... WILLIAM E WILLIAM E GIENAPP Salmon P Chase Nativism and the Formation of the Republican Party in Ohio Accounts of the formation of the Republican party traditionally emphasize the political upheaval of 1854 In this year the party first took shape in Michigan and Wisconsin and in several other states fusion anti-Nebraska coalitions which are often viewed as protoRepublican organizations contested the fall elections1 Certainly the momentous political events of that year unleashed forces that ...
... 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 ...
... strikes a delicate balance of temperament in the first chapter and maintains it happily throughout--making the story not overly somber reading but rather a satisfying unit of many emotions The sea is the destiny of Soren as it is of anyone says Suzanne in whose veins runs seawater As a child Soren is thrilled yet affrighted by its mystery and beauty as a man he loses his Suzanne to it and is empty in his loneliness in midyears he seeks and ...
... FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE FISH-HOOKS FOUND AT THE BAUM VILLAGE SITE A COMPARISON WITH THOSE FOUND AT MADISONVILLE AND OTHER PARTS OF THE STATE BY W C MILLS The Baum Prehistoric Village Site is situated in the western part of Ross County Ohio near the small village of Bournville and is located upon one of the gravel terraces in the valley of Paint Creek For two years during the months of July and August the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society has been exploring in ...
... 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 ...
... PATRICK F PATRICK F CALLAHAN Women Higher Education and the Home Front Women Students at the University of Cincinnati during World War II As the University of Cincinnati marked the first anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor Dean of Women Katherine Ingle told the women students assembled at the Women's Convocation that We are surrounded by danger but there is also opportunity opportunity such as has come to no other generation of women to no other race of women1 Ingle foresaw the coming ...
... 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 ...
... THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD THE BALLAD OF 'JAMES BIRD ITS AUTHORSHIP BY C B GALBREATH In a contribution entitled The Battle of Lake Erie in Ballad and History the writer of this article in 1911 related the story of James Bird and reproduced the old ballad commemorating his heroic service on board the Lawrence and his tragic death a year later for desertion on the Niagara In commenting on this quaint pathetic ballad it was assumed to have been written by a bard unlearned and unknown but not ...
... 234 Ohio Arch 234 Ohio A rch and Hist Society Publications right we must be just as scrupulous in doing justice to the man of great wealth as in exacting justice from him Wrongdoing is confined to no class Good and evil are to be found among both rich and poor and in drawing the line among our fellows we must draw it on conduct and not on worldly possessions Woe to this country if we ever get to judging men by anything save their worth as men without regard to their fortune in life In other ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Forgotten Hero General James B McPherson the Biography of a Civil War General By Elizabeth J Whaley New York Exposition Press 1955 203p appendix bibliography and index 350 In view of the avid continuing absorption of Americans in their own Civil War and its leading figures it is indeed curious that James Birdseye McPherson has not attracted a substantial biographer before now Certainly he had many attractions about him and much to admire--a brilliant mind standing ...
... THE GATEWAYS TO FORT ANCIENT THE GATEWAYS TO FORT ANCIENT BY THOS J BROWN During a recent visit to Fort Ancient after a period of several years I was greatly impressed by the improvements that have taken place there since I have been acquainted with the fort My visits to it were begun forty-seven years ago and have been repeated at short intervals until late years then not so often When I first saw it and continuing until about the time the State acquired title to it it was one of the most ...
... AN UNKNOWN GRAVE AN UNKNOWN GRAVE JOHN JAMES PIATT The following poem with preface was read by Mr Piatt at the Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society S A R held at the Columbus Club on the evening of April 19 1904 On the title page of an interesting volume of family history recently published at Columbus I read two sentencesthe first from Edmund Burke Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity The other is from the Bible Children's ...
... strike them off from the press correct the errors of composition and syntax and finally secure a clean proof which the next day he carried to his teacher In later years he said that his boyhood custom had given him his unusual vocabulary and remarkable precision in spelling With his entrance into the public schools of Columbus there sprang into life his innate tendency for the journalistic With one of his playmates he edited and published a ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The meeting of the society in March was addressed by Rabbi Milton Schulman who spoke on The Clothing Industry in the Midwest 1850-1870 in April a former resident of Allen County James O Montague now of Milwaukee Wisconsin spoke on Seventy Years In and Out of Allen County The April issue of the Reporter included an article on Bicycling in Lima 1880-1894 by Ferne M Longsworth It ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX The Bank Wars the Idea of Party and the Division of the Electorate in Jacksonian Ohio Among the recent interpretations that have reinvigorated Jacksonian studies two in particular have proved to be central to understanding that period first that the Bank of the United States and banking in general were issues with more political than economic significance and second that it was during the Jacksonian era that Americans learned to accept the legitimacy and competitive ...
... 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 ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 70 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 19 61 From Free-Love to Catholicism Dr and Mrs Thomas L Nichols At Yellow Springs By PHILIP GLEASON AS THE SLAVERY controversy grew more intense in the mid1850's many of the reform movements which had preoccupied large numbers of Americans in the previous decade were submerged in the mainstream of the antislavery movement Yet currents of reform not connected with antislavery did persist and one of the most ...
... strikebreakers In the main the 38 Ibid Spurgeon Bell and Ralph J Watkins Industrial and Commercial Ohio I The Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research College of Commerce and Administration 1928 148 165-68 24 OHIO HISTORY 24 OHIO HISTORY great majority of Afro-Americans continued as their pre-1910 counterparts had done to hold non-union menial and unskilled jobs And as already noted there were few apprentices being trained for other ...
... AboutSA2002 Summer-Autumn 2002 Contents Editorial Staff and Advisory Board Instructions for Authors OHS Board of Trustees PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 101 Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler by Louis W Potts PDF of this article 121 The Political Judge Justice John McLeans Pursuit of the Presidency by Thomas E Carney PDF of this article ...