... edited by edited by DONALD A HUTSLAR Crossroads The Xenia Tornado A Retrospective View It is possible to factually document the cataclysmic tornado which cut a path through southwestern Ohio on the third of April 1974 Pictures can show the destruction words convey the impressions of the participants There will be many publications of this nature What is difficult perhaps impossible to impart is the break in historic continuity such an event will produce particularly in a community such as ...
... Benjamin Lundy and the Great Benjamin Tappan Director Dwight D Eisenhower Pres Lib WIE N GARY A Early History of Columbus as State Capitol Univ of Toledo PhD hist dept WI LLEY LARRY G The Reverend John Rankin Early Ohio Antislavery Leader 17931866 Univ of Iowa PhD hist dept 108 OHIO HISTORY 108 OHIO HISTORY ZSOLDOS SILVIA T Thomas Ewing Sr A Political Biography Univ of Del PhD hist dept ...
... THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR THOMAS BUCHANAN READ AND THE CIVIL WAR The Story of Sheridan's Ride by HARVEY S FORD Head Librarian TOLEDO BLADE The phenomenal popularity of Sheridan's Ride lasted a long time Few poems have taken such a hold on the American people nor have there been many so well liked It is true that its popularity today is not what it once was and Sheridan's Ride does not appear as often as it used to in the textbooks for high school literature courses No longer is it ...
... RICHARD THEODORE BOEHM RICHARD THEODORE BOEHM Tod B Galloway Buckeye Jongleur Composer of The Whiffenpoof Song How did the music for Yale's famous Whiffenpoof Song come to be composed by an Amherst College grad in Central Ohio And how did the Columbus tune come to be matched to a New Haven college verse thence grow to become a part of the common heritage of the world of American music The answers emerge from a varied skein starting with homesick British soldiers serving in Victoria's India ...
... JED DANNENBAUM JED DANNENBAUM Immigrants and Temperance Ethnocultural Conflict in Cincinnati 1845-1860 In the United States the decade of the 1850s was marked by pronounced social and political upheaval Until recently most historians believed that this turmoil derived almost entirely from the issues of sectionalism and slavery which dominated American life in this era and which culminated in the Civil War However recent historical work at the state and local level has revealed that so-called ...
... THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL HISTORY TO THE THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL HISTORY TO THE COMMUNITY by HENRY CLYDE HUBBART Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University As we all know the day of the supremacy of political or national history has passed instead we have many historical categories The mighty torrent of history has been sluiced into various channels the economic the social the constitutional the international or diplomatic and more recently the intellectual the regional the local This is ...
... BOOK REVIEWS INDEX TO THE WILLIAM McKINLEY PAPERS The Library of Congress Presidents' Papers Index Series Washington Manuscript Division Reference Department Library of Congress 1963 x482p introduction and appendices 325 An index often is thought of as merely a finding list but this one functions in numerous ways Its most important functions are three-fold it testifies it terrifies and it teaches First as to its testimony It testifies to a growth in recognition of historical needs --by ...
... Benjamin Smith Jones had written for the occasion Yet if our Southern neighbor Shall follow here the track Of fugitives from labor WE WILL NOT GIVE THEM BACK 39 Pease and Pease Bound With Them 264 Anti-Slavery Bugle Oct 12 1850 40 Anti-Slavery Bugle Sept 28 1850 41 Oliver Johnson to Joshua R Giddings March 22 1851 Joshua R Giddings Papers Ohio Historical Society Columbus 50 OHIO HISTORY 50 O HIO HI STORY No laws of Congress ever Shall blood ...
... Benjamin Tappan Director Eisenhower Presidential Library RESEARCH PROJECTS COVERING THE PERIOD 1860-1920 BARKLEY KAY Biographies of Pioneers in Early Cincinnati Medical History Librarian Cincinnati Jewish Hospital BAXTER JOSEPH R Urbanization in Cincinnati 1850-1880 Univ of Cincinnati PhD hist dept Research-in-Progress 299 Research-in-Progress 299 BECKER CARL M The Industrial Life of Dayton Ohio 1830-1910 Univ of Cincinnati PhD hist dept ...
... BOOK R EVIEWS THE MAKING OF URBAN AMERICA A HISTORY OF CITY PLANNING IN THE UNITED STATES By John W Reps Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xv574p illustrations maps bibliography and index 2500 This massively documented beautifully illustrated book is a masterful historical survey of a long-neglected subject John Reps professor of city and regional planning at Cornell University has successfully traced from European antecedents through colonial and nineteenth-century experiments the ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 401 that I know of in Columbus still resting in the old desk where its owner a distinguished scientific man of Ohio left it over thirty years ago still undisturbed unless it be by the prying fingers of curious little grandchildren The men who settled this region preserved the letters received by them and in cases of importance copies of their own letters These should be found published or copied ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Ohio in Homespun and Calico By I T Frary Richmond Virginia Garrett and Massie 1 942 1 48 p 200 This is a saga of common people says the author of Ohio in Homespun and Calico in presenting his latest literary product to the reader I T Frary does not sing of arms and the hero but of the sturdy pioneering Ohioans who bore the burden of building a commonwealth and of whom as a bearer of their tradition he is justly proud I like those simple people who were mine a few ...
... Benjamin Tappan Other essays include Nicole Etcheson's discussion of the influence of Upland Southerners on Midwestern political culture Donald J Ratcliffe's analysis of the market revolution and party alignments 1828 to 1840 Stephen E Maizlish's assessment of sectional politics in Ohio Frederick J Blue and Robert McCormick's treatment of the reform efforts of Norton Strange Townsend Vernon L Volpe's interpretation of John C Fremont's 1856 ...
... Benjamin Quarles Black Abolitionist New York 1970 Carter G Woodson The Negro in Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War Journal of Negro History 1 January 1916 1-22 Richard Wade The Negro in Cincinnati Journal of Negro History 39 January 1954 43-55 John Bracey Jr August Meier and Elliott Rudwick eds Blacks in The Abolitionist Movement Belmont Calif 1970 Robert A Warner New Haven Negroes A Social History New Haven 1940 E Horace Fitchett The ...
... Benjamin Townsend bk note 78 Benjamin F 90 Butterfield Benjamin Townsend bk note 78 Benjamin The Refugee or The Benjamin Quarles 86 Lincoln Benjamin Lincoln and the
... THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE THE STRATEGIC BACKGROUND OF THE NORTHERN SOLOMONS CAMPAIGN by JOHN MILLER Assistant Chief Pacific Unit Historical Division Department of the Army Behind nearly every military operation of the second World War lay months of careful planning In the South Pacific for example the preparations for the seizure of New Georgia a battle in which Ohio's 37th Division distinguished itself occupied the planning staffs of several army and navy headquarters for six months The ...
... a 422 EXPLORATION OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP EXPLORATION OF THE MOUND CITY GROUP BY WILLIAM C MILLS INTRODUCTORY NOTE Probably no other American prehistoric earthwork has excited so great a degree of historic interest as the so-called Mound City group of Ross County Ohio Certainly from the prehistoric viewpoint it stands unsurpassed Through the partial examination of the group in 1846 by Squier and Davis and the publication of the report in Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Scott Nearing An Intellectual Biography By John A Saltmarsh Philadelphia Temple University Press 1991 xii 337p illustrations notes manuscript sources bibliography index 3995 Loving and Leaving the Good Life By Helen Nearing Post Mills Vermont Chelsea Green Publishing Company 1992 197p illustrations selected bibliography 1995 Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Nonfiction Reader Edited by Larry Ceplair New York Columbia University Press 1991 xi 345p notes bibliography index ...
... NANCY SAHLI NANCY SAHLI A Lost Portrait Frank Duveneck Paints Elizabeth Blackwell Frank Duveneck was probably Ohio's best known artist during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and is certainly one whose reputation has been sustained to the present day Born in Covington Kentucky in 1848 he began his career decorating churches in the United States and Canada In 1870 he traveled to Munich to study with Wilhelm von Diez returning three years later to Cincinnati By 1877 Duveneck's ...
... 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 ...