From the Heritage Books Website, deadline 14 April 2003: <A HREF="http://www.heritagebooks.com/call_for_papers.htm">
http://www.heritagebooks.com/call_for_papers.htm</A>
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HERITAGE PAPERS:
Essays on
The African American Experience
From the 17th Century Through the 20th Century
Heritage Papers is designed to bring current scholarship to the attention of
researchers in a variety of disciplines. Each volume in this series is
intended to expose lay and professional scholars to the range of recent
research being done on a particular theme. The essays may be
historiographical pieces that describe and critique authors currently writing
on the subject matter, or thought-provoking and challenging to the status
quo, or innovative in their analysis or methodology, or solid works on
aspects of the topic that have been insufficiently studied thus far. Essays
are selected based on their expected interest among both academics and the
well-educated general reader.
A CALL FOR PAPERS
Heritage Books, Inc., welcomes paper submissions for a volume on the African
American experience in the United States.
Early scholars often dismissed people of African descent as unimportant
actors in history. Recent scholarship has challenged that earlier notion.
Papers should focus on examining the importance of the African American voice
in U.S. history. The editing committee encourages papers with an
interdisciplinary focus and invites advanced graduate students and faculty as
well as professional scholars to submit their work on the African American
experience during the time period covering the 17th through the 20th
centuries.
Of interest are such issues as: slavery and freedom, occupations and
employment, choice of religion and participation in religious activities,
education, oral history and storytelling, military service, civil rights
activism, comparison of the experiences of men and women, little-known but
noteworthy individuals, comparison of the American experience and those of
people of African descent in other countries, and analysis of African
American experiences as portrayed in literature, artwork, and film.
Heritage Books, Inc., will accept submissions until 14 April 2003.
Manuscripts should be submitted in Windows formatted 3.5-inch disk or Zip
disk, or e-mailed as an attachment to the Heritage Papers Editor; MS Word and
.txt files only. A maximum length of 25-30 pages (including
footnotes/endnotes and bibliography) is recommended. Please include your
name on the title page but omit it from all other pages; subsequent pages
should have only the essay’s title and page number on them.
Send submissions to:
Karen Ackermann, Heritage Papers Editor, <A HREF="mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A>
Heritage Books, Inc., 1540-E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, MD 20716
www.heritagebooks.com
Heritage Books, Inc., established in 1978, is a leading publisher in the
field of American history, biography, and heritage, with over 1900 titles
currently in print. Recent African American titles include: “Got My Mind Set
on Freedom.” Maryland’s Story of Black and White Activism, 1663-2000 by
Barbara Mills; Cash for Blood and Slavery, Slaveholding, and the Free Black
Population of Antebellum Baltimore by Ralph Clayton; numerous data record
collections on slaves and free blacks, including a multi-volume series on
North Carolina by William Byrd III; and several genealogical research guides
on how to trace African American ancestry, including Black Indian Genealogy
Research: African American Ancestors Among the Five Civilized Tribes by
Angela Walton-Raji.
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