... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF GRANDSON OF JOHN BROWN On March 21 1927 Charles P Brown son of Jason Brown and grandson of John Brown of Osawatomie and Harper's Ferry fame died at his home in Akron at the age of seventy-three He was the second son of Jason Brown His older brother Austin went with Jason and John Brown Jr to Kansas before John Brown Sr left for the West Austin died on the ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 planned with Ohio State University Broadcasting station and is being offered each Tuesday afternoon over WOSU This series which is professional in caliber has attracted wide attention and is being rebroadcast by several additional stations Dr William D Overman as historian deserves credit for the exhaustive research which has made these broadcasts unique up to the present time As of January 1 1940 two members of ...
... 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 ...
... 250 Ohio Arch 250 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 1878 chairman of its trustees since 1878 and also its treasurer since 1901 a life member of the Firelands Historical Society since 1876 a member of its board of trustees librarian and editor of its publications since 1888 member of the National Geographical Society member of Huron County Children's Home Association member of its board of trustees since 1889 and its treasurer since 1902 member of the Young Men's Library and Reading Room ...
... THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR THE OHIO BOUNDARY OR THE ERIE WAR1 WHEN the great Ordinance of 1787 was passed by Congress it was agreed by all the States present that six of the articles known as the articles of compact should not be repealed except by the joint consent of Congress and the States concerned The fifth of these irrevocable articles provided that not less than three nor more than five States should be formed out of the region of country known as the Northwest Territory In case ...
... 560 Ohio Arch 5 60 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications mysterious Mound Builder was at all events a good liver The weather proved delightful and the State officials as well as trustees pronounced themselves as highly pleased first with the fact that the State had secured the property and second that it was being so admirably protected under the custodianship of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society HARRISON-TARHE PEACE CONFERENCE MEMORIAL On Tuesday June 28 1904 at Columbus ...
... BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 BEHIND LINCOLN'S VISIT TO OHIO IN 1859 by EARL W WILEY Professor of Speech Ohio State University The wheels of Buckeye politics were set spinning on September 1 1859 That was the day when the Ohio Statesman published in Columbus tardily and reluctantly released the announcement that Senator Stephen A Douglas would barnstorm in Ohio during the Ranney-Dennison campaign then off to a running start Its editor George W Manypenny was chairman of the Democratic ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS PUBLIC PAPERS OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES LYNDON B JOHNSON Two Volumes Washington DC Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1968 Vol 1 January 1 to June 30 1967 lix 670p A-78p index 875 Vol II July 1 to December 31 1967 liii p671-1228 A-78p index 800 In 1957 acting on a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission the Office of the Federal Register began work on a uniform ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Johnny Appleseed Source Book By Robert C Harris Old Fort News Vol IX Nos 1 -2 The Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Fort Wayne Ind March-June 1945 31p Secretary of the Johnny Appleseed Memorial Commission of Fort Wayne vice-president of the Allen County Historical Society principal of the James H Smart School author inventor and civic leader Robert C Harris of Fort Wayne has for nearly fifteen years been doing a major service to Middle Western folklore by ...
... Historical News Historical News A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of the President's Civil War Centennial Commission was held in Washington DC on January 14-15 1958 Major General U S Grant 3d chairman of the commission presided at the sessions and Dr Bell I Wiley the distinguished Civil War historian of Atlanta Georgia made the keynote address The purpose of the commission is to lead the nation in a fitting celebration of the centennial of the Civil War At the meeting a thirteen-point program was outlined ...
... 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 ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Politics in Jacksonian Ohio Reflections on the Ethnocultural Interpretation Who voted for the two great political parties in Jacksonian Ohio Those historians who have asked this question have usually given two sorts of answers Some have seen the popular basis for the party division in essentially socioeconomic terms Occasionally they have detected a class conflict between rich and poor but more commonly they have followed Frederick Jackson Turner in seeing the ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 190-224 Copyright 2000 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 REVIEWS The National Road Edited by Karl Raitz Baltimore Maryland The Johns Hopkins University Press 1996 xviii 489p illustrations maps notes references appendices contributors index 3495 A Guide to the National Road Edited by ...
... ROGER D ROGER D BRIDGES John Sherman and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson In Irving Brant's recent study of the impeachment process by the United States Congress he characterized the Radical Republican attempt to remove Andrew Johnson from the presidency in 1868 as the most insidious assault on constitutional government in the nation's history It was Brant charged carried on in direct violation of the limitations deliberately placed in the Constitution to prevent such a happening If it had ...
... 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 ...
... KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT by ROBERT H BAHMER Every time I am introduced as an archivist I am reminded of the story that was written back in 1935 by one of the Washington newspaper columnists who writes about government people The story appeared shortly after the National Archives was established and our big building at Seventh and Pennsylvania Avenue was constructed The first archivist of the United States had just been appointed and there was some publicity about the ...
... CHRISTOPHER G CHRISTOPHER G WYE Merchants of Tomorrow The Other Side of the Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work Movement For the most part the racial ideologies expressed by black leaders during the nineteen thirties can be classified on a rough continuum from the traditionally conservative and accommodationist Urban League through the more activist and protest-oriented NAACP the labor movement and the rise of industrial unionism and finally the Socialist and Communist parties One ...
... The President and the Deacon in the Campaign of 1912 The Correspondence of William Howard Taft and James Calvin Hemphill 1911-1912 edited by WILLARD B GATEWOOD The reform impulse of the progressive movement strong and virile after a decade of growth dominated the political atmosphere in which the presidential campaign of 1912 took place So pervasive was its influence that the election turned out to be more of an intramural competition among various schools of progressive thought than a contest ...
... SALMON P SALMON P CHASE AND THE ELECTION OF 1860 BY DONNAL V SMITH CHAPTER I CHASE IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1 86 0 I shall ever strive to be first wherever I may be let what success will attend the effort So wrote Salmon P Chase in 1830 then a young attorney practicing with the famous Wirt firm in Washington1 Shortly after he moved to Cincinnati the Queen City of the West there to begin a life of political activity which in a few short years took him through the various changes of the old Whig party ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Workers in Industrial America Essays on the 20th Century Struggle By David Brody New York Oxford University Press 1980 ix 257p notes 1495 In recent years as the intellectual luster of the labor movement has dimmed and unions have become as attractive to scholars as say the Knights of Columbus labor historians have beat a hasty retreat Labor history has become working class history ethnic divisions social mobility and the consciousness or workers increasingly have ...