Historical News
The Hayes Memorial Library has recently
acquired some small but im-
portant additions to its manuscript
collections. They include papers of H. H.
Morton and Dr. George R. Morton,
Sandusky (7 items, 1855-77); papers on
the election of 1876 (5 items); letters
of Rutherford B. Hayes to the Rev.
L. W. Bacon (5 letters, 1881-82,
photostatic copies from Yale University
Library); additions to the William and
Mary B. Claflin papers (22 items,
1866-89); a letterbook of General H. W.
Benham (1877-82); Civil War
correspondence of J. R. Rhoades, Co. E,
110th Regiment, O.V.I. (158 items,
1862-65); and J. P. Reynolds
correspondence (36 items, 1876-78).
The Minnesota Historical Society has
established the Solon J. Buck
Award, to be granted each year to the
author of the best article published
in Minnesota History, the
society's quarterly magazine. The award carries
with it a grant of fifty dollars from a
special fund. The winner for 1954,
Francis Paul Prucha of St. Marys,
Kansas, was honored for his article on
"Minnesota 100 Years Ago as Seen by
Laurence Oliphant," which appeared
in the Summer 1954 issue of the
quarterly. All authors whose contributions
appear in Minnesota History are
eligible for the award. Anyone writing in
the field of Minnesota and Northwest
history is invited to compete.
In naming the award the society honors
Dr. Buck, who founded the
quarterly in 1915 while he was
superintendent of the society. He later be-
came archivist of the United States and
has recently retired as assistant
librarian of the Library of Congress.
The eighth annual Seminars on American
Culture, sponsored by the New
York State Historical Association, will
be held in Cooperstown on two
consecutive weeks, June 26 to July 2,
and July 3 to July 9. Requests for
information should be directed to Dr.
Louis C. Jones, Director, New York
State Historical Association,
Cooperstown, New York.
The special spring exhibition of the
Historical and Philosophical So-
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ciety of Ohio, "The Ohio from
Pittsburgh to Cairo," will open on the
evening of April 22 for members and will
continue for six weeks.
The society has lately acquired a
collection of 722 letters from old resi-
dents of Cincinnati to Hiram Powers
(dating from 1827). Another recent
acquisition has been the journals of
Colonel John May's trading expedition
to the Muskingum in 1788 and 1789, as
well as his commonplace book and
other records.
The second annual Institute on
Historical and Archival Management will
be held at Radcliffe College, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, from June 20 to
August 12, under the sponsorship of the
college and the department of
history of Harvard University. The
two-month course of study covers archival
procedures, reproduction techniques,
editorial procedures, all phases of
museum work, and problems in
architectural preservation. In addition to
classroom lectures and assigned
research, the course will include field trips
to museums and other institutions within
a fifty-mile radius of Cambridge.
A guest faculty from leading archival
and historical institutions has been
assembled. The director is Earle W.
Newton, director of the Vermont His-
torical Society and secretary of both
the American Association for State and
Local History and the Society of
American Historians.
The Ephraim and William Parker Cutler
collection is one of the most
important acquisitions of the Marietta
College Library in recent years. It
comprises correspondence and papers
covering almost the entire combined
life spans of the two men (1767-1889).
According to George J. Blazier,
librarian, the collection now numbers
2,200 individual pieces.
Case Institute of Technology is offering
a study tour of Europe, "Europe
in Historical Perspective," this
summer from June 29 to August 29. Two
courses on the European Background of
Western Civilization will be given
concurrently, and enrollees may qualify
for six hours of academic credit.
The study tour is directed by Stanton
Ling Davis, associate professor of
history at Case Institute, who will be
conducting such travel parties for the
fifth consecutive year.
Irwin B. Abrams, chairman of the
department of history at Antioch Col-
lege, addressed a recent meeting of the
Greene County Historical Society on
"Berlin, a Tale of Two
Cities."
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Louis Filler has had a number of
articles published during the past year.
"Why Historians Ignore
Folklore" appeared in Midwest Folklore, Sum-
mer 1954; "Liberalism,
Anti-Slavery, and the Founders of the Independent,"
in the New England Quarterly, September
1954; "The Young Godkin: To-
wards a Revaluation of a Great
Victorian," in the Historian, Winter 1954;
and "Civilization and American
Civilization," in the Midwest Journal, Sum-
mer 1954. Dr. Filler also edited and wrote
the introduction for Mr. Dooley:
Now and Forever (Academic Reprints, Stanford, California, 1954).
Summerfield Baldwin III, head of the
history department and chairman
of the social science division at the
University of Akron, died suddenly on
January 15, 1955. Dr. Baldwin, a
brilliant scholar and an exacting in-
structor, held three degrees from
Harvard University, including his Ph.D.,
which he received in 1928. He came to
the University of Akron from West-
ern Reserve University in 1943, and had
been head of the history depart-
ment for the past nine years. Clara G.
Roe, associate professor of history,
is acting head of the department since
Dr. Baldwin's death.
Richard W. Griffin has been appointed an
instructor in history at Capital
University. Mr. Griffin is the author of
an article, "Cotton Frauds and
Confiscations in Alabama,
1863-1866," which appeared in the Alabama
Review for October 1954.
Philip Lee Ralph, chairman of the social
studies department at Lake
Erie College, gave a series of four
lectures on Christianity and Western
Civilization to the annual convocation
of Congregational ministers of Florida
at Avon Park, Florida, on February 7-9.
Oberlin College has granted Robert G.
Gunderson a sabbatical leave
during the second semester of this year
to complete his manuscript on the
Washington Peace Conference of 1861.
Frederick D. Kershner, associate
professor of history at Ohio University,
will spend the second semester (1955) on
leave at the University of Wis-
consin. Warren F. Kuehl, who has his
Ph.D. from Northwestern, will fill
in during Dr. Kershner's absence.
John F. Cady has received a Fulbright
research award for study in Burma
for a twelve-month period beginning in
June 1955. Dr. Cady's book, The
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Roots of French Imperialism in
Eastern Asia, was published last year
by
the Cornell University Press as the
Carnegie Award book for the American
Historical Association for 1954. He
contributed a chapter, "South and
Southeast Asia," to Charles P.
Schleicher's Introduction to International
Relations (Prentice-Hall, 1954), and a chapter, "Southeast
Asia," to Soviet
Power and Policy (Crowell, 1955), by George B. de Huszar and associates.
W. Eugene Shiels, S. J., chairman of the
department of history at
Xavier University, had an article,
"History as an Integrating Discipline: The
Teacher," in the Jesuit
Educational Quarterly for October 1954.