Chosen by Choice Disarming the Nation: Women's Writing and the American Civil War (University of Chicago Press, 1999), has been selected by Choice magazine as one of its “Outstanding Academic Titles of 2000.” The outstanding academic titles list represents fewer than 10 percent of the 6,500 works reviewed in Choice in the previous year. Choice is a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, and has reviewed scholarly books for more than thirty-five years. A full listing of the publication's titles for this year will be in Choice's January issue.

In Memoriam Samuel R. Pierce Jr., a prominent lawyer, housing secretary in the Reagan administration, and a trustee of MHC from 1965 to 1975, died November 1 at age seventy-eight in Washington, D.C. He is survived by his wife, Barbara Penn Wright '54, and daughter, Victoria.