... 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 ...
... ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN ARNOLD HENRY DOHRMAN BY A J MORRISON TOLEDO The following extracts1 will explain themselves and will serve to throw light upon the circumstances of the grant by the Old Congress to Arnold Henry Dohrman of a township in the southeastern part of Tuscarawas County 1780 I Report of Committee of Foreign Affairs June 21 1780 to whom was referred a letter of 23rd May from Mr P Henry late governor of Virginia to-wit Arnold Henry Dohrman hath expended large sums of money in ...
... TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 Mendel Thomas Huxley Ernst Haeckel Johann Meckel Georges Cuvier and Sir Richard Owen This period witnessed also the founding of the science of anthropology which was a definite outgrowth of the biologic and evolutionary thinking of the nineteenth century The biological aspect of anatomy nurtured in European and especially in German universities was brought to the United States during the latter years of the nineteenth century by ...
... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E GIENAPP Salmon P Chase Nativism and the Formation of the Republican Party in Ohio Accounts of the formation of the Republican party traditionally emphasize the political upheaval of 1854 In this year the party first took shape in Michigan and Wisconsin and in several other states fusion anti-Nebraska coalitions which are often viewed as protoRepublican organizations contested the fall elections1 Certainly the momentous political events of that year unleashed forces that ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications it to go beyond what is now the confines of Pickaway Township Further the Cresaps of the present are of the opinion that Logan should have been consistent with the words of his message by his attendance at the Treaty when only six miles distant notwithstanding his threatening note of July 1774 to Captain Michael Cresap tied to a War Club and left in the house of Roberts after Logan had massacred the family Also Logan was inconsistent ...
... Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition Ohio Day at the Jamestown Exposition 175 thusiastic way which ever distinguishes Southern hosts in receiving their guests Governor Swanson's remarks entirely extemporaneous were among the most brilliant and eloquent which the writer has ever heard upon a similar occasion The Governor dwelt at some length upon the respective histories of Ohio and Virginia their ties of relationship Ohio being practically the first born child of Virginia and in periods of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews On the Making of Americans Essays in Honor of David Riesman Edited by Herbert J Gans Nathan Glazer Joseph R Gusfield and Christopher Jencks Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1979 xiii 350p bibliography of Riesman's publications note on contributors 2500 There is some question to what extent this high-priced volume actually does honor to David Riesman the facile generalizations and chatty tone of about half the essays mar the quality of thefestshrift Joseph ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 65 NUMBER 3 JULY 1956 A New Horizon in History By BRUCE CATTON When Ulysses the wise old man of Greek mythology prepared to take off on his final voyage beyond the sunset he summed up his knowledge of life in the one remark I am a part of all that I have met By this I suppose Ulysses was simply saying that history was not a thing apart from him He had lived he had contributed his bit to the life of his times and in turn had ...
... ROBERT A ROBERT A WHEELER The Literature of the Western Reserve The northeastern portion of Ohio known variously as New Connecticut as the Western Reserve of Connecticut or simply as the Western Reserve has been viewed as a unique area by observers from the eighteenth century to the present The region's distinctiveness stems from its homogenous founding population of transplanted New Englanders whose firm hold determined its culture Writers often agreed these migrants implanted a set of values ...
... Race Principles and Policy of Rutherford B Hayes by GEORGE SINKLER When Rutherofrd B Hayes came to the presidency the race problem was waiting in all its urgency The subject was by no means new to him As an Ohio Congressman at the very beginning of his political career he endorsed the Radical program of reconstruction In unemotional terms this meant having a penchant for Negro rights and the preservation of the political power of the Republican party though not necessarily in that order1 A ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Lincoln the President Springfield to Gettysburg By J G Randall New York Dodd Mead amp Company 19 45 2 v 750 Although biographies of Abraham Lincoln have been written in great profusion this work based on documentary sources and a reevaluation of previously published materials offers what might be termed a revisionist point of view or more properly a restoration of historical truth The author conceiving his purpose as both biography and history has employed the ...
... JON GLASGOW JON GLASGOW The Westward Expansion of the Manufacturing Belt The Ohio Machine Tool Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century For more than sixty years the Manufacturing Belt has been recognized as an important feature of the human geography of the United States Early studies mostly by geographers1 delimited the current areal extent of the region-roughly a quadrilateral with corners at St Louis Minneapolis Portland Maine and Richmond Later attention shifted from description to ...
... ROBERTA MENDEL ROBERTA MENDEL Carl Frederick Wittke Versatile Humanist There're too many do-gooders and organizers and not enough quiet humanitarians among us Cleveland Sun Press November 18 1971 Native Ohioan Carl Frederick Wittke distinguished himself in many areas of academe At such Ohio institutions of higher learning as Ohio State University Oberlin and Western Reserve University he is recognized as an outstanding teacher administrator and mediator Nationally he is remembered as an ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Civilization of the Old Northwest 1788-1812 By Beverley W Bond Jr The Macmillan Company New York 1934 543p 350 Dr Bond Professor of History in the University of Cincinnati has made a real contribution to the history of Ohio and the Old Northwest in this book in which he presents a careful study of the political social and economic history of this region between 1788 and 1812 The book is divided into fourteen chapters dealing with the basis for civilization the lure of ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2003 pp 93-112 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Alphabetical List of Titles All for the Regiment The Army of the Ohio 1861-1865 By Gerald J Prokopowicz Reviewed by Brian D McKnight Architecture in the United States By W Barksdale Maynard Reviewed by Richard Francaviglia Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade Volumes I and II By Timothy J Kent Reviewed by David A Simmons A Brilliant ...
... CLEVELAND DOCTORS AND THEIR FEES CLEVELAND DOCTORS AND THEIR FEES ABOUT 184 0 By HOWARD DITTRICK In determining the period of an undated Cleveland Fee Table presented to the Museum of the Cleveland Medical Library by Henry Schuman of New York the writer became interested not only in the Table itself but also in the signers of this document and the conditions under which they practiced Some factors leading to the publication of such a list of charges are to be discussed here an endeavor will be ...
... STEPHEN M STEPHEN M MILLETT Charles E Ruthenberg The Development of an American Communist 1909-1927 The Communist Party of America was the product of native radicalism and a foreign ideology that inflamed extremists world wide after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia In the United States many Socialists who had resisted American involvement in the First World War on moral and ideological grounds later saw the Bolshevik experiment as man's only hope for international peace class ...
... 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 ...
... COMMERCIAL VS COMMERCIAL VS SCIENTIFIC COLLECTING A PLEA FOR ART FOR ART'S SAKE WARREN K MOOREHEAD Curator of Archaeology Phillips Academy Andover Mass It occurs to me that so far as it could be accomplished without infringing upon the rights of individuals museum curators should combine against dealers in archeological specimens There seem to be two classes of these men and the one should not be confounded with the other Of recent years the dealers of archaeologic specimens have increased to ...
... JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION JUDGE TOURGEE AND RECONSTRUCTION By RUSSEL B NYE Albion Winegar Tourgee Ohioan novelist political thinker soldier editor jurist and diplomat was a man whose comments upon the political and social questions of the late nineteenth century form an interesting chapter in the development of American thought Born in Williamsfield Ohio in 1838 of Huguenot German and Yankee stock he spent a normal boyhood amid the farms and villages of northern Ohio1 After study at ...