... CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER 1796-1830 by WALTER SUTTON Department of English University of Rochester Cincinnati was a frontier village with one newspaper and a population of 500 when the first book published in the territory lying north and west of the Ohio River came from the press of William Maxwell in 1796 The log-cabin settlement on a north bend of the Ohio River was only six years old Six more years were to pass before it ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL AAISW See Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers Akron Beacon Journal 33 Akron OH 6-36 illustrations 7 Akron Times Press 23 Allegheny Allegeny Mountain 102-03 129 141 Allegheny Allegeny River 140 Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers AAISW 37-51 Amalgamated Clothing Workers 25 American Antiquarian Society 58-59 66 American Antiquarian Society Transactions 58 American Ceramics Before 1930 A Bibliography compiled by Ruth Irwin Weidner ...
... SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION by JAMES B CONANT President of Harvard University We are gathered here tonight I take it because we believe that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to be always a child I count it a privilege to give the address at this annual dinner of a society dedicated to a furtherance of the study of the history of this state I am particularly glad to be here when you are dedicating a new addition to your building ...
... CHRISTOPHER G CHRISTOPHER G WYE Merchants of Tomorrow The Other Side of the Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work Movement For the most part the racial ideologies expressed by black leaders during the nineteen thirties can be classified on a rough continuum from the traditionally conservative and accommodationist Urban League through the more activist and protest-oriented NAACP the labor movement and the rise of industrial unionism and finally the Socialist and Communist parties One ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Dangerous Relations The Soviet Union in World Politics 1970-1982 By Adam B Ulam New York Oxford University Press 1983 vi 325p notes index 2500 In a recent study of American diplomatic historiography Jerald Combs had some difficulty deciding if Adam Ulam had revisionist leanings or belonged firmly to the orthodox camp No such doubts could follow from Ulam's most recent study a continuation chronologically of his Expansion and Coexistence and the Rivals Ulam sees a ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 467 novelist The Stockport Brass Band interspersed the program with musical selections It was a unique and interesting event in the history of the society as this is the first time that the society has come into the possession of a purely historic site The proceedings with the speeches in detail will be published in the January Quarterly of the society The society will proceed without delay to protect the site with a fitting enclosure making it an attractive place of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Johnny Appleseed Source Book By Robert C Harris Old Fort News Vol IX Nos 1 -2 The Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society Fort Wayne Ind March-June 1945 31p Secretary of the Johnny Appleseed Memorial Commission of Fort Wayne vice-president of the Allen County Historical Society principal of the James H Smart School author inventor and civic leader Robert C Harris of Fort Wayne has for nearly fifteen years been doing a major service to Middle Western folklore by ...
... JESUP W SCOTT AND A WEST OF CITIES by CHARLES N GLAAB Nineteenth-century writing about the meaning of the American westward movement often emphasizes primitive romantic or agrarian sides of this national experience In the West the American casts off the bonds of Old Europe struggles against elemental forces of nature finds republican virtue in the freehold and adopts the values of an agricultural society Scholars justifiably have paid considerable attention to these conceptions themes to be ...
... 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 ...
... PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION PIONEER PHYSICIANS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS IN OHIO By ROBERT G PATERSON PhD Participation of the pioneer physicians in the establishment of social institutions in Ohio during the period 1788-1835 was sporadic without long term vision and was born of the immediate necessities of the times Almost without exception such participation was confined to a few outstanding medical men They were as a rule men of ...
... Edilorialana Edilorialana 121 order the numerous and important historical events that transpired in his county The little book is illustrated and has a large folding map of the territory which it treats Auglaize county was a sort of geographical and historical pivotal point in Ohio It was the chief gate way for Indians and whites between Lake Erie and the Ohio river for sixtyfive years 1749-1814 The reader should remember that the Maumee rises in the southern part of our county Auglaize south ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN OHIO This is the title of a book which has long been in demand by citizens of Ohio and many beyond the borders of that state who have learned through tradition or otherwise that their Revolutionary ancestors came to this state and are probably buried here The arduous work of collecting material for this volume was undertaken by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the ...
... 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 ...
... RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO by BERNARD MANDEL Fenn College Cleveland Ohio Foremost in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution was the guarantee that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof This amendment however was not a conclusive establishment of religious freedom for three reasons First it was a statement of principle which was accepted in theory but often ...
... Emilius Oviatt Randall Emilius Oviatt Randall 85 It is fitting that Mr Hooper should speak for the Club on this occasion Mr Hooper is a charter member of the Club was its first President and has been for many years its Secretary and active Executive I have the privilege of presenting Mr Osman C Hooper RANDALL OUR PRESIDENT BY OSMAN C HOOPER Secretary of the Kit-Kat Club The Kit-Kat Club meets today in sorrow Death has entered our circle and taken our President Emilius Oviatt Randall who ...
... SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY1 BY CLARENCE E CARTER MIAMI UNIVERSITY The rise of historiography in the trans-Alleghany states in the first half of the nineteenth century follows the order of development so familiar in every national experience European as well as American in which annalists antiquarian compilers and composers of didactic narrative successively emerge This conventional order of succession is observable moreover in the American colonies and ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies CAMPUS MARTIUS MUSEUM Edith S Reiter Curator On May 2 the Museum was the subject of the second of a series of semimonthly broadcasts given over station WMOA by the Marietta Chamber of Commerce The broadcasts are done in the manner of the Information Please broadcast Questions were on the Museum its exhibits and the early history of Marietta CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Charles Stickell President The annual birthday party of the ...
... Think Kindly of Think Kindly of Us of the South A LETTER TO WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN edited by LEE N NEWCOMER The following letter to William Tecumseh Sherman dates from a short and almost forgotten era of United States history the few years following the Civil War in which the South thought well of General Sherman Southern liking for Sherman though short-lived was well-grounded in fact Before the war Sherman taught at what later became Louisiana State University he liked the southerners and ...
... JAMES H JAMES H LEE The Ohio Agricultural Commission 1913-1915 When James M Cox assumed the governorship for the first time in 1913 Ohio agriculture was passing through a period of rapid transition The demographic expansion of the late nineteenth century had inflated land values and crop prices a trend which converted agriculture into a potentially highly profitable enterprise Ohio farmers responded by gradually transforming themselves into rural businessmen they specialized developed more ...
... 266 Ohio Arch 266 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sentiment has not been aroused to the point of appreciation and to a large degree self-support is too frequently committed Respectfully submitted Signed H R MCPHERSON The report was ordered received and placed on file REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS The Chairman of the Committee Mr John R Horst read the following report Your committee on Ohio Early School Books respectfully reports that it has completed a fair ...