Notes and Queries
Chadwyck-Healey recently announced the
availability of the papers of
Charles Sumner on microfilm and a
printed Guide and Index to all 26,000 let-
ters. Compiled and edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer, the
Charles Sumner
Papers Project represents the publication of virtually
the entire known corre-
spondence of Sumner (1811-1874) and
throws new light on the man, as well as
on the major American political and
social issues of the nineteenth century.
For details concerning this important
offering contact Chadwyck-Healey,
Inc., 1101 King Street, Alexandria,
Virginia 22314.
The Eighth Annual Illinois History
Symposium will be held on December
4 and 5, 1987. For information
concerning the symposium, contact The Illi-
nois State Historical Society, Old State
Capitol, Springfield, Illinois 62701.
The Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency and The Illinois State Historical So-
ciety will also hold a conference
commemorating the Bicentennial of the
Northwest Ordinance concurrently with
the Symposium.
The Missouri Valley History Conference
has put out a call for papers and
panel proposals for the thirty-first
annual Missouri Valley History Conference
to be held in Omaha, Nebraska, on March
10-12, 1988. Open to all fields of
history as well as interdisciplinary and
methodolgical studies, proposals
should include an abstract of the paper
and a brief vita for all participants.
Persons interested in serving as
moderators or commentators are also invited
to write and indicate areas of
expertise. For further information contact Pro-
fessor Michael L. Tate, Program
Coordinator, 1988 MVHC, Department of
History, University of Nebraska at
Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68182. Papers
and proposals must be submitted no later
than November 15, 1987.
Ohio History recently received a request for research assistance
from Rob-
ert David Dawson, 327 Judge Avenue,
Waukegan, Illinois 60085. Working on a
project to index the correspondence of
William T. Sherman, Mr. Dawson is
interested in receiving information
about Sherman descendants or Sherman
letters held in private collections.
Recent books by Ohio historians include:
Dissertations in History: An In-
dex to Dissertations Completed in
History Departments of United States and
Canadian Universitys, 1970-June 1980,
compiled by Warren F. Kuehl of the
University of Akron; Land, Piety,
Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennon-
ite Communities in America,
1683-1790, by Richard K. MacMaster of
Bluff-
ton College; Famine in Peasant
Societies, by Ronald E. Seavoy of Bowling
Green State University; Old Age in a
Bureaucratic Society: The Elderly, the
Experts, and The State in American
Society, edited by David Van Tassel of
Case Western Reserve University with
Peter N. Stearns; Cleveland: A Tradi-
tion of Reform, edited by David Van Tassel of Case Western Reserve
Univer-
sity and John J. Grabowski of the
Western Reserve Historical Society; A His-
tory of the Ohio Conference of the
Churches of God, 1836-1986, edited by
Richard Kern of Findlay College; "Entangling
Alliances With None": Ameri-
can Foreign Policy in the Age of
Jefferson, by Lawrence S. Kaplan of
the
Kent State University; Labor Leaders
in America, edited by Warren Van