In an Ideas piece in Time magazine, Craig Bruce Smith argues that US Army bases presently named for Confederate figures should be renamed after previously unrecognized veterans. This short piece tells the tales of Prince Hall and Deborah Sampson, heroes of the Revolutionary War and two suggestions that Smith floats as possible eponyms. The latter of the two bears a striking resemblance to Disney’s Mulan: Sampson disguised herself as a man, enlisted into military service, and fought in battle. Smith concludes by highlighting the benefit of renaming institutions after unrecognized Revolutionary War veterans:
“Today, we can remember that the founders are not simply the “Founding Fathers,” but all who contributed to the independence and creation of the U.S. In 1776, the nation was joined in a “common cause.” A politically divided America could use a reminder that the Declaration of Independence’s words matter and apply to all Americans.”
Smith, an assistant professor of military history at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, is the author of American Honor: The Creation of the Nation’s Ideals during the Revolutionary Era (2018), available from the University of North Carolina Press.
The final program for the Annual Meeting of La Société canadienne d’onomastique / The Canadian Society for the Study of Names is now available 
The American Name Society is now inviting proposals for papers for its next annual conference. After serious deliberation of an official proposal made on the 5th of May 2021, the Executive Council of the American Name Society unanimously voted to hold the 2022 Annual Conference online. All presentation sessions will be held online during the three days of the conference. This means that our conference will NOT be held in conjunction with the LSA meeting, which is still slated to be held in person, January 2022 in Washington, DC..jpg){kind=link}