Minutes of the Meeting of the
Ohio Academy of History,
Columbus, March 26, 1960
THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-seventh annual meet-
ing at the Ohio State Museum on
Saturday, March 26, 1960.
Two concurrent sessions were held in the
morning and two in the
afternoon. John Hall Stewart of Western
Reserve University acted as
chairman of the modern European history
section, at which James M.
Laux of the University of Cincinnati
delivered a paper on "De Gaulle in
Power, 1944-1946," and Thomas E.
Auge of John Carroll University
spoke on "The Trials of the French
Collaborators, 1944-1945." Dis-
cussion of these two papers was led by
Willard A. Smith of the Uni-
versity of Toledo and Henry N. Whitney
of Kent State University.
In the field of American history,
Stanton Ling Davis of Case Institute
of Technology presided over a session
featuring papers by Thomas A.
Flinn of Oberlin, on "Continuity
and Change in Ohio Politics (Pre-
Civil War to the Present)," and
Eugene C. Drozdowski of Kent State
University, on "Edwin M. Stanton,
Critic of the Lincoln Administra-
tion." Eugene C. Murdock of
Marietta College and Robert Hartje of
Wittenberg University led a spirited
discussion. With Harold J.
Grimm of Ohio State University in the
chair, the afternoon session on
historiography included papers entitled
"James Ford Rhodes: The
Problem of Objectivity in the Writing of
History," presented by Robert
Cruden of Baldwin-Wallace College, and
"Historism and Friedrich
Meinecke," prepared by Helmut
Haeussler of Wittenberg University.
Discussion leaders for this session were
Duane D. Smith of the Univer-
sity of Toledo and John C. Rule of Ohio
State University. The final
session, devoted to Southeast Asian
history, was chaired by Morton B.
Stratton of Denison University. David R.
Sturtevant of Muskingum
College read a paper entitled
"Nativistic Movements in the Philippines:
A Study in Protest Patterns," and
John F. Cady of Ohio University
presented his views on "Recent
Developments in Burma: The Swing of
the Pendulum." Frank W. Ikle of
Miami University and Ellsworth
C. Carlson of Oberlin College led the
discussion of these two topics.