American Reminiscences of the Caribbean: 1937-1948

We welcome your advice/assistance with regards inviting American contributions to our latest research.  We are currently seeking American contributions to add to reminiscences of the Caribbean 1937-1948. The initial objectives for the material we are gathering are a book and online resource for schools and colleges.  We have researched archive sources to provide us with a strong understanding of this history.

We welcome any advice or assistance in helping us to contact US veterans who served in the Caribbean, such as the ‘Dixie Division’ and the African American 99th anti-aircraft Artillery. Contributions to date have come from all perspectives – servicemen, wartime civilians (Aruba, Barbados, Curacao, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad) , U-Boat Officers, merchant sailors….

Our search for reminiscences is all about providing Educators and Learners with as broad and diverse a perspective as possible: We want to gain an impression of the war at sea, we are also gathering memories of the West Indies as bases of operations; what impressions their civilian populations made; how the islands provided for torpedoed merchant seamen; memories of shore-leave…

We look forward to hearing your thoughts.

Best wishes,

Tony T

 

Rebecca Goldstone

Sweet Patootee Ltd

28c Loraine Road

London N7 6EZ

UK

T/F: 01144 207 686 5101

W: www.sweetpatootee.co.uk

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: The Tennessee Conference of Historians

The Tennessee Conference of Historians will meet on the campus of Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, on 25-26 September 2009.

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Mark M. Smith, the Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.

The Program Committee of the 2009 Tennessee Conference of Historians welcomes proposals on any subject from scholars within or outside of Tennessee. The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 3 July 2009.

Paper proposals should consist of a one-page abstract of the presentation topic and a curriculum vitae. Panel proposals should include a one-page abstract summarizing the panel’s theme, a one-page abstract of each participant’s presentation topic, and a curriculum vitae for each participant.

Please mail proposals to:

Dr. Mark R. Cheathem

Department of History

Cumberland University

One Cumberland Square

Lebanon, TN 37087

mcheathem@cumberland.edu

 615-547-1341 

For further information, consult the conference website http://www.cumberland.edu/tch, or contact Dr. Cheathem.