Currents

Robert Cassanello and Daniel Murphree, editors of H-Florida, have received an NEH Extending the Reach grant for the purpose of creating a history major at Miles College, Birmingham, AL, where they both teach. You can find a brief summary of their work at
http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2001nov/cassanello.html.

Robert W. Cherny, editor of H-California and H-SHGAPE (US history, 1865-1920), is author of "Constructing a Radical Identity: History, Memory, and the Seafaring Stories of Harry Bridges," Pacific Historical Review (2001):.

Alan Jacobs, editor of H-Genocide, gave the keynote address, "Why Genocide? An
Explanation," for the first International History and Prevention of Genocide Symposium, Nov. 2001, Vienna, Austria, and also presented a paper, "Holocaust Studies and Comparative Genocide Studies: Paradigms in Conflict." He also has a chapter entitled "Psychodrama" in the forthcoming International Handbook of Psychotherapy )Joseph Wiley and Sons, 2002).

Jerome Krase, editor of H-ItAm (Italian American Studies), has recently completed a photo essay on "Park Slope, Brooklyn, in the Aftermath of the Destruction of the World Trade Center," available on the website of the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association: http://www.commurb.org/features/index.html.

Jay Lockenour, editor of H-German, is author of Soldiers as Citizens: Former Wehrmacht Officers in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1955, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

John Moser, book review editor for H-Diplo, is the author of "Gigantic Engines of Propaganda: The 1941 Senate Investigation of Hollywood," Historian 63 (2001): 731-751 and of Presidents from Hoover through Truman, 1929-1953: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001)

Brenda Randolph, K-12 Editor for H-AfrTeach, won the first Francois Manchuelle Award for innovative work promoting the cause of African Studies in the K-12 community. You can find some of her award-winning work at http://www.africaaccessreview.org.

Patrick D. Reagan, webmaster for H-SHGAPE (US history, 1865-1920), has just published History and the Internet: A Guide (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).

Steve Remy, editor of H-German, has accepted an appointment in the History Department faculty at Brooklyn College. His first book, The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University, will be published by Harvard University Press in the fall.

Jonathan D. Sassi, book review editor for H-SHEAR (history of the early American republic), is author of A Republic of Righteousness: The Public Christianity of the Post-Revolutionary New England Clergy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

Julia Sneeringer, editor of H-German, is author of Winning Women's Votes: Propaganda and Politics in Weimar Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002).

Jean A. Stuntz, editor of H-SAWH (southern American women's history), recently received the H. Bailey Carroll Award of the Texas State Historical Association for the best article published in 2001 in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. The article was "Spanish Laws for Texas Women: The Development of Marital Property Law to 1850," in the April 2001 issue (vol. 104).

Sara W. Tucker, editor of H-Teach and HNET-Staff, received the 2001 Washburn University Ned N. Fleming Excellence in Teaching award. The History Computer Review will be publishing (fall 2002) her essay entitled "Teaching World History with Computers: Why I Do It and What's Involved," originally a paper presented at an H-Net session during the 2001 AHA meeting.