New England Historical Association

The Fall 2012 issue of NEHA News is out!

Download it here as a PDF

Highlights: details, registration form and conference program for the Fall meeting on October 13 at Merrimack College, Executive Board election results, message from new NEHA President Elizabeth DeWolfe, news of the profession and book releases, upcoming conferences of interest. The issue also contains two book reviews:

Kirstin Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal (Doubleday, 2009), reviewed by Ann Rollins

Michael Dana Kennedy, The Flowers of Ido, A Novel (Vertical, Inc., 2010), reviewed by Thomas Slopnick

The Spring 2012 issue of NEHA News is now out; download a PDF copy or click on the “Newsletter” link in the left hand sidebar.

This issue features conference and registration information and a preliminary program for the NEHA Spring conference on April 21, 2012 at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire. It also includes biographies of the slate of candidates for Executive Board openings. Voting will take place during lunch at the Spring conference, or you may clip and mail in the ballot on page 11 of the newsletter.

The Spring issue also features the Executive Committee report, a Call for Nominations for the Graduate Student Paper Prize and Book Awards, the report from the Fall Conference, and News of the Profession including recent books of interest. There is a listing of upcoming conferences of interest, calls for submissions, grant and fellowship information, notification of new members, and a list of past organization presidents and conferences.

Book reviews include:

Amy Sonnie and James Tracy, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melville House, 2011), by Anna J. Cook of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Massimo Franco, Parallel Empires: The Vatican and the United States–Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict (Doubleday, 2008), by Thomas J. Carty of Springfield College

We have posted the October 2011 issue of the NEHA News. Highlights include:

• Invitation to the Fall Conference, October 29, 2011 at Emmanuel College
• Preliminary Conference Program
• Updates on the newsletter, website, and social media outreach
• Executive and Nominating Committee reports
• NEHA Book Award information
• News of the Profession
• Information on upcoming conferences, CFPs, and grants of interest
• Addresses from our new and outgoing NEHA presidents
• Welcome to new NEHA members

The newsletter also contains book reviews:

• Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters, eds. The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Reviewer: Francis Kyle III, Independent Scholar
• Massimo Franco. Parallel Empires: The Vatican and the United States—Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict. New York: Doubleday, 2008. Reviewer: Thomas J. Carty, Springfield College
• Robert J. Savage. A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society, 1960-1972. Great Britain: Manchester University Press, 2010. Reviewer: Diana Hennessy-Curran, Clark University