Spring 1998

History 422

"If to clothe the naked, feed the hungry.... and deliver the poor from the hands of the oppressor be 'conspiracy,' I glory in such conspiracy."

John Todd to Margaret Strohm, Oberlin, Feb. 21, 1842, Oberlin File (RG 21)

 

	Date Span	Volume
Reform Movements*
ð Charles G. Finney	1817-1875	4'6"
ð James H. Fairchild	1835-1903	12'3"
Betsy Mix Cowles	1835-1868	1"
ð Lawson-Merrill	1977-1984	3'
ð Julia Finney Monroe	1813-1921	7.5"
ð Robert S. Fletchert	1833-1958	8'5"
Anti-Slavery Preachers
George A. Adams	1846-1917	7"
ð Elijah Porter Barrows	1832-1880	1'8"
George Clark	1830s	0.1'
Elam J. Comings	1834-1907	7"
ð Henry Cowles	1824-1908	2'8"
Amos Dresser	1830s	0.1"
Benjamin Foltz	1845-1879	2"
Timothy Hudson	1840s-1850s	0.2'
Silas F. Millikan	1815-1960	2"
ð James Monroe	1841-1898	11'3"
James A. Thome	1840s-1850s	0.2'
James Vincent	1850-1865	3"
ð Hiram Wilson	1835-1856	6"
Civil War÷Military
ð William C. Cochran	1839-1936	11.5'
ð Jacob Dolson Cox	1842-1947	13'
ð Elliot F. Grabill	1859-1901	10"
ð Giles W. Shurtleff	1846-1924	2'11"

*Bullet denotes USMARC.AMC record accessible locally on OBIS, nationally on OCLC.

^t This papers group collected by historian R.S. Fletcher for his monumental institutional history of Oberlin contains numerous sets of lettes documenting the period of 1830 to 1870.

Other Sources for Period 1840-70

Research files of William E. Bigglestone

Secretary's Office Reminiscences, 1860s, Box 121, Folder 1

Scrapbooks & Diaries ÷ (i.e., Journal of Russell T. Hall, 1863)

Treasurer's Office ÷ Correspondence Files, 1822-1907 (Indexed)

Manual & Domestic Labor Reports, 1834-69

Newspapers

The Oberlin Evangelist, 1838-1862

Lorain County News, 1860-1866

Oberlin News-Tribune, 1874 to present

Autograph File, College Library

Oberlin File, Writings By and Writings About

Oberlin Students Missionary Society, Minutes of, 1852-1864

Prudden Family Papers

Other Microforms

American Abolition Society, 1855-1859, 1 reel

American Missionary Association Manuscripts, ca. 1846-1966, 22 reels

Ohio is covered on 21 reels

Lorain County, Russia Township, 1842-1926, 11 reels

Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans & Widows of Union Veterans of the

Civil War, 1890

Civil War Diaries/Letters

Henry H. Barnard, 1860s

James D. Cook, 1864-65 ÷ Battery H, 1st Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery

James McCleery, 1861-64 ÷ 41st Ohio Volunteers

Edward N. Upton, 1864-65

Leroy Warren, AB, 1858; Sem. 1861

W.W. Wheeler, attended ÷ 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Theodore Wilder, AB, 1965; Sem. & A.M., 1868

Key Published Sources with known Oberlin References:

The Frederick Douglass Papers. 5 vols. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1979-92)

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison. 6 vols. (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1971-81)

The Black Abolitionist Papers. 5 vols. (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985-92)

Key Reference Sources

"A Partial List of Sources" (pg. 927-76) in Robert S. Fletcher's A History of Oberlin College, 2 vols. (Oberlin, 1943)

James Monroe's Thursday Lectures: Addresses and Essays (1898)

Oberlin History Bibliography (Oberlin, 1992)

Recent Secondary Sources on Oberlin's History

Frederick J. Blue, "Oberlin's James Monroe: Forgotten Abolitionist," Civil War History, 35 (December 1989): 285-301

William E. Bigglestone, They Stopped in Oberlin: Black Residents and Visitors of the Nineteenth Century (Scottsdale, 1981)

Nat Brandt, Jr., The Town That Started the Civil War (Syracuse, 1990)

William Cheek and Aimee Lee Cheek, John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom (Urbana and Chicago, 1989)

Pertinent Dissertations

Clayton S. Ellsworth, "Oberlin and the Anti-Slavery Movement up to the Civil War," (unpub. Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ., 1930)

Christopher T. Losson, "Jacob Dolson Cox: A Military Biography," (unpub. Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Mississippi, 1993)

Catherine M. Rokicky, "Christian Statesman and Reformer: James Monroe of Oberlin, 1821-1898" (unpub. Ph.D. diss., Kent State Univ., 1996)

Eugene D. Schmiel, "The Career of Jacob Dolson Cox, 1828-1900: Soldier, Scholar, Statesman," (unpub. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Univ., 1969)

Versalle F. Washington, "Eagles on Their Buttons: The Fifth Regiment of Infantry, United States Colored Troops in the American Civil War," (unpub. Ph.D. diss., Ohio State Univ., 1995)

Possible Topics

Jacob Dolson Cox as a Civil War Historian

Jacob Dolson Cox and W.T. Sherman: Antagonists or Collaborators

The Oberlin Community Celebrates the end of the Civil War

James Monroe, Oberlin and the Disputed Election of 1876

The American Missionary Society and Its 1862 Meeting in Oberlin, Ohio

Student Societies at Oberlin College on the Eve of the Civil War

Fisk College and Oberlin College: A Look at the Early Relationship, 1866-1877

Herman von Holst and the "Irrepressible Conflict" Interpretation

Five Oberlin AMA Sponsored Missionaries: A Collective Portrait

Recollections of Oberlin Students, before and after the Civil War

College Life During the Civil War

The Election of 1868 in Lorain County

Race Relations in Oberlin, 1865-1875

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