Greetings- I am interested in presenting my research at the 2008 AHA conference, and would like to either form a session of interested participants, or if there is already something in the works for which I might fit, join an existing panel. My research concerns the 1917 Indianapolis murder trial of a white baseball manager accused of killing an African American waiter. The trial is a fascinating one because it involved competing discourses about race and social reform, particularly temperance. These discourses were mediated through contrasting images of the bodies of white women, black men, and white (Irish-Catholic) men. Through the lens of the trial I explore the ways in which these ideas were constructed and reconstructed, and framed in a predominantly white Protestant community that was called to identify what (or, rather, who) posed the greatest threat to Indiana society at a time when racial tension within the city was increasing, and a prohibition statute had just been passed by the state legislature. I think this research could fit under a number of different categories, including prohibition, the body, and race and gender. Anyone interested in forming a panel around any of these topics, or others for which this research might fit, can email me at [log in to unmask] Thanks! David Jones University at Albany