Notes and Queries
The Ohio Labor History Project of
The Ohio Historical Society has completed
the Preliminary Guide to Sources
in Ohio Labor History, a forty-seven page
pamphlet listing over 350 entries.
Copies can be obtained for $2.25 by writing to
Ohio Labor History Project, Ohio Historical Society,
Archives/Manuscripts
Division, Columbus, Ohio 43211. Please
make checks payable to the Ohio
Historical Society.
The National Endowment for the
Humanities has awarded a $25,000 grant to
the Local History Department of the
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library for
local history programming. Seven
thirty-minute slide-cassette presentations
with narration and musical background
will be produced during the twelve-
month grant period. Complementing the
audio-visual efforts will be printed and
display materials. The specific programs
are entitled: "Toledo Historical High-
lights," "Tours of Toledo-Area
Towns and Neighborhoods," "The Afro-
American Experience in Toledo,"
"The Ethnic Experience in Toledo," "The
Fight for Women's Suffrage in
Toledo," and "Meet Me At Tiedtke's." The last
named program chronicles the history of
a famous local department store. A
previously produced local history
presentation, "Toledo in the 1920's," will also be
upgraded under provisions of the grant.
The fourth annual California State
College History Forum will be held on
April 27, 1977. Scholarly topics in all
fields of history are invited. Those in-
terested in participating should write
Dr. J. Kent Folmar, Department of His-
tory, California State College,
California, Pa. 15419 by January 1, 1977.
The Sixth Newberry Summer Institute will
take place in Chicago, June 8 to
July 8, 1977. The intensive program of
lectures, workshops, laboratories, and
discussions is designed to provide a
thorough introduction to the basics of
quantitative historiography,
particularly statistics, computers, research design,
historical demography, and to the key
methods in the "new" social and political
history. Historians are invited to apply
regardless of field; advanced graduate
students are welcome. No previous
training in statistics, mathematics, or com-
puters is needed. The Institute is
sponsored by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Rockefeller
Foundation, and fellowships are available. For
further details and application forms
(due March 15, 1977), write Richard Jen-
sen, Family and Community History
Center, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton
St., Chicago, Illinois 60610.
Readers of Ohio History may want
to make note of the following recent books
available on various aspects of the
state's history. Tornado, written by Polk
Laffoon, IV, is a 224-page, illustrated account of the Xenia
tornado of 1974. It
may be purchased from Harper & Row
Publishers, 10 East 53rd Street, New
York, N.Y. 10022 for $8.95. The
Catholic Journey Through Ohio is an illustrated
history of the Roman Church In Ohio from
the first settlement to the present.
Written by Albert Hamilton, the
book sells for $1.95. For more information,
contact the Catholic Conference of Ohio,
22 South Young Street, Columbus,
Ohio 43215. The Spirit of '76 . .. An
American Portrait is now available from
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Quail Hill Association, Box 1776,
Fallbrook, California 92028 for $7.95. Written
by Willard F. Gordon, this illustrated
biography of Archibald M. Willard con-
tains a detailed essay on Willard's
famous painting, The Spirit of'76. A bibliog-
raphy of essays and poems written by a
long-time resident of Athens, Ohio, M.
Whitcomb Hess, has been compiled by Mary
Carolina Hess, S.N.D. This
48-page, mimeographed publication,
entitled M. Whitcomb Hess:
A Bibliog-
raphical Checklist of Fifty-Years,
1924-1974, is avaiable from Sister
Lina Hess
331 East Rich Street, Columbus, Ohio
43215 at a cost of $3.00. Bruce R. Leisy
has written A History of the Leisy
Brewing Companies. The author is the
grandson of one of the founders of the
first Leisy brewery, located in Cleveland,
and has written a general history of the
Leisy breweries and the Leisy family.
Orders should be sent to the author, 928
Longford, Wichita, Kansas 67206. The
book is generously illustrated, contains
a bibliography, and sells for $6.00. An
essay of interest to Ohio History readers,
"The British Department and the
Frontier in North America," by
Robert S. Allen, is contained in Canadian
Historic Sites Occasional Papers in
Archaeology and History, No. 14, pub-
lished by the Public Information Branch
of Parks Canada. For a copy of this
publication, write to Information
Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A OS9. The price
is $6.90.
Two books on local history have just
been released. Researching. Writing,
and Publishing Local History, by Thomas E. Felt, gives practical advice on all
aspects of writing and publishing
historical material, including the mechanics of
book production. The cost is $6.00. A
Primer for Local Historical Societies, by
Dorothy Weyer Creigh, deals with
techniques for establishing local societies,
including methods of finance, the use of
volunteers, and the establishment of
museums and restoration projects. This
book sells for $6.50. Both of these books
are available from the American
Association for State and Local History, 1400
Eighth Avenue, South, Nashville,
Tennessee 37203.
E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., Miami,
Florida, publishers of Yesterday's
Akron: The First 150 Years (reviewed in 85 [1]), have released two more books
on Ohio cities. Yesterday's
Cleveland, by George E. Condon, and Yesterday's
Cincinnati, by Luke Feck, are available from the publisher at $9.95
each.
Some of the recent scholarly
publications by Ohio historians include the
following: UNIVERSITY OF AKRON: George
W. Knepper, An Ohio Portrait
(Ohio Historical Society for the Ohio
American Revolution Bicentennial Advis-
ory Commission, 1976); UNIVERSITY OF
CINCINNATI: James Laux, In
First Gear: The French Automobile
Industry to 1914 (Liverpool University
Press, 1976), Frank, Kafker, "The
Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Leading
French Bookseller-Printer:
Andre-Francois Le Breton, Chief Publisher of the
Encyclopedie," Studies in
Eighteenth-Century Culture, V (1976);
OHIO
UNIVERSITY: Alonzo L. Hamby, The
Imperial Years: The U.S. Since 1939
(Weybright & Talley, 1976), Donald
A. Jordan, The Northern Expedition: China's
National Revolution, 1926-1928 (University of Hawaii Press, 1976), Alan R. Booth,
The United States Experience in South
Africa, 1784-1870 (A. A. Balkema,
1976),
John F. Cady, The United States and
Burma (Harvard University Press, 1976), Carl
G. Gustavson, The Mansion of History (McGraw-Hill,
1976), Charles C.
Alexander, Holding the Line: The
Eisenhower Era, 1952-1961 (Indiana University
Press, 1975), Suzanne Miers, Britain
and the Ending of the Slave Trade (Africana,
1975).