Historical News
THE INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
AND CULTURE and the
Jamestown Foundation announce the
establishment of a special prize
competition for the best unpublished
book-length manuscript about
seventeenth-century America. The annual
prize will consist of $1,000
and publication by the institute.
All manuscripts submitted, whether
winning an award or not, will
be considered for publication by the
institute. The competition will be
judged by the publications committee of
the institute's council in associa-
tion with the editorial staff of the
institute. Manuscripts should be sub-
mitted not later than December 1, 1959,
to James M. Smith, Editor of
Publications, Institute of Early
American History and Culture, Box
1298, Williamsburg, Virginia.
The Annual Magazine Subject-Index, which
was especially strong in
state history over the years of its
publication from 1908 to 1952, will be
reprinted in cumulated form in a
two-volume edition by G. K. Hall and
Company of Boston.
The index covers Volumes 1 through 58 of
this Quarterly.
The American Jewish Archives Publication
No. 4 has been issued
recently under the title Essays in
American Jewish History. The 534-
page volume commemorates the tenth
anniversary of the founding of the
American Jewish Archives under the
direction of Jacob R. Marcus.
The volume is composed of a score of
essays by noted scholars, which
cast light on important figures such as
Isaac M. Wise and picture
American Jewish economic, cultural, and
political life.
Dr. Marcus was named honorary president
of the American Jewish
Historical Society at its annual meeting
held in New York City on
February 21-22, 1959. Dr. Marcus also is
the editor of American Jewry:
Documents, 18th Century, recently published by Hebrew Union College.
William D. Overman, director of the
Firestone Archives and Library,
is the author of a 155-page book, Ohio
Town Names, published in Febru-
ary by the Atlantic Press of Akron.
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The Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio recently issued an
attractive leaflet explaining the
purpose and functions and listing the
resources of the society.
The title for the 1959 spring show of
the society is "Across the Foot-
lights-Cincinnati Theatre:
1801-1921." The show is being presented
from April 29 through June 30 at the
Taft Museum.
The Rutherford B. Hayes Library has
recently acquired a collection
of some two dozen letters written to
Judge Ebenezer Lane of Norwalk,
Ohio, between the years 1819 and 1865.
Correspondents include Cath-
arine E. Beecher, William Henry
Channing, John Chipman Gray,
Frederick Grimke, Peter Hitchcock,
Robert C. Schenck, Edward D.
Mansfield, and Manning F. Force.
The library has recently received a
collection of letters written by
Robert Dexter Carter while in military
service in the Philippines in 1899.
The collection contains many original
drawings and several hundred
pages of descriptive material. It
supplements the library's holdings on
the Philippine insurrection collected by
Colonel Webb C. Hayes.
Charles Ameringer will become a member
of the history staff at
Bowling Green State University in
September 1959. Dr. Ameringer,
who has his Ph.D. from the Fletcher
School of Diplomacy, is at present
a Latin-American specialist with the
department of defense. He has
spent a year at the National University
of Mexico on a National Security
Administration grant.
Paul McStallworth, head of the
department of history at Central State
College, is on leave for two years to
participate in the teacher-training
project of the United States State
Department in Western Nigeria.
James T. Henry, Sr., is serving as chairman
of the department in the
interim.
The library at Central State has
recently acquired a collection of
Greene County newspapers and
Presbyterian Church papers for 1825.
John I. Kolehmainen, chairman of the
department of political science
and director of the program of general
studies at Heidelberg College,
was honored on February 26, 1959, by
receiving the Order of the
Finnish Lion, First Class, from the
president of Finland through the
Finnish vice consul, Joel Allen Pekuri.
This was in recognition of Dr.
Kolehmainen's twenty-five years of
research and publication in the field
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of Finnish-American affairs, and for
creating good will between Finland
and America. Dr. Kolehmainen is the
author of two articles, "Finnish
Newspapers in Ohio" and
"Founding of the Finnish Settlements in
Ohio," which appeared some years
ago in the Quarterly.
Kenneth E. Davison has been reelected
secretary-treasurer of the
Ohio-Indiana Chapter of the American
Studies Association.
At Kent State University, James M.
Powell, Robert W. Heywood,
and Lyle A. McGeoch have been appointed
instructors in history for
the year 1959-60.
Henry Steele Commager of Amherst College
will be a visiting profes-
sor of American history in the first
summer term in 1960.
William F. Zornow's book, Kansas: A
History of the Jayhawk State
(University of Oklahoma Press, 1957),
was given the award of merit
as the best book published in 1957 in
the field of state and local history
at the 1958 meeting of the American
Association for State and Local
History.
Charles R. Ritcheson is on a leave of
absence from Kenyon College
this semester under a Social Science
Research Council grant to complete
his research and commence the writing of
his study of Anglo-American
relations, 1783-95.
Landon Warner's volume, The Life of
Mr. Justice Clarke, was pub-
lished by the Western Reserve University
Press in April. The 232-page
book is an outgrowth of his interest in
the field of Ohio politics in the
progressive era.
Irvin F. Kyle, Jr., of Creighton
University has replaced Sister Mary
Teresa, O.S.F., in the history
department at Mary Manse College.
Sister Mary Teresa is doing graduate
work for a doctoral degree at
Fordham University.
Harris G. Warren, chairman of the history
department at Miami
University, is the author of a book, Herbert
Hoover and the Great De-
pression, published by the Oxford University Press in March of
this year.
Ronald Shaw will complete research this
summer on his history of the
Erie Canal. William Echard will do
research in Paris on Napoleon III.
The department of history of Notre Dame
College conducted a history
workshop in April for high school
seniors to interest them in this field
of knowledge.
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Sister Mary Patrice, chairman of the
department, addressed high
school teachers of social studies of the
diocese of Cleveland on April 11.
Leslie Fishel, Jr., lecturer in history
at Oberlin College and secretary
of its alumni association, has been
appointed director of the State His-
torical Society of Wisconsin and will
assume his new duties on August 1.
Dr. Fishel is a Harvard Ph.D. and taught
at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology for seven years before going
to Oberlin in 1955.
Eureka: From Cleveland by Ship to
California, 1849-1850 is the title
of a 168-page book written by Robert S.
Fletcher and published in April
by Duke University Press.
A Conference on Civil-Military
Relations, sponsored jointly by the
defense studies committee and the
department of history at Ohio State
University was held at Ohio State on
Friday and Saturday, February
27-28. The discussions included such
topics as the development of war-
time civilian leadership in Great
Britain, Germany, Russia, and the
United States; civil-miltary relations
in recent American history; the
role of public opinion in policy-making;
and the development of a mili-
tary elite in the Soviet Union and in
Communist China.
Norman Gibbs, professor of history at Oxford
University, was the
keynote speaker. Other speakers included
Samuel P. Huntington of
Columbia University and Hanson W.
Baldwin, military editor of the
New York Times. Harvey A. De Weerd of the Rand Corporation, who
was formerly professor of history at
Denison University, introduced the
speakers at the Saturday morning
session.
Harry L. Coles, associate professor of
history at Ohio State, served
as chairman of the conference, and John
C. Rule, instructor in history,
as its secretary. Other members of the
history department who partici-
pated in the program were Andreas
Dorpalen, who read a paper on
"Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the
Armed Forces" at the first session, and
Harold J. Grimm, chairman of the
department, who presided at the
luncheon session on Saturday.
Robert Daniel of the history department
at Ohio University is a co-
author with Merle Curti and others of The
Making of an American
Community, a 483-page history of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin,
published early this year by Stanford
University Press.
As chairman of the program committee of
the Association for Asian
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Studies, John F. Cady prepared and
published the program booklet for
the March 23-25, 1959, meeting of the
association at Washington, D. C.
David Jennings, associate professor of
history at Ohio Wesleyan
University, received his Ph.D. degree
from Ohio State University in
December 1958. The title of his
dissertation is "President Wilson's
Transcontinental Tour of September,
1919."
At the University of Wooster, Floyd
Watts, who has his Ph.D. from
the University of Wisconsin, has been
appointed an instructor in Euro-
pean history.
Aileen Dunham, chairman of the
department, is on sabbatical leave for
a trip around the world. Clayton S.
Ellsworth is acting head of the
department in her absence.
Dr. Ellsworth read a paper on
"Theodore Roosevelt's Country Life
Commission" at a joint meeting of
the Agricultural History Society and
the Mississippi Valley Historical
Association in Denver, April 23, 1959.
The former Helen Kaslo, associate
professor of history, is now Mrs.
H. E. Osgood. Her husband is an emeritus
professor of history of the
University of Minnesota.
Vern L. Bullough, professor of history
at the University of Youngs-
town, had an article, "The
Development of the Medical Guilds at Paris,"
in Medievalia et Humanistica for
1958, and another, "A Preliminary
Study on the Utilization of Part Time
Teachers," in the Bulletin of the
Association of American Colleges for
1958. Dr. Bullough's recent pub-
lications also include several general
articles and a pamphlet on housing
conditions in Youngstown.
David M. Behen, head of the department,
reports that the Youngstown
University library has recently acquired
a complete set in excellent con-
dition of a first edition of Diderot and
D'Alembert's Encyclopedie ou
Dictionaire Raissone des Sciences des
Arts et des Metiers published in
Paris in 1751.