... BookReviews Winter-Spring 2004 pp 31-51 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved See also Book Notes and Books Received ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BOOKS Builders of Ohio A Biographical History Edited by Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce Reviewed by David C Hammack The Collected Works of William Howard Taft Vols 5 and 6 Reviewed by Clarence E Wunderlin Jr Vol 5 Popular Government amp The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Court Edited ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Refugees of Revolution The German Forty-Eighters in America By Carl Wittke Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1952 x385p index 600 At any time Carl Wittke's Refugees of Revolution would at once take its place as an important contribution to our knowledge of the national history But its appearance now is especially timely both because the centennial of the Revolutions of 1848 has been recently observed and because the United States has again received many ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS DITTBRENNER CURTIS H and GERALD G NEWBORG Guide to Researching Ohio County and Municipal Government Records Archives specialists Ohio Hist Soc F ULLER SARA S Guide to Research Materials on Ohio Black H istory Mss specialist Ohio Hist Soc GATHERUM PATRICIA B Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations on Ohio History Reference ...
... 46 Ohio Arch 46 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications LAUNCHING THE SHIP BY IDA ECKERT-LAWRENCE This poem was written by Mrs Lawrence and read by her as she stood by President McKinley upon the occasion of the launching of the Ohio at San Francisco May 18 1901 Mrs Lawrence is a native of Richland county Ohio and now a resident of Toledo She is the author of the well-known little volume of poems entitled Day Dreams I Oh Star of empire thou that went before The pilgrim in the misty days of yore ...
... DOUGLAS A DOUGLAS A GAMBLE Joshua Giddings and the Ohio Abolitionists a Study in Radical Politics Much recent scholarship on American abolitionism emphasizes its role as part of a general antebellum reform movement' Perceptive and valuable though this work is its broad focus necessarily blurs important distinctions within and among different factions of abolitionism In spite of recent contrary opinion there is still much to learn by studying the diversity of abolitionism Identifying the social ...
... 386 Ohio Arch 386 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications who with two sons now grown to manhood Philip C and Wm J survive the decease of husband and father His demise was universally and sincerely mourned by his fellow-citizens for he had done much for the commercial and intellectual advancement of Chillicothe Ohio's honored first capital His funeral was attended by all classes of citizens and he was buried on Friday morning June 22 in the beautiful little cemetery upon the hill where lie the ...
... A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES A HISTORY OF LOCAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES IN OHIO TO 1865 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES Local agricultural societies are among the victims of the present war To cooperate in conserving rubber and in eliminating unnecessary travel many of them cancelled their fairs in 1942 and doubtless most if not all will do so in 194 3 The disappearance of the fairs even if it is temporary emphasizes their significance as an institution and makes it worth while to trace the ...
... Book Reviews THE INTELLECTUAL AS URBAN REFORMER BRAND WHITLOCK AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT By Jack Tager Cleveland Press of Case Western Reserve University 1968 198p bibliography and index 650 This is a book about Toledo's erudite reform mayor who served from 1906-1913 The author who teaches history at the University of Massachusetts has organized his study around a central theme He says Brand Whitlock's progressivism can be explained by his rejection of authority images his denial of ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR It may be too soon to write a great history of the World War We still stand in the shadow of that volcanic upheaval We are too close to it in time and interest to measure in due perspective its mighty proportions It is not too soon however to record the facts upon which that history is to be built The part of the United States in ...
... PATRICK F PATRICK F CALLAHAN Women Higher Education and the Home Front Women Students at the University of Cincinnati during World War II As the University of Cincinnati marked the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor Dean of Women Katherine Ingle told the women students assembled at the Women's Convocation that We are surrounded by danger but there is also opportunity opportunity such as has come to no other generation of women to no other race of women1 Ingle foresaw the coming ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 37 Steel Queen Lee H Brooks Slackwater Frank Tyler Margaret Return Frank Fowler Troubador Sunshine and Emily Jung The fleet was in command of Capt James A Henderson The New Orleans was in command of Melville O Irwin mate Thomas Walker engineer and T Orville Noel steward Fortunately for those in attendance at the Fifth Annual Meeting the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce took the opportunity of President Taft's presence to hold Tuesday ...
... JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 JOHN SHERMAN AND THE SILVER DRIVE OF 1877-78 THE ORIGINS OF THE GIGANTIC SUBSIDY By JEANNETTE P NICHOLS That tour de force the Silver Purchase Act of 1934 is too close to the present to be judged fairly1 While some critics claim that it simply signifies a cowardly unpatriotic surrender to a small group of wealthy mine-owners others suspect that the faithful servitors of those interests--the fourteen senators from the seven silver states--had the ...
... Suggestions for a Plan of County Suggestions for a Plan of County Organization Charles Dick Lays the Groundwork for the Campaign of 1896 Edited by THOMAS E FELT CAMPAIGN textbooks for the party faithful have been used to inspire electoral success for close to a hundred years in this country and were the document published below just another one of this familiar species it would deserve no particular notice But this is a campaign textbook with a difference Where its more conventional brothers ...
... HOWARD A HOWARD A DeWITT The New Harding and American Foreign Policy Warren G Harding Hiram W Johnson and Pragmatic Diplomacy The historiographical rehabilitation of Warren G Harding has produced a revisionist portrait of a President with moderate talent and moderate views who used persuasion compromise and conciliation to achieve a modicum of success in domestic and foreign affairs1 Although historians are divided over the extent and long-range importance of Harding's accomplishments there is ...
... FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 ANIMAL REMAINS6 By ROBERT M GOSLIN Animal remains were found in great abundance at this site scattered through the black earth of the village deposit They include the bones of various mammals fishes birds and reptiles as well as the shells of mussels and snails Most of the bones are in a fragmentary condition but on the whole they are in an excellent state of preservation All of the animal skeletal material was saved and carefully ...
... SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society TO THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE AND THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY BY E O RANDALL SECRETARY COLUMBUS OHIO JANUARY 1901 383 OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY FROM FEBRUARY 1 1900 TO FEBRUARY 1 1901 Elected by the Trustees GEN ROELIFF BRINKERHOFF -- -- President GEN GEORGE B WRIGHT ------- First Vice-President GEO F BAREIS --------- Second Vice-President HON S S RICKLY - - --------- ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio Its People and Culture By George C Crout and W E Rosenfelt Minneapolis T S Denison amp Co 1977 281p illustrations maps index 695 I optimistically launched my reading of Ohio Its People and Culture with the hope that the book would help to meet the need of junior high school teachers for a fresh and lively treatment of Ohio history Unfortunately my optimism was misplaced In a word the book is sloppy It appears to lack clarity in conceptualization is permeated with ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Ohio Art and Artists By Edna Maria Clark MA Richmond Garrett and Massie pp XIII 509 750 In the second paragraph of this attractive interesting and informing volume the author Mrs Clark makes the following statement The need of a volume of this kind was brought forcefully to the author's attention during an eight-year period of service as chairman of art for the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs when club women made frequent ...
... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...