Dear Colleagues,

If you’re packing your bags for New Orleans please take a look at this update regarding Division F: History and Historiography events scheduled for the 2011 conference.

Socials

Yes, that’s plural. Join us on Saturday 9 April for the Vice-Presidential Social at the JW Marriott, Maurepas. We’ve booked the room from 6:15 to 7:45 but I imagine we’ll start spilling over at the conclusion of the VP Address that starts at 4:05 p.m. Here’s the big news…music provided byBeJae Fleming with Jackie Blount.

BeJae Fleming learned her craft as a songwriter and performer in Texas playing the famous club scenes in Austin and Dallas. Along with Trailer Records labelmates Greg Brown, Pieta Brown, Bo Ramsey, David Zollo, Joe Price, Brother Trucker and others, BeJae has helped create the roots-influenced "Iowa sound" in Americana music. Jackie Blount studied the French horn, receiving her bachelor’s degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Long inspired by performances of such notable bassists as Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clark and Charles Mingus, Jackie took up electric bass five months before her recording sessions for BeJae’s second CD,Navigating Limbo, and has accompanied BeJae’s performances ever since. Get there early…folks from Iowa and Ohio are saying you won’t want to miss this!

And following the Business Meeting on Sunday, 10 April please join us for more discussion, good times, and Creole Charcuterie. (I think that includes Andouille, Alligator, and Crawfish along with the usual suspects.) The business meeting starts at 6:15 in the JW Marriott, Ile de France II. We’ll aim to wrap up the business by 7:15 to let the good times roll.

Walking Tour

Division F invites you to get your "early morning mojo" on with a free early morning walking tour of the French Quarter with famed New Orleans tour guide Sevando Mendez!  (You may remember him from AERA 2002.) We will meet on Saturday (April 9) at 7 a.m. at Cafe du Monde and move towards the Sheraton, learning about the history of Jackson Square, the River, and other landmarks from Mr. Mendez. If you want beignets (and to beat the crowds attending French Quarter Festival)--go to Cafe du Monde early, as the tour begins promptly at 7 am. (WAKE UP!!!) Participation is limited to 27 folks, so please RSVP today to Amy Wells Dolan at[email protected] to participate. THANK YOU to Amy for arranging this tour.

Awards

Congratulations to Ethan Hutt, Stanford University, recipient of the 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Essay Award for his paper, "Compulsion, Courts, and the Rise of Educational Formalism: A History of Compulsory Attendance Laws in America, 1870-1930." And, congratulations to Brian Puaca, Christopher Newport University, recognized with the New Scholar’s Book Award for his publication, Learning Democracy: Education Reform in West Germany, 1945-1965. Both awards will be presented at the Division F Business Meeting on Sunday, 10 April, starting at 6:15 p.m. at the JW Marriott, Ile de France II. Thank you to our colleagues on the awards committees for their careful consideration of all the scholarship submitted last year. Copies of the 2011 agenda and2010 minutes are posted on the Division F website under the "Annual Meeting Information" tab.

Books

Thank you to those who have donated books to be given away as door prizes at the business meeting:

Bohan, Chara Haeussler. Go to the Sources: Lucy Maynard Salmon and the Teaching of History. New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

Karier, Clarence J., Paul C. Violas, and Joel Spring. Roots of Crisis: American Education in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1972.

Labaree, David F. Someone Has To Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Rhoades, Nancy L., and Lucy E. Bailey, eds. Wanted—Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009.

In case you missed it…

Previous posts directed readers to the 2011 Division F Program Guide, prepared by Roland Sintos Coloma. You can find this on the Division F website, under the "Annual Meeting Information" tab. And, you can create your own guide by searching the online program at http://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera11/index.php?cmd=aera11&id=.

I hope to see you in New Orleans!

Karen Graves

Vice President, Division F: History and Historiography