Notes and Queries
The Thirty-Sixth Annual Missouri Valley
History Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, March 11-13, 1993. For
further information, contact Dale
Gaeddert, MVHC Coordinator, Department
of History, University of Nebraska
at Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0213.
The North American Society for Sport
History will hold its Twenty-first Annual
Convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on May 28-June 1, 1993. Those inter-
ested in presenting a paper or
organizing a session should contact or submit ab-
stracts for review by November 15, 1992,
to: Prof. Joan Paul, Department of Hu-
man Performance and Sport Studies, The
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996-2700. Abstracts should be from
250-500 words, have a stated purpose,
briefly describe methods of collecting
data and findings, and be primary rather than
secondary research.
The University of Kentucky invites
submissions and nominations for the sec-
ond Martin Luther King, Jr., Prize for
Research in African-American History. The
$500 award is given biennially to an
article published in the preceding two years.
Scholarly articles published in the
calendar years 1991 and 1992 are eligible to
compete for the award to be announced in
February 1993. Elsa Barkley Brown,
Assistant Professor of History and
Society at SUNY/Binghamton, won the first
award in 1991 for her Spring 1989 Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and So-
ciety article, "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena
Walker and the Indepen-
dent Order of Saint Luke." Send
submissions or nominations to Martin Luther
King, Jr., Prize Committee, Department
of History, University of Kentucky, Lex-
ington, Kentucky 40506-0027, by December
31, 1992.
The William Dean Howells Memorial
Committee recently announced that Jerry
S. Herron of Wayne State University was
awarded the Howells Summer Fellow-
ship for 1992. The funds that support
the fellowship were given with the purpose
of encouraging study of and publications
on the life and work of William Dean
Howells. The award consisted of two
weeks' rent-free lodging at the Howells
Memorial at Kittery Point, Maine, and
provided the recipient with access to How-
ells' private library as well as the
Howells collections in the Houghton Library
at Harvard University.
T. H. Watkins, vice-president of the
Wilderness Society and editor of its mag-
azine, Wilderness, recently won
the 1992 John M. Collier Forest History Jour-
nalism Award. The award, sponsored by
the Forest History Society, went to
Watkin's June 1991 American Heritage article
which traced the early forestry ac-
tivities of conservation leader Gifford
Pinchot. The Forest History Society is a
nonprofit education institution. Founded
in 1946, it advances historical under-
standing of mankind's interaction with
the forest environment through pro-
grams in research, publication, service,
library, and archival collecting. For fur-
ther information about both the John M.
Collier Forest History Journalism
Award and the Forest History Society,
write to the Forest History Society, Inc.,
701 Vickers Avenue, Durham, North
Carolina 27701.