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The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of
History will be October 13-14,
1989, at Ohio University.
The Missouri Valley History Conference,
sponsored by the University of
Nebraska at Omaha's History Department
will be held March 8-10, 1990.
Those interested in further information
concerning the conference should
contact Jerold Simmons, Program
Coordinator, MVHC, Department of His-
tory, University of Nebraska at Omaha,
Omaha, Nebraska 68182.
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission's Thirteenth Annual
Conference on Black History in
Pennsylvania will be held May 4 and 5, 1990,
in Allentown, Pennsylvania. For more
information contact: Black History
Conference Coordinator, Division of
History, Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission, Box 1026, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania 17108-1026.
Recent activities, awards, appointments,
promotions, resignations, and
retirements, within the academic
community of historians include: Keith L.
Bryant has been named professor and
department head at the University of
Akron; Larry Simon joins the University
of Akron as an assistant professor;
Bluffton College's James H. Satterwhite
has received an IREX research grant
and a Fulbright Faculty Research Abroad
Program grant and will be on leave
from December 1988 to November 1989;
Bowling Green State University's
William R. Rock retired in June 1989
after thirty-one years in the department;
Fujiya Kawashima of Bowling Green State
University recently did some
research in Korea with the aid of an
International Society of Korea and
Academy of Studies grant; Ronald Pollitt
of the University of Cincinnati won
the Ohio Academy of History's 1988
Teaching Award; John Heitmann of the
University of Dayton received the 1988
L. Kemper Williams Prize in Louisiana
History; Larry Schweikart of the
University of Dayton has been promoted to
associate professor; James H. Krukones
and Roger W. Purdy have been named
assistant professors at John Carroll
University; Henry Leonard of Kent State
University received the 1988 College of
Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Teaching Award; Kent State University's
Felix Ekechi and William Howland
Kenney, III, have received NEH grants;
Gerald Newman of Kent State
University has been promoted to
professor; Louis Patras, Kent State
University-Stark Campus, has been
promoted to professor; Stanley Garfinkel,
Kent State University-Geauga Campus, has
been promoted to associate
professor; Constance Bouchard of Kenyon
College recently received a grant
from the American Philosophical Society;
Elliott J. Gorn of Miami University
has been granted tenure and promoted to
associate professor; Jack Temple
Kirby succeeds Ronald E. Shaw as Miami
University's W. E. Smith Professor
of American Economic Life and will be on
leave during the 1989-90 second
semester; David M. Fahey and Allan M.
Winkler of Miami University will be
on leave during the 1989-90 second
semester; Mary Brennan, Tatyana
Nestorova-Matejic, and Thomas Pegram
received temporary appointments as
instructors at The Ohio State
University; Robert Baum of The Ohio State
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University received a 1989-90 fellowship
from the American Council of
Learned Societies Research; Michael Les
Benedict of The Ohio State Univer-
sity received a 1989 research grant from
the Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science; Hao Chang of The Ohio State
University received a 1988-89 Hoover
Institution on War, Revolution, and
Peace grant; Timothy Gregory of The Ohio
State University has been promoted to
professor; both Martha Garland and
Claire Robertson of The Ohio State
University have been promoted to
associate professor; John S. Hill has
joined the faculty of The Ohio State
University as an assistant professor;
Michael Hogan of The Ohio State
University received the Ohio Academy of
History's Publication Award, the
International Studies Association's
Quincy Wright Prize, and the American
Historical Association's George Louis
Beer Prize for his The Marshall Plan;
Eve Levin of The Ohio State University
received a postdoctoral research
fellowship from the Joint Committee on
Eastern Europe of the American
Council of Learned Societies and the
Social Science Research Council; Joseph
Lynch of The Ohio State University
received a 1987-88 NEH fellowship; Carla
G. Pestana of The Ohio State University
received a 1989-90 American Council
of Learned Societies research
fellowship; R. Clayton Roberts of The Ohio
State University received a 1987-88 NEH
fellowship; Craig Roell takes up the
Samuel B. Davis postdoctoral fellowship
in business history at The Ohio State
University; Randolph Roth of The Ohio
State University received the Old
Sturbridge Village and Research
Library's 1987 E. Harold Hugo Memorial
Book Prize for his The Democratic
Dilemma: Religion, Reform, and the Social
Order in the Connecticut River Valley
of Vermont, 1791-1850, and a 1989-90
Guggenheim Foundation fellowship;
Stephanie J. Shaw has received a joint
appointment with Women's Studies as an
assistant professor at The Ohio State
University; Marshall F. Stevenson, Jr.,
has joined The Ohio State University
as an assistant professor; Allan K.
Wildman of The Ohio State University
received the Wayne S. Vucinich Prize of
the American Association for
Advancement of Slavic Studies for his
book The Road to Soviet Power and
Peace, as well as a 1987-88 NEH fellowship, a 1988
Fulbright-Hays research
grant, and a 1988 IREX grant; Ohio University
has granted sabbatical leave to
Alan R. Booth, Douglas C. Baxter, James
G. Chastain, Suzanne Miers, and
Donald C. Richter; William H. Frederick
of Ohio University has been made an
associate professor; Ohio University has
promoted James G. Chastain and
Marvin E. Fletcher to professor; Steven
M. Miner of Ohio University was
recently a research fellow at the Hoover
Institution on War, Revolution, and
Peace; Robert Kragalott of Ohio Wesleyan
University was recently on leave in
Yugoslavia; Kathryn Meyer has been
appointed assistant professor at the Ohio
Wesleyan University; Jan Hallenbeck has
been appointed department chair-
man at the Ohio Wesleyan University;
Ohio Wesleyan University's William O.
Walker III will be on two-year leave to
study under an SSRC-MacArthur
Foundation fellowship in Peace and
International Cooperation; Glenn J. Ames,
Robert P. Cohen, and Tiffany R.
Patterson recently joined the University of
Toledo as assistant professors; the
University of Toledo's Bogdan Novak
recently retired after serving there for
twenty-eight years; Joseph E. O'Connor
recently received Wittenberg
University's 1988 Distinguished Teaching Award;
Ed Melton of Wright State University has
been awarded a Mellon postdoctoral
fellowship and will spend the 1989-90
year at Harvard University.
The Oberlin College Archives will award
three grants of up to $1,000 to cover
travel and expenses related to research
of scholars and independent research-
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ers using the archives and special
collection holdings. Funded through the
Oberlin Historical and Improvement
Organization of Oberlin, Ohio, the
Frederick B. Artz Summer Research Grant
Program is in its first year. For
application materials, write to Roland
M. Baumann, Director, Department of
Archives, Oberlin Collkege, 420 Mudd
Center, Oberlin, Ohio 44074. Applica-
tions are due January 15, 1990.
The Illinois Historic Preservation
Agency is currently preparing an accurate,
complete, and annotated edition of the
law practice of Abraham Lincoln, to be
entitled The Lincoln Legals: A
Documentary History of the Law Practice of
Abraham Lincoln, 1836-1861, and is seeking help in locating documents,
records, letters, contemporary printed
accounts or after-the-fact recollections
that relate to Lincoln's entire law
practice. All communications should be sent
to The Lincoln Legals, IHPA
Drawer 136, Old State Capitol, Springfield,
Illinois 62701.
The Encyclopedia of the Colonial Wars
of America in the series Wars of
the
United States seeks contributions on a wide array of topics for the
period
1500-1763. Entries will discuss the
military, diplomatic, and strategic signifi-
cance of Indian nations, European
colonies, locales, forts, battles, wars,
treaties, individuals, etc. Send
inquiries to Alan Gallay, Department of
History, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, Washington 98225.
The Forest History Society has
established the John M. Collier Award for
Forest History Journalism in memory of
Collier's long association with the
Southern Forest Products Association and
for his many years on the society's
Board of Directors. Historical articles
about forestry-related issues carried in
newspapers and general-circulation
magazines are eligible and readers are
invited to clip articles, noting
publisher and date, and send them to the Forest
History Society, 701 Vickers Avenue,
Durham, North Carolina 27701.
Recent publications by Ohio historians
include: Spirit Fruit: A Gentle
Utopia, by H. Roger Grant of the University of Akron; Augusta
County,
Virginia 1865-1960, by Richard K. MacMaster of Bluffton College; Chamber-
lain and Roosevelt British Foreign
Policy and the United States, 1937-40, by
William R. Rock of Bowling Green State
University; From Ally to Enemy: The
Enigma of Fascist Italy in French
Diplomacy, 1920-1940, by William
Shorrock
of Cleveland State University; History
of Academic Freedom in Ohio, by
Erving Beauregard of the University of
Dayton; The Quality Image, by Larry
Schweikart of the University of Dayton; The
Collected Writings of Jessie
Forsythe, 1847-1937: The Good
Templars and Temperance Reform on Three
Continents, by David M. Fahey of Miami University; The Anglo-Norman
Nobility in the Reign of Henry I, by Charlotte A. Newman of Miami
University; Rethinking the South:
Essays in Intellectual History, by Michael
O'Brien of Miami University; History
of the Chinese in the Philippines, by He
Sibing of Miami University with Huang
Zisheng; The Civil War Reminiscences
of General M. Jeff Thompson, edited by Paul C. Bowers of The Ohio State
University with Donal J. Stanton and
Goodwin F. Berquist; American Philan-
thropy, second edition, by Robert H. Bremner of The Ohio State
University;
Martyrdom and Critical Consciousness:
An Intellectual Biography of Tan
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Ssu-t'ung, by Hao Chang of The Ohio State University; Ottoman
Civil
Officialdom: A Social History, by Carter V. Findley of The Ohio State
University; A Shuttle Chronology
1964-1973: Abstract Concepts to Letter
Contracts, by John F. Guilmartin of The Ohio State University; From
Margin
to Mainstream: American Women and
Politics Since 1960, by Susan M.
Hartmann of The Ohio State University; The
Piano in America, 1890-1940, by
Craig H. Roell of The Ohio State
University; Union Brotherhood, Union Town:
The History of the Carpenters' Union
of Chicago, 1863-1987, by Richard
Schneirov of The Ohio State University; Hearth
and Knapsack: The Ladley
Letters, 1857-1880, co-edited by Carl Becker and Ritchie Thomas of Wright
State University; and, Political
Leadership in a Southern City: New Orleans
in the Progressive Era, 1896-1902, by Edward F. Haas of Wright State Uni-
versity.
The Hagley Museum and Library has opened
the records of the Pennsylvania
Railroad for research. This 1600
linear-foot collection includes minutes, board
files, and other corporate records of
the Pennsylvania Railroad proper (1846-
1968) and nearly 400 of its predecessor
and subsidiary firms (1810-1968). Major
bodies of correspondence and case files
are available from Vice President
Samuel Rea (1898-1912), the Financial
Department (1900-1968), the Operating
Department (1893-1968), the Motive Power
Department (1881-1950), the Test
Department (1903-1935), the Engineering
Department (1913-1955), the Person-
nel Department (1910-1968), the Safety
Department (1927-1956), and the Legal
Department records relating to labor and
technology (1910-1968). Substantial
information is also available on the
origins and workings of the Relief and
Pension Departments (1886-1960), the
full records of which are housed at the
Urban Archives at Temple University. The
records of the Pennsylvania
Railroad constitute a major resource for
the study of railroad corporate
strategy, technology, labor relations
and operating practices. For further
information contact the Manuscripts and
Archives Department, Hagley Mu-
seum and Library, P. 0. Box 3630, Greenville,
Delaware 19807.
The U.S. Army Center of Military History
has recently published the first of
its new series of staff ride brochures,
or battlefield guides, that are intended for
self-guided tours and group study. The
Battle of New Market: Self-Guided
Tour, by Joseph W. A. Whitehorne, covers the events
surrounding the battle
which took place on May 15, 1864, as
part of the Union Army's campaign to
seize control of the Shenandoah Valley
of Virginia. All major points of interest
are covered, including monuments,
tourist centers, the museum and battlefield
park, with modern roads clearly marked.
The series is intended to enhance the
professional development of Army
officers through battlefield tours and is
available (Stock Number 008-029-00187-0,
price $2.00) to non-Army personnel
and agencies through the Superintendent
of Documents, Government Printing
Office, Washington, D.C. 20402-9325.