... Book Reviews Book Reviews An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley By James Murphy Athens Ohio University Press 1975 xi 360p illustrations tables figures appendix index 1500 In the past the major portion of the archaeological literature for Ohio has been derived from work done in the central southern and southwestern parts of the state that situation is currently changing for the better In An Archeological History of the Hocking Valley James Murphy broadens our knowledge of prehistoric ...
... BAKER ON THE FIFTH BALLOT THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE 1932 by ELLIOT A ROSEN A study of history's might-have-beens is often more interesting and informative than one would suspect from the bare recital of what happened For in addition to the zest of narrative it has the delight of speculation Very often the threads which lead to a great decision are intertwined with other strands which if they had prevailed might have brought about an entirely different aftermath What would have been the ...
... VIRGINIA R VIRGINIA R BOYNTON Contested Terrain The Struggle Over Gender Norms for Black Working-Class Women in Cleveland's Phillis Wheatley Association 1920-1950 When Adrien Jean Smith came to live at the Phillis Wheatley Association PWA of Cleveland Ohio in 1947 the young unemployed black woman was hired as a domestic servant by the home for black working women Although her work satisfied her employers for a time Smith's off-hours behavior constantly irritated and concerned the black ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... HELEN M HELEN M THURSTON The 1802 Constitutional Convention and Status of the Negro What does the 1802 Ohio constitution say regarding freedom suffrage and citizen rights for negroes and mulattoes1 How were decisions made at the constitutional convention Who were the decision-makers Since even today confusion exists in historical studies on these questions it is hoped that answers in some degree can be obtained from a vote by vote study of the eight major motions concerning the negro that were ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEPENDENT HISTORICAL SOCIETIES AN ENQUIRY INTO THEIR RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION FUNCTIONS AND THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE B y W alter Muir Whitehill Boston The Boston Athenaeum 1962 Distributed by Harvard University Press xviii593p index 1250 For some years now historical-society journals one after another have been undergoing a transformation of format style and content into imitation popular magazines declared the New-York Historical Society annual report for 1961 Ohioans concerned ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1969-1970 ARCHAEOLOGY BRITT CLAUDE JR The Hopkins Sites Multi-Component Sites in Miami County Ohio Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 124-128 GOODMAN KENNETH C A Proposed Standard for Denoting Loci of Features and Artifacts in Archaeological Explorations and Excavations Ohio Archaeologist XVIII October 1968 134-135 HOFFMAN MICHAEL Archaeological Surveys in the Central Ohio River Valley ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO The Feud Renewed Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Campaign of 1940 They were old enemies Democrat Martin L Davey and Republican John W Bricker two fierce rivals posed against each other for the second time in a contest for Ohio's governorship Their first race in 1936 degenerated into a barrage of accusations and mudslinging Their second in 1940 promised more of the same If anything as Davey's local newspaper the Ravenna Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM THE WILMOT PROVISO CONTROVERSY By Chaplain W Morrison Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1967 viii244p index 600 In December 1844 Preston King an influential New York Democrat confessed that after the events of the past year he did not trust the South and Southern men His attitude was shared by another New Yorker G F Kemble who thought that a sectional party was needed to counteract the power of slavery in the Democratic party ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL Abernethy Thomas P Western Lands and the American Revolution 153 Abolition movement 57-70 passim 179 Absentee Ownership and Business Enterprise in Recent Times The Case of America by Thorstein Veblen 152 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 38 Adams George W Doctors in Blue 6970 Adams John 54n22 Adams Mary Ann 185-186 African-American Mosaic A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture The compiled and edited by ...
... THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 by WILLIAM B HESSELTINE Professor of History University of Wisconsin and HAZEL C WOLF Instructor in History Manual Training High School Peoria Illinois The outbreak of the Civil War found a nation completely unprepared for the conflict The federal government had neither plans for conducting the war nor an organizational structure for implementing the plans In the first few weeks after Fort Sumter chaos mingled with confusion ...
... History of Archaeological Society 571 History of Archaeological Society 571 long I shall honor his grave with a better tombstone and write an inscription upon it that will inform the passerby who occupies that lonely spot Give my respects to old Uncle Dan Allman tell him I should be glad to hear from him Accept of these lines and remember a Son a Brother and his little family Goodbye Mother and Friends WILLIAM WARNER SARAH WARNER ALI C E WARNER the babe PROSPECTIVE ENDOWMENT OF THE HAYES ...
... THE OHIO FREE SOILERS AND PROBLEMS OF FACTIONALISM by FREDERICK J BLUE The history of the Free Soil party in Ohio from 1849 until it was dissolved in 1854 was one of incessant factional conflict One source of controversy was the question whether the party should form a coalition with one of the major parties or should continue as a separate party This controversy over the organization of the party was finally successfully resolved when Free Soil leaders helped form the new Republican party and ...
... SIMEON PORTER OHIO ARCHITECT by ERIC JOHANNESEN Of the many carpenters and master builders who gave the Western Reserve villages in northern Ohio their characteristic look of colonial New England in the first decades of the nineteenth century only a handful are known today Similarly the architects of the great era of urban growth in the United States during the two decades before the Civil War are largely anonymous Yet a few known builders belonged to both periods and spanned the transition ...
... GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV GENERAL INDEX TO VOLUME LIV ABBOTT LYMAN 51 Allen William 329 Abolition movement and Granville O Allison Charles M 255 223 literature 238 Allison Mrs Jessie 255 Abolitionists Rev John Rankin 234 Amanda see Fort Amanda Academy of Natural Science 198 Amber routes 10 Ackerknecht Erwin H Malaria in the Amendments to Society's constitution Upper Mississippi Valley 1760-90 provisions for 260 rev by Jonathan Forman 413-16 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Ackley Horace ...
... Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees 659 Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees 659 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 8 1927 1100 A M The meeting was called to order by President Johnson There were present Messrs Johnson Thompson Wood Furniss Orton Bareis Laylin Goodman and Florence and Mrs Dryer Trustee Emeritus Prince Secretary Galbreath and Director Mills were also ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and counter-charges on issues growing out of this subject Those interested are referred to this literature and the newspapers for the attitude of men and parties toward workmen's compensation No good purpose can be subserved by the publication in the QUARTERLY of the views of representatives of political parties on this subject It should be sufficient to record here the fact that a protest has been made The Society desires the interest ...
... TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN Foreword During the field season of 1930 four sites in northern Ohio were excavated for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The two forming the subject of this paper were on the Cuyahoga River six and seven miles south of the Public Square of the city of Cleveland Excavations were under the direction of the writer and Mr Robert Goslin field assistant Tuttle Hill was ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Government and Administration of Ohio By Francis R Aumann and Harvey Walker American Commonwealth Series edited by W Brooke Graves New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1956 xiv489p frontispiece appendix bibliography and index 595 Students of Ohio's government have had their task greatly facilitated in the 1950's by the publication of two volumes In 1953 Professor Albert Rose of the University of Dayton published his Ohio Government State and Local In 1956 Professors ...
... 292 Ohio Arch 292 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications at the proper time took action in adopting memorial resolutions on the death of Dr Thompson but has had no formal meeting since the death of Mr Galbreath The resolutions adopted by the Board of Trustees are at hand Mr Secretary will you read them DR LINDLEY It seems fitting that the resolution passed at the time of the regular meeting of the Board of Trustees on January 23 1934 should be read before the members at the Annual Meeting ...