Minutes of the Meeting
Of the Ohio Academy of History,
Columbus, April 14, 1956
The Ohio Academy of History held its
spring meeting at the Ohio State
Museum on Saturday, April 14, 1956.
The morning session devoted to American
history was conducted by
Clarence P. Gould of Youngstown College.
George W. Knepper of the
University of Akron presented a paper
entitled "Policemen or Protectors:
The British Standing Army in America,
1760-1768" and Virginia B. Platt of
Bowling Green State University offered
"The Effect of Trade Restrictions
on Anti-British Feeling in the 18th
Century." Discussion was led by Robert
J. Taylor of Marietta College. At a
concurrent session, with Richard G.
Salomon of Kenyon College as chairman,
Daniel H. Buchanan of Case
Institute of Technology and Marvin
Becker of Baldwin-Wallace College
had
for their respective topics, "Calvin and
Machiavelli" and
"Machiavelli's View of Social
Classes in 14th Century Florence." Wilfred J.
Steiner of the University of Dayton
spoke in summation.
The luncheon at the Ohio State
University Faculty Club, which was at-
tended by ninety-five members and
guests, was highlighted by the pre-
sentation of the Certificate of Award
and by the principal address. William
J. McNiff of Miami University, chairman
of the committee on awards,
announced that A Preface to History by
Carl G. Gustavson of Ohio
University had been judged the
outstanding historical achievement by a
member of the Academy during 1955.
Walter L. Dorn of Ohio State
University then spoke on "The
Evolution of the American Occupation
Policy in Germany on the Close of World
War II."
The afternoon program at the Museum
offered a choice of a session on
historiography and a panel discussion on
"The Teaching of History." As
chairman of the former, Eugene C.
Murdock of Marietta College in-
troduced Edward W. Kearney of John
Carroll University and Helmut
Haeussler of Wittenberg College. Their
papers were entitled, respectively,
"Bossuet and the Tradition of a
Universal History" and "Introduction to