... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1957 - July 1958 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT BUCKMASTER Henrietta Flight to Freedom The Story of the Underground Railroad New York Thomas Y Crowell Company 1958 217p For ages twelve and older JELLISON Charles A The Martyrdom of John Brown West Virginia History XVIII 1957 243-255 LOTTICK Kenneth V The Connecticut Reserve and the Civil War History of Education Journal VIII No 3 Spring ...
... VERNON L VERNON L VOLPE The Ohio Election of 1838 A Study in the Historical Method Historians are not immune from occasionally making minor errors such as misreading the results of a state election Unfortunately due to the nature of the craft one historian's lapse may assume the status of historical fact once it finds its way into the secondary literature where the original slip suddenly takes on a life of its own Through sheer repetition by other scholars a historical myth is created that is ...
... DR DR B F PRINCE A veteran educator life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and for thirtyone years a member of its board of trustees passed peacefully away at his home in Springfield Monday September 11 1933 at the age of ninety-three years The Springfield Daily News published a carefully written obituary from which the following sketch is gleaned 452 Dr Dr B F Prince 453 Dr B F Prince 93 dean of the faculty of Wittenberg college and affectionately called The ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STORY OF THE FIRELANDS The following interesting account of the Firelands is taken from the West Liberty Banner Unnumbered native Ohioans not to speak of hundreds of thousands of residents of the state from foreign lands and other states of the union must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract in northern Ohio a district which in no way hints of the ravages of fire should be called the Firelands Among all the vicissitudes of ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 SPECIAL CROPS IN OHIO BEFORE 1850 BY ROBERT LESLIE JONES A noteworthy aspect of agriculture in Ohio before 1850 was the attention paid to a number of minor crops--rice cotton hemp flax clover seed white beans castor beans hops madder mustard broom corn cow cabbage sugar beets Rohan potatoes and tobacco The farmers were actually carrying on an American tradition for their colonial ancestors had experimented with most of these special crops and with others ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE The Experience of Revolution and the Beginnings of Party Politics in Ohio 1776-1816 The American Revolution would scarcely be worth the name if it signified nothing more than separation from Great Britain In fact it was the beginning of an experiment to create a republic in which a free people could be governed justly without resort to the traditional sources of state power hereditary right and ancient prescription The new republic however did not take shape ...
... W W SHERMAN JACKSON The Collapse of the Peculiar Institution Through Military and Legal Action Before May 1861 the right of slavery to exist as an institution in the states and territories was an axiom of American constitutional law This resulted in part from the highly controversial Dred Scott decision of 1857 Speaking for a divided court Chief Justice Roger B Taney ruled that Scott an African slave could not sue in a federal court to obtain his freedom on grounds that Blacks were not ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning By John W Reps Princeton Princeton University Press 1979 xii827p maps illustrations notes selected bibliography index 7500 For John Reps the West begins in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys including the Great Lakes and reaches to the Pacific It or parts of it existed as a frontier as early as the sixteenth century and as late as the 1880s in Oklahoma This definition of the region of course rests not on ...
... THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE THE CLEVELAND WORLD WAR MACHINE BY ELBERT J BENTON The Great War found America without a war organization One phenomenon of the war of the United States with Germany was the response of the people in the crisis The war was interpreted as a people's war and the people made it their own It was a veritable uprising of the American people in the defense of the high moral cause which their President had marked out for them and the result was one of the most ...
... BOOK REVIEWS FREEDOM'S FORUM THE CITY CLUB 1912-1962 By Thomas F Campbell Cleveland The City Club 1963 128p frontispiece and index 350 The occasion for this book was the celebration of the golden anniversary of the City Club of Cleveland in 1962 The phrase Freedom's Forum incorporated in the title underscores the spirit and purpose of the club Its dedicated adherence to free speech has been the key to its vigorous life and survival It was founded during the progressive era when city clubs ...
... THE HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATHE HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION IN OHIO FROM 1851 TO 1925 BY NELSON L BOSSING PHD CHAPTER I INFLUENCES AFFECTING EDUCATIONAL LEGISLATION IN OHIO FROM 1851 TO 1925 The history of education in Ohio from 1851 to 1925 cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of those economic social and political factors both contemporary and past which determined the trend of educational movements within the state It is equally important that the educational progress ...
... PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 PARTY POLITICS IN OHIO 1840-1850 BY EDGAR ALLAN HOLT B A M A PH D Continued from the January 1929 Quarterly CHAPTER V THE ELECTION OF 1848 IN OHIO The clash of sectional and personal interests in Ohio did not end with the pronouncements of the State conventions The bitter anti-southern wing of the Whig party encouraged by the lavish praise bestowed on Corwin by the Whig State Convention thought that he might after all become the leader of the Whigs of the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Washington D C Carl Bode Chairman Steering Committee The sponsoring committee of the association held its first meeting at the Library of Congress on March 22 1951 and adopted a constitution for the association The organization has as its aim the encouragement of the study of American civilization by improving communications across those disciplines which deal with phases of American civilization and by fostering ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History's 1989 Spring Meeting will be held at The Ohio State University in Columbus Ohio on April 21-22 1989 Those interested in further information regarding the meeting should contact Dr Richard Francis Spall Jr Program ChairpersonOAH Department of History Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio 43015 The Mormon History Association will hold its annual meeting at the Quincy Holiday Inn Quincy Illinois May 11-14 1989 For further ...
... Book Notes Book Notes State Maps on File Midwest Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Wisconsin New York Facts on File Publications 1984 maps index and Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names United States and Canada Edited by Kelsie B Harder New York Facts on File Publications 1985 reprint xiv 631p illustrations bibliography State Maps on File is one of a seven-volume series of state maps compiled by the publishers and specifically geared to the needs of teachers students and ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION 37-56 Abortion in America The Origins and Evolution of National Policy by James C Mohr rev 218-220 Achenbaum W Andrew Old Age in the New Land The American Experience Since 1790 rev 427-429 Act of February 26 1816 poor house authorization 84 Adams John 133 Adams John Quincy 12 13 16 17 18 1920 22 23 24 26 29 46 Adams-Clay party 13 17 Addams Jane 62 Adelphic Society of Western Reserve College 201 204 206 Adkins vs Children's Hospital 190 ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS A ND EXHIBITS COLLECTIONS OF THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES STATE MEMORIAL ONE OF OHIO'S finest historical properties is the Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial located in Spiegel Grove the twentyfive-acre home estate of the nation's nineteenth president at Fremont Administered jointly by the Ohio Historical Society and the Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation this public memorial includes the stately Victorian brick mansion of the president and his family the graves ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Presidency of Rutherford B Hayes By KENNETH E DAVISON Westport Conn Greenwood Press Inc 1972 xiii 266p illustrations notes and index 1200 In his account of the Hayes presidency Professor Davison has attempted to correct the interpretation of the Gilded Age as an era of ruthless plunder depicted by Parrington Beard Josephson Twain and others He portrays Hayes as a decent high-principled experienced statesman a unifier pacifier and reformer He views the Hayes ...