Notes and Queries
The State History Day Contest for Ohio
will be held in Cleveland on
Saturday, May 16, 1981 at the Western
Reserve Historical Society and Case
Western Reserve University. To qualify
for the sixth annual state event,
6th through 12th grade students
throughout Ohio will compete in one of
eleven district contests. Students may
compete in one of the following cate-
gories: individual paper, individual or
group projects, and individual or
group performances, on the junior and
senior levels. Winners in the Ohio
contest will be eligible to compete with
students from thirty-five states at
the second National History Day to be
held at the University of Maryland in
College Park, Maryland, on June 11-13,
1981. This year's theme is "Work
and Leisure in History." Students
are encouraged to use their creativity in
selecting an area of study within this
broad topic. The participants' efforts
need not be centered on American history
alone-all countries and periods
are open to study. For more information,
please contact David C. Twining,
State Director, History Day '81, Western
Reserve Historical Society, 10825
East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106.
The Law & Society Association has
established a prize fund in honor of
James Willard Hurst, the eminent legal
historian of the University of Wis-
consin. The James Willard Hurst Prize
will be awarded annually by the
Trustees of the Law & Society
Association for the best work in American
legal history published in the previous year. The field of legal
history-in
the spirit of Willard Hurst's own
work-is broadly defined to include the
history of interrelationships between
law and social, economic, and political
change; the history of the functions and
impact of legal agencies, legislative
and administrative as well as judicial;
and the history of the legal profes-
sion. Although the prize is for American
legal history, significant compara-
tive work that sheds light on American
history will also be considered. The
submission of purely doctrinal studies
of the evolution of appellate case law
is, however, discouraged. Preference in
making the award will normally be
given to books; but articles and
monographs of exceptional quality will also
be considered. For further information,
contact: Robert W. Gordon, Commit-
tee on the Hurst Prize, University of
Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI
53706.
The Canal Society of Ohio has recently
reprinted its "Canal Guide to
Ohio," which includes a map of the
network of a thousand miles of man-
made waterways which once carried
freight and passengers across the
State. Sections and remains of the
historic canals which may still be seen
are listed and briefly described. For a
copy of the folder, send a stamped,
return address business-sized envelope
to Corresponding Secretary, Canal
Society of Ohio, 550 Copley Road, Akron,
OH 44320.