Louis Gottschalk and Lafayette

Abstract

In 1965 Duke University Press published a volume entitled Ideas in History: Essays Presented to Louis Gottschalk by His Former Students. book was edited by Harold T. Parker of Duke University (who wrote the introduction and one of the chapters) and Richard Herr of the University of California at Berkeley (who wrote a chapter and the conclusion). remaining twelve chapters were contributed by Robert R. Palmer of Princeton University (now at Yale), Leslie C. Tihany of the American embassy at Beirut, Karl J. Weintraub of the University of Chicago, Geoffrey Adams of Loyola College in Montreal, Raymond 0. Rockwood of Colgate University, Gordon H. McNeil of the University of Arkansas, Ezio Cappadocia of the Royal Military College of Canada (now at McMaster University), Gertrude Himmelfarb, of City University of New York, John Edwin Fagg of New York University (Washington Square), Edward R. Tannenbaum, also of New York University, Georg Iggers of Roosevelt University (now of the University of Buffalo), and George B. Carson of Oregon State University. This impressive group is simply suggestive of the number and distinction of Professor Gottschalk's former students. Among many others, names that come to mind are James L. Godfrey of the University of North Carolina; Frances Acomb of Duke University; E. Wilson Lyon, recently retired after more than twenty-five years as President of Pomona College; Saul K. Padover of the New School for Social Research; Donald F. Lach of the University of Chicago (who collaborated with Professor Gottschalk in a textbook on European history); and S. William Halperin also of the University of Chicago (who was among the successors of Gottschalk as editor of the Journal of Modern History). Opening a review article on this volume in the Journal of Modern History (37, no. 4 [December 1965]: 464-68), the late Professor Crane Brinton observed: When a Festschrift is as good as this one in honor of Louis Gottschalk it is easy to agree with Harold T. Parker, who begins his 'introduction' with the statement that 'one of the more attractive traditions of the scholarly world is the dedication of a collection of essays to an admired teacher.' . . . Louis Gottschalk should be proud of his intellectual progeny. And he is. present work on Lafayette is dedicated to The Assistants and Seminar Students (too numerous to mention singly) who have helped to prepare this volume, its predecessors, and its projected