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The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22,

1995, at Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio. For further information, contact

Donna L. Van Raaphorst, History Department, Cuyahoga Community College,

Western Campus, Cleveland, Ohio 44130-5199.

 

The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, of Saint Mary's

University, will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in

Halifax, Nova Scotia, on May 24-28, 1995. The conference encourages the intro-

duction of new methodologies and approaches in understanding the evolving rela-

tionships between human societies and fur-bearing populations and will feature

papers in Native Studies, Women's Studies, Ecology and the Sciences,

Comparative Studies, History, Anthropology, and Literature, with special ses-

sions related to the Atlantic region of Canada. For further information about the

conference, contact: Barry Moody and Bill Wicken, Gorsebrook Research

Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova

Scotia, Canada B3H 3C3.

 

The University of Kentucky recently announced the Martin Luther King, Jr.

Prize for Research in African-American History, in the amount of $500, to be

awarded biennially to an article published in the preceding two years. Scholarly

articles in the field of African-American History published within two calendar

years prior to the date of the award will be considered. For further information

about this award, contact the Department of History, University of Kentucky,

Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0027.

 

The Forest History Society recently announced several awards: David P.

Massell, of Duke University, won the 1994 F. K. Weyerhaeuser Forest History

Fellowship for his graduate study focused on the development of hydro power and

related resources in Quebec Province; James Long, an investigative reporter for

the Portland Oregonian, won the 1994 John M. Collier Award for Forest History

Journalism with his May 23, 1993, "Of Grants and Greed."

 

William Leach, an independent scholar from Carmel, New York, has won the

second annual Herbert Hoover Book Award for his recent work, The Land of Desire:

Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. Sponsored by the

Herbert Hoover Library Association, the Hoover Book Award is given annually to

an outstanding scholarly book on any aspect of American history during President

Hoover's long momentous public life from 1914 to 1964. The Association's

scholarship committee, composed of historians from Iowa colleges and universi-

ties, serve as judges for the Award. For more information about Leach's book or

the Herbert Hoover Book Award contact:    Hoover Presidential Library

Association, Box 696, West Branch, Iowa 52358.

 

The Kentucky Historical Society has presented its annual Richard H. Collins

Award to Marion B. Lucas, professor of history at Western Kentucky University.

The award, designed to recognize outstanding research and writing, was given for

Lucas's article entitled "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to

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Freedom," which appeared in the Autumn 1993 issue of The Register of the

Kentucky Historical Society. For further information contact Dr. Thomas H.

Appleton, Jr., Kentucky Historical Society, Box H, Frankfort, Kentucky 40602-

2108.

 

The North American Society for Sport History will hold its 23rd annual confer-

ence in Long Beach, California, May 26-29, 1995. All participants must register

for the conference and be members of NASSH. For more information contact

Nancy L. Struna, Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland, College

Park, Maryland 20742-2611.

 

Martin Bruegel, a post-doctoral fellow at INRA, Laboratoire Consommation in

Paris, France, has received the 1994 New York State Historical Association

Manuscript Award for his monograph, "The Rise of a Market Society in the Rural

Hudson Valley, 1780-1860." The award, a $1,500 prize and assistance in publica-

tion, is presented each year by the New York State Historical Association to the

best unpublished study of some aspect of the history of New York State. The 1994

Kerr History Prize, awarded each year to the two best articles in the Association's

quarterly journal, New York History, was awarded to John H. Hewitt for his article,

"Mr. Downing and his Oyster House: The Life and Good Works of an African-

American Entrepreneur," and to Edward N. Costikyan for his article, "Politics in

New York City: A Memoir of the Post-War Years." For information about either

the Manuscript Award or the Kerr History Prize, contact: New York State Historical

Association, Lake Road, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, New York 13326.

 

The Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums (OAHSM) recently

awarded its 1994 Outstanding Individual Achievement Awards to: Margaret Parker

for service to the Meigs County Museum and Historical Society; to Edward A.

Rieman for service to the Putnam County Historical Society; to Darlene Weaver

for dedication to the Pickaway County Historical Society and the Genealogical

Library; and to Virginia B. Wojno for service to Progress Through Preservation in

Akron, Ohio.

 

Recent appointments, awards, grants, and retirements within the community of

Ohio historians include: Kay Slocum will be on sabbatical leave from Capital

University during the 1994-95 year; Carl W. Ubbelohde retired from Case Western

Reserve University in December 1993; Alan Rocke, Case Western Reserve

University, was promoted to professor; Roger B. Mann of Cleveland State

University is currently on leave of absence to complete research for a new publica-

tion; Deborah L. Pearl received a summer research grant from the Hoover Institute;

Donna Van Raaphorst, Cuyahoga Community College, was promoted to full pro-

fessor; Yeh-Chien Wang and Louis Patras retired from Kent State University in

July 1994; Jerome Freidman and Robert Swierenga will be on partial research

leave from Kent State University during the 1994-95 year; William H. Kenney,

Kent State University, has been promoted to full professor; Miami University's

Andrew R. L. Cayton and Elliott Gorn have been promoted to professor; Mary

Kupiec Cayton of Miami University received the College of Arts and Sciences

Distinguished Education Award for 1994-95; Jeffrey Kimball of Miami University

received a grant for a senior Nobel seminar at Oslo during the spring of 1995;

David Sturtevant of Muskingum College won the Ohio Academy of History

Outstanding Teaching Award; John C. Burnham of The Ohio State University won

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the Ohio Academy of History's 1994 Outstanding Publication Award for his book,

Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Sexual Misbehavior and Swearing

in America; John L. Gaddis of Ohio University won the 1994 Sheardson

Fellowship, Council on Foreign Relations; Jane Kate Leonard will be on leave

from the University of Akron during 1994-95; Geoffrey Plan has joined the

history department of the University of Cincinnati; David L. Sterling retired from

the University of Cincinnati; Roger Daniels, University of Cincinnati, was

recently named the Charles Phelps Taft Professor of History; June K. Burton, Don

R. Gerlach, Sheldon B. Liss, and Robert L. Zangrando have retired from the

University of Akron; Herbert F. Curry retired after 35 years at the University of

Cincinnati; Charles N. Glaab will be on sabbatical leave during Spring 1995

quarter from the University of Toledo; Diane Britton, University of Toledo, has

been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council on Public History;

the University of Toledo's William D. Hoover and Gerald Thompson will be on

sabbatical leave during the 1994-95 academic year; John Grabowski of the

Western Reserve Historical Society has been promoted to Director of Research for

the entire WRHS; James Huffman, Wittenberg University, received a Japan

Foundation grant to spend the 1994-95 academic year in Japan; Albert Hayden of

Wittenberg University won the Ohio Academy of History's 1994 Distinguished

Service Award and has recently retired; Youngstown State University's Fred Blue

recently received a Distinguished Professorship for Research while Leslie

Domonkos received the Distinguished Professorship for Teaching; Hugh Earnhart

and Saul Friedman, Youngstown State University, were both nominated for

regional PBS emmies for work on documentaries.

Several deaths which have saddened the historical community include: Harry

Lupold, Lakeland Community College; David C. Roller, Bowling Green State

University; and, Harry L. Coles of The Ohio State University.

 

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