compiled by
PATRICIA B. GATHERUM
Checklist of Major Research Projects
Initiated in 1973 and Completed
Masters and Doctors Degrees
on Topics Relating to Ohio, 1973*
REFERENCE WORKS
GUTGESELL, STEPHEN C., Union Guide to Ohio Newspapers. Chief
Cataloger, Ohio Histori-
cal Society.
LEVSTIK, FRANK R., Guide to State
Archives at the Ohio Historical Society. Assistant State
Archivist, Ohio Historical Society.
PIKE, KERMIT J., Guide to the Manuscripts in the
Shaker Collection at the Western Reserve
Historical Society. Chief Librarian,
Western Reserve Historical Society.
ROWLAND, JOHN, Guide to Ohio
Biographical and Family History Records. Reference Li-
brarian, Ohio Historical Society.
WEBB, LINDA S., Guide to Manuscripts at the Ohio Historical
Society, Vol. 2. Manuscripts
Librarian, Ohio Historical Society.
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING 1788-1860
CARNER,
VERN, Biography of William Miller, 1782-1849. Religion prof., Loma Linda Univ.
COTTOM, ROBERT I., JR.,
James A. Garfield. Johns Hopkins Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
DANNENBAUM, JED, The Temperance Movement
in the United States and England,
1830-1900: A Comparative Study of
Sheffield, Yorkshire, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Univ. of
Calif., Ph.D., hist. dept.
GLASS, BRENT D., Influence of New
England Culure and Community in the Western Reserve.
Univ. of North Carolina, Ph.D., hist.
dept.
GRUBER, ROBERT H., Salmon P. Chase,
Idealist in Politics. Univ. of Maryland, Ph.D., hist.
dept.
*The data has been compiled with the aid
of staff members of the Ohio Historical Society, from re-
cords of patron registration at the
eight libraries comprising the Ohio Network of American History
Research Centers, from mail and
telephone reference inquiries, from published research-in-progress lists
in professional journals, and from
information solicited from professors at Ohio's fifteen history graduate
universities.
Revisions, corrections and additions
should be directed to the compiler, Chief Reference Librarian,
Ohio Historical Society, for inclusion
in the next checklist. For a list of on-going major research proj-
ects, see Ohio History, Vol. 82
(Winter-Spring 1973). 105-112.
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HALL,
ROGER L., Shaker Music. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
HARKNESS, BARBARA M., Ohio Hopewell Lithics. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.,
archaeology dept.
LIEBERMAN, ROBERTA M., Akron, Ohio, 1850-1860. Univ. of Akron, Ph.D, hist.
dept.
LUPOLD, HARRY F., General
Pioneer History of Lake County, Ohio, to 1860. Hist. prof.,
Lakeland Community College.
MEIGS,
BEVERLY VINCENT, Biography of Return J. Meigs, Sr., 1740-1823.
Businessman, Bas-
king Ridge, New Jersey.
MILLER, AMY BESS W., Shaker Herb Industry. Author, Pittsfield,
Mass.
SMITH, SAM SPENCER, Political
and Judicial Career of Charles W. Byrd, 1770-1828. Ohio
State Univ., Ph.D., humanities education
dept.
SMITH, THOMAS H., History of Ohio, 1803 Present. Hist. prof., Ohio Univ.
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD
1861-1920
ALTHERR, THOMAS LAWSON, Two Villages: Randolph Bourne in Greenwich Village,
1911-1918, and the Candidate's
Grandparents Growing up in Ironton, Ohio, 1903-1923.
An Imaginative Interpretation. Ohio
State Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
BREEN, WILLIAM JAMES, Ohio Council of National Defense, 1917 1919. Hist.
prof., Latrobe
Univ., Bundoora, Australia.
CRAMER,
CLARENCE H., History of Case Western Reserve University. Hist. prof., Case West-
ern Reserve Univ.
DONOFRIO, SUSAN S., Narrative Development of Selected Novels of William
Dean Howells.
Ohio State Univ., Ph.D., English dept.
DOOLEN, RICHARD M., Midwestern
Greenbackism, 1878-1886. Hist. prof., Ohio Univ.
FIELD, MARTA, A Re-evaluation of the Uses
of Swedenborg by Emerson, Howells, and Henry
James. Univ. of New Mexico, Ph.D.,
English dept.
FLEMING, WILLIAM F., Biography of Ohio Columbus Barber, 1840-1920. Case
Western Re-
serve Univ., Ph.D., hist. dept.
FURIN, TERRENCE, Berea. Ohio: Social Change in an American Town. Case
Western Re-
serve Univ., Ph.D., Amer. studies dept.
GIGLIO,
JAMES H., Biography of H. M. Daugherty. Hist. prof., Southwest
Missouri State
Univ.
GIRARD, JOLYON P., Biography
of Myron T. Herrick. Hist. prof., Univ. of Maryland.
GRADY, JOHN P., The Urban Response to Poverty, 1900-1920;
Cleveland. Kent State Univ.,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
LOHMANN, CHRISTOPH K., gen. ed., Letter Volumes of William Dean Howells. (est. 6 vols.).
English prof., Indiana Univ.
MURRAY, PERCY E., Harry C. Smith and the Cleveland Gazette. Miami
Univ., Ph.D., hist.
dept.
OLSEN, RODNEY D., William Dean Howells and the
Problem of History. Univ. of Missouri,
Ph.D., Amer. studies dept.
RIGGS, PAULA, Social and Cultural Changes in a 19th Century Town:
Marietta, Ohio. Case
Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D., Amer.
studies dept.
ROGERS, JAMES H., The Novels of Charles Chesnutt. Univ. of Iowa,
Ph.D., English dept.
SIFRITT, SUSAN KATHERINE, The
Ohio Wine Industry, 1820-1973. Kent State Univ., Ph.D.,
geography dept.
WATSON, ROBERT MEREDITH, JR., Civil War Union Army Personnel from Portage and Stark
Counties. Memphis State Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
WILLIAMS, RUBY ORA, A Biography of Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar. Univ. of
Calif. at
Irvine,
Ph.D., English dept.
WHEELER, JOE L.. Social Criticism and the
Popular Novel: The Unknown Zane Grey.
George Peabody Univ., Ph.D., English
dept.
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HISTORY
RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD
1920-PRESENT
DAVIS, RUSSELL H., History of the
Cleveland Branch, N.A.A.C.P. Author, Bratenahl, O.
GIFFIN, WILLIAM W., Afro-American Staffed Hospital Issue: Cleveland in the
1920's. Hist.
prof., Indiana State Univ.
HICKERSON, JERRY H., Relationship
Between Student Protest and Change in Cleveland High
Schools. Kent State Univ., Ph.D., ed.
dept.
KEARNEY, JUNE FRANCIS, Women's Intercollegiate Athletics in Ohio, 1945-1973. Ohio
State
Univ., Ph.D., physical ed. dept.
MUSSELMAN, BARBARA L., Organized
Labor in a Changing Urban Environment: Cincinnati
Labor, 1893-1960. Univ. of Cincinnati,
Ph.D., hist. dept.
RICHARDSON, JAMES F., Cleveland
Government and Politics, 1900-1940. Hist. prof., Univ. of
Akron.
ROSE, PATRICIA TERPACK, The Ohio Federation of Labor and the Crusade for Social
Justice,
1897-1955. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.,
hist. dept.
COMPLETED MASTERS AND DOCTORS DEGREES
AIELLO, JOHN, The Bank of the United States vs. Ralph Osborn. Ohio
State Univ., Ph.D.
ANDERSON, JUDITH ICKE, A Mountain of
Misery: An Intimate History of William Howard
Taft. Univ. of Calif. at Los Angeles,
Ph.D.
BIBBEE, HELEN, Christian Socialism as a Force in Selected Works of
William Dean Howells,
Bowling Green Univ., M.A.
BLAINE, CRAIG, Forgotten Man: A
Collective Biography of Black and White Ohioans in the
Rank of the Union Army. Kent State
Univ., M.A.
BYERLY, CHESTER, JR., Leaders of the
Progressive and Republican Parties in Wood County,
Ohio, in 1912. Bowling Green Univ., M.A.
CARDINAL, ERIC, The Growth of
Anti-Slavery Sentiment in Portage County, Ohio,
1830-1856. Kent State Univ., M.A.
CONN, CARY C., Biography of John Porter
Brown, 1814-1872. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.
FOX, STEPHEN
C., Group Bases of Ohio Political Behavior, 1802 1848. University of Cincin-
nati, Ph.D.
GAMBLE, DOUGLAS ANDREW, Garrisonian
Abolitionism in the Old Northwest. Ohio State
Univ., Ph.D.
GRINDER, ROBERT DALE, The Anti-Smoke
Crusades: Early Attempts to Reform the Urban
Environment, 1893-1918. Univ. of
Missouri, Ph.D.
HAUSER, ROBERT ELLWOOD, Warren G. Harding and His Attempts to Reorganize the
Re-
publican Party in the South, 1920 1923.
Pennsylvania State Univ., Ph.D.
HOGAN, CHARLES MARSHALL, Timothy
S. Hogan: Ohio's Crusading Attorney General,
1911-1914. Xavier Univ., M.A. (1972).
HOWSON, EMBREY B., Jacob Sechler Coxey:
A Biography of a Monetary Reformer,
1854-1951. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.
JAROS, JAMES A., Americanization in
Cleveland. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D.
KAPLIN, MARGARET A., Paul Laurence
Dunbar: A Re-evaluation. George Washington Univ.,
M.A.
KELLER, FRANCES RICHARDSON, Biography of
Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Univ. of Chicago,
Ph.D.
KESILMAN, SYLVAN H., Popular Support of
the Tyler Administration from the Center: Ohio as
an Example. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.
KESSEN, THOMAS PAUL, Segregation in
Cincinnati Public Education: The Nineteenth Century
Black Experience. Univ. of Cincinnati,
Ph.D.
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LEET, DON R., Population Pressure and Human Fertility Response: Ohio,
1810-1860. Univ.
of Pennsylvania, Ph.D.
LOBUE, WAYNE, Religious
Romanticism and Social Revitalization: The Oberlin Per-
fectionists. Univ. of Kansas, Ph.D.
LUCIANOVIC,
WILLIAM M., Design Concepts for
Multi-Jurisdictional Regional Planning Infor-
mation System: The Case of Northeast
Ohio. Case Western Reserve Univ., Ph.D.
METCALF, EUGENE W.,
Selected Letters of Paul Laurence Dunbar. Univ. of Calif. at Irvine,
Ph.D.
MONKKONEN, ERIC H., Crime and the Poor in Franklin County, 1850-1885. Univ.
of Min-
nesota, Ph.D.
NEWMAN, MARSHA C., The Wife-Husband Relation in Selected Novels of
William Dean
Howells. Bowling Green Univ., M.A.
SIBERT,
THOMAS,
Small Town Political Leadership in
Nineteenth Century America: The Case
of Perrysburg, Ohio, 1845-1885. Bowling
Green Univ., M.A.
SMITH, TERRENCE, The Italians in Akron. Univ. of Akron, M.A.
WALKER, SAMUEL E., Ohio Labor History, 1870-1890. Ohio State Univ., Ph.D.
WRAY, DIANE, The Social Phenomenon of Summer Resorts as Seen by
William Dean How-
ells. Bowling Green Univ., M.A.
WYE, CHRISTOPHER G., Midwest Ghetto: Patterns of Negro Life and Thought in
Cleveland,
Ohio, 1929-1945. Kent State Univ., Ph.D.
ZINZ, KENNETH, A History of the Future Outlook League of Cleveland,
Ohio, 1935-1968.
Kent State Univ., M.A.