March 3, 2000

Historians' Group Moves Conference From Boycotted Hotel to Local Campus

Even if the Adam's Mark Hotel chain settles its race-discrimination dispute with the Justice Department, the Organization of American Historians, which canceled plans to hold its annual conference at the hotel, has settled on a new venue: Saint Louis University.

Last week, the O.A.H. announced that it was moving its registration, its book exhibits, and nearly all its sessions to the downtown campus.

The swift move -- a little more than a month before