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>Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:55:43 -0400
>From: "Laura Gosling" <gosling@astreetpress.com>
CFP: Biographical Entries Sought -- North American
Historical Figures
Alexander Street Press seeks short biographical entries
for inclusion in
its EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN NORTH AMERICA database.
Alexander Street Press -- an electronic publishing firm
noted for its North
American Women's Letters and Diaries and for Civil War
Letters and Diaries
-- is publishing a full-text searchable database titled
EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN
NORTH AMERICA. Collecting together such well known
series' as The Jesuit
Relations and Allied Documents and Early Western Travels
with lesser known
works from European explorers and American Indians,
EARLY ENCOUNTERS IN
NORTH AMERICA spans writing about North American history
from its earliest
days to the mid-1870's.
Short (200-500) biographical entries on approximately
100 people important
to the history of North America are sought from those
working in and around
the academy. Contributors' names and institutional
affiliations will be
prominently displayed on the biography pages.
A sample list of people for whom biographies are needed
follows. Please
contact Laura Gosling at gosling@astreetpress.com for a
full list of names.
Adrian Van der Donck Description of the New Netherlands
Alexander Mackenzie Voyages from Montreal, on the River
St. Lawrence
Bartholome de las Casas Tears of the Indians
Black Hawk Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
Elias Boudinot An Address to the Whites
Francois Andre Micheaux Andre Micheaux's Travels into
Kentucky, 1793-1769
George Catlin Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and
Condition of the
North American Indians
Laura Gosling, Editor
Alexander Street Press, LLC
<gosling@astreetpress.com>
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