Historical News
THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a $45,000
research and publication grant from
Lilly Endowment, Inc., of Indian-
apolis, Indiana, in support of a
three-year program on the history of
the American Midwest. About one-third of
the grant will be used for
grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars
doing research on midwest his-
tory between the Civil War and World War
I, and the balance will
be used for publication of the results
of these studies, as well as of
others within the scope of the project.
Subjects to be included are
agriculture, tariff, currency, railroad
regulation, rise of industry, civil
service reform, culture and education,
immigration, politics, and foreign
policy.
The Wisconsin History Foundation is a
cooperative program of the
University of Wisconsin and the State
Historical Society of Wisconsin.
This is the first grant of the kind to
be received by any historical society
in the country.
A new archives and research center for
the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints is to be
constructed at Salt Lake City in the next
year or two. An archives building
-- a fifteen-story structure with
413,000 square feet of floor space--will
house the historian's office and
the library of the church. A research
center, with floor space of
258,500 square feet, will house the
genealogical records and will include
microfilm reading rooms to accommodate
800 readers and an audi-
torium seating 1,000 persons.
On June 17, 1961, the Butler County
Historical Society, in coopera-
tion with the Butler County Park
District, dedicated the restored birth-
place of William Bebb, nineteenth
governor of Ohio, as a historic
house. A plaque, erected by the Ohio
Historical Markers Committee
to mark the site, was unveiled on the
occasion.
The city council of Cincinnati has
authorized the city planning com-
mission to prepare legislation for the
purpose of preserving historic
and unusual sites in Cincinnati.
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John J. Horton, associate for research
of the Western Reserve His-
torical Society, has recently published The
Jonathan Hale Farm, a
Chronicle of the Cuyahoga Valley as Publication No. 116 of the Western
Reserve Historical Society. This is an
account, based on extensive
family papers, of the migration of the
Hale family from Glastonbury,
Connecticut, to Bath, Ohio, showing a
contrast in daily life at the two
places in the 1830's. It also furnishes
a general history of the Western
Reserve and the Connecticut Land
Company. The book was financed
by the Clara Belle Ritchie Trust Fund.
The Historical and Philosophical Society
of Ohio announces that
The Journals of John May, edited by Dwight L. Smith of Miami Uni-
versity, is being published this fall by
the society.
The January 1962 issue of the society's Bulletin
will be a special issue
on "Germany and Cincinnati."
Ruth Brill, a graduate of the University
of Cincinnati, has been added
to the society's staff as reference
librarian and manuscript cataloger.
At the University of Akron, Henry S.
Vyverberg has been promoted
to associate professor, and Howard Allen
to assistant professor. Dr.
Allen published an article,
"Geography and Politics: Voting on Reform
Issues in the United States Senate,
1911-1916," in the Journal of
Southern History for May 1961.
Jerome Chubb (Ph.D., University of
Washington) has been added
to the history staff at Bowling Green
State University as an instructor.
Dr. Chubb's field of specialization is
the Progressive Era.
Hans Kohn of the City College of New
York was a guest lecturer
in the department during the first
summer session, 1961.
At the University of Cincinnati four new
history appointments have
been made: Ernest Muntz and Peter
Topping as associate professors
and A. Lloyd Moote and Vsevolod
Slessarev as assistant professors.
Three promotions recently became
effective: George Engberg was
named professor; Arnold Schrier,
associate professor; and Herbert F.
Curry, Jr., assistant professor.
Leroy Eid, S.M., and Philip D. Doherty,
Jr., were appointed instruc-
tors in history at the University of
Dayton, effective last September.
James M. Haas has left Dayton to take a
position at Southern
Illinois University.
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Robert B. Boehm has been appointed
chairman of the division of
history and political science at
Defiance College. Dr. Boehm has had
a series of articles on Defiance County
in the Civil War in the Defiance
Crescent News.
Erwin Urch has recently published two
articles in Social Education,
one on women in history and one on the
teaching of history.
Eugene Andrews, assistant professor of
history, is currently working
on a Ph.D. degree at the University of
Nevada, while Eugene Carraher
is finishing his doctoral dissertation
at the University of Maryland.
Sherman B. Barnes of Kent State
University, had an article, "Rela-
tion of Science and the Humanities in
College History-of-Civilization
Textbooks," in the March-April 1961
issue of Religious Education.
William F. Zornow published an article,
"When the Czar and Grant
Were Friends," in Mid-America for
July 1961.
Gerald J. Oneman, formerly at Johns
Hopkins University, has been
appointed assistant professor of history
at Lake Erie College. Dr. One-
man holds an M.D. from Cornell and a
Ph.D. in the history of science
from Harvard.
Helmut Hirsch, who was visiting
associate professor of history for
the year 1960-61, has returned to
Roosevelt University. Philip L. Ralph
will remain another year as visiting
professor at Robert College, Istanbul,
Turkey.
At Miami University, Ralph A. Stone and
Brenton H. Smith have
been appointed assistant professors of
history. James H. St. John has
retired from the history department, and
William E. Echard has
resigned to accept a position at Parsons
College.
Harris G. Warren taught at the
University of Minnesota in the last
summer session.
Ronald Shaw and John Weatherford have
been promoted to the
rank of associate professor.
The library at Miami has recently
acquired much microprint and
microfilm, including the House of
Commons Sessional Papers, 1731-
1820, and the House of Commons Journals,
1547-1900, and long runs
of American newspapers of the eighteenth
century.
Miss Maude Blair of Detroit recently
presented to Miami one of the
finest personal collections of McGuffey
Readers known, making the col-
lection at Miami, according to William
E. Smith, director of the
McGuffey Museum, the finest in the world.
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Bernard K. Dekmelt, from the University
of Pennsylvania, has been
appointed an instructor in history at
Muskingum College. His field of
specialization is ninteenth-century
diplomatic history.
Harold Currie (Ph.D., University of
Michigan) has been named an
assistant professor of history at
Muskingum. Dr. Currie will teach
courses in the American Revolutionary
period.
Robert H. Bremner, who spent the spring
and summer in western
Europe and England gathering material
for a forthcoming book, and
Harvey Goldberg, who has been in France
for the past year on a
Mershon grant, returned to the Ohio
State University campus in
September.
Sidney N. Fisher has been chosen to
serve for the current academic
year as coordinator of the Graduate
Program on World Affairs. Dr.
Fisher contributed six articles,
"Aden," "The Arab League," "Arabia,"
"Muscat and Oman," "Saudi
Arabia," and "Yemen" to The American
Annual, 1960.
At Ohio University, George Lobdell and
Robert Daniel have been
promoted to the rank of associate
professor. During the past summer
Dr. Daniel enjoyed a research award from
the American Philosophical
Society. He had an article, "The
Friendship of Woodrow Wilson and
Cleveland H. Dodge," in Mid-America
for July.
Harry R. Stevens taught the summer
session at Western Reserve
University, and Carl Gustavson taught at
the University of Illinois.
Frederick L. Hetter, II, formerly of the
University of Rhode Island,
has been appointed an assistant
professor of history at the University
of Toledo. Mickie Hane has resigned to
accept a position at Knox
College.
Jack P. Greene, assistant professor of
history at Western Reserve
University, is on leave of absence for
the year 1961-62 to edit the
William and Mary Quarterly. During his absence Robert P. Thomson
of George Peabody College will be
visiting associate professor of history.
Marvin Becker spent the past summer in
research in Italy.
Harvey Wish and A. B. Erickson will be
on leave of absence for the
winter session, 1961-62, to do research
in England.
Carl Wittke has been named vice
president of Western Reserve Uni-
versity. He will continue to serve also
as dean of the graduate school
and chairman of the department of
history.
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Charles Chatfield, a Ph.D. candidate
from Vanderbilt University, has
been appointed an instructor in history
at Wittenberg University. He
will teach in the field of
twentieth-century American history. Mr.
Chatfield is the author of an article,
"The Southern Sociological Con-
gress: Rationale of Uplift,"
published in the Tennessee Historical
Quarterly for March 1961.
Albert Hayden had an article, "The
New South Wales Immigration
Question and Responsible Government,
1856-1861," in the Royal Aus-
tralian Historical Society journal for
December 1960.
At Youngstown University, Stephen V.
Fulkerson has resigned, and
two assistant professors of history have
been appointed: Sidney I.
Roberts (Ph.D., Northwestern University)
formerly at A. and M.
College of Texas; and Morris Slavin, who
has been a part-time lec-
turer in history at Youngstown.
Professor Slavin received his Ph.D.
from Western Reserve University in June
1961.
A. W. Skardon, Jr., received his Ph.D.
from the University of
Chicago in December 1960. He has been
promoted to associate pro-
fessor.
Alfred D. Low has published two articles
this year: "Recent Strains
and Stresses in the German Democratic
Republic," in the Journal of
Human Relations for Winter 1961, and "Patriotism, 'Bourgeois Na-
tionalism,' and Soviet Nationality Since
Stalin," in the Annals of the
Ukrainian Academy of New York for Summer
1961.