Dear Members: Just following up from David Fahey's note, let me note the two sessions that the ADHS will have at the Philadelphia meeting of the AHA. You will find these sessions listed below. In addition, if any one would wish to submit a paper or panel topic to me for the 2007 AHA, please do so over the coming months. You can contact me at [log in to unmask] Thanks very much! Sincerely, Scott Haine AHA 2006 Panels: Alcohol and Drugs History Society Panels at the American Historical Association 2006 Friday, January 6 9:30-11:30 a.m. Marriott, Room 405: Panel 1: New Insights into the Brewing Industry and Temperance Movements Chair: W. Scott Haine, University of Maryland University College ‘Smelling of the ale-vat’: philanthropic London brewers and the mid-Victorian drinking fountain movement Vanessa Taylor, Birkbeck College, London "Irish Publicans, The Gaelic League, and the Struggle to Reform St. Patrick's Day in Ireland, 1900-10" Brad Kadel, University of Maryland University College “Death and Rebirth: The United States Brewing Industry 1983-2002” Amy Mittelman, Independent Scholar, Amherst, Massachusetts Comment: The Audience 2:30-4:30 p.m. Marriott, Room 405: Panel 2: Reexamining the Rhetorics of the Alcohol Question: Moral Suasion, Predisposition, and Self Help Chair: Albert Acena, College of San Mateo “A Queer Explanation for Alcoholism: The Correlation of Homosexuality and Alcoholism in Psychoanalytic and Sexological Discourse, 1880-1935” Michele Morales, University of Michigan “Dry Culture’s Faulty Alliances of Rhetoric” Jason S. Lantzer, Indiana University Christian Social Sources of AA morality James Swan Tuite Brown University, Religious Studies "Problems in the History and Historiography of Alcoholics Anonymous" Jared Lobdell, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto Comment: Scott Martin Bowling Green State University