Historical News
THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of Missouri recently inaugurated a survey
of historic sites in Missouri as the
initial step in the preservation of the
state's historic sites, according to
Floyd C. Shoemaker, secretary of the society.
The survey will utilize National Park
Service standards and procedures.
Local historical organizations in nearly
half of Missouri's counties will be
asked to cooperate in the coordination
of data.
The Michigan Historical Commission has
published a report on its state-
wide historical marking program, which
was inaugurated in 1953. The first of
the new markers was unveiled on October
22, 1955, at Michigan State Uni-
versity. Since that time nearly fifty
markers have been erected or are
scheduled for erection in the near
future. Texts for the markers are pre-
pared by the staff of the commission.
The Winterthur Museum of Winterthur,
Delaware, is offering for the
sixth year, five fellowships under the
Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture. A two-year course of study,
supervised jointly by the museum
and the University of Delaware, leads to
the degree of master of arts.
The fellowships pay up to $2,000
annually for the two-year period. The
program is designed to attract promising
young scholars looking toward a
career in curatorship, teaching,
research, journalism, or librarianship in such
institutions as museums, colleges,
historical societies, restoration projects,
and historic sites.
A catalog of their current exhibition
has recently been published by the
Henry Monsky Foundation, B'nai B'rith.
The exhibition, "Contributions of
Jews to American Civilization," was
opened November 24, 1957, in the
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Exhibit
Hall in the B'nai B'rith Building in
Washington, D. C. The exhibition
comprises twenty-five cases of documents,
books, pamphlets, photographs, silver,
and art objects. There is also a
section devoted to paintings and
sculpture by American-Jewish artists.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library recently
published its annual report
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for 1956-57 in a thirty-three page,
illustrated booklet. It carries, in addition
to the report on activities of the
library and mention of the principal ac-
quisitions, a memorial to Webb Cook
Hayes, II, president of the Rutherford
B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation,
whose death occurred last July.
The library has purchased seven volumes
of diaries kept for President
William McKinley by his telegrapher, Benjamin
Franklin Montgomery, who
was also White House telegrapher under
President Hayes. Two important
manuscripts have been acquired by gift.
The first, a lengthy letter written
by William S. Cochran, Cincinnati lawyer
and one-time clerk of the United
State Court of Appeals, dated June 18,
1876, gives a detailed report of the
Republican national convention which
nominated Hayes for the presidency.
The second is an original manuscript of
the "Return of the First Brigade,
Third Division, Department of West Virginia."
The brigade was com-
manded by Hayes, and the manuscript is
signed by Hayes and William
McKinley.
Watt P. Marchman, director of the
library, has been elected secretary of
the reactivated Sandusky County
Historical Society.
Henry S. Vyverberg has been appointed
assistant professor of history at
the University of Akron. Dr. Vyverberg,
who received his Ph.D. degree
from Harvard University, has been
teaching at Alliance College, Cambridge
Springs, Pennsylvania. His field of special
interest is modern European
intellectual history.
David C. Riede, instructor in history,
received his Ph.D. degree from
the State University of Iowa last June.
Clara G. Roe, head of the history
department at Akron, has been promoted
from associate professor to professor.
Irwin Abrams, chairman of the history
department at Antioch College,
has returned to his post after a year's
leave of absence.
Louis Filler is on sabbatical leave for
the current year. He is remaining
at Yellow Springs to work on his book on
Abolition and Reform for Harper's
New American Nation Series. Fred Crane
of Bard College is replacing him
during his leave.
Dr. Filler is the author of several
articles published last summer and fall,
including "The Study of American
Life: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Discipline," in Social Studies for
May 1957; "John Chamberlain and Ameri-
can Liberalism," in the Colorado
Quarterly for Autumn 1957; and "Ameri-
can Studies Abroad," in School
and Society for September 14, 1957.
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Roger L. Williams had an article,
"Jacques Offenbach and Parisian
Gaiety," in the Antioch Review, Winter
1957 issue. Dr. Williams' book,
Gaslight and Shadow: The World of
Napoleon III, was published last year
by the Macmillan Company.
Dr. Abrams contributed four articles to
recent periodicals: "An Alpine
View of Neutrality," to the Antioch
Review, Spring 1957; "What's Missing
on the Campus?" to Antioch
Notes, May 1957; "Disarmament in 1870,"
to Die Friedenswarte, Volume LIV
(1957), No. 1; and "The Emergence of
the International Law Societies,"
to the Review of Politics for July 1957. He
also contributed chapters to the History
of World Civilization, edited by Max
Savelle and published by Henry Holt and
Company last year.
Raymond W. Bixler, chairman of the
department of history at Ashland
College, is the author of The Foreign
Policy of the United States in Liberia,
published by Pageant Press last year.
John F. Oglevee of the department of
history at Bowling Green State
University has returned to the campus
after a summer in Europe spent in
visiting places of historical interest
and in doing research work.
At Capital University, Gerhard Krodel
has been appointed instructor in
church history, and Donald Kagan,
instructor in Greek history.
Morton B. Stratton is serving for a
three-year period as chairman of the
history department at Denison
University. He succeeds G. Wallace Chessman.
Two members of the staff, Robert Seager
and William Preston, recently
earned Ph.D. degrees.
William T. Utter has been honored by an
award from the American
Association for State and Local History
for his recent book, Granville: The
Story of an Ohio Village.
Kenneth E. Davison of Heidelberg College
attended the seminars on
American culture at Cooperstown, New
York, this past summer.
Richard G. Salomon of Kenyon College had
an article, "Orthodoxy,
Ecumenical Movement, and Anglicanism:
The Moscow Conference of 1948,"
in the Historical Magazine of the
Protestant Episcopal Church for June 1957.
At Miami University, William E. Smith,
former chairman of the history
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department, is devoting full time to his
duties as dean of the graduate school.
Harris G. Warren from the University of
Mississippi has been appointed
professor of history and chairman of the
department.
Frank W. Ikle from the University of
California at Berkeley has been
appointed assistant professor of
history. Preston B. Albright is now instructor
of history on a full-time schedule.
Dwight L. Smith presented a lecture at
Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October
1, on the Indian war period in the
Northwest Territory. This was the third
in a series of seminar meetings
sponsored by the Allen County-Fort Wayne
Historical Society.
Dr. Warren was discussion leader of the
session on presidential politics
at the Southern Historical Association
convention at Houston, November
7-9.
Recent publications by Miami staff
members include an article by Dr.
Warren on "Farm Relief: Twenty-five
Years Ago," in the Mississippi
Quarterly, Summer 1957, and one by Andre de Saint Rat on "The
History
of Order No. 1," in Novoye
Russkoe Slovo for June 17, 1957.
Robert G. Gunderson, chairman of the
speech department at Oberlin
College and a frequent writer of
articles of historical interest, has one
entitled "Log-Cabin Canvass,
Hoosier Style," in the Indiana Magazine of
History for September 1957. Dr. Gunderson's book, The
Log-Cabin Cam-
paign, was brought out last December by the University of
Kentucky Press.
Resignations from the history department
at Ohio State University in-
clude Gilman Ostrander, Paul L. Murphy,
J. Joseph Huthmacher, William
T. Bulger, and Morton Borden. New
instructors in the department are
George E. Etue, Alan D. Harper, Edwin T.
Layton, Mrs. Lillian B. Silver,
John G. Sperling, Rudolph J. Vecoli,
Walter R. Weitzmann, and Edward
F. Yurick.
Harvey Goldberg has been promoted to the
rank of associate professor
and Paul Bamford to that of assistant
professor.
Harold J. Grimm will become chairman of
the history department on
February 1, 1958. Dr. Grimm returns to
Ohio State after three and a half
years as chairman of the department of
history at Indiana University. He
succeeds Foster Rhea Dulles.
Significant books published during the
past academic year by history staff
members include Forests and French
Sea Power by Paul Bamford; From the
Depths: The Discovery of Poverty in
the United States by Robert Bremner;
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The Imperial Years by Foster Rhea Dulles; American Radicalism:
Personali-
ties and Problems edited by Harvey Goldberg; and A History of
Presidential
Elections by Eugene H. Roseboom. Dr. Bremner's book received the
1957
Ohio Academy of History award, and Dr.
Roseboom's was selected for
distribution by the American History
Society.
Hugh M. Hamill has been added to the
history staff at Ohio Wesleyan
University as an instructor.
Lloyd B. Lapp has been promoted to an
associate professorship in the
history department at the University of
Toledo.
Wyn Rees of the University of Natal,
Durban, South Africa, has been
appointed a visiting professor of
history at Western College.
Marvin Becker, formerly of
Baldwin-Wallace College, has been appointed
assistant professor of history at
Western Reserve University.
Chairman Carl Wittke's We Who Built
America (1939) is one of a list
of 350 titles selected for inclusion in American
Panorama recently published
by the New York University Press. The
books listed are described as
"illustrative not only of good
American writing but of the entire range
of American thought and behavior, books
which taken together would
present a kind of portrait of
America."
At the College of Wooster, George Yaney
(M.A., Colorado) has been
named instructor of history.
Clayton Ellsworth is taking a sabbatical
leave in order to carry on research.
John J. Whealen of Xavier University is
editing a series of Moses Daw-
son's letters for publication in the Bulletin
of the Historical and Philosophical
Society of Ohio beginning with the January 1958 issue.