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It is being sponsored by the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections.
Eckert, a resident of Bellefontaine, is the author of more than 30 books and several hundred nonfiction articles.
His most recent book, published in November, is "That Dark And Bloody River: Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley." Met with critical acclaim, the 810-page book chronicles the early settlement of the Ohio River Valley, and is brought to life by a wealth of research including letters, diaries and journals of the era.
Eckert is also the author of the six-volume "Narratives of America," the first volume of which won him the Ohioana Library Association Book-Of-The-Year Award. For the series as a whole, Eckert received the Americanism Award from the Daniel Boone Foundation and was granted honorary citizenship and the title of Kentucky Colonel by the governor of Kentucky.
Eckert is a six-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and has written more than 200 scripts for the television series "Wild Kingdom" as well as "Tecumseh!," an outdoor drama in Chillicothe that has been seen by more than a million people over the past twenty years.
His book "Incident at Hawk's Hill" won the Newberry Honor Book Award and was made into a two-part television Walt Disney movie under the title "The Boy Who Talked to Badgers."
Eckert will be discussing the art of historical writing at the conference which will be held at the Holiday Inn, French Quarter in Perrysburg. The cost of the event is $15 and reservations will be accepted until April 8 by calling the Center for Archival Collections at (419) 372-2411.