Historical News
The University of Chicago and the
University of Virginia are sponsoring
the publication of a new and complete
edition of the papers of James
Madison. The editors will appreciate
information about the location of
letters by or to James Madison or his
wife, especially letters in private
possession or among uncalendared
manuscripts in the collections of public
or private institutions. Information
should be addressed to The Papers of
James Madison, 1126 East 59th Street,
Chicago 37, Illinois.
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission and the
Pennsylvania State University are
undertaking a series of annual institutes
on Pennsylvania life and culture. This
summer's institute, to be held at the
university August 12-17, will be devoted
to Pennsylvania folklore and
music. The staff includes Samuel P.
Bayard, Walter E. Boyer, and Albert
F. Buffington, all of Pennsylvania State
University, and Sylvester K. Stevens
and Earle W. Newton of the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum
Commission.
Registrants with the necessary
prerequisites may schedule the course for
one semester hour of credit; auditors
are admitted with no prerequisites.
Further information may be secured from
S. K. Stevens, Executive Director,
Pennsylvania Historical and Museum
Commission, P. O. Box 232, Harris-
burg, Pennsylvania.
The American Association for State and
Local History is urging state
and local historical societies to take
advantage of the current interest in
Civil War history, stimulated by the
approaching Civil War centennial, to
collect significant historical materials
pertaining to the war. Persons having
soldiers' letters, diaries, field
equipment, or other war materials are re-
quested to write to the state historical
society of their own state describing
their holdings. Materials collected now,
it is thought, can be preserved or
restored to be used for later study or
exhibit.
"Historic-House Keeping: A Short
Course" is being offered for the third
year under the joint auspices of the
National Trust for Historic Preserva-
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tion and the New York State Historical
Association at Cooperstown, New
York, September 15-21, 1957. Faculty and
speakers are well-known author-
ities in their various fields. The
course is open to anyone concerned in
historic preservation. Morning sessions
will be of general interest. Two con-
current classes will be offered in the
afternoon, one on administrative aspects
and the other on technical phases of
historic-house keeping.
Details concerning the program, fees,
and accommodations may be ob-
tained by writing Historic-House
Keeping, New York State Historical As-
sociation, Cooperstown, New York.
Lester J. Cappon, director of the
Institute of Early American History
and Culture, recently announced a grant
of sixty thousand dollars from the
Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis. This
grant, which is to be distributed
over a three-year period, is intended to
aid the institute in its publication
program. The institute, sponsored
jointly by the College of William and
Mary and Colonial Williamsburg, is
devoted to research and publication in
the colonial, Revolutionary, and early
national periods of American history.
The American Council of Learned
Societies is making available a total
of three hundred thousand dollars for
the year 1958-59 for three programs
to aid scholarly research in the
humanities, including the field of history.
Fellowship grants, up to seven thousand
dollars each, will be made to
younger scholars (with a doctorate or
equivalent) mainly to provide free
time to complete research projects or to
continue intensive study in their
fields of special interest.
Grants-in-aid, not to exceed three thousand dollars
each, will be awarded to scholars to
support projects in progress. Applica-
tions from individual scholars for
fellowships will be received until October
15, 1957; those for grants-in-aid, until
September 15, 1957, January 15,
1958, and March 15, 1958. Special awards
of ten thousand dollars each will
be made to mature scholars for
completion of works of research, of interpre-
tation, or of original thought.
Nominations for the special awards must be
made by academic institutions,
professional societies, or similar organizations.
Several manuscript prizes have recently
been inaugurated to encourage
scholarly publication. The Institute of
Early American History and Culture
has replaced its book prize with a prize
for the best manuscript in the field
of early American history submitted to
the institute. The award will be
five hundred dollars and publication of
the manuscript. To be eligible for
the 1958 award, manuscripts should be
sent by December 31, 1957, to the
Editor of Publications, Box 1298,
Williamsburg, Virginia.
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The New England Quarterly and
Houghton Mifflin Company have estab-
lished the New England Quarterly
Literary Fellowship Award of $2,400 to
encourage the writing of books of
general interest in American history,
literature, and the social sciences.
Information and application blanks may
be obtained from the Editor, Houghton
Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street,
Boston 7, Massachusetts.
The American Historical Association has
established the Moses Coit Tyler
Prize of $1,500 (plus publication by
Cornell University Press) for the best
manuscript in intellectual history or
biography. Manuscripts will be received
until September 1, 1957. More detailed
information may be secured from
the association office, 400 A Street,
Washington 3, D. C.
The Mississippi Valley Historical
Association has announced the inaugura-
tion of an annual award of one thousand
dollars for an outstanding study
of American history. The first award
will be made in April 1959, and the
manuscript selected will be published by
the University of Kentucky Press.
The competition will be conducted by a
committee composed of Chase C.
Mooney, Indiana University, chairman;
Richard W. Leopold, Northwestern
University; Edward C. Kirkland, Bowdoin College;
J. Merton England,
University of Kentucky; and Fletcher M.
Green, University of North
Carolina. Dates for submission of
manuscripts for the first judging are June 1
through August 31, 1958.
To be eligible for the award,
manuscripts must not be more than 100,000
words. Persons interested in having
manuscripts considered for the award
should write to Dr. Chase C. Mooney,
History Department, Indiana
University, Bloomington.
The American Jewish Archives has
recently acquired 350 government
documents relating to American Jews,
1820-1900, and also correspondence
of David Levy Yulee, Benjamin Jonas,
Lewis C. Levin, and other outstanding
nineteenth-century Jews active in civic,
political, and military affairs.
Herbert F. Koch, acting professor of
business administration at the
University of Cincinnati, has become
co-editor of the quarterly Bulletin
of the Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio with Lee Shepard, who
has been editor for the past thirteen
years.
Under the sponsorship of the society,
George Rosenthal is making an
architectural and historical survey of
the Kenyon-Barr area in Cincinnati,
soon to be cleared for redevelopment.
Photographic studies are being made
of all suitable sites, buildings,
architectural details, and vistas for deposit
in the society's library.
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Jack R. Armstrong is now curator of the
Wakefield Marine Museum of
the Great Lakes Historical Society at
Vermilion, Ohio.
Recent acquisitions of the Rutherford B.
Hayes Library include a large
scrapbook of original teletype news
releases issued during the Spanish-
American War, and some 3,000 items in a
personal collection of Robinson
Locke ("Rodney Lee"), editor
of the Toledo Blade. Robinson Locke was
the eldest son of David Ross Locke
("Petroleum V. Nasby"), and in the
collection are numerous
"Nasby" items.
Dr. Edwin H. Cady of Syracuse University
has contributed to the William
Dean Howells Collection in the Hayes
Library his original manuscript and
notes for his recent book, The Road
to Realism: The Early Years, 1837-1885,
of William Dean Howells.
Louis Filler, acting chairman of the
department of history at Antioch
College, delivered the annual University
Lecture in the History of Education
at the University of Michigan on March
20, on the theme, "Main Currents
in American Progressive Education."
The lecture is sponsored jointly by
the school of education and the
department of history of the university.
Wayne Shafter Huffman, associate professor
of history at Bowling Green
State University, received the honorary
degree of doctor of social science
from Findlay College at the commencement
ceremonies on June 9. He is a
graduate of Findlay College.
Paul McStallworth, chairman of the
department of history, political
science, and geography at Central State
College, served as acting director of
student personnel services from March 1,
1957, to June 30, 1957. Professor
McStallworth had an article, "The
Impact of West African Political Re-
surgence," published in two parts
in the January and February 1957 issues
of the Negro History Bulletin.
An endowment fund of one thousand
dollars was bequeathed to the
history department of Central State
College through the will of the late
Keith Churchman, a member of the
department for a number of years.
Robert Boehm has been promoted to
associate professor of history at
Defiance College.
Paul I. Miller, chairman of the
department of history at Hiram College,
has been granted a Fulbright lectureship
in American history at the University
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of Ceylon for 1957-58. C. H. Moore will
be visiting professor of history at
Hiram for the year. Dr. Moore was
formerly at Ripon College.
Robert S. Fletcher was on sabbatical
leave from Oberlin College for the
second semester of 1956-57 and Frederick
B. Artz will be on sabbatical leave
for the second semester of the year
1957-58. The chairmanship of the
history department has now rotated from
Dr. Artz to Dr. Fletcher.
Richard Thompson, who has his Ph.D. from
the University of Wisconsin,
has been added to the history faculty at
Ohio University. His appointment
will be effective at the beginning of
the next academic year.
Charles Mayes has an article, "The
Sale of Peerages in Early Stuart
England," in the Journal of
Modern History for March 1957.
Frederick D. Kershner delivered a paper
entitled "The Role of the Small
Town in Midwestern Urbanization" at
a session of the Mississippi Valley
Historical Association on May 3.
At the University of Toledo, Willard A.
Smith has been promoted to the
rank of professor of history.
Cecil E. Cody has been granted a leave
of absence for the year 1957-58.
He will lecture in the Philippine
Women's University at Manila under a
Fulbright grant.
Donald Grove Barnes returns to the
history department at Western
Reserve University in September 1957
after a year's leave of absence spent
in England and on the continent.
Marvin Becker, who has been on leave
from Baldwin-Wallace College
during 1956-57 while doing research in
Italy on a Guggenheim fellowship,
will join the history faculty at Western
Reserve.
Marion Siney has been granted a leave of
absence for the winter term,
1957-58, and plans to spend the time in
Sweden continuing her researches
on international relations in World War
I.
Willis Thornton has been appointed as a
lecturer in history for 1957-58.
Karol Marcinkowski, chairman of the
history department at Wilberforce
University, recently published an
84-page treatise in Polish, Cien Zlotego
Cielca nad walczaca Rzeczpospolita,
1655 ("The Shadow of the Golden
Idol
Over the Struggling Republic, Year
1655"). The study is based on original
sources found by the author in the
archives of the Vatican and deals with
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papal policy towards Poland and the
attitude of the Polish clergy during
the first period of the Polish-Swedish
War, 1655-60.
Benjamin H. Pershing, professor and head
of the history department at
Wittenberg College, retired at the dose
of the academic year, 1956-57. Dr.
Pershing's ministerial and teaching
career has spanned a period of forty-four
years.
The Rev. Thomas P. Conry, S.J., formerly
of the history department at
Xavier University, is now at John
Carroll University.
John J. Whealen, assistant professor at
Xavier, has an essay titled
"American Liberalism: Its Meaning
and Consistency," in Mid-America for
April 1957.