Notes and Queries
Ohio University Press is launching a new
series of books to commemorate
Ohio's two-hundredth anniversary in
2003. The Ohio Bicentennial Series will
provide the public, scholars, and
students with a comprehensive picture of the de-
velopment of Ohio life. Ten books are
planned for the series, tentative titled in-
clude: Transportation in Ohio;
Documentary Heritage of Ohio; Women in Ohio
History; Indigenous Peoples of Ohio;
Vernacular Architecture of Ohio; Governors
of Ohio: Ohio: A Pictorial History; Ohio Utopian Communities;
Ohio
Technology; and Ohio Migration. The series will be edited by
Clarence Wunderlin
of the Kent State University, and will
be written by noted scholars from around the
state and nation.
The Ohio Academy of History will hold
its 1998 Spring Meeting at Denison
University. The 1999 Spring Meeting is
slated for the University of Dayton. For
further information, contact Donna L.
Van Raaphorst, Cuyahoga Community
College-Western Campus, History
Department, Cleveland, Ohio 44130-5199.
The Ripley, Ohio,home of John P. Parker,
nineteenth-century abolitionist and
industrialist, will undergo restoration
to serve as a museum and interpretive center.
State capital improvement monies have
been dedicated to support the restoration
project. When completed, the Parker
House will be used to interpret the life of
John P. Parker, the Underground
Railroad, the life of nineteenth-century African
American businessmen, and the social
history of the Ohio River Valley. Long-
term efforts to save Parker House were
successful in 1996 when the property was
purchased by the newly formed John P.
Parker Historical Society. The house is
listed on the National Register of
Historic Places and will soon become a National
Historical Landmark. For further
information about this on-going project write to
the John P. Parker Historical Society,
P.O. Box 246, Ripley, Ohio 45167.
Youngstown State University is offering
a new "Certificate in Historic
Preservation" program. Consisting
of both graduate and undergraduate courses,
the Historic Preservation Certificate
will be awarded as an addition to the universi-
ty's history degrees. For details about
the History Department at Youngstown
State University and the new Historic
Preservation program, contact Youngstown
State University, History Department,
Youngstown, Ohio 44555. Phone
(330)742-3452. E-mail
<twhanche@cc.ysu.edu>.
The New York State Historical
Association recently announced several awards.
The 1997 Kerr History Prize went to Paul
A. Gilje, Professor of History at the
University of Oklahoma at Norman, for
his article, "On the Waterfront: Maritime
Workers in New York City in the Early
Republic, 1800-1850," which appeared in
the October 1996 issue of New York
History. Daniel Burnstein, of
Seattle
University, received the Kerr History
Prize Honorable Mention for his article,
"The Vegetable Man Cometh:
Political and Moral Choices in Pushcart Policy in
Progressive Era New York City,"
which appeared in the January 1996 issue of New
York History. The Dixon Ryan Fox Manuscript Prize for the best
unpublished
manuscript dealing with some aspect of
New York State history, went to Evan
Cornog for his study of DeWitt Clinton,
"The Birth of Empire: DeWitt Clinton