Notes and Queries
The ABC-CLIO America: History and
Life Award is a biennial award of $750
given to recognize and encourage
scholarship in American history in journal lit-
erature advancing new perspectives on
accepted interpretations or previously un-
considered topics. The award is not
confined to any particular subject area or
chronological period but instead seeks
to recognize journal articles that display
a seminal character, articles that do
not simply elaborate previous interpretations
but that propose new perspectives or
examine new areas and in so doing extend
historical knowledge and raise new
avenues of investigation. In seeking to rec-
ognize such pivotal articles the award
acknowledges their creative achievement
in breaking the constraints of
conventional thinking in their approach to histor-
ical sources. Individuals as well as
editors are encouraged to submit nominations.
Each entry must be published during the
period November 16, 1990, through
November 15, 1992. One copy of each
entry must be received by each member
of the award committee by November 15,
1992. For further information contact:
Professor William Pencaka, Committee
Chair, Pennsylvania State University,
Ogontz Campus, Abington, Pennsylvania
19001.
The Western History Association recently
announced "The Bolton-Kinnaird
Award in Borderlands History." The
Bolton-Kinnaird Award, a cash prize of
$300-$500, will be awarded annually for
the best article on any phase of the his-
tory of the Borderlands, from the
Floridas to the Californias, from the sixteenth
century to the present, including: the
northward movement of Spanish-speaking
people into the U.S. in recent times;
major political, economic, and social de-
velopments, cultures, peoples,
institutions, and movements; and broad essays of
synthesis or new interpretations. To be
eligible, articles must have been published
in the previous calendar year in any
scholarly journal or edited volume. Articles
will be judged on scholarship and
literary style. If judges find no manuscript wor-
thy of the prize, no prize will be given
that year. The Bolton-Kinnaird Award con-
tinues the tradition of the Bolton Award
initiated and funded biennially by
Lawrence Kinnaird in 1972 which
continued until his death in 1985 and has been
administered by the Western History
Association since 1989. For further infor-
mation about this award, contact Joseph
Stout at Oklahoma State University, John
Kessell at the University of New Mexico,
or Albert Camarillo at Stanford Uni-
versity.
The Forest History Society recently
announced several 1991 award winners and
1992 travel grants. Michael Williams, a
geography professor at Oxford Univer-
sity, won the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser
Award for best book in the field of for-
est and conservation history, with his
work, Americans and Their Forests: A His-
torical Geography. Lary M. Dilsaver of the University of South Alabama and
Douglas H. Strong of San Diego State
University shared the Theodore C. Blegen
Award for their article, "Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks: One Hun-
dred Years of Preservation and Resource
Management," which appeared in Cal-
ifornia History. The Ralph W. Hidy Award went to Thomas R. Cox of San
Diego
State University for his article
"The North American Timber Trade: The Roots
of Canadian and U.S. Approaches,"
which appeared in Forest & Conservation