... ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 ESSAY AND COMMENT 213 sued however when the ruling class was so divided and inept or so committed to the use of sporadic unsuccessful force that it was unable to respond creatively to the challenges in time to produce peaceful reform The new youth class if indeed it can be defined as such presents a challenge to society to put into practice the best of its social political and religious ideals Nevertheless the youth class itself faces formidable tests Youth always has ...
... ROBERT S ROBERT S FOGARTY AND H ROGER GRANT Free Love in Ohio Jacob Beilhart and the Spirit Fruit Colony During the closing years of the nineteenth century Americans frequently read newspaper and magazine reports of a new wave of communitarianism Just as individuals of good hope united in the antebellum period to create the Bethels Zoars Fruitlands and other utopias colony building likewise flourished after the Civil War particularly during the cataclysmic depression of the mid1890s While ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President Harold E Wallin of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has been appointed curator of the museum maintained by the association in the Squire Rich house The secretary Mrs Walter S Lister reports that the society sponsored this year a contest for the junior class of the local high school for one-act plays on early Brecksville CLAR K COUNTY HISTORICAL ...
... strikebreakers strikes which forced many workers to sell their homes if a stoppage dragged too long they were raising families on wages which produced material comfort yet carried them only from paycheck to paycheck Furthermore all steelworkers knew that they were dependent on the company a point dramatically underscored on Black Monday 19 September 1977 when Youngstown Sheet and Tube ...
... LOUIS WEEKS LOUIS WEEKS John P Parker Black Abolitionist Entrepreneur 1827-1900 As historians attempt to set the record straight--to recite for Americans the involvement of black people in all aspects of our national life--they will since the recovery of his Autobiography now be able to include more on the contributions of yet another outstanding Negro John P Parker of Ripley Ohio1 To be sure a few students of American history have already mentioned Parker Henry E Baker of the United States ...
... Wilkey Winter-Spring 2003 pp 27-37 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Diversity and Woman Suffrage A Case Study of the Dayton Woman Suffrage Association in the 1912 Referendum Campaign By Cynthia Wilkey That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure unto themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise When Elizabeth Cady Stanton penned these famous words in 1848 little did she imagine that she would ...
... 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 ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 218-234 Copyright 2001 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 INDEX Volume 110 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QR S T UVW XY ABBOTT family of Geauga County Ohio 53 62 63 Abolition See antislavery movement Acts of God the Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg 191 ...
... A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH A LETTER OF RUFUS PUTNAM'S TO NEHEMIAH HUBBARD ESQUIRE A NON-RESIDENT PROPRIETOR OF MARIETTA OHIO Contributed by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR This letter written by Rufus Putnam1 the founder of the city of Marietta Ohio gives but an inkling of the many petty annoyances that beset a man of vision Here are all the little irksome things the exasperating delays and hindrances the mosquito bites of adversity such as irritated the men who hewed from the vast American ...
... PRESIDENT HARDING AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION by DAVID H JENNINGS Even as President-elect Warren Gamaliel Harding was bidding his Marion neighbors a tender moist-eyed farewell1 world affairs engulfed him With the exception of Lincoln said The Nation never have there been so many pressing and unsolved problems The New Republic described the pressures as truly awful2 Each problem was individually intense and was made more so from the neglect occasioned by Woodrow Wilson's illness ...
... MICHAL R MICHAL R BELKNAP The Fight for the Right to Counsel Too often the American bar has been as Adolf Berle once lamented an intellectual jobber and contractor rather than a moral force but there have been times when the bar has provided the country with highly principled and badly needed leadership1 In the early 1950s an era troubled by the anti-Communist excess known as McCarthyism many civil liberties and constitutional guarantees were in danger among them the right to counsel In order ...
... 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 ...
... EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE E F GREENMAN CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN EXCAVATION OF THE COON MOUND AND AN ANALYSIS OF THE ADENA CULTURE TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Introductory Note 369 General Features of the Coon Mound 370 Contents of the Mound 375 The Burial 375 The Tomb 379 The Gravel Circle 387 The Horizontal Log-Molds 392 The Passage 397 Reconstruction 4 00 Conclusion 408 The Adena ...
... strike the reader is just how busy a place the frontier really was Common frontier images include loneliness and isolation but while reading these essays one cannot help but notice the amount of human interaction westerners routinely engaged in Some authors posit the idea that these people knew each other better than we think they did The studies present a world of communication negotiation adaptation accommodation diplomacy and shifting ...
... strike someone's head The defense tried to show that Lott 31 Messenger November 17 1904 Journal November 17 1904 32 Grosvenor to Taft December 19 1904 Blanton Winship to George Davis October 10 1904 Davis to Taft December 30 1904 Taft to Grosvenor December 23 1904 AGO Brownsville 416 OHIO HISTORY 416 OHIO HISTORY was in camp during the shooting and that Corporal Nelson had clubbed Ohls33 The jury deliberated for three hours on the case and ...
... strike ready recognition to those well read on World War II Ernest J King George C Kenney Omar N Bradley Joseph Stilwell Carl A Spaatz Raymond Spruance and A Archer Vandegrift D Clayton James has identified these men along with William D Leahy Mark W Clark Ira C Eaker and Holland M Smith as key figures in the American high command of World War II James seeks to answer the question how did American high commanders attain their lofty positions ...
... HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS WILLIAM JACKSON ARMSTRONG Col W J Armstrong was inspector of the United States consulates under the administrations of President Grant He is the author of Siberia and the Nihilists The Heroes of Defeat etc - EDITOR The Mound Builder is still a mystery His story has not been told He is not yet intelligibly tangent to any known race He is not only prehistoric but unconnected His clues are shy and evasive lacking the thread of either written ...
... THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 THE CLEVELAND CONFERENCE OF 1861 by WILLIAM B HESSELTINE Professor of History University of Wisconsin and HAZEL C WOLF Instructor in History Manual Training High School Peoria Illinois The outbreak of the Civil War found a nation completely unprepared for the conflict The federal government had neither plans for conducting the war nor an organizational structure for implementing the plans In the first few weeks after Fort Sumter chaos mingled with confusion ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 97 ing of the necessity for propaganda Dr Grimm stressed the importance of missionary work among American youth Their minds must be educated and their wills motivated he said They face a new frontier even as did their progenitors they too are pioneers in new fields and if they know the task ahead of them they can--as did their forebears--arm themselves with faith and hope and the cooperative spirit and by so doing make ...
... strike in Youngstown in 1937 thereby incurring the wrath of the powerful union leader John L Lewis See Donaldson Martin L Davey 181-82 and Wittke History of Ohio VI 88 After two abortive attempts at the governorship in 1938 and 1940 Davey retired from politics He spent the last six years of his life running the family business in Kent where he died of a heart attack while playing bridge on March 31 1946 ...