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THE ASSOCIATION

The seventy-first meeting of the Southern Historical Association will be held on November 2-5, 2005, Wednesday through Saturday, at the Westin Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta.

At the close of the Association's seventieth meeting in Memphis on November 6, 2004, Charles Joyner of Coastal Carolina University succeeded Wayne Flynt of Auburn University as president. Since there were no additional nominations, those proposed by last year's Nominating Committee and published in the May 2004 issue of the Journal were declared elected:

VICE PRESIDENT: Pete Daniel, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, for three-year terms expiring in 2007: William J. Cooper Jr., Louisiana State University Donald M. McKale, Clemson University Sally G. McMillen, Davidson College

At its meeting on November 3, 2004, the Executive Council voted to grant the Latin American and Caribbean Section of the SHA full representation on the Council. Richmond Brown of the University of South Alabama will serve as the LACS representative for a three-year term, also expiring in 2007.

The Council also approved the nominations of Laura F. Edwards of Duke University and James Sidbury of the University of Texas at Austin to four-year terms on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Southern History.

The Executive Council elected the following to serve as the Nominating Committee for 2005: J. William Harris, University of New Hampshire, chair; Anthony J. Badger, Clare College, Cambridge University: Fred A. Bailey, Abilene Christian University; Steven Hahn, University of Pennsylvania: and Patricia Sullivan, University of South Carolina.

SYDNOR A WARD

The Charles S. Sydnor Award for a distinguished book in southern history published in 2003 was awarded to Robert Rodgers Korstad of Duke University for Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South, published by the University of North Carolina Press. The award committee consisted of Deborah Gray White, Rutgers University, chair; Albert S. Broussard, Texas A&M University; and Mitchell Snay, Denison University.

MITCHELL A WARD

The H. L. Mitchell Award for the best book in southern labor history published in 2002 or 2003 was also awarded to Robert Korstad for Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South. The award committee consisted of Steven...