Research in Progress

Research in Progress Mary Ellen Chijioke and Barbara E. Addison Scholars and librarians alike have long been awaiting a single-volume reference work on Quaker history. Margery Post Abbott (1830 N.E. Klichitat, Portland, OR 97212) is the clerk of an editorial committee commissioned by Scarecrow Press to create an "Historical Dictionary of Quakerism" for their series on major religious groups. Thomas D. Hamm (Lilly Library, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374) has set out to do for the Hicksites what he did so very well for the Orthodox branch. He is currently doing research for a book on "Hicksite Friends, 1827—1900." Carrying the narrative forward, Elizabeth Cazden (118 Walnut Street, Manchester, NH 03104) is continuing her research on twentieth-century Quakerism, with a focus on the 1920s and '30s. Several researchers are dealing with Quaker social thought. Steven C. Harper (2 Dun Drive #122, Bethlehem, PA 18015, has a Lawrence H. Gripson Institute grant for his dissertation research on Quaker asceticism in America, particularly in the eighteenth century, for Lehigh University. Patricia Appelbaum (R.R. 2, Box 2288, Bennington, VT 05201) is looking to a more modern theme for her dissertation in Religious Thought and Theological Studies at Boston University. Quaker materials feature prominently in her study of "Protestant Pacifism as a Religious Culture, 191 8— 1963." While Quakers have maintained a peace testimony for almost 350 years, the reactions of individual Quakers to specific wars varied greatly throughout that time. Richard K. MacMaster (423 Ridge Road, Elizabethtown, PA 17022), retired president of Bluffton College, is preparing an article on eighteenth-century Friends who became Loyalists in the American Revolution . Jennifer L. Weber (35 University Place #23, Princeton, NJ 08540), graduate student at Princeton University, is studying those Quakers who joined the Union Army during the American Civil War. Mark C. Ebersole (1166 Country Club Drive, Lancaster, PA 17601), president emeritus of Elizabethtown College, is beginning research on Quakers and slavery. As background to current concerns on welfare reform, Alfred C. Lintner (612 Avondale Avenue, Haddonfield, NJ 08033) is studying the history of Quaker initiatives related to "involuntary economic poverty." Researchers in women's studies continue to make heavy use of Quaker Research in progress79 topics and resources. Katherine King (8502 16th #414, Silver Spring, MD 20910), on the Women's Studies faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park, is combining her interest in the history of science and women's studies in her University-funded research for a book on "Feminism andWritingTechnologies." She is especially studying Quakerwomen from 1650 to 1750 for the section on women's writing on women's public speaking. Robyn Kirkpatrick (700 W. Downingtown Pike #105-109, West Chester, PA 19380) is writing brief pamphlets on individual Quaker women. Gail M. Pietrzyk (416Fifth Street, Oxford, PA 19363) is producing a video on Rebecca Pennock Lukens as part of a series ofdocumentaries on women in business. Other individual women being studied include: Anna Cope Hartshorne, by Kinuko Kameda (1 -3-3032 Oba, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan); Elizabeth French Gill, by Harriet Monshaw (1768 Lark Lane, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003); and Mary Gardner Knowles, by Anne Mortimer O'Brien (2126 Ash Lane, Lafayette Hill, PA 19444-21 18). Susan K. Audley (P.O. Box 305, Montauk, NY 11954) is hoping that Quaker sources will assist in her studies of Montauk's Native Americans. In a more typical local history research project, June Zublic (48 Sherwood Drive, Turnersville, NJ 08012) is studying the Phillips family of Saratoga County, New York, for a possible publication on the Saratoga Patent. Melissa Ann Tice (303 West Union Street, West Chester, PA 19382), a history student at West Chester University and intern at the Chadds Ford Historical Society, is examining Quaker life in the Chadds Ford area during the eighteenth century, and especially the impact of the Battle of the Brandywine on everyday life. James E. Pickard (1437 Stafford Road, Darlington, MD 21034) is preparing a bulletin for the Harford County Historical Society on the impact of Quakerism on the County. Joel Schwarz (375 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 1 0025), faculty member at Montclair State University, is including Quaker material in the book he is writing on New York City...