... RUTH BORDIN RUTH BORDIN A Baptism of Power and Liberty The Women's Crusade of 1873-1874 Throughout the winter of 1873 and 1874 a grass roots women's temperance crusade swept through Ohio the Midwest and parts of the East Thousands of women marched in the streets prayed in saloons and organized their own temperance societies in hundreds of towns and cities of the American heartland The Crusade had an immense impact on these women Cut loose from the quiescence and public timidity that was their ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 469 folio volumes comprising some 10000 fools-cap pages of notes of the recollections of frontier warriors and pioneers either written by themselves or taken down from their own lips and wellnigh 5000 pages more of original manuscript journals memorandum books and old letters written by nearly all the leading border heroes of the West This collection under the direction of Dr Thwaites has been classified mounted in folios catalogued and indexed in a most accurate and ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...
... DR DR WILLIAM A GALLOWAY Dr William A Galloway a life member of the Archaeological and Historical Society a scholarly gentleman long interested in the local history of his section of the State a public-spirited citizen and prominent physician died at his home in Xenia early in the afternoon of November 7 1931 He had been ill for almost a year as a result of ptomaine poisoning which left him with a weakened heart He seemed to rally from the attack in the early autumn This buoyed the hopes of ...
... WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS WHO WERE THE MOUND BUILDERS J P MACLEAN PH D An ancient and unknown race of people possessing a welldeveloped type of civilization once inhabited the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi This race has left no written history but the testimony of its existence and advancement in the arts and sciences is attested in the stupendous structures consisting of mounds walled enclosures and domestic implements which have long attracted the attention of observers scientists ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 351 Reviews Notes and Comments 351 action makes very little change in the status of the Society while it offers large opportunities for co-operation with the various branches of the Department of Education The Superintendent of Public Instruction now becomes ex-officio a member of our Board of Trustees ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR SOLDIERS OF THE WORLD WAR A constitutional amendment providing for issuing bonds for adjusted compensation for service in the World War was ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART In Search of the Mound Builders The State Archaeological Association of Ohio 1875-1885 If the State Archaeological Association of Ohio is at all remembered today it is as the forerunner of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society That organization emerged from the wreckage of the earlier state archaeological association on March the 12th and 13th 1885 and has been known as the Ohio Historical Society since 1954 The significance of Ohio's first state ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Losing Our Souls The American Experience in the Cold War By Edward Pessen Chicago Ivan R Dee 1993 255p notes index 2495 Assigning responsibility for the Cold War has long been one of the indoor sports of American scholars Led by those favorably inclined toward American motives in general and those of the Truman administration in particular the majority of historians one can safely say have placed major blame on the Soviet Union and Joe Stalin Fueled by its World War ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Scott Nearing An Intellectual Biography By John A Saltmarsh Philadelphia Temple University Press 1991 xii 337p illustrations notes manuscript sources bibliography index 3995 Loving and Leaving the Good Life By Helen Nearing Post Mills Vermont Chelsea Green Publishing Company 1992 197p illustrations selected bibliography 1995 Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Nonfiction Reader Edited by Larry Ceplair New York Columbia University Press 1991 xi 345p notes bibliography index ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS THE NEW COMMONWEALTH 18771890 By John A Garraty New York Harper amp Row 1968 xv 364p editor's introduction preface illustrations bibliographical essay and index 795 225 paper With the welcome appearance of Professor Garraty's masterful synthesis and reevaluation of the Hayes to Harrison period of our national development we have the most important study of these highly significant but long neglected years since the 1930's when Ida M Tarbell and Arthur M Schlesinger Sr ...
... THE OHIO THE OHIO Archaeological and Historical Society ORGANIZED MARCH 13 1885 Articles of Incorporation Synopsis of By-Laws and List of Members FROM DATE OF ORGANIZATION UNTIL FEBRUARY 19 1891 317 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION The undersigned citizens of Ohio having associated themselves together and desiring to form a corporation not for profit under the laws of said State of Ohio do hereby subscribe and acknowledge the following articles of incorporation 1 The ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical QUARTERLY VOL II DECEMBER 1888 No 3 THE RIGHT OF DISCOVERY ONE of the most interesting subjects in the whole history of lawDr Francis Lieber Miscellaneous Writings II 26 THE great geographical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries led to two series of remarkable changes in the relations of the principal nations of Western Europe First those nations were brought into direct contact with the natives of the newly discovered lands east and ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR I by ARTHUR S LINK Associate Professor of History Northwestern University It is difficult to avoid elaborating the obvious in describing the general attitude of the leaders and people of the Middle West toward the European War from its outbreak until the intervention of the United States in 1917 Nourished as they had been upon a tradition of the uniqueness of American democratic virtue and upon the concept of the ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY NOTES REVIEWS AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL WING The dedication of the Memorial Wing of the Museum and Library Building of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society on April 6 1926 the anniversary of the entrance of the United States into the World War was an occasion long to be remembered by those whose privilege it was to be in attendance In spite of the inclement weather ...
... Do the Job He Left Behind Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 144-166 This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Do the Job He Left Behind The Cleveland Womanpower Committee 1943-1945 By Julieanne Phillips We feel you just haven't come to grips with the manpower problem or realized that there is a problem ...
... 248 Ohio Arch 2 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications such service varies but never ceases And it must come from its citizens themselves if our Republic is to live Sincerely yours JUDSON HARMON TRIBUTE OF EX-GOV J B FORAKER APRIL II 1917 DEAR MR LIGGITT I have your letter of April 9th and sincerely thank you for the privilege you give me of saying something about the Battle Flags to be incorporated in the Memorial Book you are intending to publish If I were in better health I would no ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A VISIT FROM BENJAMIN LUNDY A letter of Ruth Galbreath wife of Nathan Galbreath dated New Garden Ohio 2nd mo 3rd 1833 contains among other things a description of a visit from Benjamin Lundy which may be of interest to readers of this issue of the QUARTERLY as it expresses the regard of Columbiana County Quakers for this reformer and bears testimony to the fact that ...
... AndersonBertaux Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 145-182 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Poor Men But Hard-Working Fathers The Cincinnati Orphan Asylum and Parental Roles in the Nineteenth-Century Working Class By M Christine Anderson and Nancy E Bertaux Male laborers such as these were the fathers of children institutionalized at the Cincinnati Orphan Asylum Image copyright the Cincinnati Historical Society Library Introduction ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER 1861-1929 IN MEMORIAM Addresses Delivered at a Special Meeting of the Kit-Kat Club of Columbus Ohio December 2 1930 Interesting remarks were also made on this occasion by Mr Osman C Hooper who brought a message from Professor French and with it a copy of Mr Meeker's book-plate which Professor French had made for him Mr Arthur C Johnson Sr spoke of Mr Meeker's never failing interest in newspaper work and stated that he had prepared a number of articles the last year ...
... ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO SATURDAY MARCH 29 1930 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual session pursuant to call at 1 o'clock p m In the absence of President Johnson Vice-President George F Bareis presided Trustees present Bareis Orton Wood Spetnagle Goodman Florence and Hinkle Director Shetrone and ...