Notes and Queries
The 38th Annual Missouri Valley History
Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, March 9-11, 1995. For
information about the conference,
contact: Dale Gaeddert, Chair MVHC,
University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska 68182.
The 1995 Western Historical Association
Meeting, will be held October
11-14, 1995, in Denver, Colorado. For
details write to: the Western History
Association, University of New Mexico,
1080 Mesa Vista Hall, Albuquerque,
New Mexico 87131-1181; or phone (505)
277-5234.
A call for papers has been issued for a
conference to be held June 9-11,
1995, at Youngstown State University, on
the subject "Working Class
Lives/Working Class Studies." An
interdisciplinary exploration of working
class life and culture in American by
both academic and non-academic
workers, the conference will examine
personal experiences and social and po-
litical strategies of the American
working class from the past to the present as
well as the practical directions working
class life may take in the future.
Conference organizers seek academic and
non-academic papers, artwork, fic-
tion, poetry, and other representations
of American working class life and
culture for both formal and informal
presentations, discussion, and/or perfor-
mance. Possible areas for exploration
include literature of and by the work-
ing class, social history, material
culture, journalism, art, ethnography, biog-
raphy, autobiography, and personal
narrative accounts of work. Presenters
should send 250-500 word abstracts
describing their project with suggestions
for format presentation to: Bill Mullen
and Linda Strom in the English
Department, or Janet Ore in the History
Department, Youngstown State
University, Youngstown, Ohio
44555-0001. E-mail address is:
linkon@unixl.cc.ysu.edu. Panel session
proposals are also welcome.
Deadline for proposals is January 15,
1995.
The Center of North American Studies at
the University of Alcala de
Henares welcomes contributions to Revista
Espanola de Estudios
Norteamericanos (REDEN or the Spanish Journal of North American
Studies) in any area of American
Studies. The journal's principal aim is to
provide a forum for a wide variety of
approaches to the study of American
Culture and Society, past and present.
Submissions may be written in either
Spanish or English, should be
twenty-thirty pages in length (double-spaced),
should follow the guidelines of The
MLA Style Manual, and should include an
abstract of no more than one hundred
word in length. For further informa-
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tion, contact: Revista Espaiola de
Estudios Norteamericanos, Jose Antonio
Gurpegui, Centro de Estudios
Norteamericanos, Universidad de Alcala de
Henares, c/ Libreros 13, 28801 Alcala de
Henares-Madrid (Spain).
Grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 for
scholars of all disciplines whose
work examines the Irish-American
experience are available from The Irish
American Cultural Institute (IACI), an
educational foundation based in St.
Paul, Minnesota. For further information
write to The Irish American
Cultural Institute, 2115 Summit Avenue,
#5026, St. Paul, Minnesota 55105,
or phone (612) 962-6040. Proposals
treating the Irish in the Midwest or New
York are especially encouraged.
The Association of One-Name Studies
(AONS), started in 1984, encour-
ages the exchange of genealogical ideas
and information in an effort to aid re-
searchers and avoid unnecessary
duplication of work previously done. The
Association maintains a register of
One-Name Studies that is published in a
quarterly newsletter and an annual
journal. Besides the register each newslet-
ter contains valuable articles relevant
to One-Name Studies. For details about
the newsletter and the AONS write to the
Association of One-Name Studies,
57 West South Temple, Suite 300, Salt
Lake City, Utah 84101.
The Library of Congress has recently
published The African-American
Mosaic: A Library of Congress
Resource Guide for the Study of Black
History and Culture. This 300-page volume provides an extensive overview
of the Library's vast holdings on the
African-Americans experiences, ranging
from bibliographies on slavery and
discographies of contemporary recordings
to descriptions of television documentaries
on the civil rights era and portray-
als of African-Americans in popular
films. Debra Newman Ham, a specialist
in Afro-American history and culture in
the Manuscript Division at the
Library of Congress, compiled and edited
the volume, incorporating informa-
tion provided by seven other specialists
familiar with the collections. Copies
may be ordered for $24.00 each from the
Superintendent of Documents, P.O.
Box 371954, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15250-7954. Please be sure to men-
tion the stock number, S/N
030-000-00254-7, when ordering.
Historic Archaeological Research, Inc.,
recently published the first in a
planned series of five or six booklets
in conjunction with the Fort Recovery
and Greeneville Bicentennial Committee. Archaeology
of Prophetstown,
Greeneville, Ohio, 1805-1808, by Richard Green, Tony DeRegnaucourt, and
Larry Hamilton, is a fifty-page
historical and archaeological study which sells
for $5.95 plus $1.55 per booklet for
shipping. To order, phone (513) 692-
8669, or write to Historic
Archaeological Research, Inc., 106 North Street,
Arcanum, Ohio 45304.