SAWH Annual Meeting Addresses

(Note: SAWH has followed the custom that the president chooses a scholar to give an address at the Annual meeting, generally held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Southern Historical Association.)

YEAR SPEAKER PLACE OF MEETING

1979 A. Elizabeth Taylor Atlanta

1980 Papers on the 3 women presidents of SHA Atlanta

(Given by LaWanda Cox, Blanche Clark, Frederick Heath)

1981 Anne Firor Scott Louisville

1982 Report on Status of Women in the profession Memphis

(Given by A. Elizabeth Taylor, LaWanda Cox, Mollie Davis)

Jan 1983 newsletter says Ann firor Scott also spoke about the life and work of Julia

Cherry Spruill and Carol Bleser spoke on the life and work of Willie Lee Rose.

1983 Thavolia Glymph Charleston

“Black Women Historians: Race, Class, and Academia”

1984 Tom Appleton, Nancy Baird Louisville

“Vignettes of Kentucky Women”

1985 Barbara Fields Houston

1986 Mary Frederickson Charlotte

Sassing Fate: Women Workers in the Twentieth-Century South”

1987 Joan Cashin New Orleans

“Women’s Work and Culture in the Old Southwest”

1988 Suzanne Lebsock Norfolk

“White Supremacy and Woman Suffrage: A Virginia Case Study”

1989 Barbara Welter Lexington

“The True Woman: Post-Feminist or Retro-Feminist?”

1990 Catherine Clinton New Orleans

“Sex and the Sectional Conflict”

1991 Virginia van der Veer Hamilton Ft. Worth

“Clio’s Daughters: Whence and Whither?”

1992 Theda Perdue Atlanta

“Pochahontas Meets Columbus in the American South”

1993 Thavolia Glymph Orlando

“Civil War Memoirs and the Reinvention of Black Women’s History”

1994 Jean B. Lee Louisville

“Experiencing the American Revolution”

1995 Anne Firor Scott New Orleans

“Unfinished Business . . .”

1996 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Little Rock

“’But She Can’t Find Her (V.O.) Key’:

Writing Gender and Race Into Southern Political History.”

1997 Darlene Clark Hine Atlanta

“A Stronger Soul Within a Finer Frame: Writing a Literary History of Black Women”

1998 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Birmingham

“Writing A Way Home: History, Memory, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity”

1999 Stephanie McCurry Fort Worth

“’The Brothers’ War’?: Free Women, Slaves, and Popular Politics in the Civil War

“South”

2000 Nancy A. Hewitt Louisville

“Seneca Falls, Suffrage, and the South:

Remapping the Landscape of Women’s Rights in America, 1848-1965”

2001 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn New Orleans

“The ABWH, Black Women’s History, and Black Women Historians”

2002 Jane Dailey Baltimore

“Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred from Brown to Selma”