An author is needed to write the New York essay for The Uniting States, a
Greenwood Press project.  Please see the Call for Authors below.
Benjamin Shearer



CALL FOR AUTHORS


Title: The Uniting States: The Story of Statehood for the 50 United States
of America.

Publisher: Greenwood Press

Manuscript Length: 600,000 words, including maps and illustrations

Executive Editor: Benjamin F. Shearer, Ph.D.

Manuscript Completion Date: September 30, 2003

Purpose: The Uniting States brings together the unique stories of each of
the 50 united states’ journey into statehood in a single monograph.  No such
single source is currently available.  Based on primary federal and state
sources, each essay tells the real story of the people and the issues behind
the debate for statehood.

Text:   The text will consist of 51, 12,000-word (app.) essays.  The first
introductory essay will discuss the national and international environment
as well as important local themes in which the United States expanded to 50
states.  The essays on each state, in chronological order of statehood,
based largely on primary federal and state sources, footnoted, and with a
bibliography, will follow this template: (1) a brief presentation of
national and international issues surrounding statehood with an opening
transition from the previous state accepted into the union; (2) a discussion
of the process of becoming a territory, including the enabling legislation
and the territorial government that ensued (or, in the case of the original
colonies, a brief discussion of colonial development and government);  (3) a
description of the role of key local players, for and against union, in the
statehood debate, including the role of Congress; (4) a detailed
presentation of key state/local issues surrounding statehood including
native American and other ethnic group issues; (5) a description of the role
of state political parties in the statehood process; (6) a presentation of
the development of the state constitution(s); (7) a presentation of final
congressional and presidential actions on statehood; (8) a concluding
summary of the major issues surrounding statehood and their outcomes.

Manuscript Submissions: Authors will submit one double-spaced paper copy and
one diskette of the 12,000-word manuscript for each state in Microsoft Word
for editing no later than August 1, 2003.  The format should follow Chicago
Manual of Style guidelines.  Notes should be placed at the end of the
manuscript.

Authors: Interested authors should send a copy of their curriculum vitae and
expression of interest in which state they intend to write about to:

Benjamin F. Shearer, Ph.D., Executive Editor
3700 Longchamp Circle
Tallahassee, FL 32309
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(850) 877-3409





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