Ohio History Journal

NOTES AND QUERIES

 

 

The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held at

the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus,

April 24 and 25, 1981. Address all inquiries to Professor H. Roger Grant,

OAH Program Chair, Department of History, The University of Akron,

Akron, Ohio 44324. Phone (216) 375-7006.

 

A call for papers is requested for the Thirteenth Annual Dakota History

Conference to be held at Madison, South Dakota, on the campus of Dakota

State College on April 10 and 11, 1981. The Karl Mundt Distinguished

Historical Writing Awards will be presented for the best papers. There are

two categories: Professional (writer attached to an institution of higher

education in the field of Social Science, English, or History, and professional

writers), and Amateur (anyone else). There will be three prizes for best

papers presented in each category: first prize - $250, second prize - $150,

and third prize - $100. Papers should relate to some aspect of South Dako-

ta, Dakota Territory, or the Upper Great Plains Region. In addition, there

will be two awards by topic: The Richard Cropp award of $100 for the best

paper in institutional history. All papers submitted for competition must be

read by the author. Papers presented will be published if desired by the

author. Please address all correspondence to: H. W. Blakely, History De-

partment, Dakota State College, Madison, South Dakota 57042.

 

In recognition of Ray A. Billington's leadership in the field of western

history and to encourage authors and editors alike to seek for excellence in

the field of western history, the Western History Association has decided to

award each year the Ray A. Billington Prize for the best article on western

history published in any journal save the association's own Quarterly. The

prize will include a payment of $300 to the winning author and $100 to the

journal in which the article was published. To be eligible, an article must

deal with a topic relating to the North American West, including Mexico,

Canada, and Alaska, and must have appeared in a regular periodical within

the twelve months ending July 1, 1981. Articles will be judged according to

(1) the significance of each as a contribution to knowledge; (2) the skill and

imaginativeness with which the author has done his research in original

materials or has reinterpreted some well-known question; (3) the literary

quality of the essay. Nominations may be made only by the editors of the

participating publications, and must reach the three judges by July 31,

1981.

 

The 1979 Richard H. Collins Award for the best article in the Register of

the Kentucky Historical Society has been given to Dale Royalty of East

Tennessee State University for his "Banking and the Commonwealth Ideal

in Kentucky, 1806-1822," which appeared in the Spring 1979 issue. The

award, designed to recognize outstanding research and writing, carries a

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$250 stipend. For further information, contact Dr. James C. Klotter, P.O.

Box H, Frankfort, Kentucky 40602. Phone (606) 277-4572.

 

Richard W. Judd has been named postdoctoral fellow in forest history at

the University of Maine, Orono. Under a cooperative program of the Forest

History Society and the university's Department of History, Judd will work

with Professor David C. Smith to study the history of lumbering in Aroos-

took County, which is in northern Maine. This project was made possible by

a grant from George C. Sawyer of Ashland, Maine.

 

With the help of the State Library of Ohio, the Public Library of Co-

lumbus and Franklin County has been awarded a Major Urban Resource

Grant under LSCA Title I to develop a circulating collection of the library's

files of historic photos, postcards and photos in old books and periodicals.

The $39,000 project will enable the PLCFC to photoreproduce 7,500 images

in the collection of the Columbus and Ohio Division at the Main Library.

The slides and photos will be placed in 84 albums, with an index available

for easy access, and will be made available for loan to the public. In addition

to loans of individual photos and slides, the collection will also be available

for loan in subject groupings for use in slide show presentations. For addi-

tional information about the project, contact Ms. Fellows at PLCFC Main

Library, 96 S. Grant Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215.

 

The University of Louisville Archives and Records Center, assisted by the

National Historical Publications and Records Commission, has just pub-

lished the Papers of Louis Dembitz Brandeis at the University of Louisville

in a 184-reel microfilm edition, with a 100-page guide. The microfilm pub-

lication contains over 250,000 items, including correspondence with Felix

Frankfurter, Woodrow Wilson, and Robert M. La Follette, Sr. The letters,

legislative drafts, working papers, and reports touch on a multitude of

topics from the Progressive party to the New Deal Era. As highly successful

Boston attorney, Brandeis led struggles for public regulation of local utili-

ties and railways, as well as battles for state and federal legislation to

improve the condition of factory workers. He was also involved in the Prog-

ressives' break with the Taft administration and early assisted Woodrow

Wilson's bid for the presidency - an association that led to his appointment

in 1916 as the first Jew to serve on the United States Supreme Court.

Brandeis was a foremost leader of American Zionism; extensive correspond-

ence and reports document the struggle of that movement well into the

1930s. While there are few Brandeis letters from the Supreme Court years,

the microfilm includes 40 reels of material, previously unavailable for re-

search, that have been released by his former law firm. The 100-page guide

includes an introduction to the extensive papers, a Brandeis chronology as

reflected in the Papers, and a description of the contents of each of the 184

microfilm reels. The researcher is also aided by a selected name index to the

Papers. Publication price for the 184-reel set is $3680.00. Individual reels

may be purchased at $22.50 each. The guide is available separately for

$7.50, but will be provided without charge with orders of four reels or more.

Additional information may be obtained from University Archives and Re-

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cords Center, University of Louisville, Belknap Campus, Louisville, Ken-

tucky 40292. Phone (502) 588-6674.

 

The appearance of the Index to volumes 49-52 in the Winter 1979 issue of

the Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly marks the availability of an

important research tool on Lutheran history and people. Prepared by Hans

Mueller of St. Louis, this index covers all of the articles and reviews appear-

ing in the Quarterly from 1976 to 1979. The only journal published in

America devoted to the history of Lutherans on this continent, the Cocordia

Historial Institute Quarterly began publication in 1928. This new index, a

comprehensive index (published 1968) for the first 40 volumes, and two

subsequent indices (published in the Winter 1971 and 1975 quarterlies),

create an indespensable key to the immense collection of information

appearing in the Quarterly. All four indices are available through the Con-

cordia Historical Institute, 801 De Mun Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri 63105.

 

Janevar Publishing Company will specialize in publishing hardcover and

quality paperback original books relating to United States history, bib-

liography, biography, folklore, and genealogy. Historical fiction also will be

given consideration. Jane Elsmere, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of the new firm,

invites any writer interested in submitting a manuscript to send a chapter

outline, sample chapter, and return postage to her at Janevar Publishing

Company, P.O. Box 2591, Muncie, Indiana 47302.

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