... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR OHIO STATE HISTORY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION This is the title of a substantially bound appropriately illustrated and carefully indexed volume of 643 pages compiled and edited by Mrs Annie Jopling Lester Ohio State Historian of the Daughters of the American Revolution The dedication is to Mrs Lowell Fletcher Hobart State Regent of Ohio 1923-1926 There is an opening sketch of three compact pages giving full ...
... 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 ...
... 652 Ohio Arch and Hist 652 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ber of the Committee from Dayton accompanied by a representative group of Dayton citizens who piloted us to Miami Mound where a short stop was made thence into Dayton where dinner was served and a short meeting held At Dayton we visited the Conservancy Works the Wright Aviation Field and other points of interest This closed our activities for the day There is no question that both of these trips were highly enjoyable and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Walam Olum or Red Score The Migration Legend of the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians A New Translation Interpreted by Linguistic Historical Archaeological and Physical Anthropological Studies Indianapolis Indiana Historical Society 1954 xiv379p illustrations bibliographies and additional references and index 1500 This stately volume is a shining example of what lavish financial backing can achieve toward extreme attractiveness in the publishing of a work of scholarly ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Constitutional History of the United States 1826-1876 A More Perfect Union By Homer C Hockett New York Macmillan Company 1939 405p 300 The first volume of this series The Blessings of Liberty was reviewed in the QUARTERLY XLIX 1940 292-94 In it Professor Hockett discussed the colonial background the Revolutionary Period and the first third of a century under the new Constitution Here he treats of the slavery controversy but to minimize the boredom of readers who ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 261 and statistics the value of which cannot be too highly estimated The author has gathered and assorted material from which history may be written Mr Bareis has neglected no subject deserving of note He has chapters on the school literary entertainments roads and railroads coaches and mail lines churches graveyards etc The book is not crowded and its value depreciated as is the case with most books of its kind by having biographical sketches of anybody and everybody ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Ryan Columbus O C E Schenk J R Schindel Murray Seasongood Frank H Schaffer D H T Smith Rufus B Smith Dr R W Stewart Thomas T Swift G S Sykes Rev Geo A Thayer Bryant Venable Emerson Venable R O Venable Dr Chas E Walton J W Worthington F B Wiborg J O White Charles B Wilby Joseph Wilby John F Winslow Isidor Wise Paul Wisenall E J Wohlgemuth Everett I Yowell MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT Judge M D Follett one of the organizers of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI INDEX TO VOLUME XXXI Abbott Julius D tells of the last visit tobacco pipes 513-522 bone impleof Grant to Clermont County 245 ments 522-523 chipped flint impleAbbott Louise her paper on The Grants ments 523-525 implements made of at Bethel 241-245 copper 525-528 ornaments of copper Adams Charles Francis Jr 83 his let529-555 bead necklaces 555-556 beads ter urging Carl Schurz to take part in of metal 556-557 objects made of Ohio political campaign of 1875 83-84 shell 557-559 ...
... LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO LINCOLN'S MINISTER TO MEXICO by J JEFFERY AUER Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College Among the incongruities facing Abraham Lincoln in 1861 was the fact that his minister to Mexico would hold America's most important diplomatic post1 Although France and England the chief consumers of southern cotton were powerful nations possessed of great maritime strength in the event of a Union blockade of the South they could continue the cotton trade only through the ...
... 114 Ohio Arch 114 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE LATEST PREHISTORIC NEWS The actual results of archaeological explorations in Ohio and elsewhere in this country are sufficient to arouse interest and curiosity in the life and world of the lost and unrecorded people But what the newspapers say concerning these explorations surpasses the tales of Arabian Nights or Baron Munchausen For instance concerning the exhumations by Prof W C Mills at Fort Ancient the past summer 1908 a leading ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Hayes Spiegel Grove is indeed the Mount Vernon of Ohio It is this magnificent estate and home that the present owner Colonel Webb C Hayes is transferring to the State of Ohio for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to be by the latter preserved intact for historic and educational purposes After reading Mr Meek's production one might think that Sandusky county had a monopoly on Ohio history It certainly is rich in the lore of the brave days of old ...
... THE NEGRO IN EARLY OHIO THE NEGRO IN EARLY OHIO BY CHARLES JAY WILSON If men were angels wrote John Jay in the fifth of the Federalist papers no government would be necessary Few people of today who live the richer intellectual life which follows naturally upon an endeavor to sound out modern social phenomena and strike something deeper than the superficial aspects will find much in this principle with which to quarrel In fact a majority more likely would contend that the New York barrister ...
... EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY EARLY HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN OHIO ON July 13th 1 854 the anniversary of the Ordinance of 1787 there assembled at Neil's New Hall Columbus Ohio a large delegate convention representing every town in the State having for its purpose to fuse into one practical organization all political elements which opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and were ready to resist the extension of slavery into Kansas and Nebraska A similar convention met on ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO Lawyer as Lobbyist Harry M Daugherty and the Charles W Morse Case 1911-1922 Of all President Warren G Harding's 1920 Cabinet selections none received more opposition than the Attorney General appointment of Harry M Daugherty-a fellow Ohioan who had directed the presidential nomination campaign Both the press and various public officials considered Daugherty a freewheeling lobbyist with a rather unsavory past To buttress their assessment they uncovered the indiscretions ...
... Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Although Bevan's verse was modeled after the English school and so was representative of that period of imitation in poetry which possessed American poets at the opening of the nineteenth century his frank avowal of love for the new nation and his delight in the beauty of the frontier states are reason enough to mark him as one of the important members of the minor school Then too the reprinting of America will ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications New England and all the colonies Her uniqueness historically speaking lies in the fact that hers was the first soil settled by the United States New England was peopled by the Puritans and others from Old England New York by Dutch and English Pennsylvania by Quakers and Germans and Scotch-Irish Virginia again by the English but quite different from those of Massachusetts and Connecticut Maryland by still another element and so on Of the ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Frontier Republic Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country 1780-1825 By Andrew RL Cayton Kent Kent State University Press 1986 xii 197p map notes essay on sources index 2700 The intellectual history of the early republic has undergone considerable revival in recent years Led by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard whose The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 1967 was a classic when published and continued by his pupil Gordon Wood of Brown University in the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Letters of Delegates to Congress 1774-1789 Volume 25 March 1 1788-July 25 1789 with Supplement 1774-87 Edited by Paul H Smith and Ronald M Gephart Washington DC Library of Congress 1998 xxx 843p editorial method and apparatus acknowledgments chronology of Congress list of delegates illustrations appendix notes index 5600 It is a great thing to finish a great work And the Letters of Delegates to Congress series is a great work one of the greatest editorial projects of ...