1910. Edward Raymond Turner, “The Negro in Pennsylvania-slavery, servitude, freedom, 1639-1861." 1912. Arthur Charles Cole, "The Whig Party in the South." From 1897 to 1899 and in 1905 the Justin Winsor prize was not awarded. The Herbert Baxter Adams prize has been awarded to: 1905. David S. Muzzey. "The Spiritual Franciscans," with honorable mention of Eloise Ellery, "Jean Pierre Brissot." 1907. In equal division, Edward B. Krehbiel, "The interdict, its history and its operation, with especial attention to the time of Pope Innocent III," and William S. Robertson, “Francisco de Miranda and the revolutionizing of Spanish America." 1909. Wallace Notestein, "A history of witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718." 1911. Louise Fargo Brown, "The political activities of the Baptists and fifth monarchy men in England during the interregnum." 1913. Violet Barbour, "Henry Bennet, earl of Arlington." The essays of Messrs. Muzzey, Krehbiel, Carter, Notestein, Turner, Cole, Miss Brown, and Miss Barbour have been published by the association in a series of separate volumes. The earlier Winsor prize essays were printed in the Annual Reports. A subscription made by friends of the association interested in military history enables it to offer this year, for award in December, 1915, a prize of $200 for the best essay in the military history of the United States. The conditions are defined in the following circular. MILITARY HISTORY PRIZE COMMITTEE: Arthur L. Conger (chairman), Army Service Schools. Allen R. Boyd, Library of Congress. Fred Morrow Fling, University of Nebraska. Albert Bushnell Hart, Harvard University. CONDITIONS OF AWARD. A prize of $200 will be awarded by the American Historical Association in 1815 for the best unpublished monograph in military history submitted to the committee before September 1, 1915. I. The monograph must be based upon independent and original investigation into some field of the military history of the United States. While the committee will receive any scholarly work on any American war, it would suggest that in the selection of topics for investigation preference be given to the Civil War. The monograph may deal with a campaign, a battle, a phase or aspect of a campaign or battle, with the fortunes of a corps or division during a battle, or with such subjects as the mobilization or organization of volunteer forces, the material, transportation, or food supply of an army, or strategy and military policy. II. The monograph must be a distinct contribution to knowledge. III. The monograph must (1) be based upon exhaustive research, (2) conform to the canons of historical criticism, (3) be presented in scientific form, (4) contain exact references to sources and secondary works, and (5) be accompanied by a full critical bibliography. IV. The monograph should not exceed 100,000 words in length. The manuscript should be typewritten, and must be neat, correct, and in form ready for the printer. (In the typewriting of essays competitors are urged to use a strong, rather heavy paper of letter size; to have both text and notes double spaced; to number the notes consecutively for each chapter, and to insert each note in the text immediately after the line in which its index number occurs, separating the note from the text by lines above and below extending across the page. In abbreviating the titles of works care should be taken to make the abbreviations clear, consistent, and self-explanatory.) V. In making the award the committee will consider not only research, accuracy, and originality, but also clearness of expression, logical arrangement, and literary form. The prize will not be awarded unless the work submitted shall be of a high degree of excellence. VI. The successful monograph shall remain the property of the author. The American Historical Association assumes no responsibility for publication of the prize essay, but the committee has already received offers respecting its publication which will be communicated to the winner of the prize. VII. The monograph must be accompanied by the name and address of the author, in a sealed envelope, and a short introduction setting forth the character of the material and the purpose of the work. Address all correspondence relative to the military history prize to Capt. A. L. Conger, Fort Leavenworth, Kans. I. REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. CHARLESTON And Columbia, S. C., DecembeR 29–31, 1913. THE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION AT CHARLESTON AND COLUMBIA.1 Of 16 cities in which the American Historical Association has met since its earliest days in Saratoga, only one was as small as Charleston; but, as the president of the South Carolina Historical Society rightly said in his interesting address of welcome, it may easily be maintained that no American city of the size has been the scene of so many historical events of such importance. The remembrance of these events combined with the historical buildings and the picturesque domestic architecture of Charleston to make it an exceedingly interesting place in which to hold the annual meeting of an historical society; and the interest was heightened by the pains which the local committee of arrangements took, with most intelligent hospitality, to insure that members should see the sites and buildings that would chiefly appeal to them, and should know their history. Similar pains were taken by the association's hosts at Columbia, which also has its historic memories. Two days-Monday, December 29, and Tuesday, December 30-were spent in sessions at Charleston, the last day of the year in sessions at Columbia. Though Charleston and Columbia are farther from the geographical center of the association's membership than any city in which meetings have previously been held, save New Orleans, the attendance was greater than might have been expected. There was a registration of 208 at Charleston, and a few more appeared at Columbia. Nearly a third of the attendance was of southern members. To the remainder a large element was contributed by the special train which came down from New York, bringing a party of 76. As in the similar case of the special train to New Orleans 10 years before, these had, besides the pleasure of seeing each other at greater leisure than is possible during the meetings, the opportunity for visits to interesting cities on the way-a forenoon at Richmond, an afternoon at Petersburg and its battle field, and on the return a day in Washington. In any summing up of the pleasures of the meeting, members would certainly wish that the most especial thanks should be expressed to the two committees of local arrangements-that at Charleston, headed by Hon. Joseph W. Barnwell, and that at Columbia, of which Mr. B. F. Taylor was chairman--and to the committee on program, 1 This account is, in the main, that printed in the American Historical Review for April, 1914. |