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Historical Notes
very high in 1865, but the nation put enough into his experi-
mentations to make a man."
In no sense are such historians as Ramsdell and Sellers seeking
to debunk Lincoln. They are too calm and judicial to act as
hounds seeking to pull down a character. On the other hand, their
researches may serve to check a malady as pernicious as debunking.
That malady is deification. The business of historians is to reveal
human beings as they were. Rarely do they find a saint or a
devil, but usually an interesting mixture-just another human
being.
Miss Grace Long, teacher of history in the El Paso public
schools, visited in Austin during the summer. Several years ago
Miss Long wrote a thesis on "The Beginnings of Anglo-American
Occupation of the El Paso District." That thesis, together with
Captain Charles F. Ward's "The Salt War," gives a fairly
adequate survey of the turbulent events of El Paso in the nine-
teenth century.
Captain Ward, member of the teaching staff of Roswell New
Mexico Military Institute, taught history in the University of
Texas during the summer.
Dr. J. L. Waller, head of the history department at the School
of Mines, is adding to our knowledge of the El Paso country by
his study of the life and work of John R. Baylor.
Dr. James Taylor, Director of Social Science at Lamar College,
Beaumont, taught European history at the West Texas State
Teachers College at Canyon during the last half of the summer.
Barns F. Lathrop, graduate history student, spent a part of
the summer in the East making film records of important his-
torical documents bearing on Southern history. In July he went
to Salem, Massachusetts, to photograph the papers of General
Nathaniel P. Banks and to Worcester to make records of the179
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