... REBECCA A REBECCA A SHEPHERD Restless Americans The Geographic Mobility of Farm Laborers in the Old Midwest 1850-1870 Groups of people moving westward with their families and belongings were a common sight for residents of the Midwest in the nineteenth century Observers and diarists commented on the westward movement at the time and it later became an important consideration in historians' study of the frontier There were many motives for people joining the westward-moving stream increased ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During the past months researchers and scholars have made considerable use of the manuscripts maps and state archives under the custody of this department Not only have the various departments of State individuals and legal firms availed themselves of reference service by telephone letter or personal visit but there have been a succession of out-of-city and out-of-state visitors who spent extended periods examining collections here Among ...
... MANSEL G MANSEL G BLACKFORD Scientific Management and Welfare Work in Early Twentieth Century American Business The Buckeye Steel Castings Company At 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the first heat was turned off from one of the furnaces in the new works of the Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company in South Columbus Someone gave a signal and in a minute everyone in the building and out of it was on hand to watch the great crane as it lifted the smoking ladle and carried it to the furnace Then ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 218-234 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 INDEX Volume 110 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QR S T UVW XY ABBOTT family of Geauga County Ohio 53 62 63 Abolition See antislavery movement Acts of God the Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg 191 ...
... About WS 2003 Winter-Spring 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors 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 4 Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier by Amy Hill Shevitz PDF of this article 19 A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner by Virginia E ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AM ERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob R Marcus Director An archival expedition to the West Indies was made by the American Jewish Archives in July 1952 The research group was composed of Rabbi and Mrs Theodore S Levy of Huntington West Virginia Dr Ferdinand M Isserman of St Louis and Dr Jacob R Marcus director of the archives There were a number of Jewish settlements in the West Indies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... Book Notes Book Notes History of Upper Arlington A Suburb of Columbus Ohio By the History Committee of the Upper Arlington Bicentennial Committee Columbus Upper Arlington Historical Society 1977 337p illustrations notes maps appendices index The book was written by community residents and focuses on the history of the fire and police departments library municipal government schools religion and sports Personal interviews official records newspapers local publications maps and plates were ...
... RONALD M RONALD M JOHNSON Politics and Pedagogy The 1892 Cleveland School Reform On May 25 1892 a large crowd gathered at Cleveland's Stillman Hotel The occasion was the announcement of Andrew S Draper as the city's new school superintendent The assembled group listened attentively as H Q Sargent the school director introduced Draper a prominent New York educator Sargent dwelt momentarily on the recently reformed school system which had led to the creation of his own office Draper followed ...
... JEFFERY C JEFFERY C LIVINGSTON Between America First and All-Out Internationalism The Fulbright Resolution and Ohio Republican John M Vorys In the US House of Representatives on June 16 1943 Congressman John M Vorys interrupted a floor debate on domestic programs to present the Fulbright Resolution Passed by the House in September 1943 the Fulbright Resolution was during the Second World War the first official endorsement of permanent US participation in a collective security arrangement The ...
... B B W COLLINS Economic Issues in Ohio's Politics During the Recession of 1857-1858 Historians are just beginning to integrate the study of local and state issues with the study of national issues in American politics For some periods federal issues are so important and interesting that state history tends to be reduced to a batch of mere case studies detailing the local impact of great national questions One period suffering acutely from such neglect is the 1850s Recently however state and ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1958 Paul Laurence Dunbar and William Dean Howells By JAMES B STRONKS IN THE SUMMER OF 1896 William Dean Howells then the most influential author and critic in the United States favorably reviewed a book of poems by a young Dayton Negro Paul Laurence Dunbar The review in the Harper's Weekly of June 27 1896--by a happy coincidence it was Dunbar's birthday--instantly and dramatically created a national reputation for ...
... Rise and Decline of Private Rise and Decline of Private Academies in Albany Ohio by Ivan M Tribe The nineteenth century witnessed the establishment of numerous private educational institutions commonly known as academies These academies were especially widespread in states north of the Ohio River and could be found both in the cities and in rural villages1 One Ohio town which boasted a succession of these schools was Albany incorporated in 1842 a small farm village in southwestern Athens ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Orton G Rust President Mr Arthur Altick the former curator of the society who died recently has been succeeded by William F Lohnes The position of secretary which Mr Altick also held has not yet been filled The society has published some reminiscences of early pioneers as the first volume of a series entitled Yesteryear in Clark County The reminiscences are of the period 1810 to 1860 They cover a variety of ...
... Historical News Historical News The University of Chicago and the University of Virginia are sponsoring the publication of a new and complete edition of the papers of James Madison The editors will appreciate information about the location of letters by or to James Madison or his wife especially letters in private possession or among uncalendared manuscripts in the collections of public or private institutions Information should be addressed to The Papers of James Madison 1126 East 59th Street ...
... Historical News Historical News The Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation of Pittsburgh has made a grant of fifteen thousand dollars to the Harmonie Associates Inc for their use in a program of aid to the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission in the restoration of Old Economy at Ambridge Pennsylvania a commission property The money will be used to refurbish the document room and four administrative research rooms and to install proper microfilm equipment files and stacks Provisions in the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Walter S Lister Secretary The society is working on a project to restore the first schoolhouse in Brecksville BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Hamilton A S Anderson President New officers elected in November are A S Anderson president William E Lakeman vice president Fred Hammerle treasurer and Mrs Henry Kessling secretary pro tem This society was incorporated during the past ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 225-238 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 INDEX Volume 109 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ ABISAAB Rula J 93 Accounting for Growth Information Systems and the Large Corporation by Margaret Levenstein rev 114-115 Adams Edward 175-176 AFF See Army Field ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS' HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht President New officers of the association are Mrs Eddy Burke Fosnocht president and treasurer Ernest Green first vice president Mrs Elmer Lewis second vice president Mrs Walter Lister secretary and Harriet Wright curator Trustees are Rev J Chandler Adams Mrs Albert Birdsall Benjamin P Forbes Ernest Green Mrs Elmer Lewis Ray Thayer and Dr Charles K Teter ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Oral History Association will hold its 1992 Annual Meeting October 15-18 1992 at the Stouffer Tower City Hotel in Cleveland Ohio Proposals for papers panels media presentations or entire sessions should be sent by December 1 1991 to Donna M DeBlasio Program Chair Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor PO Box 533 Youngstown Ohio 44501 The Black Film CenterArchive at Indiana University-Bloomington is planning a conference entitled In Touch With ...