Announcements
Call for Papers: Civil War
During the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Journal of American History would like to encourage the submission of articles that explore all aspects of the conflict. In 2011–2012, we particularly invite the work of scholars who are writing about the origins and early years of the Civil War.
JAH Podcast
The Journal of American History has launched a podcast section of our Web site, where interviews with Journal of American History authors, Terri L. Snyder, Scott E. Casper, Julia C. Ott, Thomas W. Zeiler, James Meriwether, and Peniel Joesph are available. We will regularly be posting interviews with other JAH authors as well.
In the future, we hope also to bring you podcasts of conversations with award-winning authors of books on American history. Anyone may listen to and download these high-quality audio files for free.
Article Submissions
All articles submitted to the Journal of American History must now include an abstract. The abstract must be on a separate page from the body of the article and may not be longer than 500 words.
Submit or Update Your Reviewer Data Sheet
The JAH is always looking for qualified reviewers for books and articles. To make the best possible matches between reviewers and books or articles being reviewed, we need our reviewer information to be as complete and up to date as possible. It is crucial that prospective reviewers submit or update a JAH reviewer data sheet, which indicates areas of interest and publications and is available on our Web site.
Awards
pelzer award
The Pelzer Award Committee invites candidates for graduate degrees to submit essays for the Louis Pelzer Award competition. Essays may deal with any period or topic in the history of the United States. The winning essay will be published in the Journal of American History. In addition, the organization presents $500 to the winner. The deadline for entries for the 2013 competition is November 30, 2012.
For submission guidelines, see the oah Web site. Manuscripts should be addressed to Pelzer Award Chair, Journal of American History, 1215 East Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Indi- ana 47401-3703, usa.
thelen award
The Organization of American Historians gives the David Thelen Award biennially to the best article on American history that has been published in a language other than English. The winning article will be published in translation in the Journal of American History. The deadline for entries published during 2011 and 2012 is May 1, 2013.
Please submit 5 copies of the entry, along with a one- or two-page essay in English explaining why the article is a significant and original contribution to our understanding of American history, to Thelen Award Chair, Journal of American History, 1215 East Atwater Ave., Bloomington, Indiana 47401-3703, usa.
charles debenedetti prize
The Charles DeBenedetti Prize of the Peace History Society for the best article on peace history published in 2009–2010 has been awarded to Melissa R. Klapper for her article “‘Those by Whose Side We Have Labored’: American Jewish Women and the Peace Movement between the Wars,” which appeared in the December 2010 JAH.
binkley-stephenson award
The Binkley-Stephenson Award, for the best scholarly article published in the Journal of American History during the preceding calendar year, was presented to Bernhard Rieger for his article “The People’s Car to New Beetle: The Transatlantic Journeys of the Volkswagen Beetle,” which appeared in the June 2010 JAH.
Corrections
In Christopher S. Parker’s review of Chad L. Williams’s Torchbearers of Democracy (JAH, Sept. 2011, p. 561) the last sentence of the fourth paragraph should read: “Finally, the way the American Expeditionary Force wrecked the morale of black troops and undermined the authority of black officers, sacrificing combat effectiveness to preserve Jim Crow, is also well known.”
In the June 2011 issue of the JAH the name of a member of the Gay Activists Alliance was misspelled on pages 56–59 and also in footnotes 13 and 31; the correct spelling is Mark Segal.
In Charles H. Lesser‘s Web site review of The Papers of the War Department, 1784–1800 (JAH, June 2011, p. 207), the second sentence of the third paragraph should read: “This project is moving toward the hybrid model offered by the Dolley Madison Papers on the University of Virginia’s Rotunda Web site.”
