... 244 Ohio Arch 244 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EQUITATION IN AND ABOUT COLUMBUS Mr Frank Tallmadge a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a prominent citizen of Columbus and the dean of equitation in central Ohio has written a book entitled Horseback Riding in and around Columbus 1774-1924 It is neatly printed and bound interestingly written and a unique addition to local history The foreword is written by Henry M Neil of Columbus The book is published ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research Projects Initiated in 1973 and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio 1973 REFERENCE WORKS GUTGESELL STEPHEN C Union Guide to Ohio Newspapers Chief Cataloger Ohio Historical Society LEVSTIK FRANK R Guide to State Archives at the Ohio Historical Society Assistant State Archivist Ohio Historical Society PIKE KERMIT J Guide to the Manuscripts in the Shaker Collection at the Western Reserve Historical ...
... 236 Ohio Arch 236 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications GENEALOGY OF WILLIAM McKINLEY BY REV A STAPLETON The following genealogical sketch of President McKinley was prepared by the Rev A Stapleton of Carlisle Pa We give it as it was originally published in the New York Sun-EDITOR It should be a matter of regret to all true historians that the campaign histories of President McKinley were erroneous in several important genealogical details The data herein given may be relied on as correct as ...
... THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP THE INFANT SCHOOL THAT GREW UP By JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS One hunded years ago the first child's garden was opened by Herr Friedrich Froebel in the little village of Blankenburg in Germany To Froebel belongs much credit for the development and spread of the kindergarten idea He saw that the education of a child should begin much earlier than the customary school age--six or seven years--and that play should be incorporated in that education He declared that the ...
... JAMES W JAMES W GEARY Clement L Vallandigham Views the Charleston Convention The Democratic National Convention which opened at Charleston South Carolina on April 23 1860 provided the setting for one of the most significant turning points in American history The delegates who gathered at this southern city to select a presidential candidate and a platform failed in both efforts Radical southerners refused even to consider a program of popular sovereignty as defined by Stephen A Douglas the ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY On August 19 1904 a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the conference room of the Public Library with the following members present Mr Geo F Bareis Col John W Harper Prof B F Prince Hon D J Ryan Secretary E O Randall and Mr E F Wood representing Mr S S Rickly Letters of regret on account of inability to attend were received from Mr W H Hunter Chillicothe Hon ...
... BREAD AND DOCTRINE AT OBERLIN BREAD AND DOCTRINE AT OBERLIN By ROBERT SAMUEL FLETCHER Reform is manifold and yet it is one declared President Asa Mahan of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute in an address before the American Physiological Society in Boston in 1839 The true Christian reformer he said was a universal reformer seeking the correction of all evils No man could consistently be a temperance advocate and not an opponent of slavery nor an enemy of war and not a sponsor of moral reform He ...
... THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND JOHN BROWN by WILLIAM S ROLLINS Analyst National Research Council On October 16 1859 long-smoldering passions in North and South which within a year and a half would burst into the flame of civil war were thrown new fuel On that day John Brown and eighteen staunch followers raided Harper's Ferry Virginia to free the slaves1 After more than twenty-four hours of havoc Colonel Robert E Lee commanding a handful of United ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Shawnee By Jerry E Clark Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1977 ix 99p illustrations bibliographical essay 495 Jerry E Clark's summary of the most important findings about the Shawnee is yet another addition to the award-winning Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf a series subsidized by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by numerous groups and individuals interested in Kentucky history Not intended to be an original contribution to knowledge The ...
... PROCEEDINGS 219 PROCEEDINGS 21 9 SOME PROBLEMS OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORIOGRAPHY1 By WALTER L DORN Among the multiple tendencies which inspire historians of every variety in our day one of the strongest is a synthetic or comparative study of history Although national histories are still being written in all the countries of western society there is a keen consciousness everywhere that national history in its isolation does not constitute an intelligible field of historical study Comparative ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW COMMONWEALTH 18771890 By John A Garraty New York Harper amp Row 1968 xv 364p editor's introduction preface illustrations bibliographical essay and index 795 225 paper With the welcome appearance of Professor Garraty's masterful synthesis and reevaluation of the Hayes to Harrison period of our national development we have the most important study of these highly significant but long neglected years since the 1930's when Ida M Tarbell and Arthur M Schlesinger Sr ...
... THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY An Illustration and Suggestion WILLIAM Z DAVIS LL D Judge Ohio Supreme Court The present controversy about the discovery of the North Pole suggests the thought that the truth of history is established by adverse criticism and thorough investigaton and that the truth cannot be hidden forever A striking illustration of this is found in the bibliography of the discussion over the question Who discovered the ...
... McCormick Winter-Spring 2003 pp 19-26 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner By Virginia E McCormick McClain High School Greenfield Ohio Photo courtesy Virginia E McCormick As Supreme Court justices legislators and educators begin the twenty-first century wrestling with equitable funding for Ohio schools and the School Facilities Commission ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1958 -- July 1959 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE HENLEIN Paul C Cattle Kingdom in the Ohio Valley 1783-1860 Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1959 198p ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT KUHNS Frederick Irving The American Home Missionary Society in Relation to the Antislavery Controversy in the Old Northwest Billings Montana published by the author 1959 53p ARCHAEOLOGY ALLMAN John C An Interesting ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1947-JULY 1948 Compiled by JAMES H RODA B AU GH and S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE BARDOLPH Richard Agricultural Literature and the Early Illinois Farmer Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences XXIX No 1-2 Urbana University of Illinois Press 1948 Comparative general material and some specific Ohio data BROMFIELD Louis Malabar Farm New York Harper amp Brothers 1948 vii 405p COMIN Donald Onion ...
... 578 Ohio Arch 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications proceedings and looked forward with pleasure to his closer connection with its work There being no further business before the Society upon motion it adjourned The president announcing that the annual meeting of the trustees would immediately follow ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 24 1915 There were present Messrs G F Wright E O Randall E F Wood D J Ryan B F Prince H E Buck L P Schaus G F Bareis J E Campbell W ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM THE WILMOT PROVISO CONTROVERSY By Chaplain W Morrison Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1967 viii244p index 600 In December 1844 Preston King an influential New York Democrat confessed that after the events of the past year he did not trust the South and Southern men His attitude was shared by another New Yorker G F Kemble who thought that a sectional party was needed to counteract the power of slavery in the Democratic party ...
... SERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDSERVICES OF THE OHIO COMPANY IN DEFENDING THE UNITED STATES FRONTIER FROM INVASION WHEN General Putnam undertook the superintending of the Ohio Company and landed with his organized force of pioneers at Marietta on April 7th 1788 he assumed a more important and difficult task than that of opening a wilderness for cultivation and providing houses and homes for settlers On his way out from Massachusetts he stopped over in New York and made himself thoroughly ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Howells amp Italy By James L Woodress Jr Durham N C Duke Uni versity Press 1952 xiv223p frontispiece portrait bibliography and index 350 Of late years there appears to be a trend toward a strong revival of interest in the life and writings of William Dean Howells an Ohio boy whose first years were rooted in journalistic experience on various Ohio newspapers including his father's and particularly with the Ohio State Journal in Columbus In this first book-length study ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The History of the State of Ohio Edited by Carl Wittke Vol I The Foundations of Ohio By Beverley W Bond Jr Vol II The Frontier State 1803-1825 By William T Utter Vol III The Passing of the Frontier 1825-185 0 By Francis P Weisenburger Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1941-2 Vol I xx507p Illustrations and maps Vol II xiv454p Illustrations maps and tables Vol III xiv524p Illustrations and maps 2500 per set of 6 volumes For the early history ...