Notes and Queries
The Ohio Academy of History will hold
its Annual Meeting April 9-10, 1999, at
the Universiyt of Dayton. The Academy
was formed in 1932 to serve the needs of
historians, archivists, museologists,
fledgling historians, and many others in
Ohio. Most members are professionally
engaged as historians or in related fields
and occupations throughout the state.
For information about the Academy, it mis-
sions, its biannual meetings, its
publications, and how to participate, write to the
Ohio Academy of History, c/o Richard
Spall, Jr., Ohio Wesleyan University,
Delaware, Ohio 430152-2398.
The Edwin Mellen Press recently
announced the publication of Louis Bromfield,
Novelist and Agrarian Reformer: The
Forgotten Author, by Ivan Scott. Using
the
archives at The Ohio State University,
records in Mansfield, Ohio, and
Bromfield's letters, the author has
reconstructed the life and career of the promi-
nent novelist and agrarian reformer of
the 1940s and 1950s. The 700-plus page
book is available for $139.95 from the
U.S. order department of Edwin Mellen
Press by writing to: The Edwin Mellen
Press, Order Fulfillment Dept., P.O. Box
450, Lewiston, NY 14092-0450. E-mail
address <mellen@wzrd.com>.
Recent publications by Ohio historians
include: Changing Plans for America's
Inner Cities: Cincinnati's
Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth Century Urbanism, by
Zane Miller of University of Cincinnati;
Women Writers and the Early Modern
Political Tradition in Britain, edited by Hilda Smith of University of Cincinnati;
Bolshevik Women, by Barbara Clements of the University of Akron; Parting
the
Curtain: Propaganda, Culture and the
Cold War, by Walter L. Hixson of the
University of Akron; Martin Van
Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of
Republican Ideology, by Jerome Mushkat of the University of Akron; Shifting
Fortunes: The Rise and Decline of
American Labor, from the 1820's to the Present,
by Daniel Nelson of the University of
Akron; and, Learning to be Loyal: Primary
Schooling as Nation Building in
Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940, by
Stephen Harp
of the University of Akron.
The 42nd Annual Missouri Valley History
Conference will be held in Omaha,
Nebraska, March 11-13, 1999. For further
information write to the Missouri
Valley History Conference at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Department of
History, Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0213.
Recent news from History Departments
around Ohio include:
University of Cincinnati. Frank Kafker and Gene Lewis have retired; Thomas
Sakmyster has been appointed Acting
Head; Mona Siegel, a specialist in modern
French history, has been appointed as an
assistant professor; Wayne Durrill re-
ceived a research grant from Spencer
Foundation; Elizabeth Frierson received a
prize for the best article from the
Turkish Studies Association; Geoffrey Plan re-
ceived a Canadian Studies Research
Grant; Joanne Meyerowitz received a Social
Science Research Council Fellowship; and
Linda Przybyszewski, received a
Mellon Fellowship in History.
The University of Akron. Lesley Gordon, a specialist in the antebellum era and
Civil War and formerly at Murray State
University, has been appointed assistant