SPRING 2015 What’S Inside

OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY NEWSLETTER SPRING 2015 What’s Inside:

History Fund 1-2 History Fund Grant Program 2 Distinguished Historian Grant Program 3 Proposal for Ohio It’s tax season again, and this is just Presidential Center a reminder that the voluntary tax 4-5 Muskingum University “check-off” for the Ohio History Con- Hands-on History nection that you’ll find on your Ohio 5 Membership Change individual income tax return benefits 5 Dissertation Award Nominees history, pre-history and preservation- related organizations across the state. 6-8 Executive Council Spring When you opt to donate a portion of Meeting Minutes your state income tax refund to the 9-10 Annual Meeting and Ohio History Connection, it supports Conference the History Fund, which makes grants 11 Brief History of Ohio to organizations for local history proj- Northern University ects in communities throughout Ohio. For 2014, the History Fund 12-13 Officers and Executive Committee Nominees received $165,000 in donations from 17,000 Ohioans who contributed 14 In Memoriam: Charles Chatfield a portion of their state income tax 15 Financial Report refund. Most donations are small, 15-16 Executive Council Members averaging $9.70 in 2014, but the impact and Committee Rosters Continued on page 2

Upcoming Ohio Academy of History Conferences March 27-28, 2015 at Ohio Northern University, more information inside! April 1-2, 2016, Kent State University-Stark Campus The 2016 OAH Spring Conference will be held April 1-2 at Kent State University at Stark in North Canton, Ohio. Planning is already under way to make this a great event and there are a number of points of historical interest nearby to take advantage of, too! The McKinley Monument and Museum, the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Spring Hill Historic Home and the National First Ladies Library & Museum are among the many sites just a few minutes from the campus. Look for more details to be announced in the Fall. We look forward to seeing you in North Canton in 2016!

The Ohio Academy of History newsletter is edited and published for the Ohio Academy of History by the Ohio History Connection. 1 2015 Ohio Academy

of History Jane Hathaway is Professor of Islamic history Distinguished at The Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton Historian University in 1992. She is a specialist in the history of the Ottoman Empire before 1800 and has published four books, including The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800 (Pearson/Longman, 2008), which won the Turkish Studies Association’s 2008 M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize. She has also published four edited volumes and many articles and is currently writing a book, to be published by Cambridge University Press, on the office of Chief Harem Eunuch of the Ottoman Empire. She has served as president of the Turkish Studies Association and member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.

History Fund Grant Program (Continued from page 1) is big for those who receive History Fund projects in 2013 and $110,000 for 10 grants. The matching grants are awarded projects in 2014. Applications for grants on a competitive basis. for 2015 are currently under review. The tax check-off first appeared on Recipients will be publically announced state income tax forms in 2012. The first at the Statehood Day event, March 4, History Fund grants were awarded in at the Ohio Statehouse. 2013 for a variety of history- and preser- In addition to the tax check off, there vation-related projects. Learn more about are other ways to support the History the recipients of grants in 2013 and 2014 (if you are receiving a refund), you’ll find Fund grant program. Ohio drivers may and their projects at www.ohiohistory.org/ a line that asks if you’d like to donate. now purchase the Ohio History license historyfund. Under “Ohio Historical Society,” fill in plate featuring “Conway the Mastodon.” Please consider donating a portion of the amount that you’d like to contribute. Twenty dollars from the sale of each set of your tax refund to the Ohio History Con- (The tax form has not caught up with our plates will benefit the History Fund grant nection for the History Fund when you recent name change to Ohio History program. To learn more, visit: http://www. complete your state income tax return this Connection yet.) bmv.ohio.gov/sp_history.stm year. Although we call it a “check-off,” on The amount you contribute to Questions about the History Fund? your tax form, you will not find a box to the Ohio History Connection through Visit www.ohiohistory.org/makehistory, check. Toward the end of your individual your Ohio state income tax return goes call the Ohio History Connection’s Local Ohio state income tax return, after you’ve specifically to support the History Fund. History Office at 614-297-2341 or email calculated the amount of your refund The History Fund gave $108,000 for 10 [email protected]

2 James Robenalt on plans to create an Ohio Presidential Center Why an Ohio Presidential Center? Ohio claims eight presidents: Presidential libraries support Ohio presidents played a critical role William Henry Harrison, Ulysses S. regions, communities, educational pro- in the development of the United States. Grant, James A. Garfield, Rutherford grams, archival research, civic life, and Because they occupied the White House B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, William museum exhibits. Many are affiliated with for most of the 50 years following the McKinley, William H. Taft and Warren universities. Important national confer- Civil War, they rightly can be seen as “the G. Harding. Aside from the Rutherford B. ences on war, the Supreme Court, the Saving Fathers.” These presidents stitched Hayes Presidential Center and a modest Nuclear Age, foreign policy, voting rights, the country back together after a brutal facility at the Garfield home in Mentor, and other topics of national significance and fractious war and governed over OH, there is no presidential library of have been convened at presidential an especially formative period in the note for these important presidents. For centers. development of the country. reasons that are not entirely sensible, no presidential libraries have been sup- ported by Congress for presidents prior to Herbert Hoover. Breaking through this The Proposal for an Ohio Presidential Center glass door, especially back through the The Ohio Presidential Center should be in Columbus, OH, to be easily nineteenth century, would be a significant accessible by all Ohioans and close in proximity to the Ohio History Connection. and real opportunity for the “Ohio 8.” It should be affiliated with The Ohio State University, as the state’s leading university. And it should be more than a museum. It should be: President Franklin Roosevelt proposed creating the first presidential 1 A Center of Learning. library to house presidential papers and The University should establish a center of learning dedicated to gifts accumulated during his administra- the presidency and Ohio presidents in particular. Ohio State should tion. The model he established has been collaborate with other Ohio universities and colleges to create a “Presidential followed ever since: create a foundation Scholar” Master’s and PhD program. to construct the library with private funds 2 An Archival Depository. and donate the facility to be operated by The Ohio presidents’ papers are scattered throughout the country. The Ohio the National Archives. FDR’s dedication Presidential Center should become the chief repository for these papers, which of his own –library in 1941 was an oppor- should be digitized for easy access and to support new scholarship on the Ohio tunity for him to explain why presidential presidents and the times over which they presided. libraries are of such great national 3 A Museum. importance: The Center should coordinate and support the presidents’ homes, sharing artifacts and gifts from the presidents’ time in office. The Center should act as the hub for To bring together the all the sites and should loan and borrow pieces that will make all the presidential records of the past and sites in Ohio more visible. to house them in buildings 4 A Conference Center. The Center should support conferences and symposia about the presidency where they will be and important topics like free speech and woman’s suffrage. Like the Chautauqua preserved for the use speaking fairs that used to come to Ohio cities during the time of Ohio presidents, of men and women in the Center should sponsor a speakers’ bureau and perhaps a summer season of lectures in affiliation with the nearby New York Chautauqua Institute. the future, a Nation must believe in three things: It must believe in the past; United States Senator Sherrod Brown has expressed his support for the idea It must believe in the future; of an Ohio Presidential Center, as has It must, above all, believe in the capacity former Ohio governor Bob Taft. If it is to work, the Center must be bipartisan of its own people so to learn from the past and focused on the central role Ohio has that they can gain judgment in creating played in the presidency. their own futures. Jim Robenalt is a Cleveland-based attorney and author, and a graduate of – Franklin D. Roosevelt Miami University and The Ohio State University College of Law.

3 Muskingum University History Department and “Hands-on” History in Ohio

By Amy Bosworth History Department, Muskingum University

Recognizing the increasing interest and day-to-day work of the OHC staff. site visit also included some free time among students (and their parents) in For the fall 2014 semester we orga- for students to explore on their own. matching a major to a specific job after nized by far our most ambitious excur- These programs introduced students graduation, the History Department sion – an overnight trip to Cleveland. Five to the variety of careers available to his- at Muskingum University in the fall of of our majors accompanied two faculty tory majors, in particular those looking 2014 began organizing visits to historical members to some of the city’s most visited to work outside the traditional classroom. societies, museums, libraries, and archives. attractions. The group spent its first day at Program participants learned about the These programs complement existing the Cleveland Museum of Art. We first met dynamic atmosphere of public history cen- on-campus workshops the department with several members of the exhibition ters, museums, and libraries and, by exten- regularly organizes on topics such as department and learned about event orga- sion, the variety of responsibilities found graduate school, internships, and resume nizing, including planning special exhibits in the daily work of their employees. Some building. This new program introduces highlighting art from multiple museums of the people we met spend a great deal of participating students to careers in history to keeping track and on schedule a variety their day in history-related pursuits. Oth- or with a history component not directly of simultaneous events (often several years ers split their time between various tasks, related to teaching. (Most of our under- in advance) to utilizing the Museum’s own many unrelated to teaching or research. graduates see education as the only option collection in new ways. We also visited Everyone we spoke with utilizes skills es- after graduation for those interested in the facility’s library. Leslie Cade, Archivist sential to the study of history and familiar studying the past.) In fall 2013, we met and Records Manager, and Lou Adrean, to all students in the major (such as the with Leslie Wagner, the Historian of the Head of Research and Public Programs, critical analysis and interpretation of docu- Dawes Arboretum in Newark, who gave took us through some of the museum’s ments, clear and concise writing, organiza- us a tour of the facility’s archives and the extensive research collection, discussing tion, effective speaking, etc.) regardless of Daweswood House Museum. Throughout their work with museum staff, members, the amount of “history” they engaged with the course of the morning she described and the general public. The next morning on a daily basis. Students also learned the the various responsibilities of the His- we visited the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame importance of pursuing internships while torian, from maintaining the archive to and Museum, where we met with Chris- working toward their degree. As one of creating educational programs for Ohio tine Lucco, Senior Director of Curatorial the students wrote regarding the trip to students. In Spring 2014 we traveled to Affairs whose responsibilities include Cleveland, “This trip helped to broaden Columbus to the Ohio History Connection overseeing the creation of new exhibits my potential options after graduation by (OHC) for a tour of their archives/library. and acquisition of new items (whether demonstrating the opportunities that I Elizabeth Plummer, Research Services permanently or on loan). In the afternoon have available ... and by showing me what Manager, took students into the stacks and we toured the Rock Hall’s Library and I need to do to prepare myself to work in highlighted some of the organization’s vast Archives with librarian Laura Moody and a museum or archival career. This trip has collection of photographs, texts, and items heard about the typical workday of its staff helped me feel more confident in my post- of historical significance. Students also assisting professional historians and the graduation plans to take a year off learned about the varied responsibilities general public with their research. Each (Continued on page 5)

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school and to get volunteer experience of charge. Most of the venues required no in a museum or other history-related admission fee and those that did offered field while working.” Everyone we spoke a student rate. For the overnight trip to with highlighted his/her own experi- Cleveland, admittedly a bit more ambi- ences as volunteers or paid staff and the tious and expensive, we received generous importance of having that experience on support from Muskingum University’s a resume. As another student noted, “It History Department, Social Sciences was useful to hear the different paths that Division, Vice President for Academic each person took into museum work” and Affairs James Callaghan, and Student learning about the importance volunteer- Senate. With some institutional support, ing. This program has helped students to we have offered these excursions to explore the variety of jobs suited to their students at no cost. Programs such as this major and interests, but also emphasized allow History majors in the twenty-first the need to think creatively and to set the century to immerse themselves in the groundwork early in order to secure a past, while also keeping a watchful eye on career in history outside of the traditional their own future. Students, and ultimately classroom. the profession itself, will benefit from an For those considering a similar introduction to the dynamic careers program, be aware that the cost to your available in history. department would be minimal and the benefit to students great. Everyone we met with volunteered his/her time free

MEMBERSHIP CHANGE 2015 Dissertation Award

The Ohio Academy of History Nominees: will move to a regular member- Justin T. Pfeiffer ship year beginning in 2016. “The Soviet Union through German Eyes: Memberships will run from Wehrmacht Identity, Nazi Propaganda, and the Eastern 1 May to 30 April of the follow- Front War, 1941-1945.” University of Toledo. ing calendar year, and, as with other professional societies, Daniel A. Vandersommers “ Laboratories, Lyceums, Lords: The National will not be prorated for the Zoological Park and the Transformation of Humanism initial year of membership. in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Ohio State University. This will be in full effect beginning in 2016. To implement David L. Prentice this without harm to the mem- “Ending America’s Vietnam War: Victimization’s bership, all current members Domestic Origins and International Ramifications, renewing will be given an 1968-1970.” Ohio University. expiration date of 30 April 2016.

5 Ohio Academy of History Executive Council Meeting 25 October 2014

Location: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH Archivist’s Report (MacLean): In attendance: Winkler, Kern, Brooke, Connell, Grunden, • New Handbook will go on website shortly after final correc- Friedman, Hedler, Maclean, Waters, Heiss, Cayton, Mach, tions. Still working on Standards and Public History committees. Bosworth, S. Selby, Wood, Trollinger Wants to put in a history of each committee including how, when and why each committee was created in the hopes that this will Called to order: 12:00 p.m. help build an institutional memory and also to stop the OAH from “reinventing the wheel.” Discussed updating the online OAH Con- Officers’ Reports stitution to include all amendments in text form (not just showing dates of each amendment) and also possibly to include the rationale President’s Report (Winkler): behind the amendment’s creation. Consideration and discussion • Bosworth says OAH will be sponsoring a panel, “Reimagin- of whether to use the term “chair” or “chairperson” in OAH mate- ing the Middle Ages” for the Kalamazoo Medievalist conference. rial. Sense of committee was that it should be consistently “chair.” The CFP got 7 proposals and selected 3 for the panel and OAH’s MacLean announced her retirement effective after the 2015 Spring name will be in the program and call for papers. Nice step toward meeting. This news was greeted with a standing ovation by the getting OAH name out there. This will also help encourage and entire Executive Committee in gratitude for her extremely hard attract non-western, non-American components of the historical and important work as archivist. community to participate and present at OAH events. The website is undergoing continual improvements as issues arise Award Committee Reports including some improvements to layout, and particularly getting the presidential addresses, proceedings, and newsletters posted. Dissertation Award (Santos absent, Winkler presided): Winkler and Hedler are working together on these updates. • Because only six schools in Ohio currently offer a PhD pro- Brooke suggested posting conference programs online, it was gram, the committee considered whether to add an award for a agreed that this will be done in the near future. superior MA thesis. This could be offered instead of or in addition to a PhD award. The Ex. Committee was generally supportive of Deadlines for Spring conference have again been extended, the idea. Cayton suggested that such an award could potentially this time to Nov. 15. build interest in the OAH and suggested the possibility of eliminat- Professional Development and Public History committees held ing the Distinguished Historian award to pay for a prize. This is in abeyance—too difficult to find Public Historians to staff it. In especially relevant since recent OAH conferences have lost money. addition, there is no clear understanding or agreement about what Winkler suggested an ad hoc committee to explore the idea of the the Professional Development committee is supposed to do. MA award (Cayton, Heiss, and Bosworth volunteered). Committee was given a deadline to report to the President by Dec. 1 and will Vice President’s Report (Cayton): be charged with what would eligible institutions be, what would Asks that committee chairs provide recommendations • procedure look like, what potential problems might arise from this, for people to serve on committees and will also send out email and whether this would be the same committee as the Dissertation requests in the next few weeks to solicit membership. We continue Award Committee. Trollinger opened up the idea that the award to hope that we can encourage membership and participation could potentially be set up to allow a winning thesis from a field from people at institutions that are not currently well-represented related to History (e.g. Religious Studies). General consensus was in the academy. to continue limiting submissions to one per institution. Secretary-Treasurer’s Report (Kern): Distinguished Historian (Winkler): Discussed the contents of a written report, namely: • Winkler has written to the chairs of a number of institutions Kern & Winkler have discussed talking with an outside invest- • asking for nominees, especially smaller institutions. Hedler said a ment advisor about investing our money. A 4/1/2014 deposit brief scan of the handbook reveals no fixed dollar amount associ- that occurred after the Spring conference cleared after the Spring ated with this, which will make it easier to change if it is so decided meeting and so will appear on subsequent statements. The OSU (i.e. to free up funds for a possible thesis award). Spring 2014 conference lost money but wasn’t as bad as 2013. (Continued on page 7) Also, many thanks to OSU for helping to subsidize some of the cost of the conference.

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Distinguished Service (McNay absent, written report 2015 Conference Committee Report (Waters): circulated): • The university inn is only holding 40 rooms at the hotel • McNay requested through the report that OAH members instead of 65, but will ask to boost that number. Should be room please submit nominees. Also, hopes to get a list of previous for dinner for Ex. Council, and a room for a possible buffet for the winners posted online. rest of the Friday attendees. Rooms are really nice. Session rooms are in the student union right across the street. Winkler suggested Junior Faculty Research Fund (Mach): that a list of local points of interest should be compiled for at- • Mach asked for access to the OAH email list as a way to tendees. Also asked if ONU had agreed to pitch in. The Dean has request nominations for the award and will also include a Call agreed to host the Friday reception. Wood and others also asked for Nominations in the email reminding people of the extended for photos from the conference for use in the Newsletter and deadline for the 2015 Spring Conference. How do we make sure the website. we are getting the word out? Will discuss this under new business. People in departments with new faculty need to encourage them Nominating Committee (Trollinger): to apply. Wood questioned whether JFRG money can be used • We have 3 openings on Ex. Council (1 private, 1 public, one to pay for travel to a conference or if it was meant specifically for High School), and also for VP. Would appreciate suggestions, to defray cost of research-related travel. especially for VP. Heiss read constitution says HS teacher must be person who has been HS teacher for 7-12. Committee will Teaching Award (Bosworth): consider approaching people who handle K-12 education • No nominations received yet, but three nominations held programs at universities but these often come from College over from previous years and are so still eligible for consideration. of Ed and not from History Departments. Will extend deadline in hopes of getting more and will send a letter to each department chair soliciting nominations. New Business Standing Committee Reports 2016 Conference Location (Heiss): • Kent Stark was suggested (it boasts nice conference facili- Newsletter Report (Wood): ties, nearby hotels, easy highway access, supportive campus, etc.). We continue to be able to get it out and things go smoothly • General consensus approval for KSU-Stark for April 1 & 2. Shawn after getting content, but getting content is what makes the dead- Selby volunteered to serve as Local Arrangements Committee lines creep. Would like to add regular features, like brief bios of chair & will solicit committee members from the campus. Ex. Council members, etc. Hedler says designer would like more images. Winkler asked for suggestions on other features that 2017 Conference: might be good to draw more interest (e.g., history of the society, • Winkler said that Peter Hahn has been supportive of the idea teaching articles, research articles, descriptions of Ohio archives, of having the 2017 conference at OSU. Ex. Council agreed. Dates etc.). Maybe some consideration and replication of what other TBD. The idea of having every third conference at Ohio State had organizations include in their newsletters. been discussed with Hahn who consulted with faculty and said he can’t commit to every third conference at OSU in perpetuity, 2015 Program Committee Report (Heiss): but they are favorably inclined to the possibility of 2020 and 2023 Eight panels planned already (including teaching premod- • if they are asked to. ern history, teaching undergrad history, a book panel for Parker’s Global Crisis, JFRG winners, etc.). Saturday afternoon plenary 2018 Conference (Winkler): planned after luncheon; the speaker will be a Cleveland lawyer • Have been talking with Kelly Selby about Ohio Wesleyan who is hoping to create an Ohio Presidents Center. Rooms are as a possibility, but no interest there due to local issues. Kelly arranged and we can have up to six concurrent panels on Fri. Selby has volunteered Walsh in Canton. Some concern expressed afternoon, and up to eight on Saturday morning (could have over having 2 of 3 conferences in NE Ohio. Some suggestions of as many as 22 panels). Working on a Jr. Faculty meeting with Capital or Otterbein in Columbus. Also discussion of developing Winkler, and perhaps one for teachers. Winkler asked Brooke a geographical rotation around the state. MacLean offered to feel to encourage grad students at OSU to get a panel together. Also out possibility of Otterbein as a host. discussed the possibility of creating a “panelists seeking panelists” Website/Newsletters: forum on the website to facilitate creating full panels out Need to get all 138 previous newsletters onto the OAH of individual presenters who might not get accepted otherwise. • website–hopefully by mid-December. Want to have three grad students or undergrads to work with Betsy Hedler to upload these to the website. Brooke said that there was someone at OSU who might be able to do the whole thing and he will coordinate with Betsy to make arrangements. (Continued on page 8)

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Investment of the Endowment: Communications & Membership: • Winkler suggested being more aggressive with our money • Winkler has found email sometimes does not get response in order to develop our accounts so they will earn us money that and wondered about the efficacy of using it as a means to spread will allow us to be self-sustaining (while still remaining within information and/or solicit member participation. Cayton specu- the boundaries of non-profit). To this end, he has identified a lated that second emails may produce more answers. Kern also financial planner who works with non-profits. Asked for volun- pointed out the value of using emails within the Ex. Council to teers for an ad hoc committee on investments to consider various speed up committee conversations, debates and votes. Wood sug- issues: 1) How much would we be comfortable putting safely gested making personal contacts when soliciting nominations for in an endowment? 2) What is medium- to long-term plan for awards, etc. Cayton suggested that committees be more aggressive these monies? (Pay for prizes? Should it be grown to an even about building lists of nominees for Distinguished Historian and larger objective? Revenue stream? Etc.) 3) What level of risk other awards. Also, hopefully to nominate more people at under- we are willing to take? represented schools (Oberlin, Case, Kenyon, Wesleyan, etc.) Heiss suggested having a regional liaison for each area of the state Kern, Brooke, Connell, and Friedman volunteered to serve to manage outreach to the schools in their region. Brooke also on the committee and will provide their report by Jan. 15, 2015. recommended providing a hardlink to the OAH site on depart- After a general discussion of the implications of such a financial ment websites. It may also be possible to get the OSU tech center approach, Cayton and Brooke suggested setting up a “Friends of to find Ohio schools online and get the top 40-50 to encourage OAH” format as an on-going fund-raising source. By September them to add such a link. It was also suggested that we focus on 2015 meeting we’ll have updated an accurate and long-term statis- working through various ties to fields and subfields within the tics re: conference attendance, membership numbers, trends discipline as a way to focus our communication but this may of membership, etc. result in overlap and redundancy. Friedman suggested retasking Future of Proceedings: the Professional Development Committee toward working with • We currently have 1999-2005 and 2011 available on the web- small two-year, Community College and liberal arts schools as site. Steffel stepping down, but is still working on getting these up a way to build engagement on the part of faculty there. and running. He will finish the papers he has at present, but will There was also conversation about creating an Executive not be working on any new submissions and so we need a new Director position for the OAH who will coordinate, organize and editor to continue work. There followed general discussion about mobilize resources and personnel. This person would serve for the difficulty of getting interest from the membership to serve an extended period. Some discussion about linking more specifi- on editorial board, let alone as editor (esp. since senior schol- cally to the Ohio History Connection (especially through Betsy ars qualified for serving as editor likely have too much on their Hedler) to use her in that expanded capacity. However, this would plate already). Wood’s call for board members received only two require a revisit to the contractual relationship between the two replies. The point was raised that publishing in the Proceedings organizations since the arrangement is currently free/unpaid. may not have the cache of publishing in other journals and so the value of retaining it may be limited. Heiss suggested creating an Brooke pointed out the need for a master calendar that can be ad hoc committee to discuss the viability and future of proceed- used to send out reminders all year. Heiss, Wood and MacLean ings. Heiss, Kern and Grunden volunteered. Winkler will inves- said we have the beginnings of this list in the Handbook. Ma- tigate whether we can get the Proceedings put onto JSTOR and / cLean worried that the calendar could become very complicated or Google Scholar (which will almost certainly improve its appeal given the variety of responsibilities within the organization. Cay- as a target for publication.) Cayton and Brooke suggested Project ton suggested color-coding by position/committee/award. Cayton Muse as a potential money-maker, as well. will send the SHEAR calendar as an example to Wood to serve as Professional Development and Public History a model. Trollinger suggested setting a Google Calendar for each member of a given committee. Winkler asked for solutions by Jan. 1. committees: • Given the uncertainty and confusion about the impact, val- Meeting adjourned: 3:35 p.m. ue, usefulness and goal(s) of these two committees, the Ex. Coun- cil discussed whether to keep them intact and extant. Both will be All reports and votes were approved unanimously unless kept in abeyance until we figure out the relationship between the otherwise noted. OAH and public history organizations and secondary education. MacLean pointed out that this means the public history prize will also be held in abeyance.

68 Ohio Academy of History Annual Meeting and Conference MARCH 27-28, 2015 Ohio Northern University The OAH Spring Conference will be held 27-28 March 2015 at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. Ada is in between Findley and Lima, Ohio, off of I-75. Complete directions will be available on the Ohio Academy website. The conference will be held at the Inn at Ohio Northern, and rooms will be available there, as well as meals. Look for more details on the website. The major addresses will be held at the Inn, while the concurrent panels will be held across the street in the McIntosh Center. SPECIAL FEATURES

The 2015 Conference includes sessions on all aspects of history, including research presentations, book roundtables, and panels on pedagogy. Several sessions are particularly noteworthy, including a Saturday morning roundtable on Geoffrey Parker’s (The Ohio State University) most recent book, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Cen- tury, panels on teaching premodern and world history, sessions showcasing winners of the Academy’s Junior Faculty Research Grant and the 2014 Academy Publication Prize winners, a roundtable discussion of innovative undergraduate classroom strategies for teaching collegiate-level history in use around the state, and a Saturday afternoon plenary session with James Robenalt on plans to create an Ohio Presidential Center. Jane Hathaway (The Ohio State University) will deliver the 2015 Distinguished Historian lecture, “It Takes The Inn is building #19 on College Ave. (center-leftish side of map) and McIntosh an Historian to Understand the Middle is across the street, #24. East (Doesn’t It?),” on Friday evening, with a reception to follow. Our Saturday luncheon will be fol- The Conference will feature presentations, papers, roundtables, lowed by the annual Ohio Academy of History Business Meeting for members, comments, discussion, networking, and social opportunities for faculty, the presentation of awards (including teachers, graduate students, and public history professionals represent- the Dissertation Award, the Publication ing dozens of colleges, universities, museums, and other institutions. The Award, and others) and a presidential Program covers a wide variety of topics (short program printed below). address by incoming OAH president, The complete program, registration, and local arrangements information Andrew Cayton (Miami University). A buffet dinner is planned at The will be available at the Ohio Academy of History website: http://www. Inn at Ohio Northern on Friday evening, ohioacademyofhistory.org. before the Distinguished Historian plenary session and reception. Information will be available on the registration form. 9 PROGRAM AT A GLANCE Friday Saturday 12:15 - 3:00 pm 8:30 am - 11:30 am Executive Council Meeting Registration and continental For OAH Executive Council breakfast members and committee chairs only 9:00 am - 10:30 am 3:00 - 3:30 pm Concurrent Session II Registration 1) Fiction, Pictures, and Muslims: Tricky 3:30 - 5:00 pm Topics and Methods of Teaching History Concurrent Session I 2) National Implications for Local History: 1) Organizing Crime in the American Connecting Localized Social Strategies City: The Late-Nineteenth and Early- to National Reform and Development Twentieth Century Experiences 3) Historical Perspectives on Health Care: 2) Fort Meigs and the War of 1812 Three Case Studies 3) Constructing Digital Histories: 4) Roundtable on Geoffrey Parker, (Mis)Representations of the Past Global Crisis: War, Climate Change, and in Video Games Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century 4) Slavery, Law, and Authority: 5) Junior Faculty Research Grant Winners’ New Perspectives from Early New Showcase England 6) Teaching History in the Community 5) The Power (and Art) of Persuasion College: Challenges and Opportunities in the Early Twentieth Century 10:30 am - 10:45 am 6) Book Prize Roundtable on Daniel Break Rivers, Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their 10:45 pm - 12:15 pm Children in the United States since Concurrent Session III World War II 1) The State of Ohio’s History 2) Book Prize Roundtable on Alice Conklin, 5:15 - 6:45 pm In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology, Dinner and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Buffet dinner will be available at The Inn 3) Teaching Premodern History in at Ohio Northern by presale ticket only; information will be available on the the Modern Classroom in Video Games registration form 4) Teaching World History 5) Innovative Undergraduate Teaching 7:00 - 7:45 pm Strategies Distinguished Historian Lecture 6) Is History Graduate Education in Decline? The Hill Building, which is the oldest Featuring Professor Jane Hathaway, 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm on campus and the most prominent “It Takes an Historian to Under- landmark from the street stand the Middle East (Doesn’t It?)” Luncheon and Business Meeting Limited space/tickets required 8:00 - 9:00 pm Featuring Presidential Address, “History Reception Without Historians,” by incoming Ohio Academy of History President Andrew Cayton (Miami University) 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm Dessert/Coffee Break 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Closing Plenary Session Featuring James Robenalt, “The Ohio Presidential Center”

The McIntosh Center 10 Statue of Henry Solomon Lehr, A Brief History of founder of Ohio Northern University Ohio Northern University Henry Solomon Lehr founded “ It is the design of the Institution Ohio Northern University in April 1871. From the first day, the univer- to provide... an education that will fit the sity was co-educational in both its rising generation to discharge life’s duties faculty and student body. Lehr had a vision of a university that com- with credit to themselves, honor to their bined modern educational ideas by parents, and benefit to humanity.” emphasizing science and modern languages along with the traditional Lehr’s emphasis on practicality study of the humanities and classi- and public service continues today. cal languages. Six United States senators attended Ohio Northern began as the Ohio Northern– three served to- Northwestern Ohio Normal School, gether in the same session and the but Lehr quickly expanded the cur- most recent to serve was Attorney riculum to include arts and scienc- General Mike DeWine – as well es, and added pharmacy, engineer- as seventeen congressmen, two of ing, business, and law schools. His whom currently serve. educational vision was unabashedly Today, in Lehr’s spirit, the uni- practical, as enshrined in the first versity has created the “Northern university catalogue: Promise,” which slashed tuition and guarantees that students who follow their major program will graduate in four years. 11 2015 Officers and Executive Committee Nominees VICE PRESIDENT/ University with a dissertation en- 2015. He has published a number PRESIDENT-ELECT titled “None So Consistently Right: of peer-reviewed articles, invited The American Legion’s Cold War, essays, and columns for such pub- Scott Martin 1945-1960.” His main focus is lications as The New York Times, Bowling Green State 20th century U.S. political history The Journal of the Civil War Era, University and the history of U.S. foreign re- Civil War History, and he has relations, but he is also responsible ceived fellowships and grants from Scott C. Martin, PhD received a for teaching courses on Southeast the National Endowment for the Bachelor of Arts in History from Asian history as well as the Ohio Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Yale University, a Master of Sci- history survey at the Zanesville Foundation, the American Philo- ence in Applied History and Social campus. His post-dissertation sophical Society, the American An- Science, and a PhD in History research has focused on Cold War tiquarian Society, and the Charles from the University of Pittsburgh. domestic anti-communism and Phelps Taft Center, among other He has taught at the University he is co-author of “‘What He Is granting agencies. From 1999 to of California, Riverside, and, since Speaks So Loud That I Can’t Hear 2009, he served as co-editor of 1993, at Bowling Green State What He’s Saying:’ R.W. Scott Ohio Valley History, a peer-re- University, where he is Professor McLeod and the Long Shadow of viewed, quarterly journal of his- of History and American Culture Joe McCarthy” which appeared tory. In 2014, he was a Fulbright Studies and chair of the History in The Historian in 2009. scholar in the Czech Republic. Department. Martin’s research and teaching interests include Christopher Phillips John Weaver cultural history, the early national University of Cincinnati Sinclair Community College and 19th-century United States, Christopher Phillips is Professor John Weaver is Professor of His- and the history of alcohol and of History and Department Head tory at Sinclair Community Col- drugs. He is the author of Killing at the University of Cincinnati. lege in Dayton, Ohio, where he has Time: Leisure and Culture in South- His research interests generally taught since 1991. From 2007 to western Pennsylvania, 1800-1850 are in the era of the Civil War 2014 he was Chair of the Depart- (1995), which won the Phi Alpha and Reconstruction, more spe- ment of Humanities, Government, Theta Best First Book Award in cifically, the American South. and Modern Languages at Sinclair. 1995, and Devil of the Domestic His six published books have He previously taught at Wilming- Sphere: Temperance, Gender, and focused variously upon slavery ton College, Erskine College, the Middle-class Ideology, 1800-1860 and freedom, emancipation, war, University of Dayton, and Wright (2008), and the editor of Cultural race, politics, and memory dur- State University. His degrees Change and the Market Revolution ing and after the Civil War era. include a B.A. in History from in America, 1789-1860 (2005), and They include Damned Yankee: Wright State (1974), M.A. from the three volume Sage Encyclo- The Life of Nathaniel Lyon (1990, the University of North Carolina at pedia of Alcohol (2015). Martin’s 1996); Freedom’s Port: The African Chapel Hill (1975), M.L.S. (Library articles have appeared in the Jour- American Community of Baltimore, Science) from Indiana Univer- nal of Social History, the Journal 1790-1860 (1997); Missouri’s sity, Bloomington (1976), and a of Family History, the Journal of Confederate: Claiborne Fox Jack- Ph.D. from The Ohio State Univer- the Early Republic, among other son and the Creation of Southern sity (1982). Before beginning his scholarly journals. He is currently Identity in the Border West (2000); teaching career he was a refer- president of the Alcohol and Drugs The Union on Trial: The Political ence librarian at Wheaton College History Society. Journals of Judge William Barclay (Illinois) and Cedarville University. Napton (2005); The Making of a His dissertation was on the role of EXECUTIVE COUNCIL: Southerner: William Barclay Nap- nativism in the birth of the Repub- PUBLIC UNIVERSITY ton’s Private Civil War (2008); and lican party in Ohio in the 1850s Morten Bach The Civil War in the Border South and sections of that have been Ohio University-Zanesville (2013). His current book project, published in the journals The Old “The Rivers Ran Backward: The Northwest and the Cincinnati His- Morten Bach is Lecturer of History Civil War on the Middle Border torical Society Bulletin. He has at Ohio University – Zanesville. and the Making of American Re- also published in Methodist His- He received his M.A. (2000) and gionalism,” will be published by tory; Hayes Historical Journal; Ph.D. (2007) in history from Ohio Oxford University Press in October (Continued on page 13) 12 2015 Officers and Executive Committee Nominees(Continued from page 12)

Proceedings of the Ohio Acad- conflicts through the creation of coming next fall from Herald Press. emy of History; History Computer “situational kinship networks,” Bush has also written widely on Review; and Community College as a way to mitigate the effects peace and religious history in Humanities Review; and a book of the conflicts. Professor Raffens- twentieth century America in both chapter in The Moment of Decision: perger was on sabbatical during popular and scholarly journals, Biographical Essays on American the 2013-2014 academic year and has taught US history as a Character and Regional Identity as a Eugene and Daymel Shklar Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine. (Greenwood Press, 1994). Profes- Research Fellow at the Harvard sor Weaver has presented papers Ukrainian Research Institute Executive Council: at the Organization of American and is currently an Associate of Secondary Education Historians (OAH), Society for the Harvard Ukrainian Research Historians of the Early American Institute. He is active in multiple John White Republic (SHEAR), Ohio Academy scholarly organizations including University of Dayton of History, Ohio Valley History serving as the Program Chair for John White is an associate profes- Conference, and Phi Alpha Theta the 2013 Byzantine Studies Con- sor of Education and History at National Conference. He has re- ference, and as a member of its the University of Dayton, where he ceived grants from the National executive board beginning in 2014. teaches Irish and Irish American Endowment for the Humanities He is also a founding member of History, the history of Catholic and the Community College Hu- the editorial board for the journal, education, as well as courses to manities Association to support The Medieval Globe. The Medieval prepare students for careers innovations in teaching and has Globe’s goal is to bring scholarly as middle and high school history served the Ohio Academy as Chair interconnectivity to our modern and social studies teachers. His of the Distinguished Service Award understanding of the research centers on Irish immigra- Committee. medieval world. tion and on the history of urban Executive Council: Perry Bush Catholic schooling in the U.S. He Bluffton University is editor of Good Shepherds: heroes Private College and heroines of American Catho- Perry Bush is Professor of History lic education (in press, 2015) and Christian Raffensperger at Bluffton University in Bluffton, Wittenberg University he has published on the history Ohio, where he has been teach- of Catholic schools in Boston. He Christian Raffensperger is ing since 1994. He received his BA contributed to Urban Catholic Edu- Associate Professor of History at degree in from the University of cation: Tales of Twelve American Wittenberg University. He received California, Berkeley, and his MA Cities (2010), winner of a Catholic his Ph.D. from the University of and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon Press Association Prize in His- Chicago in 2006. His monograph, University. He is the author of tory (2011). He holds the PhD in Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in four books. In Two Kingdoms, Two history from Boston College, he the Medieval World, 988–1146, was Loyalties: Mennonite Pacifism in serves on the boards of the Journal released by Harvard University Modern America (Baltimore: Johns of Catholic Education and the Mas- Press and won the Ohio Academy Hopkins University Press, 1998) sachusetts Studies Project, he has of History Publication Award in he explored the historical changes been a consultant and a reader for 2013. A forthcoming book entitled, occurring in Mennonite pacifism the Advanced Placement US His- Ties of Kinship: Rusian Genealogy against the backdrop of extensive tory program since 2006, and is and Dynastic Marriage (Harvard Mennonite socio-economic change currently the academic representa- Ukrainian Research Institute, in twentieth century America. He tive for the Midwest Region of the 2015) provides a complete ge- has also published Dancing with College Board. nealogy for the Volodimerovichi the Kobzar: Bluffton College and through the mid–twelfth century Mennonite Higher Education (Tel- (this project has a parallel digital ford, PA: Pandora Press, 2000) and humanities component which can Rust Belt Resistance: How a Small be viewed at genealogy.obdurodon. Community Took on Big Oil and org). Currently he is at work on Won (Kent, OH: Kent State Univer- a new project focusing on in- sity Press, 2012). A newly com- tra–familial conflicts in medieval pleted manuscript, Peace, Progress central and eastern Europe, and and The Professor: The Mennonite how those families manage those History of C. Henry Smith, is forth-

13 and remained active throughout his retirement. A Danforth Fellow, he also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Peace History Society, an honorary doctor- ate from Monmouth College, and the 2012 Peace Hero Award from the Dayton Interna- tional Peace Museum, where he also helped establish the Abrams/Chatfield Peace Library. The extensive Charles Chatfield Papers are deposited at the Swarthmore College Peace Library. Locally, he served several church and service organizations. His family writes that “he relished the written word, theater and music, dance and travel, people, flowers, and egregious puns.” While Chatfield built his reputation as a scholar and historian, he continued to work as an activist, earning the respect and devotion of his colleagues and students. Of his first decade at Wittenberg, in the 1960s, Chatfield remarked in 2013, “It was so excit- ing, and still is to think on.” Peace studies, he explained, is “a field which attracts people with a real sense of values.” Meanwhile, he created at Wittenberg legendary courses on the Vietnam War and on the craft of history. One of his former colleagues referred to Chatfield as “a warm, kind and tough-mind- ed colleague for whom I had the greatest respect.” One former student deemed himself “lucky to have a college professor that was so passionate about student learning.” He also inspired a generation of graduates from Wit- tenberg to become teachers. As one wrote, In Memoriam Charles Chatfield (1934-2015) “Dr. Chatfield was brilliant, kind and generous. He taught me how to think and write carefully, and his example helped inspire me to become a teacher.” Charles Chatfield, professor emeritus the cold war he co-directed a joint Russian- A devoted husband, father, and grand- of history at Wittenberg University, died American study of the ideas of peace in father, Charles Chatfield is survived by his at his home in Springfield, Ohio, on Janu- Western civilization. wife, Mary Frances (Poffenberger), and by ary 15, 2015. He was 80 years old. Born in Chatfield authored, edited, and his son, David Charles, and daughter, Carol Philadelphia and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, co-authored numerous books, including Anne (Richard) Holmgren; his sister, Anelise Chatfield graduated from Monmouth Col- the winner of the 1972 Ohio Academy of (Bob) Smith; as well as grandchildren, in- lege; he earned his MA and PhD in history at History Publication Award, For Peace and laws, and nephews and nieces. Memorial Vanderbilt University, then did postgraduate Justice: Pacifism in America, 1914–1941. donations may be sent to the Springfield study at the University of Chicago Divin- Other books and edited collections include Peace Center, P.O. Box 571, Springfield, Ohio ity School. He was professor of history at Transnational Social Movements and Global 45501-0571; Wittenberg University Depart- Wittenberg University for 38 years, starting Politics (1997), Peace/MIR: An Anthology of ment of History, P.O. Box 720, Springfield, in 1961, and held the H. Orth Hirt Chair in Historic Alternatives to War (1994), American Ohio 45501; or to Covenant Presbyterian history. He directed international education Peace Movements (1992), and Peace Move- Church, 201 N. Limestone St., Springfield, from 1975 to 1983, and with his wife Mary’s ments and Political Cultures (1988). In 1987, Ohio 45503, designated for the Mission help created and directed a study-abroad after Charles DeBenedetti’s untimely death, Outreach Fund. program, Global Issues and World Churches. Chatfield accepted the task of shaping De- He devoted his teaching and scholarship to Benedetti’s exhaustive but unfinished manu- Molly M. Wood, Wittenberg University the history of matters of peace and justice, script into An American Ordeal: The Antiwar This article first appeared in the March 2015 both national and international; his books Movement of the Vietnam Era (1990). He also issue of Perspectives on History (historians. and articles helped create a new branch of published countless scholarly articles, book org/perspectives). history: peace history/studies. 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