The French Colonial Historical Society encourages interest in the scholarly study of all French colonizing activity and in the history of all French colonies. It provides its members with various channels, including newsletters, annual meetings, a web site [www.frenchcolonial.org], and French Colonial History, a refereed journal published by Michigan State University Press. The Society awards the Heggoy Prize annually for an outstanding book on French colonial history, and it presents the Eccles Prize to the best paper by a graduate student delivered at an FCHS conference and subsequently submitted for publication by the Society.  The French Colonial Historical Society is registered as a non-profit corporation in the State of Indiana (no. 197505-436).