... Historical News Historical News A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of the President's Civil War Centennial Commission was held in Washington DC on January 14-15 1958 Major General U S Grant 3d chairman of the commission presided at the sessions and Dr Bell I Wiley the distinguished Civil War historian of Atlanta Georgia made the keynote address The purpose of the commission is to lead the nation in a fitting celebration of the centennial of the Civil War At the meeting a thirteen-point program was outlined ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 21-22 1995 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Donna L Van Raaphorst History Department Cuyahoga Community College Western Campus Cleveland Ohio 44130-5199 The Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies of Saint Mary's University will be holding its 7th North American Fur Trade Conference in Halifax Nova Scotia on May 24-28 1995 The ...
... THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF THE MIDDLE WEST AND THE COMING OF WORLD WAR II by JEANNETTE P N ICHOLS Such a topic as The Middle West and the Coming of World War II admits the premise that public opinion in a particular section of a nation can importantly affect the foreign policy of the central government particularly in a country run on the representative principle This premise has received endorsement repeatedly in the history of the United States and other countries and especially among ...
... 255 255 GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR The Columbus Dispatch contained the following editorial in its issue of April 5 1934 Tuesday was the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of a man closely connected with the early history of Ohio whose life was a pitiable tragedy--Gen Arthur St Clair governor of the Northwest Territory when Ohio formed the body of it He was born in Scotland April 3 1734 and came to America in his young manhood With ability as a soldier he served with the British forces in ...
... THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO THE EARLY THEATER IN COLUMBUS OHIO 1820-1840 by LUCILE CLIFTON Associate Professor of English Ball State Teachers College Muncie Indiana The citizens of Columbus Ohio which was founded one hundred and forty some years ago have attended plays for at least one hundred and thirty of those years and had a flourishing theater as early as the mid-1830's The first western theatrical circuits followed the natural trade routes down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers As ...
... BookReviews Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 202-228 PDF of Book Reveiws CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The American Midwest Essays on Regional History Edited by Andrew R L Cayton and Susan E Gray Reviewed by Terry A Barnhart Henry Ford and the Jews the Mass Production of Hate By Neil Baldwin Reviewed by Terry A Cooney The Goodyear Story An Inventors Obsession and the Struggle for a Rubber Monopoly By Richard Korman Reviewed by K Austin Kerr Still ...
... DOUGLAS V DOUGLAS V SHAW Interurbans in the Automobile Age The Case of the Toledo Port Clinton and Lakeside From the first decade of the twentieth century until the early 1930s electric interurban railways connected almost all Ohio towns and villages of more than 5000 population With its numerous cities and market towns within reasonable proximity of one another prosperous agriculture and generally favorable topography everywhere but in the southeast Ohio provided ideal territory for ...
... OHIO ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA LIVINGSTON HOPKINS OHIO ARTIST IN AUSTRALIA LIVINGSTON HOPKINS by FREDERICK D KERSHNER JR In times present and past Americans have complained bitterly about the lack of knowledge of the United States revealed by foreigners Commonly they have attributed this ignorance to nationalistic myopia upper-class snobbery intellectual narcissism or a combination of the three One hundred percent Yankees like to supplement their critiques with gratuitous prophecies of impending ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue ROB ERT S FLETCHER is associate professor of history at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio W SHERMAN SAVAGE PhD Ohio State University 1934 is head of the Department of History at Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri ALTA HARVEY HEISER who has done work at the University of Cincinnati writes nature and historical articles for the Hamilton Ohio Journal-News and does genealogical research JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS of Marietta Ohio is a research worker in early ...
... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Bougainville The Forgotten Campaign 1943-1945 By Harry A Gailey Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1991 vii 237p maps illustrations notes glossary bibliography index 2700 On November 1 1943 US Marines landed on the west coast of Bougainville the largest and most northerly of the Solomon Islands Following successes on Guadalcanal and New Guinea this assault opened the last phase of the campaign to reduce Japan's base at Rabaul and oust Japan from the southwest ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Solon Robinson Pioneer and Agriculturist Selected Writings Edited by Herbert Anthony Kellar Indiana Historical Collections XXI Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1936 Vol I 582p 200 Solon Robinson 1803-1880 inaugurated his adult career by founding a town and serving as an auctioneer in southern Indiana Subsequently as a pioneer in northern Indiana he formed a Squatters' Union ran a country store sold real estate engaged actively in politics established a ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 of the earth my people urged me to make four requests-First that the flame of their fireplace may not sway to and fro sickness Second that their weapon may be sharpened on both sides Success in war Legends say that there was once a race that had a sharp bony structure growing out on both sides of their forearms for use in war Third that the number of days I left behind me may be proportionately divided among my relatives ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON THE DOCUMENTARY TREASURE CHEST Beginning with the present issue the curator of this department will try to include in every quarterly report not only information about recent acquisitions and data on materials which have been cataloged but also informal jotations on some of the valuable deposits in the Society's document vaults The head of this department believes that one of the reasons why doctoral dissertations are so dull is because ...
... 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 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Greek Revival Architecture in America By Talbot Hamlin New York Oxford University Press 1944 Cloth 439p 750 The author who is librarian of the Avery Memorial library and the Fine Arts library at Columbia University is an architect and the author of a number of books on architecture In this book he has traced the important trend in American architecture and life during the period previous to the Civil War emphasizing the development of Greek revival architecture in the ...
... LAWRENCE GROSSMAN LAWRENCE GROSSMAN In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood The Career of Peter H Clark Peter H Clark was one of the most prominent black leaders of the nineteenth century Working as a schoolteacher he emerged as a champion of the antebellum Negro community in Cincinnati achieved recognition after the Civil War as one of the leading black men of Ohio and became a figure of national importance in racial matters by the 1880s Though Clark's fame proved ephemeral an understanding ...
... BOOK REVIEWS 237 BOOK REVIEWS 237 note numbering in the texts of the documents especially in the later pages A useful chronology of communications gives the dates of origin of documents and their variants and enclosures An extensive bibliography of other materials consulted also has a calendar of communications The seal of the company here delineated for the first time is used as the frontispiece and is stamped on the binding Many of the documents are valuable apart from their connection with ...
... NORMAN A NORMAN A GRAEBNER Thomas Corwin and the Sectional Crisis Thomas Corwin viewed the sectional crisis of 1860 with consternation but scarcely with surprise For a dozen years this conservative Ohio politician had warned Americans that the sectional struggle over slavery in the territories would one day propel the nation into a bloody civil war In his dramatic speech to the Senate of February 11 1847 he had predicted that the annexation of Mexican territory would unleash sectional forces ...
... BARBARA GROSECLOSE BARBARA GROSECLOSE Itinerant Painting In Ohio Origins and Implications Among the most intriguing features of Ohio's art history is the role of itinerant painting in the development of the region's arthow and why itinerant painting occurred what implications the itinerant experience had for the career of the individual artist and in what manner Ohio itinerant painting might have contributed to or be related to the growth of mainstream American painting Itinerant painting is ...