This autumn the Indiana Historical Society invites you to three days of activities that highlight and celebrate the nineteenth state's past. On Friday, 3 November, Society members are invited to attend the IHS's annual meeting and dinner. Members and the public are welcome to attend the 80th annual history conference on Saturday, 4 November, and the second annual book fair on Sunday, 5 November. IHS members who attend the annual meeting on 3 November will have the first opportunity to hear nationally known speaker Frederick Kempe,author of the book _Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany_. Kempe has served as editor and associate publisher of the _Wall Street Journal Europe_ since January 1998. He will also present a session during Saturday's history conference. Dr. David Thelen, Indiana University professor of history, will present the keynote address for Saturday's history conference. Titled "The Presence of the Past: How Americans Understand and Use the Past," Thelen's talk is based upon interviews with 1,500 Americans about how they understand and use the past in their everyday lives. The Willard Heiss Memorial Lecture on genealogy will be presented by nationally recognized genealogist Christine Rose on Saturday. Rose, a certified genealogist, coauthored the best-selling _Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy_ and compiled the popular _Nicknames: Past and Present_. New to the history conference this year are "students of history" sessions that focus on exploration and documentation of family traditions and history through multigenerational participation. Other sessions Saturday will include talks on Hoosier labor leader Powers Hapgood, social reformer and literary lion Albion Fellows Bacon, politician and historian Claude Bowers, and letters from Indiana soldiers of the Korean War. Conference authors will be available to sign their books immediately after the last session on Saturday. Authors and their books featured at the conference include: Robert Barrows, Indiana University, Indianapolis, _Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper_ Robert Bussel, Penn State University, _From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class_ Peter J. Sehlinger, Indiana University, Indianapolis, _Spokesman for Democracy: Claude G. Bowers, 1878-1958 For more information on the conference, or to register, contact the IHS's education division at (317) 233-5659, or E-mail cjohnson@indianahistory.org. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.