The entries would be due on January 1, 2007. If you are interested in writing any of them, please contact Matthew Guterl, one of the area editors, at: mguterl@indiana.edu.

Oxford's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MODERN WORLD will be published in 2008. There are eight area editors for the project; the editor in chief is Peter N. Stearns (George Mason University). The Encyclopedia will contain approximately 2.5 million words in about 2,500 articles, from 250 to 7,000 words long; each article will conclude with a bibliography and end-references. The volumes will be generously illustrated with photographs, drawings, and maps. The backmatter will include a comprehensive index. The Encyclopedia is intended for scholars, college and university students, advance-placement high school students, and general readers; It will be part of Oxford's award-winning reference program, which includes Hillerbrand: The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation; Kors: Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment; and Mokyr, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History.

Authors will be paid 10 cents per word, or $100 for every 1000 words.

The available entries are:

Amusement Parks (1000 words/$100)
Basketball (1000)
Blue Jeans (1000)
Detroit (1000)
ENIAC (500)
Erie Canal (500)
FBI (1000)
Football (1000)
Gold and Gold Mining: the United States (500)
Golf (500)
Grand Canyon (500)
Guantanamo (500)
Iran-Contra Affair (500)
Iranian Hostage Crisis (500)
Louisiana Purchase (500)
Manhattan Project (500)
Marriage and Divorce: the United States (1000)
Miami (1000)
Military: the United States (1000)
Mississippi River (750)
Music: the United States (1000)
Nashville (1000)
National Security Agency (U.S.) (1000)
New York City (1000)
Pearl Harbor (500)
Philadelphia (1000)
San Francisco (1000)
San Francisco Conference (1945) (500)
Senaca Falls Convention (500)
Strategic Defense Initiative (500)
Students for a Democratic Society (500)
Temperance and Prohibition (1000)
USAID (500)
Washington D.C. (1000)
Watergate Affair (500)
Westerns (500)