Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W. Kom has recently been

published by the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati. These studies deal

with the life of the American Jew, and include an essay on Isaac M. Wise

among others with Ohio connections.

 

Richard C. Knopf, historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board,

has had several articles published recently. "Wayne's Western Campaign:

The Wayne-Knox Correspondence," appeared in the Pennsylvania Maga-

zine of History and Biography, Part I in July and Part II in August 1954.

"A Precise Journal of General Wayne's Last Campaign" was published in

the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society for October 1954,

and "Personal Notes on the 'Whiskey Rebels,'" in the Bulletin of the

Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio for October 1954. Mr. Knopf

is executive secretary of the Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference and

served last year as editor of Ethnohistory, the journal of the conference.

 

Joel Hayden, Jr., was appointed assistant professor of history at Antioch

College at the beginning of the current year.

Louis Filler was a special consultant to the editors of the New Century

Cyclopedia of Names. He is also the author of several recent articles:

"Why Historians Neglect Folklore," in the summer issue of Midwest

Folklore; "Political Literature: A Post Mortem," in the summer issue of the

Southwest Review; and "Pilot Plants, Utopias, and Social Reform," in the

April-June number of Community Service News.

David Boynton Parke, who graduated in history in 1952, has published

an article on "Unitarianism at Antioch College, 1853-1953" in the Pro-

ceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society for 1954.

 

A History of Marshall Field & Co., 1852-1906, by Robert W. Twyman of

Bowling Green State University was published in 1954 by the University

of Pennsylvania Press. Publication was sponsored by the Beveridge

Memorial Fund of the American Historical Association.

 

Carl Blegen of the University of Cincinnati was one of several author-

ities participating in a symposium at a joint meeting of the Archaeological

Institute of America and the American Philological Association on De-

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cember 29. The discussion concerned the deciphering of prehistoric Greek

writing of 1400 B.C. and the impact of this achievement on present-day

knowledge of Homer and early Greece.

 

Watt P. Marchman, director of the Hayes Memorial Library and Museum,

is news editor of Manuscripts, the quarterly publication of the Manuscripts

Society.

Kenneth Davison, assistant professor of history and political science at

Heidelberg College, attended the Pennsylvania-Ohio Workshop of the

Citizenship Clearing House on "Preparation of College Students for

Politics," held at Kenyon College, August 29 - September 2, 1954.

 

Virginius C. Hall, director of the Historical and Philosophical Society

of Ohio, edited "The Journal of Isaac Hite, 1773," which was published

in the society's Bulletin for October 1954.

 

Alfred A. Skerpan, professor of history at Kent State University, is

spending the academic year 1954-55 in Finland on a Fulbright fellowship.

 

The Story of Our Civilization by Philip Lee Ralph, chairman of the

department of history at Lake Erie College, was published by E. P.

Dutton & Co. in August 1954.

 

Sister M. Teresa, O. S. F., of the department of history at Mary Manse

College, has been granted a master's degree by the University of Detroit.

 

A tenth printing (revised) of Reaction and Revolution, 1814-32 by

Frederick B. Artz, chairman of the department of history at Oberlin, was

issued last summer by Harper & Brothers.

 

Erwin C. Zepp, director of the Ohio Historical Society, represented the

society at the eighth annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic

Preservation held in Chicago on October 29 and 30, 1954.

James H. Rodabaugh, head of the division of history and science, ad-

dressed the annual meeting of the Historical and Philosophical Society of

Ohio on December 6, on the topic, "Mounds to Mansions: Architecture in

Ohio History." His talk was illustrated by colored slides.

 

An organizational meeting of the Ohio-Indiana American Studies Asso-

ciation, subsidized by Wittenberg College, was held at Ohio Wesleyan

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University and the Rohrbough Cooperative Service Recreation Center,

Delaware, Ohio, on Saturday, October 30, in conjunction with the fall

meeting of the Ohio Folklore Society. John Ball of Miami University, the

regional chairman, presided at the business session. Speakers of the after-

noon were George Simpson of Oberlin College, who spoke on "Field Work

in Jamaica," and Lynn Rohrbough, whose topic was "Ancient Folk Recrea-

tion and Modern Groups."

Bradley Barger resigned from the department of history at Ohio State

University this fall to accept an appointment as assistant professor of

history at the University of South Carolina.

Foster Rhea Dulles, chairman of the department of history, has a chapter,

"The Return to Isolation," in The World of History published by the New

American Library in conjunction with the Society of American Historians.

Several members of the department had articles published in periodicals:

Harvey Goldberg, "The Myth of the French Peasant," in the American

Journal of Economics and Sociology for July 1954; Eugene H. Roseboom,

"Ohio in 1953: Principal Events," in American Annual, 1954; Paul

Bamford, "French Shipping in Northern European Trade, 1660-1789," in

the Journal of Modern History for September 1954; and Alan Rees, grad-

uate assistant, "Pitt and the Achievement of Abolition," in the Journal of

Negro History for July 1954.

August C. Mahr, professor of German at Ohio State University, gave

an address at the Ohio Valley Historic Indian Conference on November 19

at Indiana University. His topic was "Semantic Analysis of 18th-Century

Delaware Indian Names for Medical Plants."

 

John F. Cady, chairman of the department of history at Ohio University,

has contributed a chapter on "South and Southeast Asia" to Charles P.

Schleicher's volume, Introduction to International Affairs.

Frederick D. Kershner received the Edwards Memorial Award for the

best article in the field of agricultural history for the year 1953 for his

essay, "George Chaffey and the Irrigation Frontier," in Agricultural History

for October 1953.

A. T. Volwiler is serving as consulting editor for American history for

Collier's new national encyclopedia.

Stanley R. Stembridge has joined the staff of the history department at

Ohio Wesleyan University.

David Jennings is the co-author of Values and Policy in American Society

published in May 1954.

C. E. Van Sickle is the author of "The Salarium of Claudius Gothicus

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(Claudius XIV, 2-14) Viewed as a Historical Document," in L'Antiquite

Classique, XXIII (1954).

Ravin I. McDavid, Jr., of Western Reserve University is engaged in

three projects in the field of American English which have special interest

for Ohio historians. They are a study of American dialects (with Alva L.

Davis of American University), completion of field work in Ohio and

Kentucky for the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States, and a sup-

plementary collection of data on the speech of Ohio, gathered by means

of a vocabulary check list.

Robert Walcott returned last fall to his teaching duties in the depart-

ment of history at Wooster College after a year's leave of absence on a

Fulbright scholarship in England. In July, Prof. Walcott read a paper at

the Anglo-American Historical Convention in London on "The Influence

of Merchants of the East India Company on Parliamentary Elections of

1700." Aileen Dunham, chairman of the department, was in England

during the summer, and attended the convention.

 

W. Eugene Shiels, S.J., chairman of the department of history and

political science at Xavier University, served as chairman of the Work

Group in Inter-American Cooperation for the twenty-seventh annual con-

ference of the Catholic Association for International Peace, at Washington,

D.C., November 12-14, 1954. Father Shiels has an article, "History in the

University: Its Teacher," in the Jesuit Educational Quarterly for October

1954.

George W. Eddy, instructor in history and economics at Youngstown

College, died on July 23, 1954. Dr. Eddy was a member of the faculty of

South High School of Youngstown from 1915 to 1946. After his retire-

ment he devoted all his time to business research until joining the faculty

of Youngstown College a few years ago. Dr. Eddy held degrees from

Brown, Harvard, and Ohio State universities.

E. B. Smith, associate professor of history at Youngstown College, is on

leave of absence for the year 1954-55. He is teaching at Ochanomizu

Women's University and at the University of Tokyo on a Fulbright

scholarship. Vern Bullough has been appointed for the year to substitute

for Dr. Smith.

David M. Behen was appointed to the department in September 1954.

"A Class History Paper" by Morris Slavin appeared in Social Education

for May 1954.

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