Bill Waiser will present "Looking Back: Doing Saskatchewan History on Television" at the Saskatoon Heritage Society annual fundraising dinner on Friday, February 27th at 7pm (drinks from 6:15) in the William Pascoe Room of the Delta Bessborough Hotel. Tickets are $45, some of which constitutes a tax deduction. For tickets phone Ruth at 374-8572.

The umpteenth annual Book Pub is scheduled for Friday, March 26th at Louis' starting at 7pm. As before, history grad students collect donated books and auction them off to professors, students, and all comers to raise money for the HGSC. A box will soon appear in the mail room for collecting books to be auctioned. Contact Bonnie (bcw277@mail.usask.ca) or Kim (kvd252@mail.usask.ca) for further
details.

The Library of Congress is sponsoring an online exhibition examining the life and career of Winston Churchill that emphasizes his lifelong links with the United States. See http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/.

The library's free trial of ProQuest Historical Newspapers ends on March 20th. The service offers full text and images of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times from the nineteenth century forward. For details see http://library.usask.ca/eresources/trials/trials.htm#phn04.
For the U of S password, campus users can see http://library.usask.ca/downloads/passwords.html#phn04 .

Reminder: On Thursday, February 26, HUSA in conjunction with Martha Smith-Norris willl be presenting the classic film Apocalypse Now. Showtime is 6:30 pm, in Arts 134. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

The University of Alberta's History & Classics Undergrad Association invites undergraduate students to submit papers for presentation at the 8th annual Western Undergraduate History Conference, to be held May 14-16 in Edmonton. Submitted papers should have been graded for a history or classics class in the current or previous year. There are junior and senior categories. Awards will be given at the conference for the best papers as written (presentations will not be judged). Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2004. Send paper and $40 registration fee to History and Classics Undergraduate Association, Dept. of History and Classics, 2-28 Henry Marshall Tory Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2H4. For further details, contact uofahacua@yahoo.ca.

History Online: An interesting array of links to history-related sites, both acadamic and popular in nature, can be found at http://all.info.

Lisa Smith's article 'Reassessing the Role of the Family: Women's Medicine Care in Eighteenth-century England' has just appeared in The Social History of Medicine 16, 3 (2003): 327-342. This article examines the three-way medical relationship amongst female patients, their doctors and patients' families. Families played a significant role in shaping women's medical decisions--sometimes helpfully and sometimes... less helpfully. When such medical issues became a point of contention within the family, the woman's physician might be called upon to mediate the dispute.

Meanwhile, the self-same Lisa Smith is off to Oxford to give a paper, 'Little Packets of Miracles for the Poor: Royal, Religious and Masculine Medical Authority in France, c. 1680', at a symposium on Recipes in Early Modern Europe: the Production of Medicine, Food and Knowledge on the 13-14 February. More details on the symposium can be found at ttp://www.history.ox.ac.uk/wuhmo/events/recipes_conf.htm.

CMRS Colloquium: Susan MacDonald, of the English department at STM, will deliver a talk entitled
'Praise and Pity me': Childbed Death in Robert Herrick's Hesperides" on Thursday, February 12, in the Window Room of the Facultly Club (and not, please note, in the usual STM venue). Refreshments at 3:30, Talk 4:00. Everyone welcome.

Happy Birthday Daniel! The History Department is delighted to announce the birth of Daniel Joel Skilnik Korinek, the latest addition to our collective family, born this morning at 7:30am. Baby and mothers are fine. Daniel took the rest of the day off, but Valerie was up and working the phones by 10:am. Our warmest congratulations to Valerie, Penny, and Thomas, and of course to Daniel himself.

Defining Gender 1450 - 1910: Five Centuries of Advice Literature Online. This new searchable digital collection covers advice literature to women, 1450 to 1910. Section 1:Conduct and Politeness is currently available, with more to follow. Access to this collection is generously provided until 2014 by Adam Matthew Publications Ltd. in recognition of the work of Dr. Christopher Kent, Professor of History, as a Contributing Editor. See it at http://library.usask.ca/scripts/access?DEFGEN.

Movie Alert! On Thursday, February 26, HUSA in conjunction with Martha Smith-Norris willl be presenting Apocalypse Now. Showtime is 6:30 pm, in Arts 134. Admission is free and everyone is welcome.

Blaeu Atlas of Scotland, 1654 - On the 350th anniversary of the publication of Scotland's first atlas, Joan Blaeu's Atlas Novus, Volume V (1654), this National Library of Scotland website presents the first translation into English of its entire textual contents. The texts contain detailed historical and topographical descriptions of Scotland and its regions, freshly translated by Ian Cunningham, and complemented by 49 engraved maps. See it for yourself at http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/map/early/blaeu/.

Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the launch of the Theses Canada Portal. Search the online catalogue for all the Canadian theses and dissertations in our collection and access for free the full-text electronic theses covering the period from 1998 to 2002. Visit the Theses Canada Portal at: www.nlc-bnc.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html

Ryan Pederson (BA hons. '98, MA '01) is back in town to see family and get back in touch with winter, preparatory to a five-month stint of doctoral research in Paris. Ryan completed his comprehensive exams this fall at the State University of New York at Binghamton, where his dissertation on "Chivalry and Noble Revolt in France, 1600-1660" is being supervised by Professor Howard Brown, himself a distinguished graduate of the U of S.

Sage publications is offering a free trial (on an individual rather than instutional basis) for its large collection of academic journals. A handful of history journals is included, often in more complete runs than our existing electronic collections hold. Journals of interest include the Journal of Urban History, European History Quarterly, History of the Human Sciences, and the Journal of Contemporary History. http://www.sagepublications.com/freeaccess.htm.

Want to practice your classical Latin pronunciation? Longing to hear the dulcet sounds of Latin as it is read aloud? If so, join the LATIN 113 Reading Group, Thursday nights at 7 p.m. in room 124 of St. Thomas More College. Our first text (for Jan. 29) will be from chapter eight of Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis. Be there, or be quadratum. (For information about this or future sessions, contact John Porter at 966-4781 or porterj@duke.usask.ca.)

eHistory.com has migrated to the Department of History at The Ohio State University. All of the former historical resources are still available. The site offers an ecclectic mix of texts, maps, and documents on a variety of subjects, with a particular emphasis on U.S. history, timelines, military history, battle plans, and biographies. There is also a useful collection of medieval texts. http://www.ehistory.com/.

The British Library presents Voices of the Holocaust: Recordings of Holocaust Survivors. These recordings, created by the British Library Sound Archive for its Oral History Programme, feature the voices of survivors who came to live in Britain and comprise one of Europes largest collections of survivor testimonies. See and hear the testimony at http://www.bl.uk/services/learning/curriculum/voices.html