... GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN GEOLOGY AS A FACTOR IN HUMAN LIFE AND CHARACTER GERARD FOWKE Human history is a by-product of geology The earliest men fished in the rivers and the seas hunted in the mountains and the forests Shelter was as necessary as food and they had to live where they could find protection from inclement weather Where caves existed they were utilized where there was no such natural refuge an artificial one had to be provided This must be made of wood at first perhaps only of ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEATH OF HONORABLE DANIEL J RYAN Early Friday morning June 15 1923 Daniel Joseph Ryan Vice President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society breathed his last He had been in poor health for some time but the end came unexpectedly He passed without pain from the repose of sleep to the repose of death This announcement brings sadness to the members of ...
... HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY HONORARY AND LIFE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY HONORARY MEMBERS Baird Prof S F Washington D C Bancroft Hon Hubert Howe San Francisco Cala De Reune Mrs Mary Augusta Ga Gladden Washington DD LLD Columbus Howe Henry Columbus Nicholson Jno P Philadelphia Pa Putnam Prof F W Cambridge Mass Smucker Isaac Newark Winslow Rev Dr Wm Copley Boston Mass Whittlesey Col Chas Cleveland LIFE MEMBERS Barney E J Dayton Brown Benjamin S Columbus Burgess Solon Cleveland Collins W ...
... THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE THOMAS SMITH GRIMKE BY C B GALBREATH Beautiful in winter when the earth is robed in white beautiful in the springtime when the grass comes creeping everywhere when buds open and the robin and the bluebird are heard among the trees beautiful in the summer twilight when the foliage is dense and green when the katydid in the tree top in staccato song answers to the chirp of the cricket below when the well-kept mounds are decked with flowers sweet prophecies of the resurrection ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Collection Use and Care of Historical Photographs By Robert A Weinstein and Larry Booth Nashville American Association for State and Local History 1977 xiv 222p illustrations appendices bibliography index 1600 The authors of this work share a passionate interest in the preservation of the photographic past Their concerns are many their experience is wide and their enthusiasm is contagious For some time there has been a pressing need for a concise introduction to the ...
... 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 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Joe L Dubbert 43 Professor of History at Muskingum College died September 27 1983 after a valiant fight against cancer Born in Laurens Iowa Dr Dubbert pursued a fascination for rural American culture at Parsons College BA 1962 and the University of Minnesota PhD 1967 He joined the history department of Muskingum College in 1967 and has been credited with re-animating the study of American history at that institution Noted for his fairness his common sense ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 for the purpose of recapturing the lost arts of prehistoric man in the utilization of flint and other lithic materials and for the establishment of a laboratory of actual materials to be used for purposes of comparison This project it will be recalled was financed by Messrs Arthur C Johnson and H Preston Wolfe pending other sources of support The Director had hoped that the Lithic Laboratory might become a ...
... THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL Soon after the close of the World War it was realized that the growth of the Museum and the Library of the Society had reached the limits of available space and that additional room would be needed not only for the exhibits that were coming in larger measure from the archaeological field of work but for newspaper files and for the trophies documents pamphlets books papers and manuscripts relating to the World War In the years 1919 and 1920 the need ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART A Question of Authorship The Ephraim George Squier-Edwin Hamilton Davis Controversy In 1848 Ephraim George Squier a young ambitious eastern journalist and Dr Edwin Hamilton Davis a prominent western physician and antiquarian laid claim to world attention with publication of their classic monograph Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley As the first scholarly publication of the fledgling Smithsonian Institution the appearance of this Great American Work1 was a ...
... DANIEL NELSON DANIEL NELSON The Great Goodyear Strike of 1936 It was the first CIO strike a stepping stone toward the automobile industry an affirmation of the potentialities of the sit-down strike a case study of rank and file militancy and a remarkable example of the effects of non-violent agitation' Its beginnings were obscure its consequences uncertain The circumstances in which the strike was carried on and the method used rather than the immediate causes or results made it a turning ...
... Nelson Winter-Spring 2001 pp 5-25 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page The Ideal of Nature and the Good Farmer Louis Bromfield and the Quest for Rural Community By Philip J Nelson click to view larger image World War II and its aftermath dominated the 1940s as have few events in other decades ...
... 74 OHIO HISTORY 74 OHIO HISTORY and midwestern conditions4 Moreover there survives an excellent combination of materials describing the topic in the state documents which outline the structure of public finance and inspection in the BOSC reports written by Byers which graphically portray conditions in the institutions and conflicts between local governments and the state authorities and in Albert Byers's own diaries and a brief but interesting file of letters sent to him in his official ...
... SHIRLEY LECKIE SHIRLEY LECKIE Brand Whitlock and the City Beautiful Movement in Toledo Ohio We are hearing much of the city beautiful in these days wrote Brand Whitlock in 1912 Hardly a city or a town that has not its commission and its plans for a unified treatment of its parks for a civic center of some sort-in a word its dream To Whitlock who had recently appointed a second Toledo City Hall and Civic Center Commission these were the expression of that divine craving in mankind for harmony ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 5 1952 The Ohio Academy of History met at the Ohio State Museum Columbus April 5 at 1000 AM with Dr John Hall Stewart of Western Reserve University in the chair The morning session was devoted to a symposium on American Studies programs in American colleges and universities led by Dr Lyon N Richardson director of libraries at Western Reserve University At the luncheon meeting in Pomerene Hall Ohio State University Dr ...
... 362 Ohio Arch 362 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 4 A DESCRIPTION OF FORT ANCIENT WARREN KING MOOREHEAD The members of the Society and also the readers of THE ARCHAEOLOGIST have a special interest in the earthworks and enclosures of the Mississippi Valley The former are proud to be possessers and preservers in company with the State of Ohio of the most extensive prehistoric fortification of the United States The latter as students of antiquities are interested in facts obtained ...
... KATHLEEN M KATHLEEN M DILLON Painters and Patrons The Fine Arts in Cincinnati 1820-1860 In short we should foster western genius encourage western writers patronize western publishers augment the number of western readers and create a western heart1 -Daniel Drake 1833 Dr Daniel Drake a Cincinnati physician and public benefactor made his plea for a distinctly western culture at a gathering of Ohio and Kentucky teachers in 1833 If the arts received public support Drake believed Cincinnati and ...
... THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF THREE ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMIC LIFE OF CINCINNATI FROM 1815 TO 1840 By MAURICE F NEUFELD In contemporary America when the principles of capitalism are being challenged negatively by prolonged unemployment and positively through the social-planning projects of Russia the experience of an American metropolis during the early maturity of capitalism in the United States has peculiar significance to the historian Although the life of the United States centers so ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Banks or No Banks The Money Issue in Western Politics 1832-1865 By WILLIAM GERALD SHADE Detroit Wayne State University Press 1972 328p maps tables notes bibliography and index 1595 Banks or No Banks develops a new thesis from which to view the banking controversies of the mid-nineteenth century and the role of the bank issue in state politics Mr Shade looks at the social roots and proposes a broad social interpretation of the significance of the issue He also tries to ...