... Book Reviews Book Reviews Union amp Emancipation Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era Edited by David W Blight and Brooks D Simpson Kent Ohio The Kent State University Press 1997 x 231p illustrations notes selected bibliography index 3500 Examining the impact of slavery and race on American politics and culture during the decades surrounding the Civil War this collection of essays is especially useful for scholars of northern party politics in the 1850s In the first of three essays ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews In the Name of the People Speeches and Writings of Lincoln and Douglas in the Ohio Campaign of 1859 Edited by Harry V Jaffa and Robert W Johannsen Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1959 xii307p 500 The historically minded are having a field day in these years of the 1950's and 1960's in constant centennial celebration of the events connected with the Civil War Real contributions to the literature of history are emerging which will be ...
... Dedication of the Haves Memorial Dedication of the Haves Memorial 437 Bless we pray the Republic of which we are a part Be with all who are in places of leadership Guide the Nation through all dangers to a safe harbor Help us to become to all nations the truest expression of the divine program for human government We ask all in the name of Jesus Christ who has given us the ideals upon which all lasting human civilizations must stand Amen The Star Spangled Banner was then sung by the Col George ...
... NEWS and NOTES TH R OUGH the efforts of a group of Columbus citizens organized as the Kelley House Committee Inc and the Franklin County Historical Society the famous Alfred Kelley mansion located at 282 East Broad Street has been carefully dismantled and removed to Franklin Park where it is to be reconstructed and restored At Franklin Park the stonework of each wall has been laid out on the ground in the same position it had vertically Each of the three thousand stone blocks in the structure ...
... OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BY C B GALBREATH Ohio is great in many ways The achievements of her sons are not confined to the spectacular vocations of statesmanship and war Piatt and Howells and other writers have given her a respectable place in the literature of the republic The Darling Nelly Gray of our Hanby the Dixie of our Emmett and the Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling of our Thompson have gone round the world and found ...
... THE MILAN CANAL THE MILAN CANAL by C HAR LES E FROHMAN Few people today know that Milan Ohio was once a great shipping port and that its enterprise during the days when schooners sailed the Great Lakes resulted in the digging of a three-mile canal from Milan to a point in the Huron River where deep water and wide bends made passage safe The heyday of this undertaking came during the earliest days of the railroad and during that period when canals and politics made more than conversation The ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS THE PREWAR YEARS by DONALD R MacKENZIE HIGHER standards in painting characterized the pre-Civil War period of art in Ohio Improved transportation encouraged artists to travel and almost every painter visited New York frequently touring Boston and Philadelphia as well There they had the opportunity to see a limited number of imported European paintings and a variety of notable American works Most established painters who desired it were ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 93 Mr Williams in presenting Gov James E Campbell said Conspicuous as Mr Randall was in many different and varied activities there is one field in particular where he stood pre-eminent and that was the field of archaeology Fine as he was in literary ability he there had his rivals happy as he was as an after-dinner speaker and toastmaster others there ventured to challenge his superiority but in knowledge of the early history of Ohio and of its ...
... John Butler Tytus Inventor of the Continuous Steel Mill by GEORGE C CROUT and WILFRED D VORHIS The continuous rolling mill which produces an unending ribbon of steel to meet the needs of modern world-wide industrial societies was developed by an Ohioan John Butler Tytus While many men at the American Rolling Mill now the Armco Steel Corporation with home offices at Middletown helped in the development of this revolutionary process of steel production it was Tytus who never wavered in his ...
... MARCUS A MARCUS A HANNA AND THEODORE E BURTON by WILBUR DEVEREUX JONES Instructor in History University of Georgia The tempestuous career of Marcus A Hanna during the triumphant days of the Republican party at the turn of the century is still the object of considerable interest to the historian While his importance is generally recognized possibly even exaggerated the available biographical material on Hanna is not very satisfactory partly because the accounts tend to be biased partly because ...
... CHARLES WILLING BYRD CHARLES WILLING BYRD BY W H BURTNER JR The second secretary and acting governor of the Northwest Territory the first United States judge for Ohio district has had almost nothing printed of his life and endeavors Not ten lines can be found in the histories of Ohio His bones now lie forgotten in a little township cemetery back of the new school house at Sinking Springs Highland County Ohio He was born at Westover Charles County Virginia July 26 1770 He came to Kentucky in ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO The Political Career of Harry M Daugherty 1889-1919 Historians have written about Harry Micajah Daugherty only within the context of the Warren G Harding era His association with the 1920 campaign and the Harding presidency has received extensive coverage Works on the 1920's have amply covered his involvement in the administration scandals Daugherty's pre1912 career however has been virtually ignored only a scant outline of early political adventures has come from the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Proslavery A History of the Defense of Slavery in America 1701-1840 By Larry E Tise Athens The University of Georgia Press 1987 xix 510p illustrations tables notes index 4000 It is evident that we must at some point have a meeting of minds regarding the old anti-slavery war not at all so that we can agree on details or even issues but in order to rephrase them for a new era It is a long time since specialists argued over the roles of New England abolitionists as ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... Book Notes Winter-Spring 2002 pp 94-95 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK NOTES Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest By Noel D Justice and Suzanne K Kudlaty Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2001 xii 53 p 112 figures appendixes This slim volume is intended as a beginner's ...
... McCormick Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 136-152 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page An Entrepreneurial Enterprise and the Financial Crisis of 1819 The Worthington Manufacturing Company By Virginia and Robert W McCormick James Kilbourn Photo Courtesy the Worthington Hisorical Society The Worthington ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Homes for Poverty's Children Cleveland's Orphanages 1851-1933 Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous saintly or neither there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor When this becomes the focus of the story orphans appear less as victims of middle-class attempts to control or uplift them than as victims of poverty ...
... JAMES E JAMES E HANEY Blacks and the Republican Nomination of 1908 Theodore Roosevelt's decision not to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 1908 left the field open to several Republican hopefuls but his influence in the party and control of its machinery made it clear that the candidate he supported would win the nomination as well as the national election that followed This was especially important when it is remembered that national politics during the first decade of the ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 415 may be mentioned Hugh Henry Brackenridge the author of a satirical romance entitled Modern Chivalry in which he sarcastically depicts the political conditions of his time The Pittsburgh Gazette the first newspaper printed west of the Alleghany mountains contains in its early columns a number of contributions from the pen of this versatile son of Princeton who had been a classmate of James ...
... JOHN M JOHN M MULDER The Heavenly City and Human Cities Washington Gladden and Urban Reform Historians have generally viewed the rise of the social gospel during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a response to the problems posed by industrialization immigration and urbanization Ever since the publication of Arthur M Schlesinger's pioneering analysis in 19321 historians have examined American religious groups especially American Protestants to determine the ways in which they ...