Minutes of the Meeting of the
Ohio Academy of History,
Columbus, April 12, 1958
THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Ohio
Academy of History
was held at the Ohio State Museum on
Saturday, April 12, 1958.
Three concurrent morning sessions
offered papers on a variety of topics.
In the area of American social history,
with Walter Rumsey Marvin of the
Ohioana Library in the chair,
"Protestantism and the American Labor Move-
ment, 1827-1869," was presented by
Clair M. Cook of the Religion and
Labor Foundation of Columbus, "The
Religious Sisters of Mercy in Ohio,"
by the Rev. Carl R. Steinbicker of The
Athenaeum of Ohio and Our Lady
of Cincinnati College, and "The
Struggle for an International Copyright
Law," by Stuart R. Givens of
Bowling Green State University. Eugene C.
Murdock of Marietta College presided at
the American political history ses-
sion, in which George H. Lobdell, Jr.,
of Ohio University spoke on "Frank
Knox and the Progressive Movement,"
and John J. Whealen of Xavier
University on "American Liberalism:
A Study in Consistency." Lawrence S.
Kaplan of Kent State University led the
discussion. As chairman of the
modern European history session, Carl G.
Gustavson of Ohio University
introduced Helmut Haeussler of
Wittenberg College and Philip Poirier of
Ohio State University who presented,
respectively, "Friederich Meinecke's
Reaction to World War I" and
"Fabian Myth and the Early Labor Party."
The discussion leader was Marion Siney
of Western Reserve University.
Landon Warner of Kenyon College,
president of the Academy, presided
at the luncheon, which was served to
ninety-nine persons at the Ohio State
University Faculty Club. Robert H.
Hilliard of Ohio Northern University
announced that the Committee on Awards
had selected Eugene H. Rose-
boom's A History of Presidential
Elections as the outstanding historical
achievement by a member of the Academy
in 1957. Dr. Roseboom was pre-
sented the annual Certificate of Award
by the president. Harold J. Grimm of
Ohio State University then delivered the
principal address, "Recent Trends in
Reformation Research."
Following the business meeting, a
summary of which appears below, two
afternoon sessions were held
concurrently. One was a panel discussion on