Historical News
THE SIXTH ANNUAL SUMMER Institute on
Historical and Archival
Management will be offered by Radcliffe
College with the co-sponsor-
ship of the department of history of
Harvard University during the
six weeks, June 29 through August 7,
1959.
Lawrence W. Towner, editor of the William
and Mary Quarterly
and director of graduate studies at the
College of William and Mary,
will direct the course. The staff will
consist of eighteen or more experts
in the fields covered by the institute.
The class, which is limited to fifteen,
will be conducted as a seminar.
Two full-tuition scholarships ($200
each) are available. Inquiries
should be addressed to the Institute, 10
Garden Street, Cambridge 38,
Massachusetts.
One of the post-doctoral fellowships of
the Institute of Early Ameri-
can History and Culture will be
available beginning in the summer
of 1959. The appointment is for a
three-year term. A young scholar
whose dissertation has marked
potentialities for publication will have a
distinct advantage. The fellow will be
assigned six hours per year in
teaching at the College of William and
Mary with the rank of instructor
in history. The rest of his time may be
devoted to his own research
and writing.
The Eleutherian Mills-Hagley Foundation,
in cooperation with the
University of Delaware, is again
offering two fellowships in American
history to candidates for the master's
degree. The program covers a
two-year period with an annual stipend
of $1,800. The fellows wil
take eight hours in museum techniques
and research in industrial histor)
at the Hagley Museum and twenty-seven
hours in the history o:
American life and thought and prepare a
thesis at the university
Further information may be secured from
the Dean, School of Graduat
Studies, University of Delaware, Newark,
Delaware.
The Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio acquired early las
year, through the Chester F. Kroger
memorial fund, three letters writter