... strike at Senator Foraker for his opposition to the dismissal of the 25th Infantry Several days after he delivered his message to Congress on the Brownsville Affair--where he justified his constitutional authority and defended his moral position in dismissing the soldiers--Roosevelt wrote Booker T Washington the famous black educator of Tuskegee Institute in Alabama Washington had served as one of his advisors on black patronage since the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 393 left little or nothing to be desired in the treatment of his subject To the presentation of his facts he gives logical organization and from the results draws a judicial and convincing conclusion After a painstaking minute and unprejudiced investigation the author sums up the evidence -in his chapter on the Legal Aspects and the Equities - and elicits the verdict that the seating of Mr Hayes was a justifiable compromise of a doubtful perversion of political rights ...
... Historical News Historical News TH E FIRST ANNUAL American history award of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association went to Donald F Warner professor of history at Wisconsin State College The presentation of the one thousand dollar prize was made on April 23 at the annual meeting of the association in Denver Colorado Dr Warner's winning entry entitled The Idea of Continental Union Agitation for Annexation of Canada to the United States 1849-1893 will be published in early 1960 by the ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER 1861-1929 IN MEMORIAM Addresses Delivered at a Special Meeting of the Kit-Kat Club of Columbus Ohio December 2 1930 Interesting remarks were also made on this occasion by Mr Osman C Hooper who brought a message from Professor French and with it a copy of Mr Meeker's book-plate which Professor French had made for him Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr spoke of Mr Meeker's never failing interest in newspaper work and stated that he had prepared a number of articles the last year ...
... PROCEEDINGS 289 PROCEEDINGS 289 The guest speaker of the day was Mr Wilbur D Peat director of the John Herron Art Institute of Indianapolis who spoke on the subject The Museum and Library in Modern Education parts of which follow The place that the museums and public libraries occupy in contemporary life is so well known to curators and librarians that any further comment is unnecessary and instead of reviewing their achievements for you here I would prefer to point out certain dangers that ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 93-112 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Alphabetical List of Titles All for the Regiment The Army of the Ohio 1861-1865 By Gerald J Prokopowicz Reviewed by Brian D McKnight Architecture in the United States By W Barksdale Maynard Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade Volumes I and II By Timothy J Kent Reviewed by David A Simmons A Brilliant ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... GENERAL JOSEPH KERR GENERAL JOSEPH KERR BY WM E GILMORE CHILLICOTHE OHIO The following article from the pen of Mr Gilmore appeared in the columns of The Daily Scioto Gazette of March 21 1903 As this article presents the history of Senator Kerr no where else to be found it is thought sufficiently valuable to deserve permanent preservation and is therefore herewith republishedE O R At length my inquiries and correspondence begun in 1886 for the purpose of recovering something of the personal ...
... strike hard The experience showed him a fearful example of the criminal neglect of duty of which the citizens of a municipality can be guilty and of the extent to which they can be robbed and victimized without resistance18 Gladden's encounter with the Tweed Ring gave him an enduring concern with reform in New York City and with the prevention of corruption in municipal government Gladden's relationship with the Independent's editors ...
... strike of the traction strike to demand a receiver for the company for failing to render the service it owed the public But even more divisive was the question whether the streetrailway system should be owned and operated by the city or whether a revised franchise should be written with the private owners Knowing that most Cincinnatians were not ready for the radical step of municipal ...
... strike the present generation as being quaint rather than funny historians realize that in any evaluation of humor dates must be kept in mind and that in jokes as in dress fashions change The difference between Abraham Lincoln's delight in the writings of Petroleum Nasby and the distaste with which modern readers regard them is mainly a matter of time Nasby and his peers served their day and generation well Though their writings do not please ...
... GOVERNOR JOHN GREINER AND CHASE'S BID FOR THE GOVERNOR JOHN GREINER AND CHASE'S BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY IN 1860 by EARL W WILEY Professor of Speech Ohio State University Old Abe--Hon Abraham Lincoln will address the people of Columbus either at the State House or City Hall today Friday Mr Lincoln has the reputation of being one of the ablest stumpers of the day--Columbus Gazette September 16 1859 This was all there was to the announcement made by the Columbus Gazette a conservative opposition ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEX TO THE WILLIAM McKINLEY PAPERS The Library of Congress Presidents' Papers Index Series Washington Manuscript Division Reference Department Library of Congress 1963 x482p introduction and appendices 325 An index often is thought of as merely a finding list but this one functions in numerous ways Its most important functions are three-fold it testifies it terrifies and it teaches First as to its testimony It testifies to a growth in recognition of historical needs --by ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS The ITINERANT ARTIST In Early Ohio by DONALD R MacKENZIE THE PAINTING collection of the Ohio Historical Society represents all phases of midwestern painting in the nineteenth century Since the opening of the Hall of Paintings at the Ohio State Museum in 1953 a new emphasis has been placed on the Society's permanent collection and its contribution to knowledge of the cultural heritage of the state Today the native American quality of early nineteenth century paintings ...
... 332 Ohio Arch 332 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ilton Montana Dr J M Brennan University of Kansas Dr Alan Stone U S National Museum Washington Dr T H Hubbell University of Michigan Dr C L Fluke University of Wisconsin and others Your curator gave 29 lectures during the year before 3000 people and gave one talk over radio station WOSU besides leading a number of field-trips for various scientific organizations During the last meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science he was appointed ...
... strike out all alcoholic strike This got a big laugh from the audience a fact which lends truth to the saying that if you can't be good you had better be funny I represented Father at the first and only women's air race held at Dayton during his terms in office We flew over the race and it was frightening to watch the aviatrixes dipping their planes down dangerously to round the pylons One ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The French in the Mississippi Valley 17 401750 By Norman Ward Caldwell Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences Vol XXVI No 3 Urbana University of Illinois Press 1941 113p Map bibliography The author has used for this study the rich photostatic collection of documents relating to French and Indian affairs in the Illinois country made by the Illinois Historical Survey Most notable perhaps is his use of the expense bills of the western posts from the colonial records in ...
... strike a workable compromise between the chaos of an expansive capitalist society and the enduring human need for community p 15 The crucial adjective workable is not defined and so cannot be tested Doyle's thesis thus leaves unanswered the essential question of whether or not or to what degree Jacksonville was a cohesive community The perilous logic necessitated by the inability to measure cohesion is exemplified by Doyle's treatment of ...
... HENRY L HENRY L TAYLOR On Slavery's Fringe City-Building and Black Community Development in Cincinnati 1800-1850 Scholars of the antebellum black urban experience have ignored the issue of the relationship between the city-building process and the development of the black community Most studies of the antebellum black experience published since Leon Litwack's North of Slavery have instead focused on legal aspects of racial discrimination the relationship between race and politics the ...
... 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 ...