Historical News
Columbia University is preparing for
publication a new and complete
edition of the papers of Alexander
Hamilton. The editors wish to locate any
letters to or from Hamilton and any
other Hamilton documents that are
in private hands. Communications may be
addressed to Harold C. Syrett,
Executive Editor, The Papers of
Alexander Hamilton, Columbia University,
New York 27, New York.
On the editorial board are John A.
Krout, chairman, Harold C. Syrett,
executive editor, Henry Steele Commager,
Joseph H. Dorfman, Carter Good-
rich, Louis M. Hacker, Dumas Malone,
Richard B. Morris, Allan Nevins,
and Robert L. Schuyler.
The editors of Weatherwise magazine
are asking assistance in locating
early American weather records. A canvass
is being made of all historical
and scientific depositories and college
and municipal libraries as a preliminary
to writing a history of early
meteorological activity in the United States.
Information concerning meteorological
journals, imprints on particular
storms, and weather data in personal
diaries, contemporary newspaper ac-
counts, state and local histories, and
agricultural periodicals prior to 1870 is
sought. Such information should be
addressed to David M. Ludlum, Editor,
Weatherwise, Box 216, Princeton, New Jersey.
The Ohio Academy of History held its
fall meeting at Ohio University,
Athens, on October 21-22, with about
forty-five members in attendance.
Carl G. Gustavson was chairman of the
committee on local arrangements.
He was assisted by A. T. Volwiler, O. D.
Morrison, Frederick Kershner, and
Charles Mayes.
The American Jewish Archives has
recently acquired a collection of the
Minis family papers, consisting of
family correspondence from 1835 to 1870.
The Minis family was the first Jewish
family of Georgia, having settled in
that state in 1733.
Irwin Abrams, chairman of the department
of history at Antioch College,
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published an article, "Grappling
with History," in the September issue of
Antioch Notes.
Louis Filler had an article,
"Dreamers and the American Dream," in the
Southwest Review for Autumn 1955. Dr. Filler's paper on "American
Civilization as Art and as
Discipline," based on his study under a grant from
the American Council of Learned
Societies, was a subject of discussion at
the seventh Newberry Library Conference
on American Studies, which met
in Chicago on November 19.
The Anthony Wayne Parkway Board is the
recipient of an Award of
Merit of the American Association for
State and Local History.
During the latter half of 1955 the
Anthony Wayne Parkway Board issued
in mimeograph form its Volumes II, III,
IV, and V of the official corre-
spondence of General Wayne and the
secretaries of war during the Indian
War, 1790-94. Volume V completes the
series, which has been transcribed
from microfilm of the original papers in
the library of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania and edited by Richard C.
Knopf, historian of the board.
Three new members have been added to the
staff of the history depart-
ment at Baldwin-Wallace College:
Themistocles Rodis, professor of Ameri-
can history; Read Smith, professor of
political science; and Robert Cruden,
instructor in American and European
history.
David Lindsey, who is teaching this year
at Oberlin while on leave of
absence from Baldwin-Wallace, recently
published Ohio's Western Reserve:
The Story of Its Place Names.
Marvin Becker had two articles (one in
conjunction with Professor G.
Brucker) published in the journal, Archivio
Storico Italiano, in 1955.
Warren A. Beck and Richard W. Griffin
have resigned from the history
faculty at Capital University. Don
Bensch is a new member of the staff.
Officers of the Rutherford B. Hayes and
Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation
elected or reelected at the annual
meeting at Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio,
on October 4, 1955 (the 133d anniversary
of the birth of President Hayes),
are as follows: Admiral Webb C. Hayes,
II, president; Lloyd T. Williams,
vice president; Watt P. Marchman,
secretary; and Webb C. Hayes, III,
treasurer. Trustees of the foundation
include also Harold Boeschenstein,
Arthur B. Hayes, Scott B. Hayes, Dr.
Frank L. Moore, and A. E. Slessman.
The United States Navy has named a
vessel the U.S.S. Spiegel Grove in
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honor of the Fremont estate of President
Hayes. The 500-foot vessel (LSD-
32) is for use in assault landings,
repair operations, and mine-sweeper
tending. The launching was sponsored by
Mrs. Webb C. Hayes, II, at
Pascagoula, Mississippi, on November 10,
1955.
One of the principal collections
recently added to the manuscripts division
of the library is the William Dean
Howells and Howells Family Collection
consisting of over three hundred items,
including correspondence to and
from Howells.
Kenneth E. Davison, of the history and
political science departments of
Heidelberg College, spent the summer of
1955 in Europe with the Sherwood
Eddy Seminar, studying political,
economic, and social conditions in England,
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and
Yugoslavia.
The annual meeting of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio
was held on the evening of December 5 in
the Alms Auditorium of the
Cincinnati Art Museum. Colton Storm,
director of the Western Reserve
Historical Society, spoke on "They
Called It the West." President Lucien
Wulsin conducted the meeting.
Edmund Kearney has been added to the
staff of the history department
of John Carroll University as an
instructor. The Rev. Herman J. Muller,
S. J., has been promoted to the rank of
assistant professor of history.
Donald P. Gavin, director of the
department, is the author of a book
titled, In All Things Charity, A
History of the Sisters of Charity of St.
Augustine, 1851-1954, published by the Bruce Publishing Company last year.
New instructors in the history
department at Ohio State University are
William T. Bulger (University of
Michigan); John K. Huckaby (Ohio
State); John L. Shover (Ohio State);
James H. Timberlake (Harvard); and
Mary E. Young (Cornell).
Sydney N. Fisher has been promoted from
associate professor to professor.
Dr. Fisher is the editor of Social
Forces in the Middle East, published by
the Cornell University Press in 1955.
Foster Rhea Dulles brought out two books
during 1955: America's Rise
to World Power, published by Harper & Brothers; and a revised
edition of
Labor in America, published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Morton Borden is the author of The
Federalism of James A. Bayard,
which was published last year by the
Columbia University Press.
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At Ohio University, Charles Mayes has
been promoted to the rank of
assistant professor. George H. Lobdell,
who taught at Carthage College last
year, has joined the department of
history with the rank of assistant professor.
Cecil E. Cody was appointed instructor
of history at the University of
Toledo, with the appointment effective
in September. Dr. Cody has his
bachelor's and master's degrees from the
University of Nebraska and his
doctor's degree from the University of
Washington. From September 1953
to September 1955 he conducted research
in Japan on a Ford Foundation
grant. He will teach courses in Far
Eastern and Russian history and in
Western civilization.
The Irish in America, by Dean Carl F. Wittke of the graduate school at
Western Reserve University, will be
published on March 17 by the Louisiana
State University Press.
Karol Marcinkowski, chairman of the
department of history at Wilberforce
University, devoted his summer vacation
to research in archives and libraries
in Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Italy,
France, and England. Dr. Marcinkowski
collected data as the basis for future
treatises on Central Europe in the
seventeenth century, particularly on the
Swedish, Polish, Danish, and Russian
wars from 1655 to 1665. During the
summer he attended the international
conference of historians of painting and
sculpture at Lund, Sweden, and the
international conference of historians
at Rome.
James F. Wolfenden, who recently
received his Ph.D. degree from Yale
University, has been appointed an
assistant professor of history at Wittenberg
College. His special field of interest
is the history of England.
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