... GEORGE C GEORGE C RABLE William T Sherman and the Conservative Critique of Radical Reconstruction Paradoxes abound The avenging angel of the Union whose army made not only Georgia but the Carolinas howl became the generous conciliator after Appomattox The insecure general who loathed partisan machination was sucked into the maelstrom of Washington politics The arch-enemy of the Confederacy turned into the friend of his fallen foes A superb subject for psychological analysis William Tecumseh ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews American Business and Foreign Policy 1920-1933 By JOAN HOFF WILSON Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 xvii 339p notes bibliography and index 1250 Since 1929 the preoccupation of historians with the role and ideology of business in American life has been intense Studies of the Gilded Age such as those by Matthew Josephson and Charles Beard looked upon businessmen as robber barons in domestic affairs During the isolationist decade capitalists became those ...
... compiled by compiled by DAVID R LARSON Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS BELL OLIVER History of Ohio seventh grade school text Research Associate Educational Research Council DITTBRENNER CURTIS H Guide to County and Municipal Government Records in Ohio Archives Specialist Ohio Hist Society DOOLEN RICHARD M THOMAS H SMITH and HARRY R STEVENS Readings and Sources in Ohio History Hist profs Ohio Univ LARSON DAVID R Reference Guide to Researching Ohio History ...
... GREGORY L GREGORY L CRIDER William Dean Howells and the Gilded Age Socialist in a Fur-lined Overcoat William Dean Howells was among the foremost of several latenineteenth century novelists including Mark Twain and Hamlin Garland who left small midwestern towns to seek their literary fortunes in the East Esteemed as a first-rank novelist the Father of American Realism and the nation's most prominent literary critic he became a celebrated symbol of Gilded Age culture When four hundred guests ...
... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN LAWRENCE GROSSMAN In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood The Career of Peter H Clark Peter H Clark was one of the most prominent black leaders of the nineteenth century Working as a schoolteacher he emerged as a champion of the antebellum Negro community in Cincinnati achieved recognition after the Civil War as one of the leading black men of Ohio and became a figure of national importance in racial matters by the 1880s Though Clark's fame proved ephemeral an understanding ...
... THE MOTIVATION OF A RADICAL REPUBLICAN BENJAMIN F WADE by HANS L TREFOUSSE As David Donald the biographer of Charles Sumner has so clearly pointed out in the historiography of the Civil War and Reconstruction there is no group which has been traduced more consistently than the radical Republicans1 Called Jacobins and Vindictives cold-blooded demagogs and irresponsible self-seekers they have been accused of sins ranging from rabble rousing to incitement to murder from near treason to ...
... 272 Ohio Arch 272 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO One of the most interesting developments in connection with Ohio's preparations for carrying on a successful war has been the appointment of the Historical Commission by Governor James M Cox It is the function of the Historical Commission to collect and preserve the records from which a history of Ohio in the Great War may eventually be compiled The appointment is a recognition of the fact that a people ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY A HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION A SHORT HISTORY OF CHINESE CIVILIZATION BY RICHARD WILHELM TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY JOAN JOSHUA VIKING PRESS NEW YORK This is a single volume which covers the entire subject in 284 pages In his preface the author states that works previously published may be divided into two classes the one following the native Chinese Annals and dealing with the actual history of ...
... John A John A Bingham and Reconstruction The Dilemma of a Moderate by DONALD C SWIFT Congressman John A Bingham of Ohio was one of the foremost Republican politicians in the period following the Civil War Yet he is almost unknown to historians and students not primarily concerned with the Reconstruction era The names of Thaddeus Stevens Benjamin Butler Charles Sumner or Benjamin Wade more readily come to mind As a spokesman for moderation Bingham occupied a place of equal importance to that of ...
... DR DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORED Dr William Oxley Thompson was the recipient of distinguished honors at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus Friday evening June 6 1924 The occasion was a silver jubilee dinner in celebration of the completion of his twenty-five years of service as president of the Ohio State University Guests to the number of 420 including trustees faculty alumni fellow college presidents and prominent citizens of the state and city were present and a spokesman from each ...
... THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO THE EARLY USE OF THE MICROSCOPE IN OHIO By RUSSELL L HADEN MD The compound microscope invented in 1 59 0 made possible the observation of a new world of minute things The practical application of this instrument however developed very slowly No field of science for instance has profited more from the revelations of the microscope than medicine Bacteria protozoa and many animal parasites were observed by the early microscopists yet the microscope was not ...
... STEPHEN M STEPHEN M MILLETT Charles E Ruthenberg The Development of an American Communist 1909-1927 The Communist Party of America was the product of native radicalism and a foreign ideology that inflamed extremists world wide after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in Russia In the United States many Socialists who had resisted American involvement in the First World War on moral and ideological grounds later saw the Bolshevik experiment as man's only hope for international peace class ...
... PROCEEDINGS 287 PROCEEDINGS 287 MR STOUT To honor Mr Sater I think it would be very fitting that these resolutions become a part of the Minutes of our Society Will someone make a motion to that effect A motion was made by Mr Spetnagel and seconded by Mr Roof that these resolutions be made a part of the Minutes of the Society The motion was unanimously carried Mr Spetnagel chairman of the Nominating Committee then made the following report Speaking for your Nominating Committee I wish to ...
... ELIZABETH AND KENNETH FONES-WOLF ELIZABETH AND KENNETH FONES-WOLF The War at Mingo Junction The Autonomous Workman and the Decline of the Knights of Labor In early February 1887 workers at the Laughlin and Junction steel plant in Mingo Junction Ohio walked out protesting a violation of traditional work rules Members of both the Knights of Labor KOL and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers AAISW the men applied to each for assistance While the Amalgamated quickly recognized the ...
... JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN M JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN MD 1850-1936 by GEORGE M CURTIS MD James Fairchild Baldwin surgeon extraordinary was born in the little village of Orangeville New York on February 12 1850 He died at Columbus Ohio on January 20 1936 approximately 86 years of age He had practiced almost sixty years and nearly forty of these as a surgeon A master of his craft this rugged individualist was finally conquered by one of the surgical diseases of which the least was then known i e ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 Forty-First Annual Meeting 637 have brought more than one hundred persons to the park on a single day Three thousand three hundred and thirty-six names have been secured on a register which has been offered to the public at such times as the custodians could carry it to them When the shelter house is completed the register will be available permanently Our custodians report no complaints or criticisms that the public is delighted and practically every reunion ...
... William McKinley and the Tariff William McKinley and the Tariff by H WAYNE MORGAN Two issues the currency and the tariff dominated national party politics in the years after the election of 1876 had eased the major conflicts of Reconstruction Historians generally tend to dismiss the tariff issue or to argue that politicians used it to divert public attention from more important problems It was far from irrelevant however since it involved the two most basic problems of the time the nature of ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 190-192 Copyright 2001 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 NOTES AND QUERIES Ohio History is pleased to announce the launch of its new online archive wwwohiohistoryorgpublicationsohiohistory Researchers can browse the complete text of the journal including footnotes and images from the ...
... DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO DENTAL EDUCATION IN OHIO 1838-1858 By EDWARD C MI LLS DDS With the unprecedented tide of immigration to Ohio during the early decades of the nineteenth century came the physician as a necessary adjunct to the widely scattered communities for the preservation of health and the consequent prosperity of those sturdy pioneers His praises have been largely unsung because in addition to his administrations to the medical needs of the community his attention was necessarily ...
... DAVID A DAVID A GERBER Lynching and Law and Order Origin and Passage of the Ohio Anti-Lynching Law of 1896 Americans are increasingly discovering that the United States has had a relatively lawless and violent history and that the problem of violent social disorder has continually plagued the nation The truth of this assertion as well as its implication for a deeper understanding of the country's social processes have tended to elude liberal scholars bent on tracing the steady progress of ...