Notes and Queries
"Workers, Politics, and the
State" will be the theme of the Third Annual
North American Labor History Conference,
to be held at Wayne State Uni-
versity, October 8-10, 1981. It is being
sponsored by the Department of
History and the Walter P. Reuther
Library of Labor and Urban Affairs. The
Conference Committee plans a program
featuring a wide variety of papers
reflecting research on both sides of the
Atlantic. Special sessions will fea-
ture comparative papers and a discussion
of non-Western aspects of the
main theme. The Conference Committee
interprets the subject, "Workers,
Politics, and the State," in the
broadest possible manner. Papers reflecting
themes in workers' political behavior
(both electoral and informal), political
ideologies and their relationship to
workers' politics, efforts of powerholders
to contain, control, or pacify dissident
forces, relationships between social
history and working-class political
theory, institutional labor politics, and
related themes are being considered. The
richness and variety of recent
research in labor history, social
history, and political ideologies form the
basis for a promising conference. Those
interested should contact Chris-
topher H. Johnson, Department of
History, Wayne State University, De-
troit, Michigan 48202.
The fifteenth annual Duquesne Univerity
History Forum will be held on
October 12, 13, and 14, 1981, at the
William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The Forum is the largest
and most comprehensive annual
history conference sponsored by a single
institution of higher learning in
the United States. The 1980 Forum
consisted of forty-nine sessions with 250
participants from 32 states, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary,
Italy and Pakistan. For further
information please write to: Prof. Steven
Bela Vardy, Director, History Forum,
Department of History, Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
15219.
The President and Board of Trustees of
the Western Reserve Historical
Society recently announced the
appointment of Theodore A. Sande to be
Executive Director of the Society,
succeeding Meredith B. Colket, Jr., who
retired in March 1980, and who now
serves as Director Emeritus. Mr. Sande
will be the sixth Executive Director of
the Society.
Dr. Martin F. Luebke of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, became the fourth Curator
of the Saxon Lutheran Memorial of
Frohna, Missouri. The Memorial is a
pioneer farm site owned and operated by
Concordia Historical Institute of
St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Luebke is the
fourth resident Curator of the Memo-
rial since its official dedication in
1964, and succeeds Pastor Theodore C.
Predoehl, who retired earlier this fall
after eleven years of service.
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For a comprehensive, annotated
bibliography, Laura Arksey is seeking
information from anyone with a knowledge
of published American diaries.
Details of little-known collections,
unusual and scarce titles, and periodical
diaries appearing between 1950 and 1964
are especially sought. American
Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of Published
American Diaries to 1980
is being compiled and edited by Laura
Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia
Reed and will be published by Gale
Research Company in 1982-83. The
two-volume work will contain some 5,000
entries, arranged chronologically
and with an index. It will update and
expand William Matthews' American
Diaries: An Annotated Bibliography of
American Diaries Written Prior to
the Year 1861. Persons with information are requested to write: Laura
Arksey, Weter Library, Seattle Pacific
University, Washington 98119.
The American Association for State and
Local History has recently pub-
lished Access to the Past: Museum
Programs and Handicapped Visitors. A
guide to Section 504-making existing
programs and facilities accessible to
disabled persons. Written by Dr. Alice P. Kenney, Access to the Past concen-
trates on making programs more
accessible, rather than advocating un-
necessary architectural modifications-an
important consideration in pre-
serving the integrity of historic
structures. The book is intended for staff,
docents, and board members of cultural
and historical institutions. It offers-
guidance in adapting programs and
facilities to accommodate people with
limited mobility, hearing, vision, or
mental capacity, helping to build heal-
thy attitudes between staff, disabled
persons and the community as a whole.
For more information concerning this
$7.95 paperbound book, contact:
American Association for State and Local
History, 1400 Eighth Avenue
South, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.
The Ohio Historical Society's Manuscript
Department has the following
processed manuscript collections
available for research: Dayton, Covington
and Piqua (Ohio) Traction Co. records,
1897-1927, 14 3/4 cf; Charles Henry
Wetmore papers, 1805-1933, 1/2 cf,
physician of New York and Ohio; Newton
H. Fairbanks, 1913-1934, 86 items,
(microfilmed and available for interli-
brary loan); Ohio Postal Workers Union
records, 1955-1975, 1/2 cf; Buckeye
Steel Castings Company (Columbus, Ohio)
records, 1883-1977, 7 1/2 cf; Viet-
nam Veterans Against the War/Winter
Soldier Organization, Columbus,
Ohio, Chapter records, 1964-1975,
3 1/4 cf; Ted F.
Silvey papers, 1929-1951,
1 3/4 cf, Ohio Labor leader; Federal
Glass Co. (Columbus, Ohio) records,
1879-1979, 10 cf; Walter Folger Brown
papers, 1907-1950, 650 items,
lawyer, railroad executive, US
Postmaster General; Ohio Community
Theatre Association records, 1953-1979,
r cf; William Fuson papers, ca.
1835-1850, 1/2 cf, Baptist
minister; Sumner Leroy Martin papers, 1917-1936,
1/2
cf, Methodist Episcopal minister and WWI chaplain; David Robinson
papers, 1831-1856, 1/2 cf,
Washington County, Pennsylvania, Presbyterian
minister; Asa M. Beaver papers,
1890-1907, 1/2 cf, Licking County, Ohio
farmer; Jacob G. Collicott papers,
1916-1937, 1/2 cf, educator;
John A.
Himmelein papers, 1907-1929, 1/4 cf,
theater manager and operator; Charles
Greene McChesney Mount papers,
1849-1863, ca. 300 items, carpenter and
army officer; Harlan W. Johnson papers,
1917-1918, 1/4 cf, WWI second
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lieutenant; DeWitt Clinton Louden
papers, 1834-1888, 1/4 cf, Mexican War
and Civil War soldier; Henry Barnes
Curtis papers, 1820-1885, 3 1/2 cf,
lawyer and politician of Mt. Vernon,
Ohio.
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