... Book Reviews Book Reviews Saving the Waifs Reformers and Dependent Children 1890-1917 By LeRoy Ashby Philadelphia Temple University Press 1984 xiii 336p notes bibliographical notes index 3795 This fine book reflects the current interest in dependent children private philanthropy and public policy and shares the hypothesis of other recent works that since child welfare is somehow at the heart of Progressive reformism understanding the child savers is key to understanding Progressivism In these ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Chase and the Governorship A Stepping Stone to the Presidency In January of 1854 Senator Salmon P Chase of Ohio wrote what he would soon refer to as the most valuable of my works1 The Appeal of the Independent Democrats helped to set in motion a series of events that led to the formation of the Republican party It also played a major role in Chase's own career as the new party soon offered him its nomination for Governor of Ohio For Chase however election as ...
... COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK COUNT BYRON KHUN DE PROROK Count Byron Khun de Prorok on the evening of January 28 1924 delivered his lecture in the audience room of the Elks' Club to an appreciative audience on the subject My Excavation of Ancient Carthage When the Count reached Columbus those interested in the lecture were surprised to find in him a very young man He might easily have passed without notice among the thousands of students at the Ohio State University He is still in his twenties ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Joe L Dubbert 43 Professor of History at Muskingum College died September 27 1983 after a valiant fight against cancer Born in Laurens Iowa Dr Dubbert pursued a fascination for rural American culture at Parsons College BA 1962 and the University of Minnesota PhD 1967 He joined the history department of Muskingum College in 1967 and has been credited with re-animating the study of American history at that institution Noted for his fairness his common sense ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA HISTORY OF THE MAUMEE RIVER BASIN There has just appeared from the press of Bowen amp Slocum Indianapolis and Toledo a History of the Maumee River Basin from the earliest account to its organization into counties The author is Dr Charles Elihu Slocum a life member of the Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society he has contributed many interesting and valuable articles to its Quarterly and for many years has been an indefatigable and enthusiastic student of ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Story of Independence By Grace Miller Elizabeth Spellman Kathryn Boyer and Robert Boyer Independence Ohio Independence Historical Society 1979 248p drawings photographs appendices bibliography index This book is an example of local narrative history at its best The authors have concentrated on the story of one town in Ohio's Western Reserve and the record of its changes and growth While the book begins with a brief discussion of the geographic ...
... AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BY ROSCOE H ECKELBERRY Assistant Professor Dept of History of Education Ohio State University The proposal by Governor Ethan Allen Brown of Ohio on January 8 1819 for the establishment of a state polytechnic school must have been one of the earliest in this country The early governors of Ohio like those of many of the other states were far ahead of the legislatures in their educational vision and their conviction of ...
... NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY NEWSPAPERS AND HISTORY By RAYMOND F FLETCHE R Time's out of joint when a newspaper man ventures to speak at an annual gathering of a great state historical society Whenever a member of the Fourth Estate appraises history he must agree with the sages that it is at the root of all science the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature the unrolled scroll of prophecy the record of man in quest of complete living What possible connection can there be between proud ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE The Ohio Election of 1838 A Study in the Historical Method Historians are not immune from occasionally making minor errors such as misreading the results of a state election Unfortunately due to the nature of the craft one historian's lapse may assume the status of historical fact once it finds its way into the secondary literature where the original slip suddenly takes on a life of its own Through sheer repetition by other scholars a historical myth is created that is ...
... MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER MARILYN VAN VOORHIS WENDLER Doctors and Diseases on the Ohio Frontier Nineteenth century Ohio historian Samuel Hildreth observed that As a class no order of men have done more to promote the good of mankind and develop the resources and natural history of our country than the physicians Hildreth likely referred to professional contributions in the field of natural science yet doctors also played an integral part in bringing civilization to the frontier Whether drawn ...
... BARBARA GROSECLOSE BARBARA GROSECLOSE Itinerant Painting In Ohio Origins and Implications Among the most intriguing features of Ohio's art history is the role of itinerant painting in the development of the region's arthow and why itinerant painting occurred what implications the itinerant experience had for the career of the individual artist and in what manner Ohio itinerant painting might have contributed to or be related to the growth of mainstream American painting Itinerant painting is ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Liberty Line The Legend of the Underground Railroad By Larry Gara Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1996 xiv 201p index Appropriately titled when originally published in 1961 this seminal work on one of America's most enduring legends is finally available in paperback edition Having researched written and lectured on this topic for nearly 50 years Professor Gara skillfully distinguishes fact and faction while chronicling the colorful and frequently misstated ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Wilderness For Sale The Story of the First Western Land Rush By Walter Havighurst New York Hastings House 1956 xii372p end paper maps abridged bibliography and index 450 Mr Havighurst who has already given us Upper Mississippi Land of Promise and other studies of the old Northwest now adds a sparkling new volume to his series It is a timely and welcome book The old America seems to be breaking up and moving West said Morris Birbeck an English emigrant in the year 1817 ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... Robert C Schenck and Robert C Schenck and The Emma Mine Affair By CLARK C SPENCE THE PLAYER WITH A WORTHLESS HAND had generally better begin by 'raising' when he goes in or else nobody will be likely to believe in his pretended strong hand Thus wrote Robert C Schenck celebrated author of Draw-poker in 18801 Schenck was of course referring to the game on which he was the country's foremost expert but this statement might also have been applied to another area within the field of his ...
... THE WOODBRIDGE-GALLAHER COLLECTION THE WOODBRIDGE-GALLAHER COLLECTION BY HARLOW LINDLEY Introductory The Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society recently secured a very unusual collection of material consisting of letters manuscripts journals account books maps pamphlets and books The manuscript collection consists of about 1100 items the most notable of which is the Woodbridge-Blennerhassett collection of approximately 600 items A word of explanation concerning the ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT THE SPRUCE RUN EARTHWORKS A FORGOTTEN ADENA SITE IN DELAWARE COUNTY OHIO by JAMES B GRIFFIN Director Museum of Anthropology University of Michigan The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has published many papers on Ohio archaeology for the purpose of preserving the history of the State's first inhabitants This short paper is a contribution to that end It should perhaps be a joint paper since the writer of the excavation report was one of Ohio's early historians ...
... JOHN E JOHN E MOSER Principles Without Program Senator Robert A Taft and American Foreign Policy When it came to domestic policy there was very little that was confusing about Senator Robert Alfonso Taft of Ohio 1889-1953 A die-hard conservative Taft remained up until his death a convinced enemy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the assault on the Constitution which he believed it to represent So solid were his political credentials that he came to be known widely as Mr Republican defining ...
... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 119 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 119 A TENTATIVE POLICY FOR OHIO'S STATE MEMORIALS By ERWIN C ZEPP Because of the recent origin and unprecedented growth of the movement it is difficult if not impossible to devise a definite policy for the preservation development and maintenance of human history sites as contrasted to natural history areas It thus becomes evident that whatever suggestions may be offered here are necessarily tentative in their nature ...