Crimean War Research Society Crimean War Research Society The Crimean War Research Society (CWRS) is an international society of professional and amateur historians who research the Crimean War of 1854-56. The Society aims to bring previously unpublished or under researched material concerning the Crimean War to the attention of a wider audience, together with making it available to present and future historians. It publishes a quarterly journal, "The War Correspondent". Founded in London in 1983, the Society's original members were largely also members of the Victorian Military Society (VMS), who, dissatisfied with the coverage given to the Crimean War by the VMS and its
William Fletcher Russell once held. He became president of Teachers College in 1949, retired in 1954, then served as deputy director for Technical Services of the International Cooperation Administration. Russell died 1956 in Washington D.C. of a heart attack. William Fletcher Russell William Fletcher Russell (May 18, 1890 - March 26, 1956) was a U.S. educator, and dean (1927-1949) and president (1949-1954) of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City. Russell was born in Delhi, New York. The son of James Earl Russell graduated from Cornell University in 1910, and made PhD at Columbia University in 1914. From 1917 to 1923, he was