Historical News
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION for State and
Local History has estab-
lished an annual prize and a
grant-in-aid program to encourage the publi-
cation of sound, interpretive localized
history. A prize of one thousand
dollars will be awarded each year for
the book-length manuscript in
localized history which in the opinion
of the research and publications
committee makes the most distinguished
contribution to American or
Canadian historiography.
The grants-in-aid, which are made for
significant research projects in
localized history, are limited to
necessary travel expenses, photocopying,
clerical assistance, and similar
purposes.
Manuscripts for the competition and
applications for grants-in-aid
should be submitted by October 15.
Application forms and further
information may be secured from Clement
M. Silvestro, Director, Ameri-
can Association for State and Local
History, 816 State Street, Madison
6, Wisconsin.
Richmond D. Williams, assistant director
of the association for the
past year, became associate director of
the Eleutherian Mills Historical
Library at Greenville, Delaware, on May
1.
The fourteenth Annual Seminars on
American Culture sponsored by
the New York State Historical
Association is being held at Cooperstown
on July 2-8 and 9-15. Courses being
offered this year are New York
in the Dutch Period, American Textiles,
Life of the Frontiersman, Civil
War, Archaeology (Contact Period),
American Glass, Photography for
the Record, Frontier Cooking, American
Pewter and Silver, Prints in
America, Conservation of Paintings, and
Peopling the Past.
A sesquicentennial celebration of the
Battle of Tippecanoe is being
planned for August 17-20 at Battle
Ground, Indiana. The program
includes guided tours of historic sites
in the area, a mock battle on the
old battlefield, a pageant, and other
local events. Arrangements are
under the auspices of the Battle of
Tippecanoe Sesquicentennial Com-
mittee.
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A movement to save the historic Alfred
Kelley mansion in Columbus
is being supported by the Ohio
Historical Society and the Franklin
County Historical Society. It is one of
the few remaining examples of
classic Greek Revival domestic
architecture in central Ohio.
The annual spring exhibit of the
Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio opened at the Taft Museum on the
evening of April 13 to an
overflow crowd of over two hundred
members and guests. The program
featured the singing of Civil War songs
and an address by Herbert F.
Koch on "Cincinnati and the Civil
War." The exhibit, which is titled
"Cincinnati and the Civil
War," will be on display until September 4.
Louis L. Tucker, director of the society,
is the recipient of a grant for
research on the history of Cincinnati
from the American Association for
State and Local History.
The fifty-ninth annual meeting of the
American Jewish Historical
Society, held in New York City, February
18-19, honored Jacob R.
Marcus, director of the American Jewish
Archives, with its highest
award, the Lee Max Friedman Medal for
distinguished service to
history.
The April issue of the American
Jewish Archives featured documen-
tary material relating to Jews in the
Confederacy. The October 1961
issue will deal with the Jews of the
Union. Interested historians may
secure copies of these publications
gratis by writing the American Jewish
Archives, 3101 Clifton Avenue,
Cincinnati 20, Ohio.
In commemoration of the national Civil
War centennial, the American
Jewish Archives recently published a
series of six colorful posters relat-
ing to the Jewish participation in the
Civil War.
Louis Filler of Antioch College has an
article, "Progress and Pro-
gressivism," in the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology for
April 1961. A new printing of Dr.
Filler's Crusaders for American
Liberalism, first published in 1939, has recently been brought out
by
the Antioch Press. The latest edition
contains a new introductory essay.
Daniel B. Ramsdell (Ph.D., University of
Wisconsin) has been added
to the staff of the history department
at Bowling Green State University
as an instructor. His field of
specialization is the Far East.
David Gardinier is one of the American
historians of Africa listed in
UNESCO's Who's Who in African
Studies, an international directory
of social scientists published this past
spring.
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Two promotions in the University of
Dayton's history department will
be effective in September. Brother
George J. Ruppel and Raymond A.
Maras have been promoted to the rank of
associate professor.
Douglas MacNaughton has resigned from
the history staff at Defiance
College.
Erwin J. Urch has an article, "The
Other Half of History," in Social
Education for April 1961.
Dr. Urch reports that the college
library has added three thousand
recent titles in the field of history
over the past year and a half.
Kimon Giocarinis, who has been away all
year on a Belgian-Ameri-
can fellowship working in papers at
various libraries in Belgium, will
return to his post as associate
professor at Hiram College in September.
Paul I. Miller has received his second
Fulbright award to Ceylon
and will lecture in American history at
the University of Ceylon during
the year 1961-62. Dr. Miller's first
Fulbright award to Ceylon was
in 1957-58.
Two assistant professors and four
instructors have been added to
the history department at Kent State
University. The new assistant
professors are James Irikura and Coburn
Graves. Dr. Irikura will
conduct classes in Far Eastern history
and Dr. Graves will teach in
the field of medieval history. Philip
Kolody, Roger Berry, C. Stewart
Doty, and Richard Duncan are the new
instructors.
Henry N. Whitney has been named acting
head of the department to
succeed William N. Wannemacher.
Robert H. Jones has been given a faculty
research appointment for
the summer.
John Forman has an article,
"Charles Levin: Portrait of an Ameri-
can Demagogue," in the American
Jewish Archives for October 1960.
An article by James M. Powell on
"Frederick II and the Church in
the Kingdom of Sicily, 1220-1224,"
appeared in the March 1961 issue
of Church History.
Robert J. Taylor of the history
department of Marietta College is
the editor of Massachusetts, Colony to
Commonwealth: Documents on
the Formation of Its Constitution,
1775-1780, published in April by
the University of North Carolina Press
for the Institute of Early
American History and Culture.
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At Miami University, Ronald Shaw has
been promoted to associate
professor. William Echard has accepted
an associate professorship at
Parsons College, Fairfield, Iowa.
Thomas LeDuc of Oberlin has been elected
to the editorial board of
the Mississippi Valley Historical
Review and to the presidency of the
Agricultural History Society.
Wilfred E. Binkley of Ohio Northern
University is director of the
Institute of American Studies to be
conducted at Ohio Northern this
summer under a Coe Foundation grant.
Twenty-five high school
teachers will pursue courses in the
American tradition as exemplified in
literature, history, and political
ideas.
Several members of the department of
history at Ohio State Uni-
versity are recipients of recent awards
and grants. Philip Poirier was
awarded the Triennial Prize of the
Conference on British Studies for his
Advent of the British Labour Party, published in 1958. Andreas
Dorpalen has received grants from the
Social Science Research Council
and the Mershon Committee at Ohio State
for research in Germany
on Hindenburg and the Weimar Republic.
Franklin J. Pegues has
been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation fellow-
ship for research in medieval English
law.
Recent publications by members of the
department include Lowell
Ragatz' volume, March of Empire, published
in Tokyo in April, and
Foster Rhea Dulles' chapter, "The
New World Power, 1865-1917," in
Interpreting and Teaching American
History, the yearbook of the
National Council for the Social Studies.
Carl G. Gustavson has succeeded John F.
Cady as chairman of the
department of history at Ohio
University.
Harry R. Stevens contributed a chapter,
"Jacksonian Democracy,
1825-1849," to the yearbook of the
National Council for the Social
Studies, Interpreting and Teaching
American History.
Harold B. Hancock, chairman of the
history department at Otter-
bein College, had an article, "John
Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth, Loyal-
ist," in the December issue of the Maryland
Historical Magazine. He
also edited "The Civil War Diaries
of Anna M. Ferris," published in
Delaware History in April. Dr. Hancock was a guest lecturer before
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the Newcomen Society of the Science
Museum in London on January
4, 1961. He spoke on "The
Industrial Observations of Joshua Gilpin
in England in the 1790's."
Ursula Holtermann, associate professor
of history and government,
has been granted a sabbatical leave
during the next academic year.
She will study German local government
in West Germany.
Willard A. Smith will return to the
University of Toledo after a
year's leave of absence spent in Spain,
where he worked on a study of
the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. A
Fulbright grant provided him
partial support.
During the two-week period July 10-21,
Richard N. Current will
serve as lecturer and discussion leader
for the Civil War workshop
which the University of Toledo is
offering as its part in the Civil
War centennial. Two evening lectures by
Professor Current will be
open to the public.
Leaving the history department at
Wittenberg University are Helmut
Haeussler, who will become associate
professor of history at California
Lutheran College in the fall, and Miss
Charlotte Fiechter, who will be
doing graduate study at Radcliffe
College.
Jerry Graham (M.A., Vanderbilt) has been
appointed an instructor
in history.
Dr. Haeussler had an article,
"Friedrich Meinecke and World War
I," in a recent issue of the Midwest
Review. He also read a paper on
"Theodore Fontane and the Prussian
Military" at the national conven-
tion of Phi Alpha Theta in New York City
last December.
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Osgood of the
College of Wooster will be on
academic leave during the year 1961-62,
and Floyd Watts will return
to the history department as an
instructor.
Robert W. Schneider read a paper,
"Winston Churchill: The Pro-
gressive as Novelist," at a joint
session of the Mississippi Valley His-
torical Association and the American
Studies Association in Detroit
on April 21.