... edited by edited by THOMAS E HACHEY Cincinnati Through English Spectacles A British Diplomat's Confidential View in 1945 In the months immediately following the Second World War British consuls stationed throughout the United States forwarded to the London Foreign Office a substantial number of telegrams memoranda and dispatches regarding the climate of American opinion toward England What Winston Churchill had called the Grand Alliance seemed in the judgment of many of these diplomats to be ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 4th and 5th 1997 at Malone College in Canton Ohio The historical Encyclopedia of African American Associations is seeking scholars interested in contributing assigned entries This single-volume reference work will include associations established by African Americans and interracial groups working in the interest of African Americans For a list of entries and further information please ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 193-217 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS Joyous Greetings The First International Women's Movement 1830-1860 By Bonnie S Anderson New York Oxford University Press 2000 xii 288p illustrations notes bibliography index 3000 Anyone interested in history ...
... 116 Ohio Arch 116 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The evil that men do lives after them The good is oft interred with their bones May it not be thus with Arthur St Clair but rather may this monument long stand as a fitting tribute of respect to his memory May the broken granite boulders typify the strength and rugged virtues of that stalwart patriot and his faithful followers and may this bronze tablet fittingly recall the advancement of the western frontier to this place Mr President ...
... JESUP W SCOTT AND A WEST OF CITIES by CHARLES N GLAAB Nineteenth-century writing about the meaning of the American westward movement often emphasizes primitive romantic or agrarian sides of this national experience In the West the American casts off the bonds of Old Europe struggles against elemental forces of nature finds republican virtue in the freehold and adopts the values of an agricultural society Scholars justifiably have paid considerable attention to these conceptions themes to be ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS JAMES R MORRIS James R Morris was born at Rogersville Green County Pennsylvania January 10 1 820 He died at Woodsfield Ohio December 24 1899 His father Joseph Morris was elected to Congress in 1843 and re-elected two years later Joseph Morris moved with his family to Waynesburgh Pennsylvania in 1828 in the following year to Antioch Ohio and two years later to Woodsfield Ohio ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume III October 1 1861-January 7 1862 Edited by JO HN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1971 xxv 479p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume IV January 8-March 31 1862 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1972 xxv 520p chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 Like their subject these volumes of Ulysses S Grant's personal ...
... 294 Ohio Arch 294 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Captain has given his native town and state wide and honorable publicity His book is a lively modest straightforward statement of his services in the World War as full of thrills as his daring exploits It is written in attractive form and excellent spirit and deserves a place in every American library-especially those of Ohio Captain Rickenbacker's native state In this connection it may be proper to say a number of Captain ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY A HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION A SHORT HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION BY RICHARD WILHELM TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY JOAN JOSHUA VIKING PRESS NEW YORK This is a single volume which covers the entire subject in 284 pages In his preface the author states that works previously published may be divided into two classes the one following the native Chinese Annals and dealing with the actual history of ...
... John A John A Bingham and Reconstruction The Dilemma of a Moderate by DONALD C SWIFT Congressman John A Bingham of Ohio was one of the foremost Republican politicians in the period following the Civil War Yet he is almost unknown to historians and students not primarily concerned with the Reconstruction era The names of Thaddeus Stevens Benjamin Butler Charles Sumner or Benjamin Wade more readily come to mind As a spokesman for moderation Bingham occupied a place of equal importance to that of ...
... COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO COUNTY HISTORICAL MATERIAL IN THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY Compiled by CLARENCE L WEA VE R and HELEN MILLS ADAMS COUNTY Caldwell J A Illustrated historical atlas of Adams county Ohio Newark O J A Caldwell 1880 Evans N W and Stivers E B History of Adams county Ohio West Union O E B Stivers 1900 Hillsboro Belfast and Peebles electric railroad promoters' co Prospectus Peebles O Leader book and job print 1906 ALLEN COUNTY Bowen ...
... BOOK REVIEWS FRONTIER AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Edwin Fussell Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xvi450p introduction and index 850 This is a stimulating though highly speculative book In the preface Fussell explains he offers it as an example of imaginative historiography a method of writing history in which facts are used merely as emblems to illustrate the theme His procedure seems somewhat similar to that employed in Increase Mather's Divine Providences in ...
... A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR ONE of the most interesting books relating to pioneer days is John McDonald's Sketches a small volume of 267 pages reprinted from a series of articles contributed to the Western Christian Advocate The author was born in 1775 and died in Ross county Ohio in 1853 He passed through the rough wild experience of frontier life-was in turn boatman hunter surveyor military officer and state legislator Colonel McDonald was a ...
... DR DR ALVA CURTIS IN COLUMBUS THE THOMSONIAN RECORDER AND COLUMBUS' FIRST MEDICAL SCHOOL By JONATHAN FORMAN M D In 1769 in the town of Astead New Hampshire was born one Samuel Thomson He lived and grew up as a farmer's son He became a keen observer of men and things He was particularly interested in all that he could learn about the healing art He was entirely self-taught and he learned from the Indians about him from the old women who were handy with the sick and from the medical books ...
... STANLEY C STANLEY C HARROLD JR The Southern Strategy of the Liberty Party The great debate among American abolitionists prior to the Civil War centered upon the question of the proper method of ending slavery How was a movement with negligible support outside of the northern states to abolish an institution that existed in the southern states The alternatives appeared to be convince southerners to voluntarily give it up take federal action against it or use indirect methods to make ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 5 13 salient features and constructive powers in logically linking events with one another carries the reader through this volume and its period without permitting his interest to flag or his enjoyment to diminish The numerous and beautiful illustrations and the plentiful accompanyment of maps and charts greatly add to the pleasure and profit derived therefrom by the reader We still pronounce it the most complete reliable and readable history of our country yet ...
... 492 Ohio Arch 492 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ZACHARIAH T SMITH The following article is the expression of respect to the memory of Z T Smith by J L Lewis and published in an Upper Sandusky newspaper Mr Smith was for many years a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and was potently interested in securing the proper legislation for the appropriation for the erection of a building for the Society's Museum and Library It has oft been said that 'Tis not ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in Millersport Fairfield County Ohio August 10 1876 He was edu cated in the public schools and attended Denison University At an early age he became interested in archaeology and museums and soon began gathering the literature relating to these In 1913 the opportunity came to ...
... K K AUSTIN KERR The Movement for Coal Mine Safety in Nineteenth-Century Ohio In the nineteenth century Ohioans as other Americans faced a host of new situations arising from the industrial revolution As the level of industrial production increased unique forms of occupational organization emerged which often confronted workers or the public with unaccustomed hazards creating demands that government begin regulating the affairs of private industry By the 1860s state government began addressing ...
... Shevitz Winter-Spring 2003 pp 4-18 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved 147Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West148 The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier By Amy Hill Shevitz On July 3 1825 the small Jewish community of Cincinnati Ohio sent a fund-raising letter to the long-established congregation in Charleston South Carolina Appealing for financial assistance in the erection of a House to worship the God of our ...