... Book Reviews Book Reviews Banks or No Banks The Money Issue in Western Politics 1832-1865 By WILLIAM GERALD SHADE Detroit Wayne State University Press 1972 328p maps tables notes bibliography and index 1595 Banks or No Banks develops a new thesis from which to view the banking controversies of the mid-nineteenth century and the role of the bank issue in state politics Mr Shade looks at the social roots and proposes a broad social interpretation of the significance of the issue He also tries to ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History annual meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday April 26-27 1991 at Capital University in Columbus Ohio For details concerning the meeting contact Clayton R Koppes OAH Program Committee Oberlin College Department of History Oberlin Ohio 440741095 The Second Annual University of Cincinnati Social History Conference invites interested scholars to submit papers in social history broadly defined as any aspect of the history of ...
... RICHARD J RICHARD J CHEROK No Harmony in Kendal The Rise And Fall of an Owenite Community 18251829 In a widely publicized discourse in the Hall of Representatives at the United States Capitol Robert Owen announced to an 1825 audience which included the nation's president president-elect and congress that the implementation of his new social system would bring about a virtual state of millennium within the nation and ultimately the world By establishing his plans at New Harmony Indiana he told ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historic building but no one has come forward with the money to purchase and preserve it It is likely to share the fate of the house in Niles in which William McKinley was born JUDSON HARMON Judson Harmon jurist attorney general in the cabinet of President Cleveland and twice elected governor of Ohio died in Cincinnati February 22 1927 He was a graduate of Denison University a lawyer of eminent ability and a life member of the Ohio ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA VOL XXIV No 4 OCTOBER 1915 RECENTLY APPOINTED TRUSTEES WI L LIAM H COLE recently appointed trustee of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a resident of Sabina and by education and taste brings to the office special qualifications for the discharge of its duties He was born in Hillsboro Highland County Ohio July 29 1840 Upon completing a course of study in the public schools of his native town he was elected principal of the Walnut Street school ...
... THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE THE FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION OF THE EARTH THE three stages of geographical knowledge are these 1 The observation of facts 2 The deduction of a theory of the earth from these facts 3 The adjustment of facts discovered later to this theory The early difficulties in the way of establishing a true theory of the earth were 1 Men's limited knowledge of the earth 2 Their lack of scientific discipline and habit 3 The misleading character of geographical appearances It ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 24 1942 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met at 1 00 PM Friday April 24 1942 in the Trustees' room of the Ohio State Museum President Johnson presided over the meeting which was attended by the following Trustees Messrs Johnson Eagleson Florence Miller Norton Rightmire and Spetnagel Director ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Politics in Jacksonian Ohio Reflections on the Ethnocultural Interpretation Who voted for the two great political parties in Jacksonian Ohio Those historians who have asked this question have usually given two sorts of answers Some have seen the popular basis for the party division in essentially socioeconomic terms Occasionally they have detected a class conflict between rich and poor but more commonly they have followed Frederick Jackson Turner in seeing the ...
... A NOTE ON MRS A NOTE ON MRS TROLLOPE By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT When Charles Joseph Latrobe made his tour of the West with Washington Irving in 1832 they passed through Cincinnati at a very interesting moment The citizens were big with indignation over Mrs Frances Trollope Latrobe related that they found the good citizens of that rising and flourishing city busily ruminating over the first edition of a well-known picture of their domestic manners which the English press had just sent forth for ...
... 290 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 290 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DR WITTKE Are there any further announcements or further business to come before the meeting Then a motion to adjourn will be in order MR MILLER I move that we adjourn This motion was seconded by Mr Fisher and carried ABSTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD APRIL 20 1937 The regular annual meeting of the ...
... THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY THE PLACE OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER Professor of History University of Wisconsin Mr Turner until the fall of 1910 was professor of American History in the University of Wisconsin He is now professor of Western American History at Harvard University and the past year 1910 was president of the American Historical Association He delivered the address herewith published at the meeting of the Ohio Valley Historical Association held ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historical library building at Pittsburgh though delivered for the promotion of a purely local enterprise are so replete with information and suggestion pertinent to historical libraries in general that we take pleasure in producing them in full WHAT AN HISTORICAL LIBRARY BUILDING SHOULD DO FOR PITTSBURGH BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITE S LL D Superintendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Lecturer in American History in the University ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Politics of Community Migration and Politics in Antebellum Ohio By Kenneth J Winkle New York Cambridge University Press 1988 xiii 239p notes tables bibliography index 3250 This interesting but ultimately unsatisfying book probes an apparent contradiction in the findings of modern political and social historians of the mid-nineteenth century Studies of electoral behavior in various constituencies in Ohio and elsewhere show an amazing stability in the proportion of ...
... 148 Ohio Arch 148 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Meeker is the author of a number of books The list according to information at hand is as follows Washington Territory West of the Cascade Mountains 1870 Hop Growing in the United States 1883 Pioneer Reminiscences of Puget Sound 1905 The Tragedy of Leschi 1906 The Oregon Trail 1907 Uncle Ezra's Pioneer Stories for Children 1916 Eighty-five Years of a Busy Life 1916 Seventy Years of Progress in Washington 1921 Ox-Team Days on the ...
... ARTHUR E ARTHUR E DeMATTEO The Downfall of a Progressive Mayor Tom L Johnson and The Cleveland Streetcar Strike of 1908 On November 6 1907 Cleveland Mayor Tom L Johnson awoke to headlines announcing his landslide triumph in the previous day's municipal election Democrat Johnson the champion of progressive urban reform and public control of utilities had solidified his position as the city's most powerful politician by crushing the best candidate the Republican Party could offer The vote was a ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue EMERSON F GREENMAN is curator of archaeology in the Ohio State Museum MAURICE F NEUFELD is an assistant in the Department of History in the University of Wisconsin He received the degree of Master of Arts in 1932 and Three Aspects of the Economic Life of Cincinnati from 1815 to 1840 forms a part of his master's thesis EDGAR ER S KINE HUME an officer of the Medical Corps of the regular United States Army is librarian of the Army Medical Library in ...
... DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OF THE TEACHING OF PHYSIOLOGY IN OHIO by C I REED Professor of Physiology University of Illinois Chicago Professional Colleges In order to bring the subject into perspective it is necessary to go back to the year 1726 when the first curricular representation of physiology was accorded by the University of Edinburgh in appointing Andrew Sinclair professor of the institutes of medicine As applied later this title very often covered much more ...
... THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PROGRAM OF THE OHIO HISTORICAL RECORDS SURVEY PROJECT By JAMES H RODABAUG H Beginnings The Ohio Historical Records Survey Project began operations in February 1936 It was organized and operated by the supervisors of the Writers' Project until November 1936 when it became an independent part of Federal Project No 1 In September 1939 Congress abolished the Federal projects after which the Ohio survey was established as a State ...
... THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER THE LIBRARY OF AN EARLY OHIO FARMER by ROBERT H IRRMANN Assistant Professor of History and Government Denison University Though not among the founding fathers of Blendon Township in Franklin County Gideon W Hart is noted by William Martin one of the county's early historians as among those who subsequently settled there after the initial waves of migration in 1806 and 1808 Born in Hartford Connecticut on July 16 1785 Hart first came to Franklin County in ...