Registration and papers: President Richard H. Steckel and the Program Committee — Michael Haines, Colgate University (Chair); Jeremy Atack, Vanderbilt University; Brooks Kaiser, Gettysburg College; and Trevon Logan, Ohio State University — welcomes you all to the 69th Economic History Association annual meeting, with the theme "Human Welfare: Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation." The registration for the 69th Economic History Association annual meeting - held in Tucson, Arizona on September 11-13, 2009 - is now open

at: www.ehameeting.com. If you would prefer to register by using a check or prefer not to use the online option, please use the printed form in your annual EHA mailing. The preregistration deadline is August 18, 2009.

The meeting website also holds the conference brochure, which includes a preliminary conference program. Note! Completed papers should be submitted by August 11, 2009. By vote of the Board of Trustees, the corresponding author must be a current member of the Association (to join the Association, please go to eh.net/eha). Papers should in all cases be work in progress rather than accepted or published work; submitters have a responsibility to let the program committee know if the paper has been submitted for publication.

Jari Eloranta, Ph.D Meetings Coordinator, Economic History Association Associate Professor of Comparative Economic and Business History, Appalachian State University, Department of History, 325 University Drive, Old Library Building, Boone, NC 28608, USA, Phone: +1-828-262 6006, email: elorantaj@appstate.edu http://www.appstate.edu/~elorantaj/