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William Urban
William Urban came to Monmouth in 1966 after a year
as visiting assistant professor at the University of Kansas. His Ph.D.
was awarded by the University of Texas in 1967, with much of the
research done 1964-65 at the University in Hamburg, Germany. He became
chair of the history department in 1970 and worked closely with Mary
Crow and Doug Spitz for many years. From 1968 to 1981 he was coach of
the soccer club, then the varsity men’s team; later he assisted in
getting women’s soccer started; his players helped start the YMCA youth
soccer program. He was the founding advisor of ZBT, 1968-1974. He has
won several awards for books and articles: The Puskow Foundation for
The Livonian Crusade and “The Nationality of Balthasar Russow” in
the Journal of Baltic Studies, the Harry E. Pratt award of the
Illinois State Historical Society for “The People versus Nicholas Earp”,
and the Vitols Prize of the Association for the Advancement of Baltic
Studies for “Victims of the Baltic Crusade”; also the Burlington
Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award (the first given at
Monmouth College), ROTC Certificate of Appreciation (for developing the
required course on War and Peace—which also won a college award), ZBT
Citation of Merit. Corresponding Member of the Baltische Historische
Kommission and the Kommission für Ost- und Westpreussische
Landesforschung. Directed programs for the Associated Colleges of the
Midwest in Florence, Zagreb and Olomouc. Taught in Estonian Humanities
Institute in Tallinn and in the summer Cultural Studies Programs of
Eastern Michigan University across Europe. Received Fulbright senior
research grant, Deutscher Akademische
Austauschdienst (DAAD) grants, NEH grants, Global Awareness
program in Russia, West Point Military History Workshop. Published books
and articles on Baltic history, some of which have been translated (or
will be) into Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonia, Belarussian, Polish and
Hungarian.
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Folder List
Box 1
"A Confederate Yankee", "Pioneer Families", "The
Original Juvenall Home"
"A Hindu Nationalist View of Baltic History" - Journal of Baltic
Studies Fall 1993;
Annual Reports;
Presidential Search Committee 1997;
Baltic Crusade;
Book Reviews - Journal of Baltic Studies 1989-1997;
Book Reviews - Magill's;
Book Reviews - Misc.;
Reviews of Urban's Books;
Cannon and Misc.;
Chronology of Eurpean History;
Correspondence;
Correspondence Memos;
Correspondence - Editors/Authors;
"Der
Deutsche Orden in Amerikanischen Schulbuchern" Quellen und Studien
zur Geschichte des Deutschen Ordens 1986;
Dithmarschen;
Event Postings;
Faculty Senate 1996-1998, Minutes and Misc.;
Faculty Senate Minutes Aug. 1996 - Jan. 1998;
Founder's Day;
"Great Lives from History" bio. entries;
"He died in Mexico" - True West December 1981;
"How to teach the Crusades" - Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
Teaching 1985;
"I Have Almost Become Desperate..." True West Oct. 1972;
Independence of Baltic States;
Journal of Baltic Studies;
Journal of Baltic Studies - Editorship;
"Juvenal Cattle Drive of 1870" - Kansas Historical Quarterly - Summer
1973;
Lituanus articles - 1973, 1983;
Lituanus articles - 1985, 1987, 1993;
"Medival Livonian Numismatics" - Journal of Baltic Studies - Spring
1993;
"Monmouth College in the Civil War" - Journal of Illinois State
Historical Society - Feb. 1978;
Monmouth Homes;
NEH Grant - 1983-1985;
"On the Trail of Gabe Hans" - Old West - Winter 1973;
"Organization of
the Defense of the Livonian Frontier in the Thirteenth
Century" Speculum July 1973;
Photos;
"Post Revolutioinary Goverment in America and in the Baltic States" -
Lituanus - Fall 1992;
"Renaissance Humanism in Prussia" Journal of Baltic Studies Spring 1991;
"Roger Bacon & the Teutonic Knights" - Journal of Baltic Studies -
Winter 1998;
"Saint Mary and the Dragon Killer" Marian Library Studies - 1970;
Samogatian Crusade;
Soccer;
"Some things Never Change" (I & II);
Student Papers;
Syllabi;
"Sylvan Grove Bank Robbery" - Old West Fall 1973;
Symposium Brochure;
Tannenberg and After;
"The Amazing Albert Morris Bagby";
"The Correct Translation of Ruce"
- Journal of Baltic Studies - 1982;
The Dean is Dead;
"The Dean is Still Dead" - 2000;
"The Dean is Dead Again" - 2000;
"The Diplomacy of the Teutonic Knights at the Curia" Journal of Baltic
Studies - Summer 1978;
"The Half Man Syndrome" Educational Record - Fall 1972;
"The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the
Nuclear Peace";
"The Nationality of Balthasar Russow" Journal of Baltic Studies - Summer
1981;
"The People Versus Nicholas Earp" Illinois Historical Journal - Autumn
1997;
"The Teutonic Knights & Baltic Chivalry" - The Historian;
"The Wendish Princes and the 'Drang
nach dem Osten'" - Journal of Baltic
Studies - Fall 1970;
Teutonic Knights at the Council of Constance;
"That Joint Down by the River" Frontier Times - Nov. 1973;
"Those Mysterious Etruscans" - Eta Sigma Phi - 1983;
"Thoughts about Sex and Marriage" - Friends Journal - December 15, 1972;
"To Save What
Can Be Saved" - Friends Journal May 1, 1972;
Travel;
Victims of the Baltic Crusades;
"When the Wild West Went to Florence" - Illinois Quarterly;
"When was Chaucer's Knight in Ruce?" - Chaucer Review 1984;
"Wyatt Earp's Father" - True West May 1989
Box 2 Correspondence RE: MC
History
"History of Monmouth College" - 2nd Draft 1977 (1)
"History of Monmouth College" - 2nd Draft 1977 (2)
"History of Monmouth College" - 3rd Draft 1978
"History of Monmouth College" - 3rd Draft (Pages removed/revised)
"History of Monmouth College" - 3rd Draft 1978 (incomplete)
"History of Monmouth College" - 4th Draft 1978 (Pages sent to senate)
Box 3 Academic Journals
Clippings (1)
Clippings (2)
Clippings (3)
Clippings (4)
Correspondence
Reviews
Review Atlas Column - Sept. '92 - July '95
Sabbatical Reports
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