... THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WORKS THOMAS JEFFERSON'S WORKS Princeton University will sponsor and the Princeton University Press will publish a definitive edition of the writings and correspondence of Thomas Jefferson in approximately fifty volumes This project is made possible through a subvention of 2 00000 by the New York Times Company as a memorial to Adolf S Ochs The editor is Julian P Boyd Librarian of Princeton University who states that the enterprise contemplates the publication of all letters ...
... CLAUDE MEEKER CLAUDE MEEKER JOURNALIST-DIPLOMAT-GENTLEMAN BY LOWRY F SATER A stranger entering the office of Claude Meeker in his absence would have recognized almost at a glance the unusual qualities that characterized the man The arrangement and completeness of the room evidenced a well-ordered and discriminating mind a love of the beautiful a familiarity with good literature an enthusiasm for outdoor life a wide acquaintanceship with the leading men of the State and nation the elements of a ...
... CHRISTOPHER G CHRISTOPHER G WYE Merchants of Tomorrow The Other Side of the Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work Movement For the most part the racial ideologies expressed by black leaders during the nineteen thirties can be classified on a rough continuum from the traditionally conservative and accommodationist Urban League through the more activist and protest-oriented NAACP the labor movement and the rise of industrial unionism and finally the Socialist and Communist parties One ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews In Pursuit of Happiness American Conceptions of Property From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century By William B Scott Bloomington Indiana University Press 1977 xi 244 p notes index 1250 Scott's admirably lucid survey traces not only changing conceptions of property rights but also alterations in expectations of what private ownership may contribute to the pursuit of happiness His spokesmen of American conceptions are mainly politicians jurists and social reformers ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson By MICHAEL LES BENEDICT New York W W Norton amp Company Inc 1973 x 212p notes appendix bibliographical essay and index Cloth 695 paper 245 Among the countless studies of American political institutions few have dealt with impeachment Historians and political scientists writing about Reconstruction or President Andrew Johnson have avoided treating his impeachment in depth Although few scholars any longer accept the once ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 287 students of the Ohio State University Mr C P McClelland and Mr C C Huntington working under the direction of Professor J E Hagerty of the Department of Political Science and Economics Ohio State University and by whom the preface is written In an introductory note by the Secretary of the Society it is said This monograph does not attempt of course to discuss in any way the question of the policy of the State as to the retention or abandonment of the canals The ...
... 328 Ohio Arch 328 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications high character and mechanical execution of its predecessors in the series which is generally recognized as the monumental work on the The Mythology of All Races JOSH BILLINGS ONCE LIVED IN NORWALK OHIO The special edition of the Sandusky Register published December 21 1922 abounds in interesting history of Sandusky Erie County and adjacent territory One contribution proves clearly that the noted humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw known as Josh ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews A Bibliography of Ohio Archeology By James L Murphy Ann Arbor University Microfilms International 1977 xi 488 p index 2375 This is the second comprehensive bibliography of Ohio archaeology The earlier compilation by Richard G Morgan and James H Rodabaugh was published by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in 1947 and contained 1351 entries This larger volume has 3138 entries and reflects both the striking growth of publications in the intervening ...
... JAMES N JAMES N GIGLIO Lawyer as Lobbyist Harry M Daugherty and the Charles W Morse Case 1911-1922 Of all President Warren G Harding's 1920 Cabinet selections none received more opposition than the Attorney General appointment of Harry M Daugherty-a fellow Ohioan who had directed the presidential nomination campaign Both the press and various public officials considered Daugherty a freewheeling lobbyist with a rather unsavory past To buttress their assessment they uncovered the indiscretions ...
... SKULLS RAPPERS GHOSTS AND DOCTORS SKULLS RAPPERS GHOSTS AND DOCTORS By PHILIP D JORD AN Henry Ward Beecher fashionable eastern preacher thought it vulgar to call phrenology the science of skull bumps but despite his protests that this popular pseudo-science was an investigation of the mind1 thousands of Americans hung gaily-colored charts above tin wash-basins and analyzed themselves while they shaved Lawyers plead their clients after exhaustive cranial examinations and physicians not to be ...
... 390 Ohio Arch 390 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Rickly was President He served that institution thoroughly acquainting himself with the banking business until November 4 1905 having been Assistant cashier for many years past On October 21 1905 he was elected Secretary of the Ohio State Savings and Loan Association of which institution he had been a Director some ten or twelve years previous assuming the duties of his new position November 14 1905 On January 1 1906 Mr Wood was ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History Spring Meeting will be held April 28-29 2000 at Otterbein College in Westerville Ohio For further information contact Richard Spall Ohio Wesleyan University Department of History Delaware Ohio 43015 The Academy now has a Home Page at lthttpoahhistoryohiostateedugt Nominations for the Ohio Academy of History Public History Award are sought for the award to be presented at the annual spring meeting of the OAH Public history projects ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 643 Reviews Notes and Comments 643 in the minds of the students to imitate them We lack a book describing such people Whereupon some person in the audience called out perhaps not without sarcasm Why don't you write one The challenge was accepted and the result is here presented to the teaching public The choice of subjects is not beyond criticism and the method of treatment may not satisfy all admirers We are too near the subjects for exact appraisement All are ...
... 168 Ohio Arch 168 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications VOL 3 THE EDUCATIONAL LESSONS OF THIS HOUR REV H A THOMPSON I appreciate the high honor done me by your Chairman in the invitation which he has extended me to speak for a few moments I must tell you in advance that I am not on the program for the day that I have no speech prepared for your listening ears I am here as a member of the Ohio Historical Society whose members are the guests of your committee I am here for the first time in ...
... George Armstrong Custer 651 George Armstrong Custer 651 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY GOVERNOR GEORGE WHITE On December 5th 1839 the people of New Rumley were extending their neighborly congratulations upon the birth of a boy Today after the lapse of nearly a hundred years the people of Ohio are extending to the village of New Rumley their congratulations upon the same event and the nation honors Ohio as the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer a national hero In the unveiling of this splendid ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Diaries of George Washington Edited by Donald Jackson Charlottesville The University Press of Virginia 1976 Vol I 1748-65 v 373p Vol II 1766-70 xvi 374p illustrations maps notes bibliography index 1500 each These two volumes mark the beginning of the most massive historical editing project in the nation's history-the writings of George Washington At the same time they represent the acme in the efforts of the National Historical Papers and Records Commission's ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY S K Stevens President The Association is publishing a new quarterly journal titled American Heritage It will deal exclusively with the teaching of local community history in our schools historical societies museums and similar agencies throughout the United States and Canada The editor will be Miss Mary Cunningham well known for her work as editor of New York History and the New York State Historical Association's ...
... FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN In the fall of 1886 the septuagenarian Henry Howe returned to Ashtabula on his second historic tour of Ohio Not the least interesting innovation which there captured the fancy of the beloved white bearded chronicler was the presence at the Harbor of the Fins a new element lately come into this region1 The coming of the Finns to Ohio can be traced with some precision About eighteen years ...
... SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY SOME NOTES ON OHIO HISTORIOGRAPHY1 BY CLARENCE E CARTER MIAMI UNIVERSITY The rise of historiography in the trans-Alleghany states in the first half of the nineteenth century follows the order of development so familiar in every national experience European as well as American in which annalists antiquarian compilers and composers of didactic narrative successively emerge This conventional order of succession is observable moreover in the American colonies and ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications AFTERNOON SESSION President Johnson called the meeting to order at 2 o'clock The audience was delightfully instructed and entertained by Dr George W Rightmire who delivered the following timely address on the subject THE HISTORIAN AND HIS MATERIALS I should like to open my remarks with a quotation from an Italian historian Beccari Long ago he wrote Happy is the country without a history To him history meant military campaigns political ...