Fan of Full Fathom Five? Be sure to check it out at its new home!

Thursday, January 05, 2006

AHA

This week the American Historical Association is holding its annual meeting in Philadelphia. Included in the program are a few maritime, and/or maritime-related papers. (Certainly should be more)

The session on The Transatlantic and Intra-American Slave Trades and Black Population Trends in the Americas before 1820: An Attempt to Assemble the Big Picture includes a paper by David Eltis, Emory University entitled The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Revised Estimates of the Volume and Direction Derived from The Second Edition of the Cambridge Database of Voyages.

The session entitled on "Social Shaping of Weaponry: The History of American Military Technology in Context: Part 1—The Formative Years" includes two maritime papers; America’s Love of Technology: The Dahlgren Gun and John Dahlgren by Thomas Legg, West Chester University; and The Coast Survey and Military Cartography Albert E. Theberge Jr., National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

In addition the conference features a roundtable on "Riverscapes and the Formation of National Identity".

No comments: