Notes and Queries
The Ohio Labor History Project of
The Ohio Historical Society has completed
the Preliminary Guide to Sources
in Ohio Labor History, a forty-seven page
pamphlet listing over 350 entries.
Copies can be obtained for $2.25 by writing to
Ohio Labor History Project, Ohio Historical Society,
Archives/Manuscripts
Division, Columbus, Ohio 43211. Please
make checks payable to the Ohio
Historical Society.
The National Endowment for the
Humanities has awarded a $25,000 grant to
the Local History Department of the
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library for
local history programming. Seven
thirty-minute slide-cassette presentations
with narration and musical background
will be produced during the twelve-
month grant period. Complementing the
audio-visual efforts will be printed and
display materials. The specific programs
are entitled: "Toledo Historical High-
lights," "Tours of Toledo-Area
Towns and Neighborhoods," "The Afro-
American Experience in Toledo,"
"The Ethnic Experience in Toledo," "The
Fight for Women's Suffrage in
Toledo," and "Meet Me At Tiedtke's." The last
named program chronicles the history of
a famous local department store. A
previously produced local history
presentation, "Toledo in the 1920's," will also be
upgraded under provisions of the grant.
The fourth annual California State
College History Forum will be held on
April 27, 1977. Scholarly topics in all
fields of history are invited. Those in-
terested in participating should write
Dr. J. Kent Folmar, Department of His-
tory, California State College,
California, Pa. 15419 by January 1, 1977.
The Sixth Newberry Summer Institute will
take place in Chicago, June 8 to
July 8, 1977. The intensive program of
lectures, workshops, laboratories, and
discussions is designed to provide a
thorough introduction to the basics of
quantitative historiography,
particularly statistics, computers, research design,
historical demography, and to the key
methods in the "new" social and political
history. Historians are invited to apply
regardless of field; advanced graduate
students are welcome. No previous
training in statistics, mathematics, or com-
puters is needed. The Institute is
sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Rockefeller
Foundation, and fellowships are available. For
further details and application forms
(due March 15, 1977), write Richard Jen-
sen, Family and Community History
Center, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
St., Chicago, Illinois 60610.
Readers of Ohio History may want
to make note of the following recent books
available on various aspects of the
state's history. Tornado, written by Polk
Laffoon, IV, is a 224-page, illustrated account of the Xenia
tornado of 1974. It
may be purchased from Harper & Row
Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New
York, N.Y. 10022 for $8.95. The
Catholic Journey Through Ohio is an illustrated
history of the Roman Church In Ohio from
the first settlement to the present.
Written by Albert Hamilton, the
book sells for $1.95. For more information,
contact the Catholic Conference of Ohio,
22 South Young Street, Columbus,
Ohio 43215. The Spirit of '76 . .. An
American Portrait is now available from