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CALL FOR PAPERS Interested scholars are invited to submit papers for the 2016 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, March 21-25, 2016

Special Topics Area, Genealogy. Academics studying and writing on American popular culture might examine genealogy within the context of television and literary disciplines, library and archival disciplines, American and public history disciplines, museum studies, or folklore.

Possible themes for papers/panels include but are not restricted to:  DNA in genealogy  Comparison of different genealogy television programs  Comparison of US genealogy television programs with British or Canadian programs  Study of the motivations for researching family history  Religious aspect of family history (e.g., LDS church)  The monetary impact of the business of genealogy  Redefining genealogy: from elitist pursuit to the Roots phenomenon  Fiction or non-fiction: when genealogists write the family story  Genealogy in mystery novels  The fate of the FitzRoys and Royal Bastards if DNA had been discovered in 1100 AD  Serendipity in genealogy  Comparing “traditional” research methods with “Internet Genealogy”  Ethnic studies in genealogy  Ephemera as family history evidence  Victorian obituaries and death stories  The relationship between genealogy and history or law or medicine

Please submit a 100 to 250 word abstract on your proposed topic to the PCA website as described here: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference/proposing-a-presentation-at-theconference/.

Potential participants do not need to be members to submit proposals; however, membership in PCA/ACA and registration for the conference are required in order to present. Please send all inquiries to: Bruce E. Drushel, Ph.D. VP Programming & Area Chairs, PCA/ACA drushebe@miamioh.edu

In early June, 2015, husband, John, and I took the free government-run tour of the Hanford Nuclear Site, north of Richland, Washington. We both knew something of the chronology and the story but we were eager to learn more details and to see the places for ourselves. What I’ve summarized below is not meant to be a full and detailed explanation of all the history and parts of this two-fold massive project (first to build to get the plutonium and then, after the war, to clean up the mess that was made) but to share our new understanding of this episode in American history.

In the early1940s America greatly feared that the Germans would get a nuclear bomb (and use it) before we did. That fear prompted the haste to get the job done and since nobody had done a project like this before they were “flying by the seat of their pants” in many instances.  It then follows that very little care, understanding or recognition was given at the time to the nuclear waste mess that was being created.

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