Notes and Queries
Among recent publications concerning
Ohio history are the following: the
Marion County Historical Society is
publishing a new history of Marion County,
the first comprehensive history of the
county since 1907; those interested should
write to the Marion County 1979 History,
P.O. Box 976, Marion, Ohio 43302. The
Putnam County Historical Society has
available Putnam County Pioneer
Association Centennial History
1873-1973; 1880 History and 1895 Atlas of Putnam
County (one volume); and The Blizzard of 1978 in Putnam
County, Ohio; for more
information, write The Putnam County
Historical Society, Box 260, Kalida, Ohio
45853. The Western Reserve Magazine's
annual northeastern Ohio travel guide,
Undiscovered Ohio Right Around Home, is now available. This 224-page
publication includes 675 destinations,
visitor attractions, and points of interest in
northeastern Ohio; those interested
should write The Western Reserve Magazine,
P.O. Box 243, Garrettsville, Ohio 44231.
Two scholarly meetings of interest to Ohio
History readers will be held this fall.
The Ohio Academy of History's fall
meeting will be held at Kent State University on
October 5-6, with the featured speaker
being Dr. Thomas H. Smith; Dr. Smith
earned the first Ph. D. in history at
Kent State. The Ohio Historical Society will
host the annual meeting of the National
Historic Communal Societies Association
at Zoar on October 18-20; Kathy
Fernandez is program chairperson and any ques-
tions regarding the conference should be
addressed to her at the Ohio Historical
Society, Interstate 71 and 17th Avenue,
Columbus, Ohio 43211.
The twenty-third annual Missouri Valley
History Conference will be held in
Omaha, Nebraska on March 6-8, 1980.
Papers and sessions relate to the traditional
topic and area studies as well as
quantification, psychohistory, teaching
methodology, research tools and
techniques, and interdisciplinary studies; panel,
paper, and commentator proposals should
be submitted by November 1, 1979 to
Professor Oliver B. Pollak, Department
of History, University of Nebraska at
Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska 68182. The Forest
History Society will hold its annual
meeting in Santa Cruz, California on
October 27-28, with one of the features being
a session with historical papers; those
interested can phone Harold K. Steen at (408)
426-3770. Also, the National Endowment
for the Humanities has awarded the
Forest History Society $77,751 for the
compilation of an encyclopedia of American
forest and conservation history. The
encyclopedia project is part of the Forest
History Society's commitment to produce
reference works of broad utility to
scholars and others of the forest
history community. By conveniently presenting the
essential facts and interpretations of
the field in one volume, the encyclopedia will
further understanding and study of
America's significant forest history. General
editor of the encyclopedia is Richard C.
Davis, formerly research archivist and
compiler, for the Society, of North
American Forest History: A Guide to Archives
and Manuscripts in the United States
and Canada, which won the Society of
American Archivists' Waldo Gifford
Leland Prize in 1978. Davis will enlist the aid
of many specialists in the preparation
of authoritative articles; publication is
scheduled for 1982.
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The American Historical Association
announces its 1979 First Books Program.
In cooperation with the Association of
American University Presses, the AHA has
established a program designed to secure
publication of first works by younger
historians. Each year the AHA will
select up to ten manuscripts, recommending
these to the AAUP for publication.
Although the AAUP cannot guarantee
publication of the recommended works, it
has undertaken to urge their serious
consideration by its member presses. All
manuscripts must be an author's first
booklength work. Works originating as
dissertations are eligible manuscripts. They
shall be submitted in revised form,
ready for publication. The manuscripts must not
be submitted to a publisher during the
competition, and an author may not submit
more than one manuscript in a given
year. No manuscript shall be submitted a
second time. An author may withdraw a
manuscript from the competition at any
time. Three copies of the manuscript,
together with a curriculum vitae and the
names of two experienced historians
familiar with the author's scholarly work,
should be mailed to the AHA First Books
Program, 400 A Street SE, Washington,
D.C. 20003 by no later than September
30.