Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

 

THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a $45,000

research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment, Inc., of Indian-

apolis, Indiana, in support of a three-year program on the history of

the American Midwest. About one-third of the grant will be used for

grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest his-

tory between the Civil War and World War I, and the balance will

be used for publication of the results of these studies, as well as of

others within the scope of the project. Subjects to be included are

agriculture, tariff, currency, railroad regulation, rise of industry, civil

service reform, culture and education, immigration, politics, and foreign

policy.

The Wisconsin History Foundation is a cooperative program of the

University of Wisconsin and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

This is the first grant of the kind to be received by any historical society

in the country.

 

A new archives and research center for the Church of Jesus Christ

of Latter-day Saints is to be constructed at Salt Lake City in the next

year or two. An archives building -- a fifteen-story structure with

413,000 square feet of floor space--will house the historian's office and

the library of the church. A research center, with floor space of

258,500 square feet, will house the genealogical records and will include

microfilm reading rooms to accommodate 800 readers and an audi-

torium seating 1,000 persons.

 

On June 17, 1961, the Butler County Historical Society, in coopera-

tion with the Butler County Park District, dedicated the restored birth-

place of William Bebb, nineteenth governor of Ohio, as a historic

house. A plaque, erected by the Ohio Historical Markers Committee

to mark the site, was unveiled on the occasion.

 

The city council of Cincinnati has authorized the city planning com-

mission to prepare legislation for the purpose of preserving historic

and unusual sites in Cincinnati.

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John J. Horton, associate for research of the Western Reserve His-

torical Society, has recently published The Jonathan Hale Farm, a

Chronicle of the Cuyahoga Valley as Publication No. 116 of the Western

Reserve Historical Society. This is an account, based on extensive

family papers, of the migration of the Hale family from Glastonbury,

Connecticut, to Bath, Ohio, showing a contrast in daily life at the two

places in the 1830's. It also furnishes a general history of the Western

Reserve and the Connecticut Land Company. The book was financed

by the Clara Belle Ritchie Trust Fund.

 

The Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio announces that

The Journals of John May, edited by Dwight L. Smith of Miami Uni-

versity, is being published this fall by the society.

The January 1962 issue of the society's Bulletin will be a special issue

on "Germany and Cincinnati."

Ruth Brill, a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, has been added

to the society's staff as reference librarian and manuscript cataloger.

 

At the University of Akron, Henry S. Vyverberg has been promoted

to associate professor, and Howard Allen to assistant professor. Dr.

Allen published an article, "Geography and Politics: Voting on Reform

Issues in the United States Senate, 1911-1916," in the Journal of

Southern History for May 1961.

 

Jerome Chubb (Ph.D., University of Washington) has been added

to the history staff at Bowling Green State University as an instructor.

Dr. Chubb's field of specialization is the Progressive Era.

Hans Kohn of the City College of New York was a guest lecturer

in the department during the first summer session, 1961.

 

At the University of Cincinnati four new history appointments have

been made: Ernest Muntz and Peter Topping as associate professors

and A. Lloyd Moote and Vsevolod Slessarev as assistant professors.

Three promotions recently became effective: George Engberg was

named professor; Arnold Schrier, associate professor; and Herbert F.

Curry, Jr., assistant professor.

 

Leroy Eid, S.M., and Philip D. Doherty, Jr., were appointed instruc-

tors in history at the University of Dayton, effective last September.

James M. Haas has left Dayton to take a position at Southern

Illinois University.

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Robert B. Boehm has been appointed chairman of the division of

history and political science at Defiance College. Dr. Boehm has had

a series of articles on Defiance County in the Civil War in the Defiance

Crescent News.

Erwin Urch has recently published two articles in Social Education,

one on women in history and one on the teaching of history.

Eugene Andrews, assistant professor of history, is currently working

on a Ph.D. degree at the University of Nevada, while Eugene Carraher

is finishing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Maryland.

 

Sherman B. Barnes of Kent State University, had an article, "Rela-

tion of Science and the Humanities in College History-of-Civilization

Textbooks," in the March-April 1961 issue of Religious Education.

William F. Zornow published an article, "When the Czar and Grant

Were Friends," in Mid-America for July 1961.

 

Gerald J. Oneman, formerly at Johns Hopkins University, has been

appointed assistant professor of history at Lake Erie College. Dr. One-

man holds an M.D. from Cornell and a Ph.D. in the history of science

from Harvard.

Helmut Hirsch, who was visiting associate professor of history for

the year 1960-61, has returned to Roosevelt University. Philip L. Ralph

will remain another year as visiting professor at Robert College, Istanbul,

Turkey.

At Miami University, Ralph A. Stone and Brenton H. Smith have

been appointed assistant professors of history. James H. St. John has

retired from the history department, and William E. Echard has

resigned to accept a position at Parsons College.

Harris G. Warren taught at the University of Minnesota in the last

summer session.

Ronald Shaw and John Weatherford have been promoted to the

rank of associate professor.

The library at Miami has recently acquired much microprint and

microfilm, including the House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1731-

1820, and the House of Commons Journals, 1547-1900, and long runs

of American newspapers of the eighteenth century.

Miss Maude Blair of Detroit recently presented to Miami one of the

finest personal collections of McGuffey Readers known, making the col-

lection at Miami, according to William E. Smith, director of the

McGuffey Museum, the finest in the world.

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Bernard K. Dekmelt, from the University of Pennsylvania, has been

appointed an instructor in history at Muskingum College. His field of

specialization is ninteenth-century diplomatic history.

Harold Currie (Ph.D., University of Michigan) has been named an

assistant professor of history at Muskingum. Dr. Currie will teach

courses in the American Revolutionary period.

 

Robert H. Bremner, who spent the spring and summer in western

Europe and England gathering material for a forthcoming book, and

Harvey Goldberg, who has been in France for the past year on a

Mershon grant, returned to the Ohio State University campus in

September.

Sidney N. Fisher has been chosen to serve for the current academic

year as coordinator of the Graduate Program on World Affairs. Dr.

Fisher contributed six articles, "Aden," "The Arab League," "Arabia,"

"Muscat and Oman," "Saudi Arabia," and "Yemen" to The American

Annual, 1960.

At Ohio University, George Lobdell and Robert Daniel have been

promoted to the rank of associate professor. During the past summer

Dr. Daniel enjoyed a research award from the American Philosophical

Society. He had an article, "The Friendship of Woodrow Wilson and

Cleveland H. Dodge," in Mid-America for July.

Harry R. Stevens taught the summer session at Western Reserve

University, and Carl Gustavson taught at the University of Illinois.

Frederick L. Hetter, II, formerly of the University of Rhode Island,

has been appointed an assistant professor of history at the University

of Toledo. Mickie Hane has resigned to accept a position at Knox

College.

Jack P. Greene, assistant professor of history at Western Reserve

University, is on leave of absence for the year 1961-62 to edit the

William and Mary Quarterly. During his absence Robert P. Thomson

of George Peabody College will be visiting associate professor of history.

Marvin Becker spent the past summer in research in Italy.

Harvey Wish and A. B. Erickson will be on leave of absence for the

winter session, 1961-62, to do research in England.

Carl Wittke has been named vice president of Western Reserve Uni-

versity. He will continue to serve also as dean of the graduate school

and chairman of the department of history.

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Charles Chatfield, a Ph.D. candidate from Vanderbilt University, has

been appointed an instructor in history at Wittenberg University. He

will teach in the field of twentieth-century American history. Mr.

Chatfield is the author of an article, "The Southern Sociological Con-

gress: Rationale of Uplift," published in the Tennessee Historical

Quarterly for March 1961.

Albert Hayden had an article, "The New South Wales Immigration

Question and Responsible Government, 1856-1861," in the Royal Aus-

tralian Historical Society journal for December 1960.

 

At Youngstown University, Stephen V. Fulkerson has resigned, and

two assistant professors of history have been appointed: Sidney I.

Roberts (Ph.D., Northwestern University) formerly at A. and M.

College of Texas; and Morris Slavin, who has been a part-time lec-

turer in history at Youngstown. Professor Slavin received his Ph.D.

from Western Reserve University in June 1961.

A. W. Skardon, Jr., received his Ph.D. from the University of

Chicago in December 1960. He has been promoted to associate pro-

fessor.

Alfred D. Low has published two articles this year: "Recent Strains

and Stresses in the German Democratic Republic," in the Journal of

Human Relations for Winter 1961, and "Patriotism, 'Bourgeois Na-

tionalism,' and Soviet Nationality Since Stalin," in the Annals of the

Ukrainian Academy of New York for Summer 1961.

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