... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... J J DAVID GRIFFIN Historians and the Sixth Article of The Ordinance of 1787 Writing in the North American Review in 1876 William F Poole concluded that in the whole range of topics in our national history there is none which has been more obscure or the subject of more conflicting and erroneous statements than the Ordinance of 1787 When one makes even cursory examination of a small sample of the literature that has dealt with the Ordinance he is very likely to conclude that the statement must ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 69 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1960 Learning and Piety in Ohio Colleges 1865-1900 By SHERMAN B BARNES BECAUSE IN THE Gilded Age a flood of new knowledge was received into the collegiate curriculum the question often arises whether traditional Protestant piety impeded or hastened the adoption of new curricular offerings in science history psychology philosophy fine arts and modern languages Excellent histories of a number of Ohio colleges ...
... THE MOTIVATION OF A RADICAL REPUBLICAN BENJAMIN F WADE by HANS L TREFOUSSE As David Donald the biographer of Charles Sumner has so clearly pointed out in the historiography of the Civil War and Reconstruction there is no group which has been traduced more consistently than the radical Republicans1 Called Jacobins and Vindictives cold-blooded demagogs and irresponsible self-seekers they have been accused of sins ranging from rabble rousing to incitement to murder from near treason to ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently received two additions to its file of historical and genealogical materials the bill book of Hollister Bliss and Lytle a general store at Delphos from September 1850 to August 1854 and a five-volume compilation of Ohio gravestone inscriptions made by Charles Wagner of Columbus Mr Wagner's work contains thirty thousand inscriptions from grave markers in ...
... INDEX INDEX The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly Volume 57 ABB UT FRANCIS E LL IN sGWOO U article on American AgrictulItrist Langstroth conin Northwest Ohio Quarterly 434 tributed to 154 Abbotts' Bridge 238 American Anti-Slavery Society 29 and Abell Aaron I 182 coalition sith abolition forces 165-166 Abolition and abolitionists 2 165-174 opposed to formation of abolition party 177-178 in Western Reserve 24-47 167 the Presbyterian Church and 120 121 American Ble Jotritl cited ...
... Book Notes Book Notes History of Upper Arlington A Suburb of Columbus Ohio By the History Committee of the Upper Arlington Bicentennial Committee Columbus Upper Arlington Historical Society 1977 337p illustrations notes maps appendices index The book was written by community residents and focuses on the history of the fire and police departments library municipal government schools religion and sports Personal interviews official records newspapers local publications maps and plates were ...
... Index Index Saunders Richard Erie Railroad 7 Scale and Scope The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism by Alfred D Chandler Jr rev 61-63 Scarlet Woman of Wall Street The See Erie Lackawanna Railway Company Scharff Virginia Taking the Wheel Women and the Coming of the Motor Age rev 64-66 Schob David E Schob book rev 147-148 Scioto Company The 117 Scioto River 119 120 Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks One Hundred Years of Preservation and Resource Management California History by Lary M ...
... 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 ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President The society has recently acquired a Kodagraph film reader a gift from the president James A MacDonell Several old Lima newspapers have been microfilmed up to 1912 Current papers have been filmed since January 1 1947 During recent months the society has been engaged in a campaign to collect unpaid pledges for the proposed 175000 museum A large percentage of the necessary funds ...
... SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SCIENCE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION by JAMES B CONANT President of Harvard University We are gathered here tonight I take it because we believe that to be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to be always a child I count it a privilege to give the address at this annual dinner of a society dedicated to a furtherance of the study of the history of this state I am particularly glad to be here when you are dedicating a new addition to your building ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Without Right Angles The Round Barns of Iowa By Lowell J Soike Des Moines Iowa State Historical Department Office of Historic Preservation 1983 viii 103p illustrations notes index Round barns in Mr Soike's definition were structures which could be truly round octagonal or in some other polygonal form He catalogs 160 round barns in Iowa and traces the general history of this aberrant but practical design for the past 200 years in this well-researched and illustrated book ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The Politics of Temperance in Ohio 1880-1912 The Price of an Ohio License What's the price of a license How much did you say The price of men's souls in the market today A license to sell to deform to destroy From the gray hairs of age to the innocent boy How much did you say How much is to pay How compare with your gold A license to poison a crime oft retoldFix a price on the years and the manhood of manWhat's the price did you say1 In 1913 the Anti-Saloon ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lima James A MacDonell President A Shay engine built by the Lima Locomotive works in 1925 and used at the National Lime and Stone Company quarry until 1947 has been renovated by the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation It is to be placed on a concrete foundation on the society's property as a permanent exhibit Contracts have been awarded for construction of the Allen County Museum building to be located at ...
... TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 TEACHING OF ANATOMY IN OHIO 331 Mendel Thomas Huxley Ernst Haeckel Johann Meckel Georges Cuvier and Sir Richard Owen This period witnessed also the founding of the science of anthropology which was a definite outgrowth of the biologic and evolutionary thinking of the nineteenth century The biological aspect of anatomy nurtured in European and especially in German universities was brought to the United States during the latter years of the nineteenth century by ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SARGENT GENEALOGY Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent Houghton Mifflin Company publishers Boston and New York 1923 One of the most valuable and finely wrought books that has been added to the library of the Society is the sumptuous volume entitled Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 215 Reviews Notes and Comments 215 OTHNIEL LOOKER For many years the biographies that have appeared from time to time of Governor Othniel Looker have been far from satisfactory The text of the sketch which has appeared in many publications is reproduced in the note below As will be seen it is incorrect in almost every particular The editor recently learned that Governor Looker died in the village of Palestine Illinois A very obliging correspondent was found in the ...
... The analyst of the career of a public figure functioning under a system of representative government finds that the problem of statesmanship is peculiarly complicated The hazards in leadership often seem to conspire to punish statesmanship confronting public figures with dire alternatives which subsequent biographers must not fail to weigh on the scales of the possible and probable As McKinley bluntly explained when pushing a compromise to end a silver stalemate in the house of representatives ...
... WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS WASHINGTON'S OHIO LANDS BY E O RANDALL Secretary Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society On June 15 1775 the Continental Congress passed the enactment establishing the Continental army and after fixing the pay of the commander-in-chief at five hundred dollars a month proceeded by ballot to elect that officer Washington was unanimously chosen and this result was formally announced to him on the next day when the newly elected general had taken his seat Rising in ...
... OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 by LANDON WARNER Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Kenyon College A constitutional mandate requires the submission to Ohio's electorate in 1952 of this question Shall there be a convention to revise alter or amend the constitution1 Provision for periodic review dates from the constitution of 1851 It was introduced as a democratic reform based on Thomas Jefferson's oft-quoted dictum that no law ...