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The annual symposium became a regularly scheduled event in the Society's calendar, held each March since 1978. The original series was extended to continue through 1993. The topics of the conferences were: 1978: Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778 1979: Sovereign States in an Age of Uncertainty 1980: Slavery in the Age of the American Revolution 1981: Arms and Independence: The Military Character of the American Revolution 1982: An Uncivil War: The Southern Backcountry during the American Revolution President Schwengel presents award certificates to student winner Andrew Morris Lewis and teacher Becky Ottinger from Loudoun County High School at the award luncheon of the 1982 symposium. pants expressed his gratitude to Presid e n t S c h w e n g e l : "Washington has few scholarly meetings on the history of Congress or on the founding and early development of the country. . . . It was a pleasure to me to talk to so many people interested in history both as amateurs and professionals. Through such exchanges as the recent conference both groups will benefit." To make the scholarship presented at the conference available to the scholarly community, the Society entered into an agreement with the University Press of Virginia to publish a volume of essays resulting from each conference in a series entitled "Perspectives on the American Revolution." The first volume, Diplomacy and Revolution: The Franco-American Alliance of 1778, edited by Hoffman and his assistant Peter J. Albert, was published in 1981. The Society expanded the program in 1979 to include an awards program for secondary schoolteachers and students as part of the agenda for the second symposium. President Schwengel, himself a former history teacher, insisted upon the program as a means to recognize, reward, and encourage history in the schools. Outstanding history students and teachers WINTER 2013 1983: Peace and the Peacemakers: The Treaty of 1783 1984: The Economy of Early America: The Revolutionary Period, 1763–1790 were chosen from several 1985: Women in the Age of the American Revolution local school districts, 1986: Of Consuming Interests: including the District of The Style of Life in the Eighteenth Century Columbia; Alexandria, 1987: "To Form a More Perfect Union": Arlington, Fairfax The Critical Ideas of the Constitution County, and Prince William County in 1988: Religion in a Revolutionary Age Virginia; and Howard 1989: "The Transforming Hand of Revolution": County, Montgomery Reconsidering the American Revolution as a Country, and Prince Social Movement George's County in 1990: Launching the "Extended Republic": Maryland. In later years The Federalist Era the program expanded to 1991: The Bill of Rights: Government Proscribed include school districts as 1992: Native Americans and the Early Republic far away as Baltimore and Delaware. 1993: A Republic for the Ages In 1986 the Society's p a rt i c i p a t i o n m a d e possible a special symposium honoring held on October 15 and 16, which was Martin Luther King, Jr., to coincide with planned and led by the Society's symposia the installation of the bust of the great civil director. The conference featured papers rights leader in the Capitol. The Martin by noted scholars Clayborne Carson, David Luther King, Jr. Center for Non-Violent J. Garrow, Cornel West, and others. Social Change cosponsored the conference Eminent historian John Hope Franklin provided the concluding lecture. The essays resulting from the conference were published for the Society by Pantheon Books. Sixteen volumes of symposia papers were published for the Society by the University Press of Virginia. THE CAPITOL DOME 33