Historical News
THE RUTHERFORD B. HAYES LIBRARY has acquired in
the past few months
a file of the weekly Clyde Enterprise
from the first issue on March 21,
1878, through December 1900. The issues
for 1958 are being received as
published, and the file for the
intervening years will be completed at a
later date. Two original letters written
by Rutherford B. Hayes have been
added to the Hayes collections. One,
dated October 31, 1884, was ad-
dressed to Colonel H. J. Johnson of Cumberland,
Maryland, and the other,
dated June 11, 1886, to John M. Burt of
New York City. The library
also has acquired two broadsides, one
for the 1876 Hayes-Tilden campaign
and one for the 1880 election, and
several photographs and autographs
of Lincoln and his cabinet, including
Ohioan Edwin M. Stanton.
Lee Shepard, a vice president of the
Historical and Philosophical So-
ciety of Ohio, died at his home in
Cincinnati on May 15, 1958. A gradu-
ate of Denison University and a lifelong
resident of the Cincinnati area,
Mr. Shepard had served the society also
as its secretary and as a curator,
but he was best known for his editorship
of the quarterly Bulletin, which he
brought into being as a four-page news
bulletin in 1943 and in the course of
fifteen years developed into a scholarly
publication of some ninety pages.
Mr. Shepard's other historical interests
included membership in the Society
of Colonial Wars in Ohio and the Civil
War Round Table in Cincinnati.
He served at one time as governor of the
Society of Colonial Wars and
was a co-founder of the Round Table.
J. Walter Coleman, superintendent of the
Gettysburg Memorial Park
since 1941, has been appointed historian
in the Washington office of the
National Park Service. Dr. Coleman will
serve as liaison with the Civil
War Centennial Commission and other
groups planning Civil War cen-
tennial observances and will coordinate
programs in the National Park
system's twenty-five Civil War areas. He
will also conduct special studies
on events of the war to be commemorated
on a nationwide basis and
act in an advisory capacity on
publications and program data.
Effective September 1, 1958, David
C. Riede will be promoted from
the rank of instructor to that of
assistant professor in the department of
history at the University of Akron.
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Irwin Abrams, chairman of the history
department at Antioch College,
served as director of the orientation
seminar for guides of the United
States Pavilion at the World's Fair in
Brussels. The seminar began aboard
the S. S. America and continued
for nine days after the party arrived in
Brussels.
Dr. Abrams had an article, "What's
Missing on the Campus (An
Analysis of the Jacob Report)," in
the Phi Delta Kappan for April 1958.
Melvin Kranzberg, a member of the history
department at Case
Institute of Technology, has been named
chairman of the executive com-
mittee of the newly formed Society for
the History of Technology. The
purpose of the society is to study the
development of technology and its
relations with society and culture. A
quarterly journal, Technology and
Culture, is projected. Applications for membership should be
sent to Pro-
fessor Melvin Kranzberg, Room 315, Main
Building, Case Institute of
Technology, Cleveland 6, Ohio.
At Denison University, John Huckaby has
been added to the history
department staff as assistant professor.
Dr. Huckaby's appointment becomes
effective in September 1958.
G. Wallace Chessman will serve as a
Fulbright lecturer at the Univer-
sity of Southampton, England, for the
next academic year.
Morton B. Stratton, chairman of the
department at Denison, will hold
a fellowship in Asian studies at Harvard
University next year.
Thomas L. Moir of Heidelberg College is
the author of a new book,
The Addled Parliment of 1614, published by the Clarendon Press.
William N. Wannemacher has been
appointed head of the department
of history at Kent State University,
succeeding A. Sellew Roberts, who is
retiring after serving as head of the
department for thirty-one years. Dr.
Wannemacher, who will assume the post on
September 15, 1958, has been
at Kent since 1937, where he has
specialized in ancient history.
George W. Blazier, librarian at Marietta
College, and Rodney T. Hood
of the department of mathematics at Ohio
University, have edited for
publication the memoirs of Joseph
Barker, an early settler of Washington
County. The book will be off the press
soon.
Three members of the staff of the
history department at Ohio State
University have recently received
special recognition. Eugene H. Roseboom
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received the Ohio Academy of History's
annual Award for Historical
Achievement for the best book by an
academy member at the academy's
annual meeting in April. Sidney N.
Fisher has received a grant from the
Social Science Research Council for
study in Turkey, 1958-59, and Philip
Poirier has been awarded the Elizabeth
Clay Howald fellowship for
research in England for the year
1958-59.
Harold J. Grimm, chairman of the
department, has been elected a
member of the board of trustees of the
Foundation for Reformation
Research.
Recent publications by members of the
department include an article
by Harvey Goldberg, "The Carmaux
Strikes: The Coal Strike of 1892,"
in the American Journal of Economics
and Sociology for January 1958,
and an article by Frank J. Pegues,
"Ecclesiastical Provisions for the Support
of Students in the Thirteenth
Century," in Church History for December
1957.
Mary Young presented a paper on
"Southern Indian Removal: The
Civilized Tribes and Jacksonian
Justice," at the joint session of the Ameri-
can Historical Association and the
Southern Historical Association in New
York last December, and Robert Bremner
served as a commentator at a
session on philanthropy at the Mississippi
Valley Historical Association
meeting in Minneapolis in April.
Gifford B. Doxsee will join the history
department at Ohio University in
September as an instructor. He will
teach courses in the history of Turkey
and the Middle East.
John F. Cady's A History of Modern
Burma was released by Corell
University Press on April 5, 1958.
Charles Mayes has an article, "The
Early Stuarts and the Irish Peerage,"
in the English Historical Review for
April 1958.
Aileen Dunham, chairman of the
department of history at the College
of Wooster, will be on sabbatical leave
during the year 1958-59 for study
and travel in Asia and Africa.
Alfred D. Low, associate professor of
history at Youngstown University,
is spending the summer in Austria on a
research grant by the American
Philosophical Society.
Maurice Link, S. J., is leaving the
history department at Xavier University
to accept a position at Loyola
University in Chicago. A new instructor in the
department is Walter J. Kapica, S. J.