Notes and Queries
Nelson Lichtenstein has been named the
new editor of Ohio History. He
received his B.A. from Dartmouth and his
Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley. He has published
articles in Labor History, Radical
America, New Politics, and the Dictionary of American Biography. Editor
of
the recently published The Kennedy
Years and The Johnson Years, two
volumes in the Facts on File
"Political Profile" series, Dr. Lichtenstein
served as lecturer in history at The Ohio
State University last year. The
former editor, Dr. Thomas H. Hartig, has
become the Curator of the History
Department of the Ohio Historical
Society.
The Ohio American Revolution
Bicentennial Advisory Commission's final
two conference series papers are now
available. The fifth of this series,
Toward an Urban Ohio, which was edited by John Wunder, contains articles
by Charles N. Glaab, Harry N. Scheiber,
Melvyn Dubofsky, Zane L. Miller,
and James F. Richardson. The last of the
series, Quality of Life: Ohio in
Century Three, contains articles by Robert Teater, Thomas Hailstones,
Roger
Fortin, H. Bradley Hammond, Zane L.
Miller, Sheila Miller, George Shields,
and Robert G. Wolverton. Each of these
publications is available from the
Sales Department of the Ohio Historical
Society, I-71 and 17th Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio 43211 for $2.00.
The Ohio Academy of History holds its
fall meeting October 7-8, 1977, at
Muskingum College. The meeting is a
social gathering and includes a
reception and dinner Friday evening and
a tour on Saturday. The annual
spring meeting will be held April 28-29,
1978, at the Fawcett Center for
Tomorrow on The Ohio State University
campus. Proposals for papers and
panels should be sent to Professor
Phillip N. Bebb, Department of History,
Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701. The
Newberry Library sponsors the
second national conference on College
Teaching of State and Local History
January 12-15, 1978. Applications for
registration are due October 15, 1977.
Further information can be obtained by
writing to the Family and Community
History Center, The Newberry Library, 60
W. Walton, Chicago, Illinois
60610.
Recent promotions, appointments,
retirements, and deaths within the
professional community of Ohio historians
include the following. At The Ohio
State University, Leila J. Rupp and
Williamson Murray have been appointed
assistant professor; Kenneth J. Andrien
was appointed visiting professor;
Joseph H. Lynch, James R. Bartholomew,
and A. Harding Ganz (Newark
campus) were promoted to associate
professor; and Gary W. Reichard has
been promoted to associate professor and
Department Chairman. At Ohio
Wesleyan University, John Morrison is
ending his one-year appointment as
visiting professor and Robert Shimp, who
will be returning after a year at the
Newberry Library, will be Acting
Chairman for the fall 1977 term. Xavier
University has added the Reverend John
LaRocca, S.J., to its faculty as
professor and August M. Seher has
retired. Wilmington College has promoted
Mary L. Wagener to assistant professor.
Henry B. Leonard, Jerome