Minutes of the Meeting of the
Ohio Academy of History,
Columbus, April 8, 1961
THE
OHIO ACADEMY
of
History held its twenty-eighth annual meeting
at the Ohio State Museum on April 8,
1961.
Two concurrent sessions were held in the
morning and two in the
afternoon. Robert L. Gilmore of Ohio
University presided over the
Latin American history section, at which
Father Charles E. Ronan, S.J.,
of Xavier University delivered a paper
entitled "Clavigero, Eighteenth
Century Voice of America," and Hugh
M. Hamill, Jr., of Ohio Wesleyan
University spoke on "The Virgin of
Guadalupe and the Origins of
Mexican Nationalism." A discussion
of these two papers was led by
John Te Paske of Ohio State University
and Charles Ameringer of
Bowling Green State University. The
session devoted to Ohio history
was chaired by Eugene Roseboom of Ohio
State University. Papers
were read by George J. Ruppel of the
University of Dayton on "Another
View of Governor Donahey," and by
Sam E. Salem of Case Institute
on "Newton D. Baker's Cleveland
Career, 1901-1916." H. Landon
Warner of Kenyon College and Alan D.
Harper of Ohio State University
carried the discussion of these topics.
Louis Filler of Antioch College
acted as chairman of the session on
American history. Papers entitled
"Jefferson's Foreign Policy and
Napoleon's Ideologues," by Lawrence
S. Kaplan of Kent State University, and
"The London Press and the
First Decade of American
Independence," by Charles R. Ritcheson of
Kenyon College, were followed by a
discussion opened by Robert Seager
II of Denison University and Jack P.
Greene of Western Reserve Uni-
versity. The final session, devoted to
the field of European history, was
once again chaired by John Hall Stewart
of Western Reserve Univer-
sity. "Russia's Primary Industrial
Revolution, 1835-1860: A Considera-
tion and a Critique of a Theory"
was the subject of a study by Alfred A.
Skerpan of Kent State University, and
"Hitler's First Twelve Hours in