Dear Members,

The query about British dues reminded me to request
information about dues for American members.  I suspect
that someone published this information earlier, but I
can't find it in my files.  Could it be repeated?

On another topic...

Would anyone be interested in putting together an AHTG
panel for the 2001 AHA in San Francisco?  Submissions are
due Feb. 15, so we would need to move quickly.  I've been
working on how men and women in the eighteenth-century
Chesapeake came to define a notion of drunkeness (and gave
it a negative connotion).  Until then, I argue, they really
didn't have a notion of drunkeness.  But over the course of
the 18th century, men and women came to limit their
acceptance of drink for slaves and servants, then for
women, and then for lower sort men.  The emergence of the
notion of drunkeness paved the path for temperance.
Perhaps this could help with a panel on drunkeness,
public/private distinctions in drinking, gender or race or
class and alcohol, temperance, etc?

I'm also working on the production of alcohol in the early
Chesapeake/Pennsylvania area - how men began to assume
control of brewing, cidering and distilling when it had
long been women's work, how the American Revolution
cemented the control of alcohol production in the hands of
men and dealt a serious blow to brewing in the US, and how
and why breweries re-emerged in the early nineteenth
century.  Some panel ideas that come to mind include the
production of alcohol in other areas of the US or the
world, alcohol and war, and the rise of alcohol as big
business.

Is anyone interested in submitting a panel?  We'd need the
whole works: 2 more presenters, a chair, and a commentator,
unless someone suggests another format.  I'm really open to
any formats, and many, many topics.

I appreciate how helpful everyone has been on this list
with my queries.  It's tremendously helpful.

Thank you,

Sarah

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Sarah Hand Meacham
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept. of History
University of Virginia
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