... Seemingly within moments after the nomination of Abraham Lincoln on Seemingly within moments after the nomination of Abraham Lincoln on May 18 1860 a representative of the Columbus publishing firm of Follett Foster and Company from the Tremont House in Chicago telegraphed the president-to-be in Springfield saying In connection with your debates with Douglas we have announced your biography Please designate your pleasure if any as to who the writer shall be The same day the Chicago Journal's ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Joseph Benson Foraker An Uncompromising Republican By Everett Walters Ohio Governors Series I Columbus Ohio History Press Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1948 xiii 315p illustrations bibliography and index 350 Ohio during the closing decades of the turbulent nineteenth century was in many ways the hub of national politics The state had produced a simply amazing number of legislative giants and private individuals who knew how to stand quietly in ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy by Frederick J Blue 85-97 Subterranean Hideaways of the Underground Railroad in Ohio An Architectural Archaeological and Historical Critique of Local Traditions by Byron D Fruehling and Robert H Smith 98-117 Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution by James McPherson 86-87 Accomac County Virginia 21 Adam Clayton Powell Jr The Political Biography of an American Dilemma by Charles ...
... Bluff Ben Wade in Lawrence Kansas Bluff Ben Wade in Lawrence Kansas The Issue of Class Conflict By WILLIAM FRANK ZORNOW Most historians know of Theodore Roosevelt's famous speech at Osawatomie Kansas on August 31 1910 in which he outlined the policies later advocated during the campaign of 1912 but few have considered the equally important Lawrence speech of Senator Benjamin F Wade of Ohio on June 10 1867 The latter might have had considerable effect upon the outcome of the Johnson impeachment ...
... THE HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO ITS RESOURCES by LOUIS LEONARD TUCKER PICTURE A VICTORIAN structure with dingily lighted rooms which are filled with antiquated display cases containing such items as Grandma Wiggins' dress of 1872 a piece from the keelboat that transported Ebenezer Smith our town's first settler a fire helmet worn by a volunteer who fought our town's greatest fire in 1867 Fill out this scene with two or three woman curators of octogenarian vintage who have an ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... ARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISARE THE HOPEWELL COPPER OBJECTS PREHISTORIC BY WARREN K MOOREHEAD At the Washington meeting of the American Anthropological Association held conjointly with Section H of the American Association for the Advancement of Science I read a brief paper on the Hopewell copper objects and it is now my wish to present a more extended communication on the subjest Mr Clarence B Moore whose valuable work in southeastern United States is so favorably known to all who ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 7 sylvania State College excellently fulfilled its purpose of forming a general introduction to the sessions of the three-days meeting THE INFLUENCE OF THE OHIO RIVER IN WESTERN EXPANSION BY EDWIN ERLE SPARKS President Pennsylvania State College Of the five great continents on the globe three have been conquered have been opened and have been civilized within the span of recorded history It is possible therefore to make a ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S HAYES THE DIARY OF A PRESIDENT 1875-1881 COVERING THE DISPUTED ELECTION THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION AND THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL SERVICE Edited by T Harry Williams New York David McKay Company 1964 xliv329p introduction chronology dramatis personae and index 650 I approached the assignment to review this book not only with interest but also with some concern As a member of the staff of the Rutherford B Hayes Library and Museum some years ago I had become acquainted with the ...
... THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS THE ZOAR SOCIETY APPLICANTS FOR MEMBERSHIP By EDGAR B NIXON The Society of Separatists of Zoar Ohio was one of the more successful of the many cooperative communities which appeared in this country during the last century Zoar was founded by German peasants and artisans who emigrated from Wurtemburg in 1817 to escape the civil and ecclesiastical persecution to which they had been subjected as members of the Separatist faith The Separatists were dissentients from the ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications County Several additional parks shortly will be placed in our custody In connection with two or three of the park properties there has been some lack of agreement as to methods of administration The Director accompanied by Trustee J C Goodman Chairman of the Committee on State Parks recently visited these properties conferred with local committees and provided means for correcting the situations It may seem superfluous to consume the ...
... Moore Winter-Spring 2002 pp 25-43 Copyright 2002 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 Class Conflict over Residential Space in an African American Community Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy By Leonard Moore When discussing the conflict over residential space in America historians have placed ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews American Business and Foreign Policy 1920-1933 By JOAN HOFF WILSON Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 xvii 339p notes bibliography and index 1250 Since 1929 the preoccupation of historians with the role and ideology of business in American life has been intense Studies of the Gilded Age such as those by Matthew Josephson and Charles Beard looked upon businessmen as robber barons in domestic affairs During the isolationist decade capitalists became those ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES LIBRARY has recently published in mimeograph form a twenty-page annual report of the director of research Watt P Marchman He reports the addition of more than a thousand books in the library's field of interest and several hundred manuscript items Included in the latter are a veto message of President Hayes with notations in his own hand a collection of articles about Hayes by Frank G Carpenter and a William Cullen Bryant letter A ...
... BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE by CARL WITTKE Chairman o f the Department o f History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University In 1939 Americans celebrated the centenary of their national pastime because a baseball commission created in 1907 to settle the hotly disputed question of who originated the modern game awarded the honor to Abner Doubleday A number of writers continue to insist that Alexander Cartwright of New York City drew up the first ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF FARM MACHINERY INTO OHIO PRIOR TO 1865 by ROBERT LESLIE JONES Professor of History Marietta College Ohio agriculture in the fifth decade of the twentieth century is a highly mechanized industry with almost every farmer having a heavy investment in devices ranging from tractors to milking machines and pressure sprayers Contemporary mechanization however is less the product of recent innovations than it is the culmination of a long ...
... Bigelow Winter-Spring 2001 pp 48-82 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page The 1848 Diary of Daniel Kent By Cherilyn A Walley Tucked away in the special collections of Brigham Young University are fourteen legal-sized photocopies of diary pages identified only as Manuscript 1090 These few pages ...
... MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 by PAUL B SEARS Professor of Botany Oberlin College My theme is law It is a curious paradox that science whose practitioners proudly boast that they take nothing for granted rests upon faith Science is in fact what our theological friends would call an act of faith The faith to which I refer is a profound belief that the universe of our experience is a universe of law and order2 Without a conviction that the world of experience must ...
... Ohio Agriculture Today Ohio Agriculture Today By L L RUMMELL Ohio the Gateway State--where the industrial East meets the agricultural West--is still a giant among the farm states Although only thirty-fifth in size still it ranks usually about eighth or ninth in income from the sale of the products of its farms Add to the farm income the non-farm income of those who farm part time and the total income of Ohio farmers would be even higher surely above that of those states which do not have the ...