American Unitarian and Universalist Historical Scholarship

A Bibliography of Items Published 1946-1995 by Conrad Wright

Source: The Journal of Unitarian Universalist History, 28 (Part 1), 2001

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ID Author Title Type
4601 Douglas Angell "Examination of the Theory and Practice of Church Music in Unitarian Societies." Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, 1946.
diss
4602 Ferris Greenslet The Lowells and Their Seven Worlds, Boston, 1946.
Brief mention of the Reverend Charles Lowell; considerable information on John Lowell.
book
4603 Marie K. Hochmuth "William Ellery Channing, D.D.: A Study in Public Address." Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1946.
diss
4604 Anita Libman Lebeson "Hannah Adams and the Jews," Historia Judaica, 8 (1946): 113-134.
jnl
4605 Russel B. Nye "The Literary Theory of Theodore Parker," Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 32 (1946): 457-470.
jnl
4606 Herbert W. Schneider A History of American Philosophy, New York, 1946.
W.E. Channing, pp. 61-67; Theodore Parker, pp. 262-268; and other references.
book
4607 John A. Stuart "Emerson’s Nature: Its Relation to Coleridge’s Transcendental Idealism." Dissertation, Northwestern University, 1946.
diss
4701 Alfred Mansfield Brooks "The First Parish in Gloucester, 1642-1942," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 1 (1947): 37-43.
jnl
4702 Frank Barnes "Nascent Unitarianism in Connecticut, 1800-1820." Dissertation, Columbia University, 1947.
diss
4703 Frank Chouteau Brown "The Spire of the First Religious Society in Newburyport, Massachusetts," Old-Time New England, 38 (1947): 27-32.
jnl
4704 Gaston Marcel Carrier "Samuel McChord Crothers, a Unitarian in Literature." Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, 1947.
diss
4705 John E. Dirks "The Critical Theology of Theodore Parker." Dissertation, Columbia University, 1947.
diss
4706 Lenthiel H. Downs "Emerson and Dr. Channing: Two Men from Boston," New England Quarterly, 20 (1947): 516-534.
jnl
4707 Christopher Rhodes Eliot "History of the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers from 1887 to 1941," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 1 (1947): 17-36.
Unitarians and Congregationalists continue to participate in the ancient Massachusetts Convention despite the split of 1805-25.
jnl
4708 Frederick May Eliot "Tensions in Unitarianism a Hundred Years Ago," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 1 (1947): 5-16.
jnl
4709 Henry Wilder Foote Thomas Jefferson: Champion of Religious Freedom, Advocate of Christian Morals, Boston, 1947.
book
4710 Edgar J. Goodspeed "Thomas Jefferson and the Bible," Harvard Theological Review, 40 (1947): 71-76.
jnl
4711 E.J. Kahn, Jr. "Democracy’s Friend," New Yorker, July 26, Aug. 2, Aug. 9, 1947.
Profile of Leon Milton Birkhead, especially with reference to activities as national director of Friends of Democracy.
jnl
4712 C. Grant Loomis "Sylvester Judd’s New England Lore," Journal of American Folk Lore, 60 (1947): 151-158.
New England life as portrayed in Judd’s novels: Margaret (1845), Richard Edney and the Governor’s Family (1850).
jnl
4713 Alice Eaton McBee, 2nd From Utopia to Florence: The Story of a Transcendentalist Community in Northampton, Mass., 1830-1852, Northampton, 1947.
Vol. 32 of Smith College Studies in History. William Adam was involved in this enterprise; its leaders had some contact with Brook Farm.
book
4714 Mary Cathryn Park "Joseph Priestley and the Problem of Pantisocracy." Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1947.
Also published in Proceedings of the Delaware County Institute of Science, 11 (1947): 1-60.
diss
4715 Stow Persons Free Religion: An American Faith, New Haven, 1947.
The Free Religious Association.
book
4716 Jean Schorer Deux Grands Americains: W.- Channing, T. -Parker, Geneva, 1947?.
book
4717 J. Wesley Thomas "The Fifth Gospel," Modern Language Notes, 62 (1947): 445-449.
James Freeman Clarke’s novel, The Legend of Thomas Didymus.
jnl
4801 James Luther Adams, Thaddeus B. Clark "Impact of Modern Thought on Unitarianism," Christian Register, 127 (May 1948): 21-23.
jnl
4802 Daniel J. Boorstin The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson, Boston, 1948.
"Jeffersonian Christianity," pp. 151-156.
book
4803 Mary E. Burtis "M. D. Conway." Dissertation, Columbia University, 1948.
diss
4804 John Edward Dirks The Critical Theology of Theodore Parker, New York, 1948.
Publication of dissertation, Columbia University, 1947
book
4805 E. Stanton Hodgin Confessions of an Agnostic Clergyman, Boston, 1948.
New Bedford minister, 1920-38.
book
4806 Vincent F. Holden The Yankee Paul: Isaac Thomas Hecker, Milwaukee, 1948.
book
4807 Frank O. Holmes, Robert H. Schacht, Jr. "The Greenfield Group-Its Beginnings and History," Christian Register, 127 (May 1948): 45-48, 63.
jnl
4808 Warren Harry Johnson "The Current Preaching of Unitarian Ministers: With Particular Reference to Their Use of the Bible," Christian Register, 127 (Nov. 1948): 16-36.
jnl
4808.1 Lincoln, Nebraska A History of All Souls Unitarian Church, 1898-1948, Lincoln, Neb., 1948.
book
4809 George F. Newbrough "Reason and Understanding in the Works of Theodore Parker," South Atlantic Quarterly, 47 (1948): 64-75.
jnl
4810 Martha M. Pingel An American Utilitarian: Richard Hildreth as a Philosopher, New York, 1948.
Reprints Hildreth's "Letter to Andrews Norton on Miracles" and "Joint Letter to Orestes A. Brownson and the Editor of the 'North American Review'."
book
4811 Henry A. Pochman New England Transcendentalism and St. Louis Hegelianism, Philadelphia, 1948.
book
4812 William H. Riback "Theodore Parker of Boston: Social Reformer," Social Service Review, 22 (1948): 451-460.
jnl
4813 Lewis P. Simpson "The Era of Joseph Stevens Buckminster: Life and Letters in the Boston-Cambridge Community, 1800-1815 ." Dissertation, University of Texas, 1948.
diss
4814 Walter E. Stephens "A Sociological Study of Unitarianism in Illinois." Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, , 1948.
diss
4815 Katharine Augusta Sutton, Robert Francis Needham Universalists at Ferry Beach: A History, Boston, 1948.
book
4816 Horace F. Westwood, George H. Williams "Contemporary Trends in Unitarian Thinking," Christian Register, 127 (May 1948): 17-20, 23.
jnl
4817 Gardner Williams "Francis Ellingwood Abbot: Free Religionist. The Toledo Episode, 1869-1873," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, 20 (1948): 128-143.
jnl
4901 David P. Edgell "A Note on Channing's Transcendentalism," New England Quarterly, 22 (1949): 394-397.
jnl
4902 Edwin R. Edmonds "The Principle of Social Correlation in the Social Ethics of Francis Greenwood Peabody." Dissertation, Boston University, 1949.
diss
4903 Roger F. Etz "John Coleman Adams, Prophet of the Larger Faith," Christian Leader, 131 (1949): 442-446.
jnl
4904 David Mead "Theodore Parker in Ohio," Northwest Ohio Quarterly, 21 (1948/49): 18-23.
Reprinted in his Yankee Eloquence in the Middle West: The Ohio Lyceum 1850-1870, E. Lansing, 1951, 142-148.
jnl
4905 Ralph L. Rusk The Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New York, 1949.
book
4906 Kenneth J. Smith "John Haynes Holmes: Opponent of War." Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, 1949.
diss
4907 Charles E. Snyder "Unitarianism in Iowa," The Palimpsest, 30 (1949): 345-376.
jnl
4908 J. Wesley Thomas "A Hitherto Unpublished Textual Criticism by James Freeman Clarke of Margaret Fuller's Translation of 'Tasso' ," Monatshefte, 41 (1949): 89-92.
jnl
4909 John Wesley Thomas James Freeman Clarke: Apostle of German Culture to America, Boston, 1949.
book
4910 J. Wesley Thomas "New Light on Margaret Fuller's Projected 'Life of Goethe'," Germanic Review, 24 (1949): 216-223.
jnl
4911 W.E. Washburn "The Oriental 'Roots' of American Transcendentalism," Southwestern Journal, 4 (1949): 141-155.
jnl
4912 George H. Williams Rethinking the Unitarian Relationship with Protestantism: An Examination of the Thought of Frederic Henry Hedge (1805-1890), Boston, 1949.
book
5001 Warner B. Berthoff "Jones Very: New England Mystic," Boston Public Library Quarterly, 2 (1950): 63-76.
jnl
5002 Arthur W. Brown "Always Young for Liberty: A Critical Biography of Dr. William Ellery Channing." Dissertation, Syracuse University, 1950.
Divinity School Library primarily.
diss
5003 Arnold Crompton Apostle of Liberty: Starr King in California, Boston, 1950.
Reprinted 1975 as Vol. 1, No. 2 of Uniquest (Berkeley).
book
5004 Perry Miller The Transcendentalists: An Anthology, Cambridge, Mass., 1950.
book
5005 Edgar Lindsley McCormick "Thomas Wenrworth Higginson as a Literary Critic." Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1950. DA 1702.
diss
5006 Henry Wilder Foote "The Historical Background of the Present King's Chapel," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 2 (1950): 34-46.
jnl
5007 Charles G. Girelius "Francis Adrian van der Kemp: Unitarian Pioneer," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 2 (1950): 5-17.
jnl
5008 J.C. Levenson "Christopher Pearse Cranch: The Case History of a Minor Artist in America," American Literature, 21 (1950): 415-426.
jnl
5009 Clinton Rossiter "The Life and Mind of Jonathan Mayhew," William and Mary Quarterly, 7 (1950): 531-558.
jnl
5010 Lewis P. Simpson "'The Intercommunity of the Learned': Boston and Cambridge, in 1800," New England Quarterly, 23 (1950): 491-503.
jnl
5011 Lewis P. Simpson "'The Literary Miscellany' and 'The General Repository'," Library Chronicle [of the University of Texas], 3 (1950): 177-190.
jnl
5012 Carleton P. Small "Unitarianism in Maine," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 8, Pt. 2 (1950): 19-33.
jnl
5013 H. Shelton Smith "Was Theodore Parker a Transcendentalist?"," New England Quarterly, 23 (1950): 351-364.
jnl
5014 Clotilde Grunsky Taylor "Starr King Heads List: Subscribers to First Unitarian Society's Building Fund," California Historical Society Quarterly, 29 (1950): 251-254.
jnl
5015 J. Wesley Thomas "John Sullivan Dwight: A Translator of German Romanticism," American Literature, 21 (1950): 427-441.
jnl
5016 Reino Virtanen "Tocqueville and William Ellery Channing," American Literature, 22 (1950): 21-28.
jnl
5017 W.E. Washburn "The Orient in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Literature," Southwestern Journal, 5 (1950): 73-82.
jnl
5101 Daniel Aaron Men of Good Hope, New York, 1951.
Emerson, pp. 3-20; Parker, pp. 21-51
book
5102 Sydney E. Ahlstrom "Francis Ellingwood Abbot: His Education and Active Career." Dissertation, Harvard University, 1951.
diss
5103 Henry J. Cadbury "Religious Books at Harvard," Harvard Library Bulletin, 5(1951): 159-180.
Divinity School Library primarily
jnl
5104 Hal Curtis Starr King, Patriot and Mason, San Francisco, 1951.
book
5105 Edwin S. Gaustad "Charles Chauncy and the Great Awakening: A Survey and Bibliography," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 45(1952): 125-135.
jnl
5106 Hugo P. Learning "The Teaching of Social Ethics at the Meadville Theological School, 1855-1944." Dissertation, Meadville Theological School, 1951.
diss
5107 Leonard William Levy "Lemuel Shaw: Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 1830-1860." Dissertation, Columbia University, 1951. DA 2832.
Reference to decisions arising from the Unitarian controversy.
diss
5108 Harry Chamberlain Meserve "The First Unitarian Society in San Francisco, 1850 to 1950," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 9, Pt. 1 (1951): 24-44.
jnl
5109 F. DeWolfe Miller Christopher Pearse Cranch and His Caricatures of New England Transcendentalism, Cambridge, Mass., 1951.
book
5110 Clifford K. Shipton Biographical Sketches of Those Who Attended Harvard College in the Classes 1726-1730, [ Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Vol. 8], Boston, 1951.
Benjamin Kent pp. 220-239; Robert Breck, pp. 661-680.
series
5111 Earl Morse Wilbur "How the History Came to be Written," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 9, Pt. 1 (1951): 5-23.
Also in Christian Register, 130 (Feb. 1951): 21-26.
jnl
5201 Charles Wesley Akers "The Life of Jonathan Mayhew, 1720-1766." Dissertation, Boston University, 1952.
diss
5202 Charles E. Blackburn "James Freeman Clarke : An Interpretation of the Western Years (1833-1840)." Dissertation, Yale University, 1952.
diss
5203 Mary Elizabeth Burtis Moncure Conway, 1832-1907, New Brunswick, N.J., 1952.
book
5204 William Kenneth Christian "The Mind of Edward Everett." Dissertation, Michigan State College, 1952.
diss
5205 Earle Coleman "Edward Everett Hale: Preacher as Publisher," Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 46 (1952): 139-150.
jnl
5206 Charles A. Collier, Jr. "Aspects in the Growth of American Universalism." Dissertation, Harvard College, 1952.
diss
5207 Samuel Atkins Eliot, ed. Heralds of a Liberal Faith, Vol. 4, "The Pilots", [ Heralds of a Liberal Faith ], Boston, 1952.
Biographical sketches of Unitarian ministers active at the close of the nineteenth century and in the early decades of the twentieth.
series
5208 Melville C. Freeman "History of the First Congregational Parish Unitarian of Kennebunk," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 9, Pt. 2 (1952): 25-37.
jnl
5209 James F. Lewis "The Unitarian Service Committee." Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1952.
diss
5210 Charles H. Lyttle Freedom Moves West: A History of the Western Unitarian Conference, 1852-1952, Boston, 1952.
book
5211 David Hicks MacPherson "Trends in Universalist Churches in Massachusetts in the First Half of the Twentieth Century." Thesis, Tufts College, 1952.
diss
5212 John McKinstry Merriam "The First Parish of Framingham, 1701 to 1951," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 9, Pt. 2 (1952):1-24.
jnl
5213 Gustavus Swift Paine "Ungodly Carriages on Cape Cod," New England Quarterly, 25 (1952): 181-198.
The Arminianism of the Reverend Samuel Osborn (1685-1774) of Orleans.
jnl
5214 Robert Lee Patterson The Philosophy of William Ellery Channing, New York, 1952.
book
5215 Robert Dale Richardson 125 Years of Unitarian Sunday Schools, Boston, 1952.
book
5216 Frank H. Roye "Francis Greenwood Peabody and His Christian Social Thought." Dissertation, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1952.
diss
5217 Arthur R. Schoenfeldt "Charles Timothy Brooks: Translator of German Literature," American German Review, 18 (Feb. 1952): 22-23.
jnl
5218 Lewis P. Simpson "Not Men, But Books," Boston Public Library Quarterly, 4 (1952): 167-184.
jnl
5219 Joseph Slater "George Ripley and Thomas Carlyle," Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA), 67 (1952): 341-349.
jnl
5220 Earl Morse Wilbur A History of Unitarianism in Transylvania, England. and America, Cambridge, Mass., 1952.
George Ticknor and Edward Everett abroad.
book
5301 Albert D. Bell The Life and Times of Dr. George de Benneville (1703-1793), Boston, 1953.
book
5302 Arthur S. Bolster, Jr. "The Life of James Freeman Clarke." Dissertation, Harvard University, 1953.
diss
5303 Derek Keith Colville "James Freeman Clarke: A Practical Transcendentalist and His Writings." Dissertation, Washington University, 1953. DA 54:1569.
diss
5304 Frances E.F. Cornish Louis Craig Cornish, Interpreter of Life, Boston, 1953.
book
5305 Katherine F. Crothers "The Early Life of Samuel McChord Crothers," Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society, 33 (1953): 100-116.
jnl
5306 Rosalie Feltenstein "Mary Moody Emerson: The Gadfly of Concord," American Quarterly, 5 (1953): 231-246.
jnl
5307 Walter L. Fertig "John Sullivan Dwight: Transcendentalist and Literary Amateur of Music." Dissertation, University of Maryland, 1953.
diss
5308 Edwin S. Gaustad "The Theological Effects of the Great Awakening in New England," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 40 (1953): 681-706.
jnl
5309 Frederick R. Griffin 1917-1947: An Era in the History of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, Philadelphia], 1953.
book
5310 Benjamin Blakely Hickok "The Political and Literary Careers of F.B. Sanborn." Dissertation, Michigan State College, 1953.
diss
5311 Anne Holt "Some English Dissenters and Their American Friends," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 10, Pt. 1 (1953): 28-40.
jnl
5312 Alexander Kern "The Rise of Transcendentalism, 1815-1860," pp. 247-314 in Harry Hayden Clark, ed., Transitions in American Literary History, Durham, N.C., 1953.
article in book
5313 Leonard W. Levy "Satan's Last Apostle In Massachusetts," American Quarterly, 5 (1953): 16-30.
Abner Kneeland
jnl
5314 John E. MacNab "Unitarians and Socialistic Ideas in the United States Prior to 1869," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 10, Pt. 1 (1953): 3-27.
jnl
5315 John Herbert Martin "Theodore Parker." Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1953.
diss
5316 [Harold C. Perham] The Maine Book on Universalism, West Paris, Me.], 1953.
book
5317 Madeleine Hooke Rice "William Ellery Channing: The Making of a Social Gospel," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 97 (1953): 31-43.
jnl
5318 Harry M. Sherman "Abner Kneeland: Religious Pioneer." Thesis, Tufts College, 1953.
diss
5319 Stephen E. Whicher Freedom and Fate: An Inner Life of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philadelphia, 1953.
book
5401 Charles E. Blackburn "Some New Light on the Western Messenger ," American Literature, 26 (1954): 320-326.
jnl
5402 Arthur S. Bolster, Jr. James Freeman Clarke: Disciple to Advancing Truth, Boston, 1954.
book
5403 M.A. Fitzsimmons "Brownson's Search for the Kingdom of God: The Social Thought of an American Radical," Review of Politics, 16 (1954): 22-36.
jnl
5404 Joseph C. Grannis "Henry Ware, Sr.: Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, 1805-1840." Honors thesis, Harvard College, 1954.
diss
5405 Laura S. Hersey "By Their Works ": Biographical Sketches of Universalist Women, Boston, 1954.
book
5406 Jeannette Hopkins Books That Will Not Burn, Boston, 1954.
The first century of official Unitarian book publishing in the United States,1854-1954.
book
5407 Samuel A. Johnson The Battle Cry of Freedom: The New England Aid Company in the Kansas Crusade, Lawrence, Kans., 1954.
Edward Everett Hale was deeply involved in the affairs of the Emigrant Aid Company.
book
5408 William Clifton Moore "Christian Education in the Light of Three Theological Views of Man." Dissertation, Boston University School of Theology, 1954. DA 54-1617.
Henry Nelson Wieman one of the three theologians discussed.
diss
5409 David B. Parke "Unitarianism at Antioch College," Proceedings of the Unitarian Historical Society, Vol. 10, Pt. 2 (1954): 1-25.
Reference to Horace Mann.
jnl
5410 John E. Reinhardt "The Evolution of William Ellery Channing's Sociopolitical Ideas," American Literature, 26 (1954): 154-165.
jnl
5411 Harold Schwartz "Fugitive Slave Days in Boston," New England Quarterly, 27 (1954): 191-212.
Theodore Parker.
jnl
5412 Lewis P. Simpson "A Literary Adventure of the Early Republic: The Anthology Society and the Monthly Anthology," New England Quarterly, 27 (1954): 168-190.
Material from this article later incorporated into the Introduction of The Federalist Literary Mind (6223).
jnl
5413 Madeleine B. Stern "James P. Walker and Horace B. Fuller: Transcendental Publishers," Boston Public Library Quarterly, 6 (1954): 123-140.
Walker was virtually the official publisher for the A.U.A.; he did not limit his publishing to the Transcendental wing of the denomination.
jnl
5414 J.A. Wagner "The Oratory of Thomas Starr King," California Historical Society Quarterly, 33 (1954): 219-227.
jnl
5415 George Hunston Williams, ed., Sydney E. Ahlstrom The Harvard Divinity School: Its Place in Harvard University and in American Culture, Boston, 1954.
Chapters by Conrad Wright, Sydney E. Ahistrom, Willard L. Sperry, Levering Reynolds, Jr., and Ralph Lazzaro.
book
5416 Richard M. Woodman "An Evaluation of Data Relevant to the Decreasing Number of Churches in the New York State Convention of Universalists, 1900-1954." Dissertation, Thesis, Canton Theological School (St. Lawrence University), 1954.
diss
5501 Sydney E. Ahlstrom "The Scottish Philosophy and American Theology," Church History, 24 (1955): 257-272.
jnl
5502 Earl Burk Braly "The Reputation of David Hume in America." Dissertation, University of Texas, 1955. DA 56-523.
Influence of Scottish school on Channing and Emerson.
diss
5503 Eugene Robert Chable "A Study of the Interpretation of the New Testament in New England Unitarianism." Dissertation, Columbia University, 1955. DA 56-618.
Buckminster, Norton, Channing, Parker.
diss
5504 Charles Robert Crowe "George Ripley, Transcendentalist and Utopian Socialist." Dissertation, Brown University, 1955. DA 56-526.
diss
5505 Charles R. Crowe "Transcendentalism and the Providence Literati," Rhode Island History, 14 (1955): 65-78.
Ripley, Clarke, Fuller, Emerson, C.T. Brooks.
jnl
5506 David P. Edgell William Ellery Channing: An Intellectual Portrait, Boston, 1955.
book
5507 Bernhard Fabian "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia: The Genesis of Query xvii, The different religions received into that State?," William and Mary Quarterly, 12 (1955): 124-138.
jnl
5508 Ida M. Folsom, ed. History of the Association of Universalist Women, Boston, 1955.
book
5509 Adrian Jaffe "Ernest Renan's Analysis of Channing," French Review, 28 (1954/5): 218-223.
jnl
5510 Sydney Kaplan "Taussig, James and Peabody: A 'Harvard School' in 1900?," American Quarterly, 5 (1955): 315-331.
jnl
5511 Martin Luther King, Jr. "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman." Dissertation, Boston University, 1955. DA 59-193.
diss
5512 R.W.B. Lewis The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century, Chicago, 1955.
Parker and Brownson, pp. 174-193.
book
5513 William Henry Pease "William Channing Gannett: A Social Biography." Dissertation, University of Rochester, 1955.
diss
5514 Abe Carl Ravitz "John Pierpont: Portrait of a Nineteenth Century Reformer." Dissertation, New York University, 1955. DA 58-4690.
diss
5515 F. Merrill Root Collectivism on the Campus: The Battle for the Mind in American Colleges, New York, 1955.
A right wing, cold war, McCarthyite interpretation, including some reference to Alexander St. Ivanyi at M.I.T. (which is not in accord with my personal first-hand recollection).
book
5516 Lawrence Farnsworth Small "Unitarianism Down East: The Movement in Maine to 1900 with Its Colonial New England Background." Dissertation, Harvard University, 1955.
diss
5517 H. Shelton Smith Changing Concepts of Original Sin: A Study in American Theology Since 1750, New York, 1955.
Samuel Webster, Charles Chauncy, W.E. Channing, H. Ware, Sr.
book
5518 Akihike Sone "The Religious Thought of W.E. Channing," Historical Review, 43/44 (1955): 134-157.
Text in Japanese.
jnl
5519 David Wesley Soper "Process, Purpose and Power: James Luther Adams' Union of Theology and History," Hibbert Journal, 53 (1954/55): 165-174.
Abridgment of a chapter in Soper's book, Men Who Shape Belief.
jnl
5520 Robert Spence "D.A. Wasson, Forgotten Transcendentalist," American Literature, 27 (1955): 31-41.
jnl
5521 Donald H. Stewart, George P. Clark "Misanthrope or Humanitarian? John Adams in Retirement," New England Quarterly, 28 (1955): 216-236.
Based on the "Memoirs" of the Reverend John Pierce in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
jnl
5522 James A. Swanson "A History of Lombard College, 1851-1930," 1955.
typescript
5523 Stanley M. Vogel German Literary Influences on the American Transcendentalists, New Haven, 1955.
book
5524 Earl Morse Wilbur "Reminiscences of a Divinity School Graduate of the Class of 1890," Harvard Divinity School Bulletin, 20 (1954/55): 77-96.
jnl
5525 Conrad Wright The Beginnings of Unitarianism in America, Boston, 1955.
The Arminian phase, 1735-1805.
book
5601 James Basden "A Study in the Rise of Early American Unitarianism." Dissertation, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1956.
diss
5602 Arthur W. Brown Always Young for Liberty, Syracuse, N.Y., 1956.
William Ellery Channing.
book
5603 Mary Elizabeth Burtis "Moncure Conway: Earthward Pilgrim," pp. 233-256 in Dickinson College, John and Mary's College: The Boyd Lee Spahr Lectures in Americana, Vol. 2, Carlisle, Penn., 1956.