The ATHG is sponsoring two sessions in conjunction with the AHA meeting in Seattle, January 1997. On Friday, 9 January, 9:30-11:30, Convention Center, Room 305, there will be a session on "Violence in the 19th-cent. United States,: chaired by W. Scott Haine, Holy Names College. The papers will be "Murder, Drinking, and Gender in the Early National United States: The Case of Peter Lung," by Scott C. Martin, Bowling Green State Univ., and "Whiskey, Manhood, and Death: Negotiating Gender, Drink, and Violence in the Turn-of-the-Century Rural Midwest," by Elaine Frantz Parsons, Johns Hopkins Univ., with comment from Jerome J. Nadelhaft, Univ of Maine at Orono, and W. Scott Haine. A second session will be the same day at 2:20-4:30 in the same room. The session is entitled "Images of Gender in Alcohol and Tobacco Advertisements: The Case of France, Great Britain, and North America, 1860-1960," chaired by William J. Rorabaugh, Univ. of Washington at Seattle. The papers are "Sociability, Sophistication, and Innovation: Gender Representations in French Alcohol and Tobacco Adverstisements, 1860-1960," by W. Scott Haine, Holy Names College; "Appealing to Women in Beer Advertising in Interwar Britain," by David W. Gutzke, Southwest Missouri State Univ.; and "Smoke and Mirrors: Gender Representation in North American Tobacco and Alcohol Advertisement s before 1950," by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh, Malaspina University-College (Canada). Comment will come from Patricia E. Prestwich, Univ. of Alberta, the president of the ATHG. David M. Fahey History Department Miami University Oxford, OH 45056-1618, USA tel. 513-529-5134 FAX 513-529-3224 e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>