Notes and Queries
The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of
History will be held October 17,
1986, at the University of Akron.
Retirements within the professional
community include: Jeanette E. Tuve at
the end of the 1984-85 academic year from Cleveland
State University and
promoted to the rank of Professor Emerita; Edwin R.
King of the University
of Dayton in May 1986; and, in June 1986, Richard W.
Smith of Ohio Wesley-
an University.
The Western History Association has put
out a call for papers for its
Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting to be held October 7-10,
1987, in Los An-
geles, California. The Program Committee
is particularly interested in ses-
sions that deal with new directions,
themes, and methodologies in the study
of the American West, but will give
equal consideration to papers dealing
with any aspect of the frontier
experience or the West as a region. For further
information contact Paul Andrew Hutton,
Chair, WHA Program Committee,
Department of History, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexi-
co 87131.
Recent books by Ohio historians include:
Law, Alcohol and Order: Per-
spectives on National Prohibition, edited by David E. Kyvig of the Universi-
ty of Akron; The United States at
War, 1941-1945, by Gary R. Hess of Bowling
Green State University; Cleveland: A
Tradition of Reform, edited by David
D. Van Tassel of Case Western Reserve
University and John J. Grabowski of
the Western Reserve Historical Society; European
Naval and Maritime Histo-
ry, 300-1500, by Timothy J. Runyan of Cleveland State University with
Arch-
ibald Lewis; Two German Crowns:
Monarchy and Empire in Medieval Ger-
many, by Otis Mitchell of the University of Cincinnati with
Wyndham Hall;
North Carolina Faces the Freedmen:
Race Relations During Presidential Re-
construction, 1865-67, by Roberta Sue Alexander of the University of Day-
ton; NATO and the Mediterranean, edited
by Lawrence S. Kaplan of Kent
State University with Robert W. Clawson
and R. Luraghi; Black History and
the Historical Profession, 1915-1980,
by August Meier and the late Elliott
Rudwick of Kent State University; The
Dutch in America: Immigration, Set-
tlement, and Cultural Change, edited by Robert P. Swierenga of Kent State
University; Oberlin Architecture,
College and Town: A Guide to Its Social His-
tory, by Geoffrey T. Blodgett of Oberlin College; The
Stoic Tradition from An-
tiquity to the Early Middle Ages, by Marcia L. Colish of Oberlin College with
E. J. Brill; Facism in France: The
First Wave, 1924-1933, by Robert Soucy of
Oberlin College; The Architecture of
Migration: Log Construction in the Ohio
Country, 1750-1850, by Donald A. Hutslar of the Ohio Historical Society;
Crisis and Decline: The Viceroyalty
of Peru in the Seventeenth Century, by
Kenneth J. Andrien of The Ohio State
University; Business Enterprise in
American History, by Mansel Blackford and K. Austin Kerr of The Ohio
State University; Trucking and Public
Interest: The Emergence of Federal
Regulation, 1914-1940, by William R. Childs of The Ohio State University; A
History of the Soviet Union, by Michael W. Curran of The Ohio State Univer-