POWHATAN, AR – The Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives
(NEARA) is accepting original, unpublished manuscripts for the 2020 NEARA Award
for Exemplary Archival Research. Manuscripts are due by Feb. 1.
Participants
are eligible to win a $1,000 cash prize. A framed certificate will be
presented for the best manuscript that uses NEARA’s archival records,
particularly the Lawrence County territorial papers of 1815 to 1836. All
submitted articles will be considered for publication in the Arkansas
Historical Quarterly journal.
Anyone is eligible to submit a manuscript.
A three-person panel, which is comprised of representatives of NEARA and
the Arkansas Historical Association, will pick the winner. The association
reserves the right not to award a prize in a given year.
Entries must not have been submitted
elsewhere or published previously and must be no longer than 35 pages. Papers
must contain citations from documents housed at NEARA to qualify. NEARA documents
posted online are acceptable.
The
manuscript’s text, including quotations and notes, must be double-spaced.
Footnotes must be numbered consecutively. Because manuscripts are evaluated
anonymously, only the full title of the article can appear on top of the first
page of the manuscript. Please include title, author’s name, complete physical
mailing address, telephone numbers and email address on a separate page.
Submit
three copies of the manuscript that are clear and readable. No copies will be
returned but will be added to NEARA’s collections and to the Special
Collections at the University of Arkansas Libraries in Fayetteville. Submission
of an entry assumes permission for researcher use.
Please
mail manuscripts postmarked by February 1 to: NEARA Award –
Arkansas Historical Association; Department of History, Old Main 416,
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701. The winner will be
announced in April, during the Arkansas Historical Association’s conference in
Conway.
The Arkansas Historical Association
sponsors the award, which was established in 2013 to honor Lawrence County
Historical Society volunteers who saved the territorial records for future
researchers when the Powhatan County seat was abandoned in 1963. Volunteers
also lobbied for a regional archives, which was established in 2011. The award
is funded by the family of Eugene Sloan, a Jonesboro lawyer who was born in
Powhatan in 1892.
NEARA staff are available to help
researchers locate topics or delve further into works in progress. For more
information about the award or for submission guidelines, visit the Arkansas
Historical Association at http://arkansashistoricalassociation.org/?page_id=19.
To learn more about the Northeast Arkansas Regional Archives visit http://archives.arkansas.gov/neara/neara-about-us.aspx.
