee on Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Employment’s Report on Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct, and Contingent Faculty. Upcoming media and press placement opportunities will take place for: the upcoming 2012 OAH Annual Meeting; the release in March 2012 of the publication, Imperiled Promise: The State of History in the National Park Service, coming out of OAH’s Cooperative Agreement with the National Park Service; and the July 2012 OAH Community College Conference in Springfield, Illinois. ■

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2010-2011 Annual Report

Development and Philanthropy THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS GRATEFULLY acknowledges the gifts and contributions of the following donors during the 2011 fiscal year (July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011). We encourage you to consider making a financial gift to the organization to support advocacy for the profession, increase its many outreach efforts, and improve our service to historians and practitioners at all levels. There are many ways to support the Organization of American Historians. For more information, please visit us online at http://www.oah. org/giving/. The OAH is a 501(c)(3) nonproďŹ t organization. All gifts are tax deductible as allowed by law.

Founders Society ($25,000 and over) History Channel

Charles and Mary Beard Society ($5,000 to $9,999) Jay Goodgold Oxford University Press Paul Sperry

Two Thousand and Seven Associates ($2,000 to $4,999) Jon Butler Darlene Clark Hine Donald Hata Marcus Rediker Robert Tree

Millennial Club ($1,000 to $1,999) Gordon Bakken Ira Berlin

William Chafe William Cohan Pete Daniel Laura Feller Helene Fredrickson Hermann Platt Michael Spector P. Sterling Stuckey Barbara Winslow James Wright

Mississippi Valley Club ($500 to $999) Anonymous Steven Berizzi Emily Bingham and Stephen Reily Charles Booth Albert Camarillo Nancy Cott Melvyn Dubofsky Ann V. Fabian Sara Gronim Barton Hacker William Hammond

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Centennial Club ($100 to $499) Elaine Abelson Anne Aby Larry Adelman Kristin Ahlberg Virginia Anderson Susan Armeny Charles Arning Douglas Arnold Annette Atkins Edward Ayers Beth Bailey 45

James Banner Carolyn Banulis Betty Allen Barnouw James Basker Albert Bauman DeAnna Beachley Robert Beisner Thomas Bender Michael Benedict Edward Bennett James Bergquist Robert Berkhofer George Berndt Michael Bernstein Alan Berolzheimer Mary Berry Charlene Bickford Alan Bickley Darrel Bigham Victoria Bissell Brown David Blight John Boles W. Jeffrey Bolster Rochelle Bookspan Eileen Boris Elizabeth Bouvier Candice Bredbenner Howard Brick Jeff Broadwater John Broesamle Charles Bryan Bruce Bustard Kevin Byrne Margot Canaday Robert Carey Kimn Carlton-Smith Mark Carnes Purvis Carter Louise Cather Joan Challinor Thomas Charlton Robert Cherny Clifford Clark Malcolm Clark Paul Clemens Bruce Cohen Ira Cohen Lizabeth Cohen James Connor Patrick Cox Hamilton Cravens Alastair Crawford William Cronon Daniel Czitrom 46

Christopher Daly Allen Davis Calvin Davis David Brion Davis Rebecca Davis Peter Decker Michael Devine John Dichtl Hasia Diner Robert Divine Jacob Dorn Frederick Drake Michael Dubin Mary Dudziak Ann Duffy Dean Eberly Laura Edwards Robin Einhorn Carroll Engelhardt Ena Farley Roger Fechner Earline Ferguson John Findlay Leon Fink Katherine M. Finley Deborah Fitzgerald Thomas Fleming Marvin Fletcher Miriam Forman-Brunell Lee W. Formwalt Natalie Fousekis Barbara Franco Mary Furner Cheryl Ganz Lloyd Gardner Gary Gerstle Timothy Gilfoyle Howard Gillette Glenda Gilmore Brent Glass John Gleason Myra Glenn Lorri Glover Linda Gordon Annette Gordon-Reed Henry Graff Gael Graham Edward Gray Sally Gregory Kohlstedt Joshua Guild Paul Hager Carl Hallberg Ellen Hampton Klaus Hansen

Sharon Harley Alexandra Harmon Michael Henry Nancy Hewitt Robin Higham James Hilty James Hodges Ronald Hoffman Alton Hornsby James Horton John Husmann Reed Hutner Thomas Jablonsky David Jacobosky Travis Beal Jacobs Julie Roy Jeffrey Jacob Judd Karl Kabelac Michael Kammen Stephen Kantrowitz Amalie Kass Joy Kasson Lesley Kawaguchi Kathleen Kean Mary Kelley William Kenney Elizabeth Kessel Alice Kessler-Harris Daniel Kevles Michael Klarman June Klees Jonas Klein John Kneebone Jane Krepp Rebecca Kugel Kathleen Kutolowski Judy Kutulas Catherine Lauritsen Lance Lewis Nelson Lichtenstein William Liddle Kriste Lindenmeyer Katharina Linder Edward Linenthal Leon Litwack James Lorence Richard Lowitt Wesley Lybrand Mary Lynn Nancy MacLean Gloria Main Rachel Maines Nancy Malkiel Jim Mallinson 2011 Annual Report

Kent Mann Gerald Markowitz Joyce Mason Evans Valerie Matsumoto Glenna Matthews Stuart Mayer Edith Mayo Linda McKinstry Samuel McSeveney Martin Melosi Merck & Co., Inc. Warren Metzger Joanne Meyerowitz Robert Middlekauff Char Miller Don Miller Randall Miller Clyde Milner William Montgomery Maria Montoya Shirley Ann Moore Suzanne Moranian Regina Morantz-Sanchez Clarence Murchison John Murrin Anna Nelson Mae Ngai Roger Nichols Alexandra Nickliss Gregory Nobles David Nord Alice Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor Alan Osur Muhamed Pasha Sue Patrick Theda Perdue Gale Peterson Paula Petrik Edward Purcell Gail Radford Ann Rawley Gary Reichard Joseph Reidy David Reimers Marguerite (Peggy) Renner William Reuter Robert Ritchie Jo Ann Robinson Earl Rogers Mark Rose Rodney Ross John Saffell Martha Sandweiss Jonathan Sarna

Harry Scheiber Frederick Schult Rima Schultz Philip Schwarz Loren Schweninger John Servis Michael Sherry Martin Sherwin Linda Shopes Judith Smith Wilson Smith Raymond Smock John Snetsinger Winton Solberg David Southern Nicholas Spilotro Darwin Stapleton Susan Strasser Margaret Strobel Marian Strobel Jeffrey Sturchio Richard Thomas George Thornton J. Mills Thornton, III Timothy Thurber Barbara Tischler Nancy Tomes Eckard V. Toy, Jr. Allen Trelease William Tuttle Jeffery Underwood Nancy Unger Kirk Upton Daun van Ee Diane Vecchio Clarence Walker J. Samuel Walker Daniel Walkowitz Ronald Walters John Waltrip Geoffrey Ward Carl Weinberg Lynn Weiner Thomas Wessel Elliott West Timothy Westcott Mervin Whealy James Williams Daniel Wilson Allan Winkler Sharon Wood Harold Woodman John Yarbrough Mary Yeager

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Friends of the OAH (up to $99) William Adair Kevin Adams Virginia Ahart Wilbert Ahern Keith Alexander Ruth Alexander Kenneth Alfers Catherine Allgor Jill Anderson Zara Anishanslin Darlene Antezana Vicki Arndt-Helgesen Steven Baker Shelby Balik Marian Barber Elliott Barkan Robert Barrows Jack Bass Douglas Baynton Glenn Bell John Belohlavek Stefanie Beninato Frederick Binder Robert Bliss George Bohlert Brian Boland Philip Bolger Roselyn Boneno Marianne Bonner Paul S. Boyer James Boylan Mary Brady Frank Brandon Kaye Briegel Jack Brown Leslie Brown Andy Buckley Robert Bulkley Linda Burns Leslie Butler Stephanie Camp Julio Capo Louis Carlat William Carrigan 47

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Richard Houston Stanley Howe Thomas Howe Elizabeth Jameson Hillary Jenks Melinda Marie Jette Andrew Jewett David Jones Jacqueline Jones Jennifer Jones Moon-Ho Jung Ayumu Kaneko Kohei Kawashima Michael Kazin Gloria Keawe M. Ruth Kelly Thomas Kiffmeyer Catherine Kleiner Susan Klepp William Koelsch Jeffrey Kolnick Lori Kuechler V. A. Lapomarda John Lemza Rosarius Roy Leonardi Alan Lessoff James Lindgren Robert Long Barbara Loomis Malinda Lowery Frederick Luebke Michael Lundy Jonathan Lurie Mark Lytle Stephen Maizlish Sarah Malino Frank Mann Robert Markman Carol Marsh Melani McAlister Laurene McClain Matthew McClure Robert McColley Veronica McComb John McCusker Dennis McDaniel Michael McGiffert Robert McGlone David McMillen Cyd McMullen Denise Meringolo R. Joseph Meyer Jacqueline Moore Thomas Morris

Robert Morrow Linda Morse Roberta Moudry Catherine Munson Natalie Naylor Bruce Nelson Lois Nettleship David Nichols Michelle Nickerson Monica Niznik Lisa Norling James Oberly Shannon Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Connor George Oliver Robert Olson Patrick Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill Julia Ott Katherine Ott Elaine Pascu Pamela Pennock Peter Petersen Jon Peterson Kimberley Phillips John Piper Edward Pluth Louis Pyster Emily Rader Edgar Raines Samuel Regalado Mary Renda John Reynolds Donald A. Ritchie Edward Roach Michael Robinson Joseph Rodriguez David Rogers Donald Rogers Howard Romanek F. Duane Rose Joshua Rothman Jane Rothstein Fath Ruffins Joseph Ryan John Salmond John Sauer Ronald Schaffer Evelyn Schlatter Eric Schneider Constance Schulz Jonathan Scott Richard Sellars Andrew Sharp Terry Shoptaugh David Shriver 2011 Annual Report

Kathryn Silva Banks Stanley Skalski Michael Smuksta James Somerville Sethuraman Srinivasan Judith Stanley John Steiger Chris Stenftenagel Christina Stern Marcia Steward Cynthia Stout Rolf Swensen Danielle Swiontek Marcia Synnott David Sysma Anthony Tantillo Yumi Terada Jean Terepka William Thomas John Thompson James Thumm Wayne Thurman Ann Todd Michele Toole Linda Tulloss I. Bruce Turner Neal Tyler Marie Tyler-McGraw Melvin Urofsky Lara Vapnek Pershing Vartanian Alden Vaughan John Vlad Roy Vu David Walker Melissa Walker James Walsh John Welckle Robert Wesser Jean Westfall Laura Westhoff Robert Weyeneth Chris Wigert Stephanie Wolf Leon Wolfe Carl Stephen Wolfe II Laura Wood David Wrobel Bertram Wyatt-Brown Leila Zenderland

2011 OAH Annual Meeting Sponsors Adam Matthew Education Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group Baylor University Department of History Bedford/St. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University Business History Conference C-SPAN The City College of New York Columbia University Department of History Criminal Research Press Department of History, Texas Christian University Department of History, University of Texas at Austin Global Studies Program, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston Harvard University Department of History Haverford College Department of History History Channel Indiana University Department of History Indiana University Latino Studies Program Institute of International Education, Council for International Exchange of Scholars Johns Hopkins University Department of History Forrest T. Jones & Company Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company The Kent State University Press Oral History Association Oxford University Press Princeton University Press Public History Program, American University Rice University Department of History Constance B. Schulz

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Society for History in the Federal Government Southern Association for Women Historians University of Alabama Department of American Studies University of Alabama College of Arts and Sciences University of Alabama Department of History University of California, Berkeley University of Delaware Department of History University of Houston Center for Public History University of Houston Department of History University of Illinois Press University of Massachusetts Press University of Massachusetts Public History Program The University of Michigan Department of History University of Minnesota Department of History University of Nevada, Las Vegas University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Department of History University of North Texas University of South Carolina Department of History University of Toronto Press - Journals Western Historical Quarterly William P. Clements Department of History, Southern Methodist University

2011 Community College Workshop Sponsors Bedford/St. Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Channel Merck & Co., Inc. Foundation

OAH Distinguished Lectures The following individuals have contributed to the OAH their honoraria for lectures given during the 2011 fiscal year. Fred Anderson Virginia DeJohn Anderson David Armitage Erica Armstrong Dunbar Eric Arnesen Raymond O. Arsenault Edward L. Ayers Robert Bain Mia Bay Stephen Berry Richard J. M. Blackett Elizabeth K. Borgwardt Terry Bouton Kevin Boyle Catherine A. Brekus Edwin G. Burrows Orville Vernon Burton Jon Butler Albert Camarillo Lizabeth Cohen Bettye Collier-Thomas Stephanie Coontz Daniel Czitrom Brian DeLay Tom Dublin Lynn Dumenil David C. Engerman Todd Estes John Ferling Leon Fink Paul Finkelman Michael W. Flamm Joanne B. Freeman FranĂ§ois Furstenberg Matt Garcia Lesley J. Gordon Linda Gordon Elliott J. Gorn James Green James N. Gregory Steven Hahn Claudrena N. Harold Woody Holton Heather A. Huyck Matthew Frye Jacobson 50

Caroline E. Janney Jacqueline Jones Jane Kamensky Walter D. Kamphoefner Michael Kazin Alice Kessler-Harris Virginia Sanchez Korrol Robert Korstad Alan M. Kraut Karen Ordahl Kupperman Patricia Nelson Limerick Leon F. Litwack James Marten Elaine Tyler May Stephanie McCurry Danielle McGuire Sally G. McMillen Marla R. Miller Kevin Mumford Mae M. Ngai Mary Beth Norton Susan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donovan James T. Patterson Christopher W. Phillips Matthew Pinsker Jack N. Rakove Eric Rauchway Daniel T. Rodgers Virginia Scharff Bruce J. Schulman Thomas Alan Schwartz Donald Schwartz Nina Silber Bryant Simon Sheila L. Skemp Cynthia Stout Patricia Sullivan Jeremi Suri Barbara L. Tischler Robert Brent Toplin Lara Vapnek Rhonda Y. Williams Frank J. Williams Judy Tzu-Chun Wu

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Awards and Prizes

IN 2011, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF ALICE KESSLERHARRIS and Jane Kamensky, detailed guidelines were created to assist award committees as they conduct their work. In addition to describing the committee’s purpose, listing important dates and policies, the guidelines include duties of committee chairs, describe general information, and provide additional committee-specific information. These documents are updated as needed based upon suggestions from committees and Executive Board decisions. The deadline for award committees to make decisions on winners is February 1 of the year in which the award is given. Communication is done mostly by e-mail, but committees may find it necessary to hold a conference call to make their final decision. When committee reports are received, the OAH office notifies the winner (and publisher for book awards). The awards are presented to winners at the annual meeting, and certificates for publishers are distributed in the exhibit hall. For those unable to attend, the OAH office sends the award by mail after the meeting. The committee’s description of the winning work appears in the Awards Ceremony and Presidential Address Booklet. As winners are contacted, they are also asked for a list of places/individuals they would like to receive a press release regarding their award. Award announcements are updated for each year’s competition and can be found, along with a list of winners, at: http://www.oah.org/awards/ Beginning in 2011, committee chair reports are now linked to each award committee’s page in the OAH Committee Guide, so members can see from year to year such information as how many applications were received, how the committee conducted its work, and any special concerns or suggestions the committee may have had. Any items contained in these reports that the Executive Board needs to discuss will be brought to their attention at the spring meeting. Eighteen awards totaling $12,200 were given in 2011: • • •

Roy Rosenzweig Distinguished Service Award—one award, non-monetary Friend of History Award—one award, non-monetary Frederick Jackson Turner Award—one award of $1,000

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Merle Curti Award—two awards of $500 each Ray Allen Billington Prize—one award of $1,000 Avery O. Craven Award—one award of $200 James A. Rawley Prize—one award of $1,000 Willi Paul Adams Award—one award of $1,000 Ellis W. Hawley Prize—one award of $500 Liberty Legacy Foundation Award—one award of $800 Lawrence W. Levine Award—one award of $1,000 Darlene Clark Hine Award—one award of $1,000 Lerner-Scott Prize—one award of $500 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award—one award of $500 Binkley-Stephenson Award—one award of $500 David Thelen Award—one award of $500 (this was actually the 2010 award but not presented until 2011) Huggins-Quarles Award—one award of $1,200 Erik Barnouw Award—one award of $500

The Tachau Teacher of the Year Award Committee chose not to make an award this year. Three OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grants of $500 each were presented in 2011 from funds raised by IEHS when the grants were established. An additional $800 was spent toward cost of translation for the David Thelen Award. Also, OAH was awarded $30,000 from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission to fund the Japanese Residency Program for fiscal year 2011. Two OAH members were selected to receive residencies.

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2011 OAH AWARD AND PRIZE WINNERS THE ROY ROSENZWEIG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD is given to an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched our understanding of and appreciation for American history. Robert Griffith (1940-2011), American University

THE OAH FRIEND OF HISTORY AWARD recognizes an individual, who is not a professional historian, or an institution or organization, for outstanding support for the pursuit of historical research, for the public presentation of history, or for the work of the OAH. This year the OAH Executive Board recognizes an individual. Jay S. Goodgold, Independent Investor

THE FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AWARD is given annually for an author’s first book dealing with some significant phase of American history. Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Alfred A. Knopf) Honorable Mention: Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley, The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California, 19411978 (Oxford University Press) Honorable Mention: Robert Perkinson, University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire (Metropolitan Books) Honorable Mention: Christina Snyder, Indiana University, Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard University Press)

THE MERLE CURTI AWARD is given each for the best book published in American social or American intellectual history. Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (The New Press) Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press)

THE BIENNIAL RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE is awarded for the best book in American frontier history, defined broadly so as to include the pioneer periods of all geographical areas and comparisons between American frontiers and others. Louise Pubols, Oakland Museum of California, The Father of All: The de la Guerra Family, Power, and Patriarchy in Mexican California (University of California Press/The Huntington Library)

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THE ANNUAL AVERY O. CRAVEN AWARD recognizes the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the era of Reconstruction, with the exception of works of purely military history. Stephanie McCurry, University of Pennsylvania, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press) Honorable Mention: Ronald E. Butchart, University of Georgia, Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876 (University of North Carolina Press) Honorable Mention: Kate Masur, Northwestern University, An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. (University of North Carolina Press)

THE JAMES A. RAWLEY PRIZE is awarded annually for a book dealing with the history of race relations in the United States. Daniel Martinez HoSang, University of Oregon, Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press)

THE WILLI PAUL ADAMS AWARD is awarded every two years for the best book on American history published in a foreign language. Paul Schor, Université Paris Diderot, Counting and Classifying: A History of American Censuses (Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales)

THE ELLIS W. HAWLEY PRIZE annually recognizes the best book-length historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the Civil War to the present. Nick Cullather, Indiana University, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia (Harvard University Press) Honorable Mention: Samuel Zipp, Brown University, Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York (Oxford University Press)

THE LIBERTY LEGACY FOUNDATION AWARD is awarded annually for the best book on any aspect of the struggle for civil rights in the United States, from the nation’s founding to the present. Chad L. Williams, Hamilton College, Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era (University of North Carolina Press)

THE ANNUAL LAWRENCE W. LEVINE AWARD recognizes the best book in American cultural history. Heather Murray, University of Ottawa, Not in this Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America (University of Pennsylvania Press)

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THE DARLENE CLARK HINE AWARD annually recognizes the best book in African American women’s and gender history. Bettye Collier-Thomas, Temple University, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion (Alfred A. Knopf) Honorable Mention: Cheryl D. Hicks, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 (University of North Carolina Press) Danielle L. McGuire, Wayne State University, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (Alfred A. Knopf)

THE ANNUAL LERNERSCOTT PRIZE is given for the best doctoral dissertation in U.S. women’s history. Sarah Haley, Princeton University (Spring 2011)/University of California, Los Angeles (Fall 2011), “Engendering Captivity: Black Women and Convict Labor in Georgia, 18651938” (Yale University)

THE LOUIS PELZER MEMORIAL AWARD is given annually for the best essay in American history by a graduate student. Christine M. DeLucia, Yale University. “The Memory Frontier: Uncommon Pursuits of Past and Place in the Northeast after King Philip’s War (1675-78)”

THE BINKLEYSTEPHENSON AWARD recognizes the best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year. Bernhard Rieger, University College London. “From People’s Car to New Beetle: The Transatlantic Journeys of the Volkswagen Beetle” (June 2010)

THE DAVID THELEN AWARD is awarded every two years for the best article in American history published in a foreign language. Tity de Vries, University of Groningen. “The 1967 CIA Scandal—Catalyst in a Transforming Relationship Between State and People”

THE HUGGINSQUARLES AWARD recognizes graduate students of color at the dissertation research stage of their Ph.D. program. Shannen Dee Williams, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, “Subversive Habits: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate Catholic America after World War I”

THE TACHAU TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD is given annually for contributions made by precollegiate teachers to improve history education. The Tachau committee did not to make an award this year.

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THE ERIK BARNOUW AWARD is given annually for outstanding reporting or programming on network or cable television, or in documentary film, concerned with American history, the study of American history, and/or the promotion of history. Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, Kovno Communications, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

THE OAHJAAS SHORTTERM RESIDENCIES. The OAH and the Japanese Association of American Studies (JAAS), with the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, select two U.S. historians to spend two weeks at Japanese universities giving lectures, seminars, advising students and researchers interested in the American past, and joining in the collegiality of the host institution. The OAH-JAAS Short-Term Residencies are part of an exchange program that also brings Japanese graduate students to the OAH Annual Meeting. Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan The University of Kitakyushu, American Jewish history Catherine Ceniza Choy, University of California, Berkeley Hitotsubashi University, history of race and gender

THE ANNUAL OAH/IMMIGRATION AND ETHNIC HISTORY SOCIETY JOHN HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANTS are awarded to graduate students to help defray the costs of attending the OAH/IEHS Annual Meeting Mimi Cowan, Boston College, “Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Nineteenth Century Chicago” Joseph S. Moore, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “Irish Radicals, Southern Conservatives: Slavery, Religious Liberty, and the Presbyterian Fringe in the Atlantic World, 1637-1877” William Sturkey, Ohio State University, “Freedom’s Journals: Freedom School Student Activism and Leadership through Newspaper Production” ■

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OAH EXECUTIVE BOARD Oﬃcers David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, President (term as president ended March 2011) Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, President-Elect (term as president began March 2011) Albert M. Camarillo, Stanford University, Vice President (term as president-elect began March 2011) Robert Griffith, American University, Treasurer (passed away January 2011) Jay S. Goodgold, Independent Investor, Treasurer (term as treasurer began January 2011) Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director, OAH Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History Past Presidents Pete Daniel, Independent Scholar David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley (term as past president began March 2011) Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota Elected Members Jon Butler, Yale University Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University (term began March 2011) * William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Doris Dwyer, Western Nevada College Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University Mary Kelley, University of Michigan Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware (term began March 2011) Michele Mitchell, New York University (term began March 2011) * Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gary W. Reichard, California State University, Long Beach * Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University Ex Oﬃcio Member Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, Independent Investor (term as Treasurer began January 2011) William H. Chafe, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, Duke University (term began January 2011)

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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE David A. Hollinger, President, Chair (term as president and chair ended and term as past president began March 2011) Alice Kessler-Harris, President-Elect (term as president and chair began March 2011) Albert M. Camarillo, Vice President (term as president-elect began March 2011) Robert Griffith, Treasurer (passed away January 2011) Jay S. Goodgold, Treasurer (term began January 2011) *Elaine Tyler May, Immediate Past President Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director, OAH, ex oﬃcio Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History, ex oﬃcio

FINANCE COMMITTEE David A. Hollinger, President, Chair (term as president and chair ended and term as past president began March 2011) Alice Kessler-Harris, President-Elect (term as president and chair began March 2011) *Elaine Tyler May, Immediate Past President (term as immediate past president ended March 2011) Robert Griffith, Treasurer, ex officio (passed away January 2011) Katherine M. Finley, Executive Director, OAH, ex officio Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History, ex officio Jay S. Goodgold, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio (term as Treasurer began January 2011) William H. Chafe, Cochair, Leadership Advisory Council, ex officio (term began January 2011)

2011 TREASURER SEARCH COMMITTEE Jane Kamensky, Brandeis University, Chair Jon Butler, Yale University

OAH PARLIAMENTARIAN Jonathan Lurie, Rutgers University, Newark

LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL William H. Chafe, Duke University, Cochair Jay S. Goodgold, Independent Investor, Cochair (term as Treasurer began January 2011) Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park Alan Hermesch, Alan Hermesch Public Relations, LLC *David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley, ex oﬃcio Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, ex oﬃcio (term began March 2011) Mark E. Mitchell, The Mitchell Archives Victor Navasky, The Nation (Publisher Emeritus) and The Columbia Journalism Review (Chairman) Paul S. Sperry, Sperry, Mitchell & Company, Inc. Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Senior Partner, RabinMartin *Geoffrey C. Ward, Independent Scholar Barbara Winslow, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Paul Martin Wolff, Williams & Connolly, LLP

NOMINATING BOARD Rosemary Kolks Ennis, Sycamore High School (OH), Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Lynn Dumenil, Occidental College (term as chair began May 2011) George Chauncey, Yale University *Spencer R. Crew, George Mason University Linda Gordon, New York University (term began May 2011) Kathleen S. Kutolowski, The College at Brockport, SUNY 58

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*Nancy MacLean, Duke University Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota, Second Past President, ex oďŹ&#x192;cio Bruce A. Ragsdale, Federal Judicial Center (term began May 2011) Peggy Renner, Glendale Community College *Daryl Michael Scott, Howard University Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania David Waldstreicher, Temple University (term began May 2011)

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD *Dee E. Andrews, California State University, East Bay Raymond Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara (term began May 2011) *Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ann Fabian, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Andrea Friedman, Washington University in St. Louis *Alison Games, Georgetown University Matthew J. Garcia, Arizona State University Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Nancy Isenberg, Louisiana State University (term began May 2011) Maurice Jackson, Georgetown University (term began May 2011) Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University Tiya Miles, University of Michigan *Dylan Penningroth, Northwestern University/American Bar Foundation Jonathan M. Schoenwald, Rocky Hill School (RI) Mark Silk, Trinity College (term began May 2011)

OAH MAGAZINE OF HISTORY EDITORIAL BOARD Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder (term began May 2011) Keith Berry, Hillsborough Community College Kevin Byrne, Gustavus Adolphus College (emeritus) *Billie Jean Clemens, Swain County High School (NC) Kimberly Gilmore, History Channel Cathy Gorn, National History Day Heather Huyck, National Collaborative for Women=s History Sites (term began May 2011) Lisa Kapp, Saint Ann=s School Rita G. Koman, Independent Scholar (2008-2011) Bruce A. Lesh, Franklin High School (MD) (term began May 2011) *Laura Westhoff, University of Missouri-St. Louis *Linda Sargent Wood, Northern Arizona University

OAH COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES *Matthew J. Garcia, Brown University, Chair Waldo E. Martin Jr., University of California, Berkeley (term as chair began May 2011) *Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago Thavolia Glymph, Duke University (term began May 2011) *Brian Horrigan, Minnesota Historical Society *Laurene Wu McClain, City College of San Francisco Nina Silber, Boston University Sherry Smith, Southern Methodist University (term began May 2011) Gregory E. Smoak, University of Utah (term began May 2011) Thomas Thurston, Yale University (term began May 2011) Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University Organization of American Historians

COMMITTEE ON COMMUNITY COLLEGES Andrés Tijerina, Austin Community College, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) DeAnna E. Beachley, College of Southern Nevada (term as chair began May 2011) *Amy J. Kinsel, Shoreline Community College David A. Berry, Community College Humanities Association, ex oﬃcio *Jennifer Helton, Independent Scholar June Klees, Bay College Alexandra M. Nickliss, City College of San Francisco Mark Roehrs, Lincoln Land Community College James Ross-Nazzal, Houston Community College (term began May 2011) Christina M. Stern, SUNY-Rockland Community College (term began May 2011)

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE Victor R. Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emeritus, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University (term as chair began May 2011) Beth Bailey, Temple University (term began May 2011) Don DeBats, Flinders University (Australia) (term began May 2011) Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History, ex oﬃcio *William C. Pratt, University of Nebraska-Omaha Georg Schild, University of Tübingen Yuka Tsuchiya, Ehime University Germany Residency Committee (subcommittee of International Committee) Victor Greene, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Emeritus, Chair Beth Bailey, Temple University G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University Georg Schild, University of Tübingen

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Stephen Kneeshaw, College of the Ozarks, Chair (term as chair ended May 2011) Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University, Chair (term as chair began June 2011) Northeast Region Amilcar Shabazz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Chair, Northeast Region Mary Bogin, Onondaga Community College Christopher Brick, Brown University Cecelia Bucki, Fairfield University Gary Donato, Mass Bay Community College Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont Leigh H. Hallett, Director, Newport Cultural Center Rebecca R. Noel, Plymouth State University Axel R. Schäfer, Keele University (United Kingdom) Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University Michael Spear, Kingsborough Community College Margaret Susan Thompson, Syracuse University Mid-Atlantic Region William D. Carrigan, Rowan University, Chair, Mid-Atlantic Region Andrew B. Arnold, Kutztown University Joan C. Browning, Independent Scholar (2000-2011) Elizabeth Kelly Gray, Towson University Walter Greason, Ursinus College Elizabeth A. Kessel, Anne Arundel Community College (2009-2011) John T. Kneebone, Virginia Commonwealth University

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Laurie Lahey, George Washington University Adam Rothman, Georgetown University David Suisman, University of Delaware Southern Region Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University, Chair, Southern Region Raymond Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Stephen Davis, Lonestar College, Kingwood *Robert Korstad, Duke University Thomas C. Mackey, University of Louisville Stephen H. Norwood, University of Oklahoma Sarah Potter, University of Memphis Fernando Purcell, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Joshua Rothman, University of Alabama Janet Schmelzer, Tarleton State University Charles Vincent, Southern University and A & M College Jeannie Whayne, University of Arkansas *Kyle F. Zelner, University of Southern Mississippi Midwest Region Stephen Kneeshaw, College of the Ozarks, Chair, Midwest Region Melodie J. Andrews, Minnesota State University, Mankato Edward Carroll, Heartland Community College Eric Franco, Edgewood College Glennon Graham, Columbia College Chicago Richard L. Hughes, Illinois State University Charles Lauritsen, Des Moines Area Community College-West Campus Christopher C. Lovett, Emporia State University Robert MacDougall, University of Western Ontario Steve Messer, Taylor University Andrea Mott, North Dakota State University Mark R. Scherer, University of Nebraska at Omaha David Silkenat, North Dakota State University Donald C. Simmons Jr., Dakota Wesleyan University Nikki M. Taylor, University of Cincinnati Frank Towers, University of Calgary Western Region Cheryl A. Wells, University of Wyoming, Chair, Western Region Katherine G. Aiken, University of Idaho *Matthew Basso, University of Utah (term ended April 2011) Mina J. Carson, Oregon State University Sarah E. Cornell, University of New Mexico *Wade Davies, University of Montana Thomas Gaskin, Everett Community College Christina Gold, El Camino College Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant, Front Range Community College Michael Green, College of Southern Nevada John W. Heaton, University of Alaska, Fairbanks *Jill A. Horohoe, Arizona State University Greta de Jong, University of Nevada, Reno Curtis Martin, Modesto Junior College Fusako ASako@ Ogata, Tezukayama University Richard C. Rath, University of Hawai=i at Mnoa Jane Wolford, Chabot College Linda Sargent Wood, Northern Arizona University Organization of American Historians

COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN, LATINO/A, ASIAN AMERICAN, AND NATIVE AMERICAN ALANA HISTORIANS AND ALANA HISTORIES Lydia R. Otero, University of Arizona, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Adrienne Petty, The City College of New York, CUNY (term as chair began May 2011) Michael D. Innis-Jiménez, University of Alabama Laurene Wu McClain, City College of San Francisco (term began May 2011) Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine *Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Indiana University

COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARK SERVICE COLLABORATION *Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chair Jon E. Taylor, University of Central Missouri (term as chair began May 2011) Laura J. Feller, Independent Historian *Louis P. Hutchins, National Park Service, ex officio Olivia Mahoney, Chicago History Museum (term began May 2011) Todd Moye, University of North Texas Julia Sandy-Bailey, Shepherd University, ex officio (term began May 2011) Robert K. Sutton, National Park Service, ex officio Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

COMMITTEE ON PARTTIME, ADJUNCT, AND CONTINGENT EMPLOYMENT Donald W. Rogers, Central Connecticut State University and Houstatonic Community College, Chair Stephanie Gilmore, Dickinson College (2010-2011) Donn Hall, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, Bloomington Campus Elizabeth Hohl, Fairfield University Arlene Lazarowitz, California State University, Long Beach John P. Lloyd, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (term began March 2011) Howard Smead, University of Maryland, College Park

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC HISTORY Louis P. Hutchins, National Park Service, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Julia Sandy-Bailey, Shepherd University (term as chair began May 2011) *Kathleen Franz, American University David H. Glassberg, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (term began May 2011) Anthea M. Hartig, National Trust for Historic Preservation Matthew A. Wasniewski, Office of History and Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives

COMMITTEE ON TEACHING Gideon Sanders, McKinley Technology High School, Chair (2008-2011) Carole N. DeVito, The Dwight-Englewood School (NJ) (term as chair began January 2011) Bob Bain, University of Michigan Keith Berry, Hillsborough Community College Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School (term began May 2011) Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley (term began May 2011) Kevin Byrne, Gustavus Adolphus College (emeritus) (2009-2011) Don Falls, University of South Florida (term began May 2011) Lois Nettleship, Fullerton College (emeritus)

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COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE HISTORICAL PROFESSION Constance B. Schulz, University of South Carolina (emeritus), Chair (term as chair ended May 2011) Betty A. Dessants, Shippensburg University (term as chair began May 2011) David Chang, University of Minnesota Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (term began May 2011) *Elizabeth Higginbotham, University of Delaware Susan Lee Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison (term began May 2011) *Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Haverford College

2011 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Peter Kolchin, University of Delaware, Cochair Joanne Meyerowitz, Yale University, Cochair Manfred Berg, Universität Heidelberg Holly Brewer, North Carolina State University Hasia R. Diner, New York University David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego (liaison to Annual Meeting Resource Committee) Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Moon-Ho Jung, University of Washington Paul Kramer, Vanderbilt University Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Yale University

2011 ANNUAL MEETING LOCAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE John B. Boles, Rice University, Chair Carlos Kevin Blanton, Texas A & M University Kathleen A. Brosnan, University of Houston Alexander X. Byrd, Rice University David L. Davis, Lone Star College-North Harris David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego (liaison from the Program Committee) Patrick J. Kelly, University of Texas at San Antonio J. Kent McGaughy, Houston Community College Northwest-Katy Campus Martin V. Melosi, University of Houston Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University Nancy Zey, Sam Houston State University

2012 OAH/NCPH PROGRAM COMMITTEE Nancy MacLean, Duke University, OAH Cochair Kathleen Franz, American University, NCPH Cochair From the OAH Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley Gary Gerstle, Vanderbilt University Paul Harvey, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University Samuel K. Roberts, Columbia University Naoko Shibusawa, Brown University Zaragosa Vargas, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Shane White, University of Sydney From the NCPH Cathy Gudis, University of California, Riverside (term began February 2011) Deborah L. Mack, Principal, Deborah Mack Museum Consulting (2010-2011) Carlene E. Stephens, National Museum of American History Marsha Weisiger, University of Oregon Emily Weisner Thompson, National Park Service Organization of American Historians

2012 OAH/NCPH ANNUAL MEETING LOCAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE From the OAH Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cochair Steve Meyer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Cochair James Marten, Marquette University Robert Samuel Smith, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee From the NCPH Jasmine Alinder, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Michael A. Gordon, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (emeritus) Kathleen C. Kean, Nicolet High School John D. Krugler, Marquette University

2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University, Cochair (liaison to the Annual Meeting Local Resource Committee) Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, Cochair Matthew Countryman, University of Michigan Donald Fixico, Arizona State University David Igler, University of California, Irvine Kelly Lytle Hernรกndez, University of California, Los Angeles Joe W. Trotter, Carnegie Mellon University Kariann Akemi Yokota, Yale University

2013 ANNUAL MEETING LOCAL RESOURCE COMMITTEE Carol Lynn McKibben, Stanford University, Chair Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University (liaison from the Program Committee) Marianne Babal, Wells Fargo Historical Services Mark Brilliant, University of California, Berkeley Isabel M. Barraza, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Clayborne Carson, Stanford University Pedro Castillo, University of California, Santa Cruz Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University James Rawls, Diablo Valley College Jennie Emire Rodriguez, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts Eddie Wong, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM Kevin K. Gaines, University of Michigan, Chair Raymond Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg Sara M. Evans, University of Minnesota

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS Patrick Allitt, Emory University James D. Anderson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alexandra (Sasha) Harmon, University of Washington Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago Sandra Gioia Treadway, The Library of Virginia

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AD HOC OAHJAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES JAPAN HISTORIANS' COLLABORATIVE COMMITTEE Andrea Geiger, Simon Fraser University, Chair (OAH) Satoshi Nakano, Hitotsubashi University, Chair (JAAS) *Juri Abe, Rikkyo University *Christopher Jespersen, North Georgia College and State University Kohei Kawashima, Musashi University Kim E. Nielsen, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Sayuri Guthrie Shimizu, Michigan State University Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawai=i at Mnoa (term began May 2011)

OAH DELEGATES, LIAISONS, AND REPRESENTATIVES TO OTHER COUNCILS, COMMISSIONS, AND COMMITTEES Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation Laura A. Belmonte, Oklahoma State University AHA/NASA Fellowship in Aerospace History Committee Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, NASA Johnson Space Center History Office American Council of Learned Societies Sarah Deutsch, Duke University National Council for History Education Eric R. Smith, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy National Historical Publications and Records Commission Julie Saville, University of Chicago National Museum of Afro-American History and Culture Planning Council Kenneth W. Goings, Ohio State University (term ended January 2011)

WILLI PAUL ADAMS AWARD COMMITTEE *Anne L. Foster, Indiana State University, Chair Charles J. McClain, University of California, Berkeley (term began May 2011) *Manfred Berg, Universität Heidelberg Nancy L. Green, L=École des hautes études en sciences sociales (term began May 2011) *Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Masako Iino, Tsuda College (term began May 2011) Jörg Nagler, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University (term began May 2011) *Nelson Ouellet, Université de Moncton

ERIK BARNOUW AWARD COMMITTEE Gerald E. Shenk, California State University, Monterey Bay, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Vivian Bruce Conger, Ithaca College (term as chair began May 2011) *Elspeth H. Brown, University of Toronto Desirée J. Garcia, Arizona State University (term began May 2011)

RAY ALLEN BILLINGTON PRIZE COMMITTEE *Kathleen DuVal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chair Michael J. Lansing, Augsburg College (term as chair began May 2011) Matthew Klingle, Bowdoin College (term began May 2011) *David Rich Lewis, Utah State University *Pablo Mitchell, Oberlin College Colleen O=Neill, Utah State University (term began May 2011)

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BINKLEYSTEPHENSON AWARD COMMITTEE Randal L. Hall, Rice University, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Raymond Arsenault, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (term as chair began May 2011) Gail Radford, SUNY-Buffalo (term began May 2011) *Claire Strom, Rollins College

AVERY O. CRAVEN AWARD COMMITTEE *Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, Chair Edward B. Rugemer, Yale University (term as chair began May 2011) C. Wyatt Evans, Drew University (term began May 2011) *Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Chandra Manning, Georgetown University (term began May 2011) *Hannah Rosen, University of Michigan

MERLE CURTI AWARD COMMITTEE *Penny Von Eschen, University of Michigan, Chair Linda Gordon, New York University (term as chair began May 2011) *Margo Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *Mary Kupiec Cayton, Miami University Pekka Hämäläinen, University of California, Santa Barbara (term began May 2011) *Kevin M. Kruse, Princeton University *Bruce Kuklick, University of Pennsylvania Scott R. Nelson, College of William & Mary (term began May 2011) Seth Rockman, Brown University (term began May 2011) Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University (term began May 2011) Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago (term began May 2011)

ROY ROSENZWEIG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD COMMITTEE *Theda Perdue, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chair Pete Daniel, Independent Scholar (term as member ended April 2011; term as chair began May 2011) *William Cronon, University of Wisconsin-Madison Doris Dwyer, Western Nevada College (term began May 2011) James Grossman, American Historical Association (The Newberry Library during period of committee service) (term ended July 2010) Ramón A. Gutiérrez, University of Chicago (term began May 2011) Mary Kelley, University of Michigan (term began May 2011)

ELLIS W. HAWLEY PRIZE COMMITTEE *Bryant Simon, Temple University, Chair Meg Jacobs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (term as chair began May 2011) Alison Isenberg, Princeton University (term began May 2011) *Jennifer Klein, Yale University Matthew D. Lassiter, University of Michigan (term began May 2011) Doug Rossinow, Metropolitan State University (term began May 2011) Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University (term began May 2011) *Martin Summers, Boston College

OAHIEHS JOHN HIGHAM TRAVEL GRANTS *Elliott Barkan, California State University, San Bernardino (emeritus), Chair Lon Kurashige, University of Southern California (term as chair began May 2011) Dominic A. Pacyga, Columbia College Chicago Andrew K. Sandoval-Strausz, University of New Mexico (term began May 2011)

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DARLENE CLARK HINE AWARD COMMITTEE *Elizabeth Hayes Turner, University of North Texas, Chair Mia Bay, Rutgers University (term as chair began May 2011) Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan (term began May 2011) Lisa Levenstein, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (term began May 2011) *Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University *LeeAnn Whites, University of Missouri

HUGGINSQUARLES AWARD COMMITTEE Adrienne Petty, The City College of New York, CUNY, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) Michael D. Innis-Jiménez, University of Alabama (term as chair began May 2011) Laurene Wu McClain, City College of San Francisco (term began May 2011) Jessica Millward, University of California, Irvine *Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, Indiana University Lydia R. Otero, University of Arizona

RICHARD W. LEOPOLD PRIZE COMMITTEE Darlene Richardson, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Chair Brenda Gayle Plummer, University of Wisconsin-Madison Timothy P. Townsend, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

LERNERSCOTT PRIZE COMMITTEE *Natalia Molina, University of California, San Diego, Chair Catherine Allgor, University of California, Riverside (term as chair began May 2011) Nancy Bercaw, National Museum of American History (term began May 2011) Lisa G. Materson, University of California, Davis (term began May 2011) *Susan S. Rugh, Brigham Young University *Jacqueline S. Wilkie, Luther College

LAWRENCE W. LEVINE AWARD COMMITTEE *David Steigerwald, Ohio State University, Chair Ann Fabian, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (term as chair began May 2011) Casey Nelson Blake, Columbia University (term began May 2011) *Brooke L. Blower, Boston University Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania (term began May 2011) *Jonathan M. Bryant, Georgia Southern University Susan A. Glenn, University of Washington (term began May 2011) Kimberley L. Phillips, Brooklyn College-CUNY (term began May 2011) *William S. Pretzer, National Museum of African American History and Culture *Shirley Teresa Wajda, Connecticut Humanities Council

LIBERTY LEGACY FOUNDATION AWARD COMMITTEE *Scott Kurashige, University of Michigan, Chair Shirley Ann Moore, California State University, Sacramento (term as chair began May 2011) *Leslie M. Alexander, Ohio State University Thomas A. Guglielmo, George Washington University (term began May 2011) *Keith A. Mayes, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Robert A. Pratt, University of Georgia (term began May 2011)

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LOUIS PELZER MEMORIAL AWARD COMMITTEE Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History, Chair, ex oﬃcio John M. Belohlavek, University of South Florida Margaret S. Creighton, Bates College Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph=s University (term began May 2011) *John T. Schlotterbeck, DePauw University

JAMES A. RAWLEY PRIZE COMMITTEE Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara, Chair (term as chair ended April 2011) José M. Alamillo, California State University Channel Islands (term as chair began May 2011) Lisbeth Haas, University of California, Santa Cruz (term began May 2011) *Karin A. Shapiro, Duke University

MARY K. BONSTEEL TACHAU TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD COMMITTEE *Frederick W. Jordan, Woodberry Forest School, Chair Andrea Sachs, St. Paul Academy and Summit School (term as chair began May 2011) *Michael Flamm, Ohio Wesleyan University Daniel Katz, National Labor College (term began May 2011) Lisa L. Ossian, Des Moines Area Community College (term began May 2011)

DAVID THELEN AWARD COMMITTEE Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, OAH/Editor, Journal of American History, Chair, ex oﬃcio Kate Delaney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Max M. Edling, Loughborough University *Udo Hebel, Universität Regensburg Hans Krabbendam, Roosevelt Study Center Larisa M. Troitskaia, Center for North American Studies, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER AWARD COMMITTEE *Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota, Chair David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley (term as chair began May 2011) *Thomas G. Andrews, University of Colorado Denver Charlotte Brooks, Baruch College (term began May 2011) *Leslie Brown, Williams College Bethany Moreton, University of Georgia (term began May 2011)

2011 Annual Report

FOUNDERS, PRESIDENTS, TREASURERS, AND EDITORS Founders William S. Bell Montana Historical & Misc. Library Edgar R. Harlan Historical Department of Iowa George W. Martin Kansas State Historical Society Clarence S. Paine Nebraska State Historical Society Francis A. Sampson State Historical Society of Missouri Benjamin F. Shambaugh State Historical Society of Iowa Warren Upham Minnesota Historical Society Presidents Francis A. Sampson (1907) Thomas M. Owen (1907-1908) Clarence W. Alvord (1908-1909) Orin G. Libby (1909-1910) Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1910-1911) Andrew C. McLaughlin (1911-1912) Reuben G. Thwaites (1912-1913) James A. James (1913-1914) Isaac J. Cox (1914-1915) Dunbar Rowland (1915-1916) Frederic L. Paxson (1916-1917) St. George L. Sioussat (1917-1918) Harlow Lindley (1918-1919) Milo M. Quaife (1919-1920) Chauncey S. Boucher (1920-1921) William E. Connelley (1921-1922) Solon J. Buck (1922-1923) Eugene C. Barker (1923-1924) Frank H. Hodder (1924-1925) James A. Woodburn (1925-1926) Otto L. Schmidt (1926-1927) Joseph Schafer (1927-1928) Charles W. Ramsdell (1928-1929) Homer C. Hockett (1929-1930) Louise P. Kellogg (1930-1931) Beverley W. Bond, Jr. (1931-1932) John D. Hicks (1932-1933) Jonas Viles (1933-1934) Lester B. Shippee (1934-1935) Louis Pelzer (1935-1936) Edward E. Dale (1936-1937) Clarence E. Carter (1937-1938) William O. Lynch (1938-1939) James G. Randall (1939-1940) Organization of American Historians

Carl F. Wittke (1940-1941) Arthur C. Cole (1941-1942) Charles H. Ambler (1942-1943) Theodore C. Blegen (1943-1944) William C. Binkley (1944-1946) Herbert A. Kellar (1946-1947) Ralph P. Bieber (1947-1948) Dwight L. Dumond (1948-1949) Carl C. Rister (1949-1950) Elmer Ellis (1950-1951) Merle E. Curti (1951-1952) James L. Sellers (1952-1953) Fred A. Shannon (1953-1954) Walter P. Webb (1954-1955) Edward C. Kirkland (1955-1956) Thomas D. Clark (1956-1957) Wendell H. Stephenson (1957-1958) William T. Hutchinson (1958-1959) Frederick Merk (1959-1960) Fletcher M. Green (1960-1961) Paul W. Gates (1961-1962) Ray A. Billington (1962-1963) Avery O. Craven (1963-1964) John W. Caughey (1964-1965) George E. Mowry (1965-1966) Thomas C. Cochran (1966-1967) Thomas A. Bailey (1967-1968) C. Vann Woodward (1968-1969) Merrill Jensen (1969-1970) David M. Potter (1970-1971) Edmund S. Morgan (1971-1972) T. Harry Williams (1972-1973) John Higham (1973-1974) John Hope Franklin (1974-1975) Frank Freidel (1975-1976) Richard W. Leopold (1976-1977) Kenneth M. Stampp (1977-1978) Eugene D. Genovese (1978-1979) Carl N. Degler (1979-1980) William A. Williams (1980-1981) Gerda Lerner (1981-1982) Allan G. Bogue (1982-1983) Anne Firor Scott (1983-1984) Arthur S. Link (1984-1985) William E. Leuchtenburg (1985-1986) Leon F. Litwack (1986-1987) Stanley N. Katz (1987-1988) David Brion Davis (1988-1989) Louis R. Harlan (1989-1990) Mary Frances Berry (1990-1991) Joyce Appleby (1991-1992) 69

Lawrence W. Levine (1992-1993) Eric Foner (1993-1994) Gary B. Nash (1994-1995) Michael Kammen (1995-1996) Linda K. Kerber (1996-1997) George M. Fredrickson (1997-1998) William H. Chafe (1998-1999) David Montgomery (1999-2000) Kenneth T. Jackson (2000-2001) Darlene Clark Hine (2001-2002) Ira Berlin (2002-2003) Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (2003-2004) James O. Horton (2004-2005) Vicki L. Ruiz (2005-2006) Richard White (2006-2007) Nell Irvin Painter (2007-2008) Pete Daniel (2008-2009) Elaine Tyler May (2009-2010) David Hollinger (2010-2011) Alice Kessler-Harris (2011- )

Executive Secretaries/Directors David Miller (1970) Thomas Clark (1970-1973) Richard Kirkendall (1973-1981) Joan Hoff-Wilson (1981-1989) Arnita A. Jones (1990-1999) Lee W. Formwalt (1999-2009) Katherine M. Finley (2010 - )

Secretary-Treasurers Clarence S. Paine (1907-1916) Clara S. Paine (1916-1952) James C. Olson (1953-1956) William Aeschbacher (1956-1969)

Journal of American History (1964â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ) Oscar O. Winther (1964-1966) Martin Ridge (1966-1978) Lewis Perry (1978-1984) Paul Lucas (1984-1985) David Thelen (1985-1999) Joanne Meyerowitz (1999-2004) David Nord (2004-2005) Edward T. Linenthal (2005- )

Treasurers William Aeschbacher (1969-1976) Robert K. Murray (1977-1984) Cullom Davis (1984-1993) Gale Peterson (1993-2003) Robert Cherny (2004-2008) Robert Griffith (2008-2011) Jay Goodgold (2011- )

Editors Mississippi Valley Historical Review (1908-1964) Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1908-1914) (Proceedings) Clarence W. Alvord (1914-1923) Lester B. Shippee (1923-1924) Milo M. Quaife (1924-1930) Arthur C. Cole (1930-1941) Louis Pelzer (1941-1946) Wendell H. Stephenson (1946-1953) William C. Binkley (1953-1963) Oscar O. Winther (1963-1964)

2011 Annual Report

Staﬀ Katherine Finley, OAH Executive Director Edward T. Linenthal, Executive Editor, Journal of American History

Deneise Hueston, Administrative Assistant, Journal of American History Terry Govan, Graphic Design Specialist Kara Hamm, Committee Coordinator Haley Leuthart, Editorial Intern, Journal of American History Kevin Marsh, Associate Editor, Journal of American History Khalil G. Muhammad, Associate Editor, Journal of American History *John Nieto-Phillips, Associate Editor, Journal of American History Eric Petenbrink, Assistant Editor, Journal of American History Teresa Ransdell, Sponsorship, Exhibit, and Advertising Coordinator Michael Regoli, Marketing and Communications Specialist Sarah Rowley, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History * Waseem Sibo, Public History Assistant Aidan Smith, Public History Manager *Kimberly Stanley, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History Amy Stark, Director of Meetings Carl Suddler, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History * Ben Ullrich, Data Entry Clerk, Journal of American History Megan Walsh, Meetings Assistant Carl Weinberg, Editor, OAH Magazine of History Annette Windhorn, Lectureship Program Coordinator Cynthia Gwynne Yaudes, Associate Editor, Journal of American History

Renay Anderson, Administrative Assistant / Development Associate Stephen D. Andrews, Managing Editor, Journal of American History Jonathan Apgar, Accounting and Financial Support Specialist Karen Barker, Accounting Assistant James Black, Public History Assistant, Data Entry Clerk, Journal of American History Stephanie Bruce, Membership Assistant Nic Champagne, Media and Web Specialist Andrew Clark, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History Rachel Coleman, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History Jessica Contrera, Meetings Registration and Marketing Assistant Nancy Croker, Director of Operations Susan Daut, Administrative Assistant and Development Associate Penny Dillon, Database and Systems Manager Charles Fish, Technology Assistant Ángel Flores-Rodríguez, Assistant Editor, OAH Magazine of History * Susan Ferentinos, Public History Manager Emma Hunter Foor, Public History Assistant Ginger Foutz, Membership Director Thomas Frick, Data Entry Clerk, Journal of American History William Gillis, Editorial Assistant, Journal of American History * Jason Groth, Meetings Assistant ______________________ Asterisk [*] indicates employment ended in FY2011 Organization of American Historians

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