... Twenty Years at Hiram House by JUDITH A T RO LANDER Toward the end of the nineteenth century the settlement movement reached the United States Hull House the most outstanding and second oldest settlement was established in Chicago in 1889 The first social settlement in Cleveland to actually do settlement work as such was Hiram House founded in 18961 Today however Hiram House has been largely forgotten partly because George Bellamy the founder and director throughout its existence published ...
... JED DANNENBAUM JED DANNENBAUM Immigrants and Temperance Ethnocultural Conflict in Cincinnati 1845-1860 In the United States the decade of the 1850s was marked by pronounced social and political upheaval Until recently most historians believed that this turmoil derived almost entirely from the issues of sectionalism and slavery which dominated American life in this era and which culminated in the Civil War However recent historical work at the state and local level has revealed that so-called ...
... 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 ...
... Thirty-First Annual Meeting Thirty-First Annual Meeting 109 Mound These are to be sold at the park by the custodian at 25c cloth bound and 10c paper bound The revenue derived from this sale will be turned over to the Treasurer of the Society Mr Wood In October we had the steel observation tower at the mound repainted We also had the barn and the fences on the property whitewashed and in October under the direction of a landscape gardener and through his courtesy we planted seventy ornamental ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society on May 5 was addressed by John H Davison on the subject How We Came To Be Where We Are a review of the conquest of the Ohio Country Recent issues of the Reporter have carried a record of soldiers of the War of 1812 buried in Allen County Persons having additional information on such soldiers are requested to communicate with the society so as to make ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Lyndon B Johnson Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1970 Vol I January 1 to June 30 1968 lxix 761p A-93p index 1050 Vol II July 1 1968 to January 20 1969 Ixiii p763-1404 A-93p index 950 Most students of the United States are by now familiar with this continuing series Launched in 1957 it now covers in full the Truman ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 Forty-First Annual Meeting 655 of the Museum and Library Building together with all the addresses and a number of illustrations To this has been added a brief history of the Society by the Secretary It is intended to use this material in part in an intensive campaign for an increase in the membership of the Society The fifth and final volume of the Diary and Letters of Rutherford B Hayes is now in type and will soon be ready for distribution There is an ...
... BOOK NOTES BOOK NOTES THE OLD NORTHWEST with a View of the Thirteen Colonies as Constituted by Royal Charters By B A Hinsdale Ph D New York Townsend Mac Coun 1888 The importance of the Northwest Territory has been fully emphasized during the present year by centennial celebrations of various kinds beginning with that at Marietta in April last of which the full proceedings were published in the last issue of the QUARTERLY While many parts of the history of this region have been fully ...
... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1959--July 1960 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DODDS Gilbert F Early Horticulture in Franklin County Franklin County Historical Society Special Bulletin No 4 December 1959 1-15 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT FILLER Louis Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 179-182 GARA Larry The Underground Railroad A Re-evaluation Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President Harold E Wallin of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been appointed curator of the museum maintained by the association in the Squire Rich house The secretary Mrs Walter S Lister reports that the society sponsored this year a contest for the junior class of the local high school for one-act plays on early Brecksville CLAR K COUNTY HISTORICAL ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON The effort to catalog the manuscript collections in this department thoroughly according to the unit card method has proceeded slowly with the following collections now completed MANUSCRIPT CATALOG ABB TO CAMP 1 Abbott Mary--Scrapbook Mechanicsburg O--1889 Miscellaneous collection of short stories and poems from newspapers and magazines 1914--4 2 Abstractor's Records--Property Titles Columbus O-- 1840's to 1870's Will of Henry Patch etc ...
... The Chillicothe Germans by LA VERN J RIPPLEY For nearly a century an element of German culture could be observed in the community life of Chillicothe Ohio Until World War I brought an abrupt end to the general use of their language the Germans developed their own churches schools publications cultural societies and special activities on a scale comparable with other Ohio localities Now however half a century later the Chillicothe Germans as an ethnic group are little more than a dim memory ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Arnold Snyder PhD candidate at McMaster University has joined Bluffton College as an assistant professor of history and philosophy Gary A Hunt formerly of Boston University replaced Richard W Ryan as Department Head of the Ohio University Library's Archives and Special Collections Department as of July 1 1979 David E Kyvig Associate Professor at the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Historical Society is reprinting Scoouwa James Smith's Indian Captivity Narrative 595 the eighth edition of Colonel Smith's 1799 journal and the first annotated reprint in seventy years The journal Smith kept is an important document reflecting Indian-white relations in the late eighteenth century as well as struggles between colonists and representatives of the king William M Darlington's annotations from the 1870 edition are included with ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT PRICE The Road to Boston 1860 Travel Correspondence of William Dean Howells Young William Dean Howells' travel letters written for two Ohio newspapers during the summer of 1860 and collected here for the first time record the weeks immediately preceding one of the most oft-retold incidents in the story of American letters The time was the first week of August the place Boston's famed Parker House James Russell Lowell editor of the Atlantic Monthly was hosting a ...
... EDITORIAL NOTES EDITORIAL NOTES DR I W ANDREWS-At the annual meeting of the Ohio Teachers' Association held at Sandusky June 28 1888 memorial exercises occurred in honor of the late Israel W Andrews Professor M R Andrews read a memorial sketch In it he paid tribute in the highest terms to the many virtues of the deceased scholar and educator His conservative but persistent and hopeful nature his accuracy and painstaking care as a student and instructor his unswerving fidelity to every trust ...
... P P NICK KARDULIAS A History of Public Archaeology in Ohio Introduction The Ohio Historical Society OHS marked its 100th anniversary in 1985 During the century of its existence this organization has served as the steward of public archaeology in the state Therefore now is an appropriate time to review the development of archaeological concerns in Ohio by outlining the major accomplishments and deficiencies of the OHS and other institutions in carrying out their role as caretakers of Ohio's ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Civil War Letters of an Ohio Soldier SO Chamberlain and the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry By Dick and Judy Chamberlain Flournoy California Dick Chamberlain 1990 ix 67p illustrations Letters written by a Seneca County soldier during the years 1861 -65 are interspersed with the authors' explication of their contents A candid portrayal of campaigning with the Army of the Cumberland the letters speak with a certain rude eloquence of the tedium and hardship of the tented ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Temperance Benevolence and the City The Cleveland Non-Partisan Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1874-1900 Here they come now fifty redoubtable and respectable women prayer books in one hand and umbrellas in the others for it looks like rain on this March morning of 1874 in Cleveland Ohio They are striding vigorously down Euclid Avenue headed for the several saloons on Public Square which they intend to close down with their hymns and fervent prayers They are the ...