... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS In Winter We Flourish By Anna Shannon McAllister New York Longmans Green and Co 1939 398p 350 Outstanding in the civic and charitable enterprises of early Cincinnati was Sarah Worthington King Peter of whom Anna Shannon McAllister has written in her new book In Winter We Flourish Daughter of Thomas and Eleanor Swearingen Worthington the former at one time governor of Ohio Sarah was from childhood accustomed to the assumption of leadership Following what was for that ...
... BOOK REVIEWS FRONTIER AMERICAN LITERATURE AND THE AMERICAN WEST By Edwin Fussell Princeton N J Princeton University Press 1965 xvi450p introduction and index 850 This is a stimulating though highly speculative book In the preface Fussell explains he offers it as an example of imaginative historiography a method of writing history in which facts are used merely as emblems to illustrate the theme His procedure seems somewhat similar to that employed in Increase Mather's Divine Providences in ...
... 1902 II Washington 1903 281 8 Ohio Statesman February 29 1860 9 Capital City Fact February 29 1860 248 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 248 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY However there was something more than sectionalism in the appeal Carl Schurz speaking in Faneuil Hall Boston April 18 1859 summed up the quintessence of western Republicanism in the words Liberty and equal rights common to all as the air of ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORY OF THREE HUNDRED AND TWENTYSECOND FIELD ARTILLERY AND SKETCH OF ITS COLONEL History of the 322nd Field Artillery Yale University Press New Haven The Society is under obligations to Colonel A B Warfield who commanded the 322nd Field Artillery of the National Army in the World War made up almost entirely of Ohio troops The frontispiece of this interesting and ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Columbus Ohio April 18 1953 The spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at Columbus April 18 1953 Registration was followed at 1030 AM by two concurrent sessions at the Ohio State Museum One chairmaned by Dr Fred Kershner of Ohio University was devoted to the topic A Consideration of Some of the Intellectual Currents of the Early 20th Century Dr Robert H Bremner of Ohio State University presented a paper on The New View of ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 645 Reviews Notes and Comments 645 agriculture Secretary Hoover of commerce Secretary Davis of labor and fifteen residents of Marion Plans have already been perfected for raising the funds for the Harding Memorial and before this issue of the QUARTERLY reaches our readers the necessary contributions will have been subscribed DR T C MENDENHALL ENTERTAINS FIRST CLASS TO ENTER OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Dr T C Mendenhall who delivered the annual address published in this ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Letters of Delegates to Congress 1774-1789 Volume 25 March 1 1788-July 25 1789 with Supplement 1774-87 Edited by Paul H Smith and Ronald M Gephart Washington DC Library of Congress 1998 xxx 843p editorial method and apparatus acknowledgments chronology of Congress list of delegates illustrations appendix notes index 5600 It is a great thing to finish a great work And the Letters of Delegates to Congress series is a great work one of the greatest editorial projects of ...
... KATHLEEN A KATHLEEN A LAUGHLIN Sisterhood Inc The Status of Women Commission Movement and the Rise of Feminist Coalition Politics in Ohio 1964-1974 Phyllis Schlafly's STOP ERA organization campaigned vigorously against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment ERA in Ohio during the early 1970s Armed with loaves of bread tied with pink ribbons bus loads of STOP ERA supporters came to the state capitol in Columbus to lobby against the Amendment when the Ohio House of Representatives' State ...
... DENNIS K DENNIS K BOMAN Conduct and Revolt in the Twenty-fifth Ohio Battery An Insider's Account On August 10 1861 in the town of Canfield Ohio twenty-eight year old Robert T McMahan enlisted as a private in the Second Ohio Volunteer Cavalry1 On September 3 the date of his muster he began a journal in which he noted the experiences and impressions of his service in the United States military2 McMahan first served as a cavalryman and then as a gunner for the Twenty-fifth Ohio Light Artillery ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER On June 22 1932 in the presence of a very large representative and orderly assembly of people the statue of George Armstrong Custer was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies This celebration occurred too late to give an adequate account in the July issue of the QUARTERLY A full account will be given in the October issue The excellent program was carried out in every detail Hon Earl Lewis State Senator ...
... Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Miss Newcomb and the Talking Machine Edited by ROBERT M WARNER ON THE MORNING OF MAY 25 1878 the girls of the female seminary at Painesville Ohio interrupted their normal school routine to bark mew crow and tell Mother Goose rhymes to a most unusual auditor--a strange looking machine which listened patiently to all their confidences and then performed the amazing feat of repeating them all back again to the intrigued listeners For the first time in their ...
... DAVID L DAVID L PORTER Ohio Representative John M Vorys and the Arms Embargo in 1939 During the last few years Congress increasingly has favored a reduction in American commitments to foreign nations This action has reversed a long-standing policy of globalism stemming from World War II Congress probably has not witnessed such widespread noninterventionist sentiments since shortly before World War II when the legislative branch refused to repeal the arms embargo or permit munitions sales to ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio Canal Era A Case Study of Government and the Economy 1820-1861 By HARRY N SCHEIBER Athens Ohio University Press 1969 xviii 430p maps tables appendices bibliography and index 1000 This book is a study in political economic and ideological history focused at the state level for the period 1820 to 1861 The author assumes and demonstrates 1 that in the area of transportation the state government occasionally implemented policy aims by outright public enterprise 2 ...
...1902 thirteen volumes of 1902 are also in the collections They contain important messages sent and received concerning the Spanish-American War the Philippine Insurrection and the Boxer Rebellion The largest single manuscript collection obtained since the direction of the library passed from Colonel Hayes's hands early in the thirties is the correspondence and business papers of Arthur L ...
... 472 Ohio Arch 472 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Index to the Minutes of the Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees Annual address by Dr Rightmire 360-373 names of those present 341 report Annual meeting of the Society 341-373 of president 342-343 of secretary 343Annual meeting of trustees 358-359 346 of treasurer 346-347 of auditor Annual reports of officers 342-356 348 of director 349-353 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Auntie Kate Her Journey Through Ninety Years By Katharine Garford Thomas Columbus Ohio History Press Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1949 252p illustrations 350 Volumes of biography based upon reminiscences can be fruitful resources for the historian who is attempting to reconstruct the details of social history In this book the memories of Katharine Moody Smith who during her long lifetime from 1838 to 1932 lived reasonably close to the main current ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Men of the Western Waters The Taking of Americas First West 17811794 By Dale Van Every Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1956 x244p maps illustrations appendices bibliography and index 400 This volume will be of great interest both to that portion of the general public which enjoys reading history and also to the student who pursues history as a vocation It is based upon a wide reading of the best works of scholars in the field and makes no pretense of having delved ...
... ABRAHAM LINCOLN VISITS WITH HIS PEOPLE ABRAHAM LINCOLN VISITS WITH HIS PEOPLE by J H CRAMER Associate Professor of History Youngstown College The crossroads of America nurtured Abraham Lincoln they were home to him He spent most of his life in the villages and small towns of the Middle West and the thriving city of Springfield Illinois numbered only seven thousand persons in its population during the years in which Lincoln was one of its leading citizens The teeming life of the American city ...
... 1902-1982 by Roy Wortman of Kenyon College A Social and Intellectual History of American Literature by Michael Les Benedict of The Ohio State University Jelliffe American Psychoanalyst and Physician by John C Burnham of The Ohio State University Rebirth Reform and Resilience Universities in Transition 1300-1700 edited by James M Kittelson of The Ohio State University with Pamela J Transue For the Common Defense The Military History of the ...
... Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 513 Brief Biography of William Henry Holmes 513 Holmes to the log and skin the bear The only note regarding the adventure found in my report of the day's doing was my bear skin is a beauty AN ADVENTURE WITH THE INDIANS AUGUST 4TH AND 5TH 1 875 BY W H HOLMES August 4th Moved 14 miles down the San Juan Valley in south-western Colorado within a few miles of our western line -- 109 30' Passed by the mouth of the Montezuma a deep valley with a dry bed but ...