THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS*
The committee found that limitations of
time made it necessary
to rely on questionnaires in compiling a
bibliography of the historical
writings of Ohioans during the year
1949. Members of the Ohio
Academy of History, staff members of
departments of history in the
state's colleges and universities, and
officials of local historical societies
were asked to list their writings. In
relying on the use of the questionnaire
the committee was aware that the
bibliography would not be complete
but could discover no better way of
acquiring the desired information
in the time available to its members.
A tabulation of the items reported
reveals that there were twenty-
six articles and five books pertaining
to phases of the history of Ohio.
Twenty-three articles and four books
dealt with phases of the history
of the United States other than Ohio
topics. Only three articles in
modern European history and one on
ancient history were reported.
One scholar contributed four
bibliographical studies in the field of
modern European history. The final list
of publications also includes
two articles on Far Eastern history and
a chapter contributed to a book
on southern Asia.
This statistical summary indicates that
among those who chose to
write on historical subjects the vast
majority were interested in American
history and particularly in that segment
of the nation's history which took
place in Ohio. The major emphasis in
these writings is political but
there are a few notable exceptions where
the subjects are in the fields
of intellectual and social history. An
increasing number of Ohio his-
torians are manifesting an interest in
political protest movements. While
a few writers are now giving attention
to the progressive movement in
Ohio, no one reported a study of the
contributions of Ohio to political
and economic orthodoxy although few
would contend that these have
been slight. No studies of the history
of farming, of labor, or of
industry were reported although Ohio has
been a leader in both industry
* This report was presented to the Ohio
Academy of History at its annual meeting
at Columbus, April 21, 1950. It is published
at the request of the academy.
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and agriculture. Nor has the catapulting
of the United States into a
position of world leadership had any
noticeable impact on the selection
of topics. Only one historian chose to
write on the role of Ohio in
foreign affairs. These observations may
suggest fruitful fields for inves-
tigation in the future.
During the past year there were nine
books of an historical nature
by Ohio writers. Four of these received
national attention. While these
contributions do not entitle Ohio to the
place in the literary firmament
once occupied by Concord, the record is
a source of pride. In addition
to the books written by members of the
Ohio Academy, the compiled
bibliography includes articles appearing
in journals of such national
distinction as the Mississippi Valley
Historical Review, the Antioch
Review, the Journal of the History of
Ideas, the South Atlantic Quarterly,
and the Annals of the American Academy
of Political and Social Science.
This report makes no special mention of
many extremely interest-
ing articles appearing in the
bibliography. They range from compila-
tions of names of men who served in the
army during the war of 1812
to studies of Athenian tribute lists and
an article on Mo Ti and the
English utilitarians.
In compiling this bibliography the
committee agreed to classify
books and articles according to area. In
some cases contributions failed
to fit any of the categories exactly but
it is hoped that the liberties
taken will not detract from the value of
the bibliography however slight
that may be.
Paul A. Varg, Chairman
Grover C. Platt
Wilfred Steiner
440 Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly
WRITINGS OF MEMBERS OF THE OHIO ACADEMY
OF HISTORY--1949
OHIO
Articles and Bulletins
Mary L. Breese, "Allen County
Forty-Niners," The Reporter, No. 46 (December,
1949).
Robert H. Bremner, "Honest Man's
Story: Frederic C. Howe," The American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, VIII (July, 1949), 413-422.
_____, "Reformed Businessman: Tom
L. Johnson," The American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, VIII (April, 1949), 299-309.
_____, "Samuel M. Jones: The Man
Without a Party," The American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, VIII (January, 1949), 151-161.
Randolph C. Downes, "The Jesup W.
Scott Family and the Idea of a Municipal
University," Northwest Ohio
Quarterly, XXI, No. 4 (Autumn, 1949), 149-168.
Louis Filler, "John Brown in Ohio:
An Interview with Charles S. S. Griffing,"
Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly, LVIII, No. 2
(April,
1949), 213-218.
Virginius C. Hall, "Genesis of An
Orchard," Bulletin of the Historical and
Philosophical Society of Ohio, VII (April, 1949), 87-89.
________, "To the Ladies
Repository," Bulletin of the Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio, VII (July, 1949), 188-189.
_________, "Lithograph Quiz," Bulletin
of the Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio, VII (April, 1949), 111-115.
Edward Thornton Heald, Editor, Third
Annual Report of the Stark County
Historical Society for the Year 1948 (1949), 24 pages.
______, Editor, Bulletin No. 9, of
the Stark County Historical Society (1949),
8 pages.
_______, Editor, Bulletin No. 10, of
the Stark County Historical Society (1949),
8 pages.
_________ , Editor, Bulletin No. 11,
of the Stark County Historical Society (1949),
8 pages.
Ferne M. Longsworth, "Soldiers of
the War of 1812 Buried in Allen County,
Ohio," The Reporter, No. 44
(May, 1949).
_________, "Soldiers of the War of
1812 Who Lived in Allen County, Ohio," The
Reporter, No. 45 (June, 1949).
August C. Mahr, "A Chapter of Early
Ohio Natural History," The Ohio Journal
of Science, XLIX, No. 2 (March, 1949), 45-69.
Eugene H. Roseboom and Francis P.
Weisenburger, "Ohio," Encyclopedia
Americana (1949 edition).
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Richard G. Salomon, "The Episcopate
on the Carey Case. New Sources from the
Chase Collection at Kenyon
College," Historical Magazine of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, XVIII (1949), 240-281.
___________, "An Unpublished Letter
of Ulrich von Hutten," Journal of the War-
burg and Courtauld Institutes, XII (1949), 192-196.
__________, "The Origins of Old
Kenyon," The Advocate (Kenyon College), III,
No. 5, 1-10.
Dwight L. Smith, "An Unsuccessful Negotiation
for Removal of the Wyandot
Indians from Ohio, 1834," Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical Quar-
terly, LVIII (July, 1949), 305-331.
Carl Wittke, "Ohioans and the
Canadian-American Crisis of 1837-1838," Ohio
State Archaeological and Historical
Quarterly, LVIII, No. 1, 21-34.
_________, "Mr. Justice Clarke in
Retirement," Western Reserve Law Review, I
(June, 1949), 28-48.
___________, "Mr. Justice Clarke,
A Supreme Court Judge in
Retirement," The
Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
XXXVI, No. 1 (June, 1949), 27-50.
________, "Peter Witt, Tribune of
the People," Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly, LVIII, No. 4 (October, 1949), 361-377.
William Frank Zornow, "Bellamy
Nationalism in Ohio, 1891-1896," Ohio State
Archaeological and Historical
Quarterly, LVIII, No. 3 (April, 1949),
152-170.
Books
Randolph C. Downes, Canal Days (Lucas
County Historical Series, II). Toledo,
Ohio: Historical Society of Northwestern
Ohio, 1949.
Harlan Hatcher, The Western Reserve:
The Story of New Connecticut in Ohio.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company,
1949.
Edward Thornton Heald, The Cities,
Towns, and Villages of Stark County (The
Stark County Story, I). Columbus, Ohio: The Stoneman Press, 1949.
Orton G. Rust, Yester Year in Clark
County. Springfield, Ohio: Bauer Press,
1949.
Katharine Garford Thomas, Auntie
Kate. Columbus: Ohio History Press, 1949.
UNITED STATES
Articles
Sherman B. Barnes, "Squanto," Highlights
for Children, IV (November, 1949),
45-46.
Louis Filler, "Edward Bellamy and
the Spiritual Unrest," American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, VIII, No. 3 (April, 1949), 239-249.
___________, "Tenets of 'Scientific
Skepticism,'" Antioch Review, IX, No. 1 (Spring,
1949), 88-98.
William L. Fisk, Jr., "The Diary of
John Cuthbertson, Missionary to the Cov-
enanters of Colonial Pennsylvania,"
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and
Biography (October, 1949), 441-458.
442 Ohio State Archaeological and
Historical Quarterly
Robert Samuel Fletcher, "The Heroic
Age of the Social Sciences," Indiana
Magazine of History, XLV (September, 1949), 221-232.
Harold M. Helfman, "Party Politics
and Michigan Prisons, 1883-1885," Michi-
gan History, XXXIII, No. 3 (September, 1949), 240-248.
Frederick D. Kerschner, Jr., "From
Country Town to Industrial City: The
Urban Pattern in Indianapolis," Indiana
Magazine of History (December,
1949), 327-338.
Howard D. Kramer, "Agitation for Public
Health Reform in the 1870's, Part II,
The National Board of Health of
1879," Journal of the History of Medicine
and Allied Sciences, IV, No. 1 (Winter, 1949), 75-89.
B. H. Pershing, "An All-American
Brotherhood," Ohio Parent Teacher, XXVII
(June, 1949), 12-20.
Dwight L. Smith, "The Attempted
Potawatomi Emigration of 1839," Indiana
Magazine of History, XLV (March, 1949), 51-80.
__________, "Judge William Polke:
Versatile Hoosier Pioneer," Indiana Quarterly
for Bookmen, V (July, 1949), 48-55.
________, "Jacob Hull's Detachment
of the Potawatomi Emigration of 1838,"
Indiana Magazine of History, XLV (Sept., 1949), 285-288.
A. T. Volwiler, "Clio, the Voice of
the People," Indiana Magazine of History,
XLV (March, 1949), 1-12.
Harvey Wish, "Aristotle, Plato, and
the Mason-Dixon Line," Journal of the
History of Ideas, X (April, 1949), 254-266.
__________, "Getting Along With the
Romanovs," South Atlantic Quarterly, IIL
(July, 1949), 341-359.
___________, "The United States in
1948," Britannica Book of the Year (1949).
Carl Wittke, "Immigration Policy
Prior to World War I," The Annals of the
American Academy of Political and
Social Science, 262 (March, 1949),
5-14.
William Frank Zornow, "Indiana and
the Election of 1864," Indiana Magazine
of History, XLV (March, 1949), 13-28.
___________, "The Judicial
Modifications of the Maryland Black Code in the District
of Columbia," Maryland
Historical Magazine, XLIV (March, 1949), 18-32.
__________, "Lincoln's Influence in
the Election of 1864," Lincoln Herald, LI (June,
1949), 22-32.
_______, 'Treason as a Campaign Issue in
the Reelection of Lincoln," The
Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, V (June, 1949), 348-363.
____________, "Confederate Raiders
on Lake Erie: Their Propaganda Value in 1864,"
Inland Seas, V (Spring, 1949), 42-47, and (Summer, 1949), 101-105.
__________, "Some New Light on
Fremont's Nomination at Cleveland in 1864,"
Lincoln Herald, LI (October, 1949), 21-23, 25.
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Books
Wilfred E. Binkley and Malcolm C. Moos,
A Grammar of American Politics.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America.
New York: Thomas Crowell Co., 1949.
Louis Filler, Editor, The New Stars:
Life and Labor in Old Missouri, by Manic
Morgan. Yellow Springs, Ohio: Antioch
Press, 1949.
David Spitz, Patterns of
Anti-Democratic Thought: An Analysis and A Criticism,
with Special Reference to the
American Political Mind in Recent Times.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1949.
EUROPE
Articles
Harold J. Grimm, "Lorenzo Valla's
Christianity," Church History, XVIII (June,
1949), 75-88.
Alfred A. Skerpan, "Liberalism and
Eastern Europe," Bulletin of the American
Association of University Professors (Winter, 1949), 13.
______________, "The Idea of World
Revolution," South Atlantic Quarterly, IIL (April,
1949), 26.
Books
Lowell Ragatz, The Fournier
Forgeries. Birmingham, England: H. Garratt-
Adams, Elmdon, 1949.
__________, The Progress of Modern European Studies in the
United States During
the Second World War. Washington, D. C.: Educational Research Bureau,
1949.
_________, Early French West Indian
Records in the Archives Nationales. Wash-
ington, D. C.: Educational
Research Bureau, 1949.
________, The Literature of European
Imperialism. London, England: The
Bryan
Edwards Press, 1949.
FAR EAST
Articles
Philip L. Ralph, "Mo Ti and the
English Utilitarians," The Far Eastern Quar-
terly, IX, No. 1 (November, 1949), 42-62.
Paul A. Varg, "William Woodville
Rockhill's Influence on the Boxer Negotia-
tions," Pacific Historical
Review, XVIII, No. 3 (August, 1949), 369-380.
Books
Lenox Mills and Associates, The New
World of Southeast Asia, "Burma" by
John F. Cady. Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1949.
ANCIENT HISTORY
Books
Malcolm Francis McGregor, B. D. Meritt
and H. T. Waar-Gary, The Athenian
Tribute Lists, Vol. II. Princeton, N. J.: American School of Classical
Studies, 1949.