... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXIV No 2 APRIL 1915 RECENT DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Doctor Edward C Mills Columbus Ohio presented to the library a number of volumes pertaining to Ethnology Mr D H Gard presented to the library his private library consisting upwards of 3000 volumes on Americana This library will be cared for in a separate alcove known as the Gard Alcove The heirs of the late General Roeliff Brinkerhoff President Emeritus of the Society presented to the Library a large ...
... ROBERT EARNEST MILLER ROBERT EARNEST MILLER War Within Walls Camp Chase and the Search for Administrative Reform The historical literature about Civil War military prisons can be divided into three major categories prisoners' accounts accounts of the camp administrators and subsequent historical analyses1 Interest in how captives lived in these prisons North and South has never abated The historian's desire to find out what prison life was really like however has been frustrated by the utter ...
... PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND OF THE MONTEZUMAS1 BURIED deep in the wildernesses of Mexico and Central America innumerable ruined cities await in silence the coming of the explorer-deserted temples and crumbling pyramids builded so-far back in the twilight of time that not a tradition remains of their founders In Yucatan alone no less than sixty-seven prehistoric cities have been discovered despite the fact that this wildest territory of Mexico ...
... Benjamin Logan and Isaac Shelby He was however an important pioneer in the great western movement which crossed the Appalachian Book Reviews 327 Book Reviews 327 and settled the Kentucky country Today Harrodsburg stands as a monument to his efforts James Harrod was born in Pennsylvania and was intimately associated with those events which made the upper Ohio Valley history so important He was for a time a scout and fur trader going as far ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS AMERICA'S FRONTIER HERITAGE By Ray Allen Billington Histories of the American Frontier Series edited by Ray Allen Billington New York Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc 1966 xiv302p end notes and bibliography 575 In his Westward Expansion one of the standard texts on the westward movement to 1900 Ray Billington traces in narrative fashion and with near encyclopedic detail the history of the United States from the Atlantic to the Pacific The two shortest chapters are the first ...
... 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 ...
... PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF PRESENTATION OF PORTRAITS OF AMERICAN INDIANS BY GENERAL EDWARD ORTON JR During the spring of 1924 an exhibit of the work of a rising young American artist Mr W Langdon Kihn of New York was shown in this city and was found to consist wholly of original portraits of American Indians made from life in their own homes under conditions which reduced their natural embarrassment timidity or superstitious fear of portraiture to a minimum thus greatly favoring truthful and ...
... Benjamin Franklin Cutler's letters make three main points First and foremost he was a firm believer in scientific observation and experimentation All natural phenomena that he encountered intrigued him For the last half of his life he sought to collect and publish a complete botanical catalog of New England Second his terms in Congress 1801-1804 caused him not only physical discomfort asthma but alarmed him He prophesized the moment Louisiana ...
... Benjamin P Thomas A Unique Benjamin P Thomas Editor's Preface to 1938 Edition reprinted in facsimile Life Bloomington 1960 xv-xvi Thomas was reporting from Lincoln's original letter to Galloway in the Illinois State Historical Library 13 Six speeches in the following order formed an appendix to Howells' Life Cincinnati September 1859 House of Representatives June 1848 Reply to Douglas ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin Lundy his Benjamin Rush For cross-reference purposes names or words which appear elsewhere in the volume as independent entries are printed in small caps instead of being followed by qv The idea is not without merit but it does not emerge unscathed For example the authors 434 Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 434 Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly ...
... Benjamin Rush was one of his professors began practice in Cincinnati and then embarked on a teaching career that found him alternately at The Cincinnati College the Medical College of Ohio Transylvania University in Lexington and The Louisville Medical Institute and then took him back to the East for one year at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia This volume however provides still another side to Drake that of orator for which he was ...
... Benjamin Lundy and the Great Benjamin Tappan Director Dwight D E i senhower Presidential Library WIEN GARY A Early History of Columbus as State Capitol Univ of Toledo PhD hist dept WILLEY LARRY G The Reverend John Rankin Early Ohio Anti-Slavery Leader 17931866 Univ of Iowa PhD hist dept ZSOLDOS SILVIA T Thomas Ewing S r A Political Biography Univ of Delaware PhD hist dept RESEARCH PROJECTS ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE GINTHER MOUND H C SHETRONE CURATOR OF ARCHAEOLOGY The type of prehistoric tumuli known variously as Temple mounds Platform mounds Truncated mounds and Flat-topped mounds has furnished substance for much speculation in the archaeological literature of Ohio The early attitude of writers on the subject may be summarized in the words of Squier and Davis whose opinion is expressed as follows So far as ascertained they cover no remains and seem ...
... 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 ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEP H SON Since the last summary this department has accomplished a general check-up on accessioned and unaccessioned manuscript materials with an interfiling of collections in the manuscript vaults so that all collections cataloged and uncataloged are now filed in one alphabetical arrangement Temporary cards were made for the uncataloged collections and these are now in the Manuscript Catalog This was done to simplify housing of collections and ...
... Benjamin T Reilly Washington D C from Italy in 1839 we see this ingenious Yankee stonecutter later to be the most famous American artist of the nineteenth century at the beginning of an energetic ambitious and rather homesick second year in Italy He had gone to Florence by way of Washington in 1837 modeling Jackson and Webster and taking along the clay versions to be cut in pure Carrara marble Although the celebrated nude Greek Slave was his ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Adena People No 2 By William S Webb and Raymond S Baby with chapters by Charles E Snow and Robert M Goslin Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1957 xi123p illustrations map chart tables bibliography and index Paper 300 This attractive well organized and well executed volume summarizes the current views of the authors concerning the Adena people and their culture in the Ohio Valley Data from forty-nine new Adena sites for the most ...
... BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 BELLAMY NATIONALISM IN OHIO 1891 TO 1896 by WILLIAM F ZORNOW Instructor in History Case Institute of Technology One aspect of the Progressive movement which is of special interest is the growth of native radicalism as distinct from imported Marxism In this movement Edward Bellamy became one of the chief spokesmen He was a utopian socialist who believed in planning regimentation efficiency and the nationalization of all industry but he also hoped to ...