Notes and Queries
The Thirty-Sixth Annual Missouri Valley
History Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska, March 11-13, 1993. For
further information, contact Dale
Gaeddert, MVHC Coordinator, Department
of History, University of Nebraska
at Omaha, Nebraska 68182-0213.
The North American Society for Sport
History will hold its Twenty-first Annual
Convention at Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on May 28-June 1, 1993. Those inter-
ested in presenting a paper or
organizing a session should contact or submit ab-
stracts for review by November 15, 1992,
to: Prof. Joan Paul, Department of Hu-
man Performance and Sport Studies, The
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996-2700. Abstracts should be from
250-500 words, have a stated purpose,
briefly describe methods of collecting
data and findings, and be primary rather than
secondary research.
The University of Kentucky invites
submissions and nominations for the sec-
ond Martin Luther King, Jr., Prize for
Research in African-American History. The
$500 award is given biennially to an
article published in the preceding two years.
Scholarly articles published in the
calendar years 1991 and 1992 are eligible to
compete for the award to be announced in
February 1993. Elsa Barkley Brown,
Assistant Professor of History and
Society at SUNY/Binghamton, won the first
award in 1991 for her Spring 1989 Signs:
Journal of Women in Culture and So-
ciety article, "Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena
Walker and the Indepen-
dent Order of Saint Luke." Send
submissions or nominations to Martin Luther
King, Jr., Prize Committee, Department
of History, University of Kentucky, Lex-
ington, Kentucky 40506-0027, by December
31, 1992.
The William Dean Howells Memorial
Committee recently announced that Jerry
S. Herron of Wayne State University was
awarded the Howells Summer Fellow-
ship for 1992. The funds that support
the fellowship were given with the purpose
of encouraging study of and publications
on the life and work of William Dean
Howells. The award consisted of two
weeks' rent-free lodging at the Howells
Memorial at Kittery Point, Maine, and
provided the recipient with access to How-
ells' private library as well as the
Howells collections in the Houghton Library
at Harvard University.
T. H. Watkins, vice-president of the
Wilderness Society and editor of its mag-
azine, Wilderness, recently won
the 1992 John M. Collier Forest History Jour-
nalism Award. The award, sponsored by
the Forest History Society, went to
Watkin's June 1991 American Heritage article
which traced the early forestry ac-
tivities of conservation leader Gifford
Pinchot. The Forest History Society is a
nonprofit education institution. Founded
in 1946, it advances historical under-
standing of mankind's interaction with
the forest environment through pro-
grams in research, publication, service,
library, and archival collecting. For fur-
ther information about both the John M.
Collier Forest History Journalism
Award and the Forest History Society,
write to the Forest History Society, Inc.,
701 Vickers Avenue, Durham, North
Carolina 27701.
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141
Oregon State University Press is proud
to announce the publication of its North-
west Reprints edition of Botanical
Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West, by
Susan Delano McKelvey. This classic
history of the botanical explorations of the
West from 1790 to 1850 was first
published in 1955 by the Arnold Arboretum of
Harvard University and has been out of
print for several years. It is now back in
print with a foreword and annotated
bibliographic supplement by Joseph Ewan
of the Missouri Botanical Garden and an
introduction by Stephen Dow Beckham
of Lewis and Clark College. Botanical
Exploration of the Trans-Mississippi West
is a major reference work for botanists,
historians, cultural resource specialists,
museum workers, interpreters, and others
with an interest in exploration, history,
and botany. For further information
about this reprint edition, contact the Oregon
State University Press at Waldo Hall
101, Corvallis, Oregon 97331-6407.
Don Heinrich Tolzmann, curator of the
University of Cincinnati's German-
American Collection, recently edited a
new volume for Heritage Books entitled,
The First Germans in America. Dr. Tolzmann's research indicates that the first
Germans landed at Jamestown in 1608,
thereby arriving in America seventy-five
years earlier than previously proven.
The ILR Press of Cornell University has
published a reprint edition of Ruth
McKenney's 1939 classic Industrial
Valley, with a new introduction by Daniel
Nelson. McKenney's book is the third
book to be published in the Literature of
American Labor series. This series, edited by Cletus E. Daniel and
Ileen A. De-
Vault, is an effort to bring back into
print some of the best literature that has
emerged from the labor movement in the
United States and Canada which will
include "the full range of popular
writing ... novels, biographies, autobiographies,
and journalism." To date, ILR Press
has reissued K. B. Gilden's Between The Hills
and The Sea and Theresa Serber Malkiel' s The Diary of A
Shirtwaist Striker. For
further information about McKenney's
book and the series in general, contact:
ILR Press, School of Industrial and
Labor Relations, Cornell University, Ithaca,
New York 14853-3901.
Wright State University Press recently
announced the publication of Weath-
ering The Peace: The Ohio National
Guard in the Interwar Years, 1919-1940, by
Robert L. Daugherty. This book is a
narrative history which describes how the
Ohio National Guard survived and even
prospered as part of the American mili-
tary establishment during a period
characterized by anti-military sentiments. From
1919 to 1940, while the United States'
Regular Army was so starved for funds
that it barely remained a serious
fighting force, the Ohio National Guard, and oth-
er states' Guard organizations, was
relatively well funded; the Ohio National
Guard was deemed worthy of public support
because it, unlike the Regular
Army, was staffed by citizen soldiers
and thus was never perceived as a threat to
the state. This book provides a
comprehensive picture of the National Guard
during these years and is valuable to
anyone interested in United States military
history. For price and ordering
information contact Carl Becker at the Wright State
University Press, Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio 45435.
The Directory of Historical
Organizations in Ohio: A Guide to the Historical
Societies, Historical Museums,
Historic Sites, Historic Preservation Organiza-
tions, Genealogical Societies,
Historical Libraries, and Statewide/Regional
142 OHIO HISTORY
Historical Associations is available through the Local History Office of the
Ohio
Historical Society, 1982 Velma Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497. Published
by the Ohio Association of Historical
Societies and Museums (OAHSM) and the
Ohio Historical Society (OHS), the
136-page directory lists 800 historical organi-
zations in Ohio's communities. In
addition to the names and addresses of the
organizations, most of the entries
include: a telephone number; the name of an
officer; number of members and staff;
information on facilities, publications, and
programs; and a paragraph describing the
organization's focus. Many of the list-
ings mention the institutions' holdings.
The directory sells for $10.00 to mem-
bers of the Ohio Academy of History,
OAHSM, and OHS; for $12.50 to non-
members.
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since 1887, Ohio History hopes to
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