... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Keeping the Buckeye in the Buckeye Division Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division 1940-1945 On 15 October 1940 Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division of the Ohio National Guard reported for what was supposed to be a one-year tour of Federal service Five years later Beightler and the Buckeye Division returned to Ohio Its original mission had been to expand to full wartime strength and train draftees from Ohio at ...
... LAYING CORNER STONE LAYING CORNER STONE OF THE SOCIETY'S BUILDING On the afternoon of Se p tember 12 1 912 the Trustees and officers of the Society laid the Corner Stone of the building of the Society located on the Campus of the Ohio State University The ground was first broken for the excavation on June 25th The weather on the day of the corner stone laying was ideal and a goodly audience of the friends of the Society including many professors of the University assembled to witness the ...
... Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Of Civil Government in the Philippines By RALPH ELDIN MINGER ON APRIL 17 1900 a brilliant golden sunny day the United States Army Transport Hancock with the Second Philippine Commission on board pulled away from the crowded dock at San Francisco California while whistles shrieked a shrill farewell and the air rang with enthusiastic cheers1 The boat had barely passed through San Francisco Harbor when the commissioners ...
... 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 COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK THE COFFIN OF EDWIN COPPOCK BY THOMAS C MENDENHALL There has recently been added to the collection of John Brown relics in the museum of The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society another concerning which I have been requested to tell the following story On the morning of the tenth of April 1865 I left my room which was over the Farmers' National Bank on Main Street Salem Ohio intending to proceed to the High School in which I was a teacher But I did not ...
... David Zeisberger Centennial David Zeisberger Centennial 17 3 signified his great satisfaction and comfort when his Indian brethren who watched with the dying saint sang some of the Delaware hymns for the dying which he had rendered into their vernacular years ago And thus on the afternoon of November 17th he fell asleep amid the prayers of his brethren and the singing of his converts after the benediction had been spoken in the name of the church On the following Sunday at noon after funeral ...
... CAROL STEINHAGEN CAROL STEINHAGEN The Two Lives of Frances Dana Gage In the year before her death Frances Dana Gage 1808-1884 wrote an autobiographical sketch for Woman's Journal the organ of the American Woman Suffrage Association1 It seems appropriate that the infirm and isolated veteran of so many antebellum woman's rights campaigns would want to create a link to the younger generation of reformers and to mark her place in the history of nineteenth-century reform movements Gage might have ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA WILLIAM McKINLEY Elsewhere in this Quarterly we report at some length the interesting ceremonies held on Ohio Day July 18 at the Pan-American Exposition Little did we suspect on that joyful day that in two brief months a terrible tragedy would transform the bright banners bedecking the buildings into the trappings and suits of woe On Friday September 6 President McKinley attended the Exposition and in the afternoon while holding a public reception in the Temple of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include the following at the Ohio State University Alan D Beyerchen appointed to associate professor Robert J Donia to assistant professor and Joseph H Lynch has assumed new duties as Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Andreas Dorpalen who retired this year received the Distinguished Service Award of the Ohio Academy of History in April At the ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power In the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate much attention both scholarly and popular has been devoted to the rise of the Imperial Presidency in this century1 Those who have traced the evolution of this concept of presidential power appear to date its modern emergence from the accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the office in September 1901 Writing in the mid-1950s in his influential The American Presidency Clinton ...
... JOHN E JOHN E MOSER Principles Without Program Senator Robert A Taft and American Foreign Policy When it came to domestic policy there was very little that was confusing about Senator Robert Alfonso Taft of Ohio 1889-1953 A die-hard conservative Taft remained up until his death a convinced enemy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the assault on the Constitution which he believed it to represent So solid were his political credentials that he came to be known widely as Mr Republican defining ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S PROGRESSIVISM IN OHIO 1897-1917 By Hoyt Landon Warner Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1964 xiii 556p bibliography and index 1000 In 1914 Ohio cities under-represented in the state legislature by design and careful calculation were under the control and sway of what Newton D Baker called the rustic garland that makes a member from Pike County our sovereign A half century later Ohio cities in 1964 are still under-represented--but ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Early Stockaded Settlements in the Governador New Mexico By Edward Twitchell Hall Jr Columbia Studies in Archaeology and Ethnology Vol II Pt I New York Columbia University Press 1944 96p Illus 200 This is a report of excavations carried on in north-central New Mexico by a joint expedition from Columbia University and the Laboratory of Anthropology Santa Fe New Mexico The purpose of the expedition was to expand our knowledge of the Rosa culture phase the oldest known ...
... 28 Ohio Arch 28 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications master introduced Mrs Herbert Backus Vice-President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution RESPONSE OF MRS HERBERT BACKUS Mr Toastmaster Distinguished Guests and Friends A story was told me the other day of a farmer who took unto himself his second wife He brought her to the home of her predecessor After some time had elapsed she told him that she needed some new shoes that all her shoes were worn out He said Well Samantha ...
... FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN FOWKE'S BOOK AGAIN The following review of Mr Fowke's volume appears in the Nation of December 25 1902 As it is the policy of the Nation to expose defects wherever they exist and to speak well only of that which deserves high praise its general approval of Mr Fowke's work is something upon which he is to be congratulatedE 0 R Archaeological History of Ohio The Mound Builders and Later Indians By Gerard Fowke Published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society ...
... JAMES L JAMES L BAUGHMAN Classes and Company Towns Legends of the 1937 Little Steel Strike Much of the scholarship on organized labor in the 1930s remains burdened by the polemics of the decade Historians have often only refined what writers for the union had composed for mass consumption a few decades earlier A complex history full of intricate relationships David Brody writes has almost uniformly been presented as a simple struggle between workers and managers1 In doing so labor scholars ...
... BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE BLAST-FURNACES OPERATED BY THE SEPARATIST SOCIETY OF ZOAR OHIO BY E J BOGNAR A most important contribution to the success of the Separatist Society of Zoar was iron ore The village of Zoar was founded in 1817 by 300 or more Separatists who had embarked early that spring from Wurtemburg1 Germany The party was led by one Joseph M Bimeler2 and the desire for religious freedom brought them to this country where they settled in the inviting wooded region of the ...
... BookReviews Winter-Spring 2003 pp 38-63 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved and Book Notes Ohio The History of a People By Andrew R L Cayton Reviewed by H Roger Grant Buckeye Women The History of Ohios Daughters By Stephane Elise Booth Reviewed by Phyllis F Field Visions of Place The City Neighborhoods Suburbs and Cincinnatis Clifton 1850-2000 By Zane L Miller Reviewed by Dan Kearns Carl B Stokes and the Rise of Black ...