Quaker History

Research in Progress by Mary Ellen Chijioke Current research into the Quakerpast covers the usual range ofreligious, cultural and social history. Peter Blood-Patterson (22 Tanguy Rd., Glen Mills, PA 19342) has the mosttheological topic in his study ofthe evolution ofthe query on spirit-led vocal ministry in the discipline/faith and practice of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Interest in abolitionism and African American history remains strong. Eve Lee (2711 Ellendale Place, #114, Los Angeles, CA 90007-2242) is writing abookinvolving Quaker abolitionists. James Driscoll ofthe Queens Historical Society (143-35 37th Ave., Flushing, NY 11358) is studying the involvement of Flushing Monthly and New York Yearly Meetings in abolition onLong Island. Onthe sametheme, WilliamC. Kashatus, Director of Public Programs at the Chester County Historical Society (225 North High St., West Chester, PA 19385) is studying Longwood Progressive Friends Meeting and the Underground Railroad. Ed McPherson (4012 Norwood Street, Roanoke, VA 2401 8), ofVirginia Polytechnic Institute is studying the Christiansburg Institute, one of the schools developed and supported by the Friends Freedmen's Association. Marvin Maurer, Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Monmouth University (WestLongBranch,NJ 07764), is writing abook onthepolitical and foreign policy of Quakers, 1918 to ca. 1991. Tarik W. Kamil (45 Sunnyside Drive, Athens, OH 45701) has chosen a somewhat narrower focus for his doctoral research at Ohio University, Quaker activism during the Vietnam War. Local Quaker history continues to thrive. Leslie B. Potter (56 N. Pennell Rd., P.O. Box 16, Glen Mills, PA 19342-0016), is studying Quakers living in the Saratoga Patent ofNew York, 1770-1780, for a property base-line map of the colonial tenant farmers. Phillis Cole (25 Yearsley Mill Rd., Media, PA 19063), Associate ProfessorofEnglish at Penn State University, Delaware County, is including many Quaker families in her study of the history of Delaware County. William Strickland (3412 Brown Place, Apt. J-10, Wilmington, DE 19802) is writing his MA thesis on Quaker monthly meetings in Delaware. Bradley Skelche, Professor of History, Political Science, and Philosophy at Delaware State University (Dover, DE 19901) is studying settlement patterns ofFriends in Kent County, Delaware in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A. Glenn Crothers (188 Coral Ave., Louisville, KY40206), AssistantProfessoratIndianaUniversity Southeast, is studying the Quakers of early national Northern Virginia. 94Quaker History In the area ofQuakers in the arts, Barbara Karsky, (40 rue Chariot, Paris 75003, France), Professor at the Université Paris VII, is preparing a paper on the correspondence of Benjamin West. Robert Torchia (1604 Arcadia Drive #209, Jacksonville, FL 32207), Professor of Art History at the University ofNorth Florida, studying both the artist Charles Lewis Fussell (1840-1909) and the architectural history of Philadelphia's Old Alms House. In the area ofgeneral Quaker biography, Patrick Erben (683 Scott Circle, Decatur, GA 30033) is writing his doctoral dissertation for Emory University on Quaker/Mennonite Francis Daniel Pastorius. Catherine Murray (221 S. 12th St., Philadelphia, PA 19107) is studying Ann Whitall's diary for her doctoralwork at Temple University. JanetLindman, Associate Professor of History at Rowan University (201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028) is writing an article that includes information on Anne Emlen and Warner Mifflin. ...