Notes and Queries
The Ohio Historical Society's Local
History Office recently established a
lending library of over 300 books,
booklets, tapes, and slide/tape programs
dealing with the preservation and
interpretation of local history. Available
to all incorporated historical
organizations in Ohio, the materials may be
checked out for three weeks with no
charge beyond return postage. To ob-
tain a complete listing of the available
items and a copy of the operating rules,
please contact the Local History Office,
Ohio Historical Society, 1985 Velma
Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211.
The Ohio Academy of History recently
conferred its OAH Publication
Award to No Strength Without Union:
An Illustrated History of Ohio Workers,
1803-1980, by Raymond Boryczka and Lorin Lee Cary. Published by
the
Ohio Historical Society in 1983, the
book was sponsored by the Ohio Labor
History Project and funded by the Ohio
General Assembly. Other nominees
for this award included: Erving E.
Beauregard's Old Franklin: The Eternal
Touch. A History of Franklin College,
New Athens, Harrison County, Ohio;
The New Eden: James Kilbourne and the
Development of Ohio, by Goodwin
Berquest and Paul C. Bowers, Jr.;
Frederick C. Dahlstrand's Amos Bronson
Alcott: An Intellectual Biography; Robert L. Jones' History of Agriculture in
Ohio to 1880; Otis C. Mitchell's Hitler Over Germany: The
Establishment of
the Nazi Dictatorship; Williamson Murray's Strategy for Defeat: The Luft-
waffe, 1933-1945; and Steel Valley University: The Origin of
Youngstown State,
by Alvin W. Skardon.
The Mahoning Valley Historical Society
Library officially opened on June
1, 1984. Housed in a remodeled carriage
house and garage, the closed-stack
library and reading room offers a wide
range of regional archives, newspa-
pers, and an extensive book collection.
The library will be open Tuesday-
Friday, 9:00-12:00 and 1:00-4:00, by
appointment. Admission for MVHS
members is free; non-members may either
purchase six-month passes ($3.00
students/$6.00 adults) or pay according
to the current fee schedule at The
Arms Museum. For additional information,
contact The Mahoning Valley
Historical Society, Library, and The
Arms Museum, 648 Wick Avenue,
Youngstown, Ohio 44502-1289.
Indiana University Press recently
reissued Gilbert C. Fite's 1981 book,
American Farmers: The New Minority, in paperback edition. Copies may be
obtained by writing to the Indiana
University Press, Tenth & Morton Streets,
Bloomington, Indiana 47405.
Other publications of interest to our
readers include: a junior high text-
book, Ohio's Heritage, by James
L. Burke of Capital University and Kenneth
Davison of Heidelburg College; and an 1880
Census Index compiled by the
Gallia County Historical Society.