... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT The Rise of the Youth Class Historical reflection may well reveal a significant relationship between the unrest of the 1960's and the birth of a new social class Even from this limited vantage point it is increasingly apparent that young people for the first time have identified themselves as a separate class in society Congregated in large numbers on college and university campuses young people have come to the self-realization that they have common needs ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The bicentennial of Daniel Drake 1785-1852 pioneer physician-educator of the Ohio Valley occurs on October 20 1985 The University of Cincinnati which he founded in 1819 is planning to celebrate Drake and his accomplishments during the calendar year 1985 with essays and reviews of some of his major works It is planned to assemble a number of his unpublished orations in a small commemorative volume The Drake Bicentennial will culminate in a symposium on ...
... ROBERT F ROBERT F HOROWITZ Land to the Freedmen A Vision of Reconstruction The Reconstruction Acts of March 1867 were much closer to the ideas of the moderate and conservative elements of the Republican party than to the views of the radicals Influential Republicans such as George Julian Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner had originally hoped for a more thorough reconstruction policy which they were never able to obtain In fact the phrase Radical Reconstruction is in part unjustified since ...
... CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON CLEVELAND'S JOHNSON by EUGENE C MURDOCK Professor of History Rio Grande College In the northwest corner of Cleveland's spacious Public Square amid the clatter and clang of passing streetcars and buses sits a bronze statue The figure a heavily built man with thinning hair and firm features rises six feet above the circular pedestal He reposes comfortably in his easy chair and gazes reflectively out across the nation's seventh city The right hand clasps a small book which ...
... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING by Louis J BUDD Assistant Professor of English Duke University As a sexagenarian describing his early manhood William Dean Howells reminisced If there was any one who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860 I am sure I should not have known where to find him1 Such testimony cannot be ignored Yet it has encouraged our accepting too hastily the trite picture of still another introverted lad who quietly ...
... JED DANNENBAUM JED DANNENBAUM Immigrants and Temperance Ethnocultural Conflict in Cincinnati 1845-1860 In the United States the decade of the 1850s was marked by pronounced social and political upheaval Until recently most historians believed that this turmoil derived almost entirely from the issues of sectionalism and slavery which dominated American life in this era and which culminated in the Civil War However recent historical work at the state and local level has revealed that so-called ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW By August Meier and Elliott Rudwick New York Oxford University Press 1979 xii 289p notes illustrations bibliographical essay index 1500 The gulf of suspicion and hostility between the black community and labor that derived from the AFL craft union's systematic exclusion of blacks and occasional black strikebreaking was wider in Detroit than elsewhere in the industrial north in the 1930s In Detroit Henry Ford had furthered the gulf ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Leadership in the American Revolution Papers Presented at the Third Symposium May 9 and 10 1974 Edited by the Library of Congress Washington D C Library of Congress 1974 ix 135p notes 450 The five papers presented at the Third Symposium on the American Revolution sponsored by the Library of Congress each prefaced by a brief gracious introduction by L H Butterfield comprise this attractive book It is much more successful than most collections of papers each author is a ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA TABLET ON SERPENT MOUND It will be recalled that during the visit of Prof F W Putnam of Harvard University to the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science held in Columbus August 1899 that gentleman stated to the officers of our Society that if we would accept repair and suitably preserve and guard the property known as Serpent Mound then in the possession of the Peabody Museum that the trustees of that institution would transfer to us said ...
... RITA S RITA S SASLAW Student Societies in Nineteenth Century Ohio Misconceptions and Realities Student societies flourished in American colleges in the first half of the nineteenth century Historians of higher education have viewed this development as a student attempt to bring about substantive change in the curriculum and extracurricular life1 This idea follows logically from the fact that these societies grew in a period of numerous reform movements movements dedicated to deliberate ...
... DISHARMONY IN THE HARDING CABINET HOOVER-WALLACE CONFLICT by EDWARD L SCHAPSMEIER and FREDERICK H SCHAPSMEIER The campaign of 1920 was a twofold success for the Republican Party Warren G Harding brought the Grand Old Party back into national power and he succeeded in reuniting the party The rupture of 1912 had been healed The cabinet represented all factions During Harding's presidency party harmony was sustained by balancing the desires of the Progressive and conservative wings -- neither ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 621 Outlines of Psychology by Dr Henry G Williams now President of Wilmington College Wilmington Ohio One lot of school publications by R Heber Holbrook in the interest of the Lebanon School to-wit The Reunion The National Normal The Home and School The National Normal Exponent Also catalogues of the school for the years 1873-74 1875-76 1882-83 1883-84 and 1891-93 Among the noted graduates from this school were ...
... THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS OF ANTISLAVERY COALITION by JOSEPH G RAYBAC K Assistant Professor of American History The Pennsylvania State College If there is one aspect of American history that has received the attention that is its due it is the role of the abolitionist in the antislavery movement The main outlines of the part played by that small semifanatical body of men and women have long been revealed the eternal history of the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Rise of the National Guard The Evolution of the American Militia 18651920 By Jerry Cooper Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1997 xviii 246 pages illustrations notes appendices selected bibliography index 4500 First line of defense or strikebreakers-politicians or professionals-social butterflies or warriors In this well-written and documented book Jerry Cooper traces the statutory history of the National Guard as it evolves from the volunteer soldiery to the ...
... OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR THOMAS M ANDERSON Few can fulfill Pliny's motto To do what deserves to be written To write what deserves to be read Great generals are nearly always able administrators and have often proved themselves great statesmen The ability to command and to administer go together but few military commanders have wielded equally well the sword and pen Julius Caesar The foremost man of all the world was at once a great orator ...
... THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO THEIR LIVES AND THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE 1788-1835 THE LEGAL REQUIREMENTS FOR MEDICAL PRACTICE--AN ATTEMPT TO REGULATE BY LAW AND THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE MOVEMENT By DONALD D SHIRA AB MD In discussing the legal requirements for medical practice during the period from the first official settlement of the Northwest Territory to the repeal of all laws designed to regulate the practice of physic and surgery in ...
... NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE NOTES ON THE PREVENTION OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN COLUMBUS 1890-1945 by HERBERT M PLATTER MD In the fall of 1893 I opened an office for the general practice of medicine in Columbus and was elected secretary of the Columbus Academy of Medicine which position I held for more than six years Columbus Medical College had just merged with Starling Medical College but Ohio Medical University opened its doors and thus there were at that time two medical ...
... THE TAYLOR FAMILY OF DENTISTS THE TAYLOR FAMILY OF DENTISTS by EDWARD C MILLS DDS FACD Of the many families of America which have made outstanding permanent contributions to science and to the professions Ohio may claim one which has made a special contribution to the field of dentistry--the Taylor family The progenitor of this family William Taylor a Revolutionary soldier of Monmouth County New Jersey was born December 27 1744 His forbears of English extraction had settled in New Jersey in ...
... JACK S JACK S BLOCKER JR Market Integration Urban Growth and Economic Change in an Ohio County 1850-1880 In March 1870 the editor of a local newspaper in Washington Court House county seat of Fayette County Ohio announced the inauguration of a new service by the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley Railroad The Train which leaves this place at 616 in the morning arrives in the city at 105 and leaves Cincinnati at 350 pm thus affording our citizens some FIVE HOURS for business or pleasure It is a ...