Ohio History Journal

Historical News

 

 

 

THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Missouri recently inaugurated a survey

of historic sites in Missouri as the initial step in the preservation of the

state's historic sites, according to Floyd C. Shoemaker, secretary of the society.

The survey will utilize National Park Service standards and procedures.

Local historical organizations in nearly half of Missouri's counties will be

asked to cooperate in the coordination of data.

 

The Michigan Historical Commission has published a report on its state-

wide historical marking program, which was inaugurated in 1953. The first of

the new markers was unveiled on October 22, 1955, at Michigan State Uni-

versity. Since that time nearly fifty markers have been erected or are

scheduled for erection in the near future. Texts for the markers are pre-

pared by the staff of the commission.

 

The Winterthur Museum of Winterthur, Delaware, is offering for the

sixth year, five fellowships under the Winterthur Program in Early American

Culture. A two-year course of study, supervised jointly by the museum

and the University of Delaware, leads to the degree of master of arts.

The fellowships pay up to $2,000 annually for the two-year period. The

program is designed to attract promising young scholars looking toward a

career in curatorship, teaching, research, journalism, or librarianship in such

institutions as museums, colleges, historical societies, restoration projects,

and historic sites.

 

A catalog of their current exhibition has recently been published by the

Henry Monsky Foundation, B'nai B'rith. The exhibition, "Contributions of

Jews to American Civilization," was opened November 24, 1957, in the

Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Exhibit Hall in the B'nai B'rith Building in

Washington, D. C. The exhibition comprises twenty-five cases of documents,

books, pamphlets, photographs, silver, and art objects. There is also a

section devoted to paintings and sculpture by American-Jewish artists.

 

The Rutherford B. Hayes Library recently published its annual report

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for 1956-57 in a thirty-three page, illustrated booklet. It carries, in addition

to the report on activities of the library and mention of the principal ac-

quisitions, a memorial to Webb Cook Hayes, II, president of the Rutherford

B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation, whose death occurred last July.

The library has purchased seven volumes of diaries kept for President

William McKinley by his telegrapher, Benjamin Franklin Montgomery, who

was also White House telegrapher under President Hayes. Two important

manuscripts have been acquired by gift. The first, a lengthy letter written

by William S. Cochran, Cincinnati lawyer and one-time clerk of the United

State Court of Appeals, dated June 18, 1876, gives a detailed report of the

Republican national convention which nominated Hayes for the presidency.

The second is an original manuscript of the "Return of the First Brigade,

Third Division, Department of West Virginia." The brigade was com-

manded by Hayes, and the manuscript is signed by Hayes and William

McKinley.

Watt P. Marchman, director of the library, has been elected secretary of

the reactivated Sandusky County Historical Society.

 

Henry S. Vyverberg has been appointed assistant professor of history at

the University of Akron. Dr. Vyverberg, who received his Ph.D. degree

from Harvard University, has been teaching at Alliance College, Cambridge

Springs, Pennsylvania. His field of special interest is modern European

intellectual history.

David C. Riede, instructor in history, received his Ph.D. degree from

the State University of Iowa last June.

Clara G. Roe, head of the history department at Akron, has been promoted

from associate professor to professor.

 

Irwin Abrams, chairman of the history department at Antioch College,

has returned to his post after a year's leave of absence.

Louis Filler is on sabbatical leave for the current year. He is remaining

at Yellow Springs to work on his book on Abolition and Reform for Harper's

New American Nation Series. Fred Crane of Bard College is replacing him

during his leave.

Dr. Filler is the author of several articles published last summer and fall,

including "The Study of American Life: An Interdisciplinary Approach to

Discipline," in Social Studies for May 1957; "John Chamberlain and Ameri-

can Liberalism," in the Colorado Quarterly for Autumn 1957; and "Ameri-

can Studies Abroad," in School and Society for September 14, 1957.

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Roger L. Williams had an article, "Jacques Offenbach and Parisian

Gaiety," in the Antioch Review, Winter 1957 issue. Dr. Williams' book,

Gaslight and Shadow: The World of Napoleon III, was published last year

by the Macmillan Company.

Dr. Abrams contributed four articles to recent periodicals: "An Alpine

View of Neutrality," to the Antioch Review, Spring 1957; "What's Missing

on the Campus?" to Antioch Notes, May 1957; "Disarmament in 1870,"

to Die Friedenswarte, Volume LIV (1957), No. 1; and "The Emergence of

the International Law Societies," to the Review of Politics for July 1957. He

also contributed chapters to the History of World Civilization, edited by Max

Savelle and published by Henry Holt and Company last year.

 

Raymond W. Bixler, chairman of the department of history at Ashland

College, is the author of The Foreign Policy of the United States in Liberia,

published by Pageant Press last year.

 

John F. Oglevee of the department of history at Bowling Green State

University has returned to the campus after a summer in Europe spent in

visiting places of historical interest and in doing research work.

 

At Capital University, Gerhard Krodel has been appointed instructor in

church history, and Donald Kagan, instructor in Greek history.

 

Morton B. Stratton is serving for a three-year period as chairman of the

history department at Denison University. He succeeds G. Wallace Chessman.

Two members of the staff, Robert Seager and William Preston, recently

earned Ph.D. degrees.

William T. Utter has been honored by an award from the American

Association for State and Local History for his recent book, Granville: The

Story of an Ohio Village.

 

Kenneth E. Davison of Heidelberg College attended the seminars on

American culture at Cooperstown, New York, this past summer.

 

Richard G. Salomon of Kenyon College had an article, "Orthodoxy,

Ecumenical Movement, and Anglicanism: The Moscow Conference of 1948,"

in the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church for June 1957.

 

At Miami University, William E. Smith, former chairman of the history

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department, is devoting full time to his duties as dean of the graduate school.

Harris G. Warren from the University of Mississippi has been appointed

professor of history and chairman of the department.

Frank W. Ikle from the University of California at Berkeley has been

appointed assistant professor of history. Preston B. Albright is now instructor

of history on a full-time schedule.

Dwight L. Smith presented a lecture at Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October

1, on the Indian war period in the Northwest Territory. This was the third

in a series of seminar meetings sponsored by the Allen County-Fort Wayne

Historical Society.

Dr. Warren was discussion leader of the session on presidential politics

at the Southern Historical Association convention at Houston, November

7-9.

Recent publications by Miami staff members include an article by Dr.

Warren on "Farm Relief: Twenty-five Years Ago," in the Mississippi

Quarterly, Summer 1957, and one by Andre de Saint Rat on "The History

of Order No. 1," in Novoye Russkoe Slovo for June 17, 1957.

 

Robert G. Gunderson, chairman of the speech department at Oberlin

College and a frequent writer of articles of historical interest, has one

entitled "Log-Cabin Canvass, Hoosier Style," in the Indiana Magazine of

History for September 1957. Dr. Gunderson's book, The Log-Cabin Cam-

paign, was brought out last December by the University of Kentucky Press.

 

Resignations from the history department at Ohio State University in-

clude Gilman Ostrander, Paul L. Murphy, J. Joseph Huthmacher, William

T. Bulger, and Morton Borden. New instructors in the department are

George E. Etue, Alan D. Harper, Edwin T. Layton, Mrs. Lillian B. Silver,

John G. Sperling, Rudolph J. Vecoli, Walter R. Weitzmann, and Edward

F. Yurick.

Harvey Goldberg has been promoted to the rank of associate professor

and Paul Bamford to that of assistant professor.

Harold J. Grimm will become chairman of the history department on

February 1, 1958. Dr. Grimm returns to Ohio State after three and a half

years as chairman of the department of history at Indiana University. He

succeeds Foster Rhea Dulles.

Significant books published during the past academic year by history staff

members include Forests and French Sea Power by Paul Bamford; From the

Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in the United States by Robert Bremner;

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The Imperial Years by Foster Rhea Dulles; American Radicalism: Personali-

ties and Problems edited by Harvey Goldberg; and A History of Presidential

Elections by Eugene H. Roseboom. Dr. Bremner's book received the 1957

Ohio Academy of History award, and Dr. Roseboom's was selected for

distribution by the American History Society.

 

Hugh M. Hamill has been added to the history staff at Ohio Wesleyan

University as an instructor.

 

Lloyd B. Lapp has been promoted to an associate professorship in the

history department at the University of Toledo.

 

Wyn Rees of the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, has been

appointed a visiting professor of history at Western College.

 

Marvin Becker, formerly of Baldwin-Wallace College, has been appointed

assistant professor of history at Western Reserve University.

Chairman Carl Wittke's We Who Built America (1939) is one of a list

of 350 titles selected for inclusion in American Panorama recently published

by the New York University Press. The books listed are described as

"illustrative not only of good American writing but of the entire range

of American thought and behavior, books which taken together would

present a kind of portrait of America."

 

At the College of Wooster, George Yaney (M.A., Colorado) has been

named instructor of history.

Clayton Ellsworth is taking a sabbatical leave in order to carry on research.

 

John J. Whealen of Xavier University is editing a series of Moses Daw-

son's letters for publication in the Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical

Society of Ohio beginning with the January 1958 issue.

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