... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES HENRY CLYDE SHETRONE Henry Clyde Shetrone was born in Millersport Fairfield County Ohio August 10 1876 He was edu cated in the public schools and attended Denison University At an early age he became interested in archaeology and museums and soon began gathering the literature relating to these In 1913 the opportunity came to ...
... 104 Ohio Arch 104 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications OHIO HISTORY DAY AT THE LOGAN ELM A large and appreciative audience assembled in Logan Elm Park near the grand old tree which gives it its name to celebrate Ohio History Day on October 7 1923 The local papers gave generous space to this notable event The Union Herald prefaces an extended account as follows The celebration of History day at Logan Elm Park Sunday was attended by from 1500 to 1800 people from all over central Ohio and the ...
... A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF OHIO Few American States possess a more national history or one embodying a greater variety of interests than Ohio The centennial celebrations that have lately been held within her borders commemorative of the beginning Of the Northwest Territory were more than local in character They embodied ideas that have a marked bearing on our National history The settlement at Marietta on the Muskingum on that April morning one hundred years ago was ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Cleveland Artists Foundation CAF has put out a call for papers on the topic of Cleveland's artistic heritage Proposals for papers on broad topics associated with regional art and cultural history which determine the context of Cleveland's art within national movements will be considered for presentation at the 1896-1996 Cleveland's Artistic Heritage Symposium to be held March 3031 1996 at the Cleveland Museum of Art For the symposium prospectus or more ...
... 540 Ohio Arch 540 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publicat io ns OHIO CAVE DWELLERS BY J H GALBRA IT H Mr Galbraith has for some time been publishing a series of Short Stories of the Buckeye State Many of them are worthy of preservation in permanent form Archaeologists will be interested in the one herewith reprinted Did the Cave Dwellers antedate the Mound Builders - EDITOR When Charles Whittlesey explored the shelter houses or caves under the sandstone outcropping along the Black river in the ...
... HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING by Louis J BUDD Assistant Professor of English Duke University As a sexagenarian describing his early manhood William Dean Howells reminisced If there was any one who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860 I am sure I should not have known where to find him1 Such testimony cannot be ignored Yet it has encouraged our accepting too hastily the trite picture of still another introverted lad who quietly ...
... 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 ...
... DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION by ALVA L DAVIS Assistant Professor of English Western Reserve University The study of dialect distribution in the eastern United States and in the secondary settlement areas of the Great Lakes Region has now reached a point where it is possible to show some interesting correlations between the linguistic features and the settlement patterns of these regions It is simple perhaps ...
... 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 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 ...
... 620 Ohio Arch 620 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications appointed by the Governor to make a complete survey of all the historical and archaeological parks and sites to outline a program for their improvement and maintenance and to submit an estimate of the amount that should be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose Our experience with the work of caring for these parks has shown us that in most instances even the essential needs of these parks cannot be adequately met because of ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 399 Society The article is most complete and satisfactory written with the customary scholarly accuracy characteristic of Professor Knight Judge James H Anderson the President of The Old Northwest Genealogical Society has an interesting and of course sympathetic article upon his son James Thomas Anderson Lieutenant U S A who died in Colorado Springs March 13 1904 and was buried on the 17th of March at Marion Ohio There is also an article by the late William Trimble ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1958 Paul Laurence Dunbar and William Dean Howells By JAMES B STRONKS IN THE SUMMER OF 1896 William Dean Howells then the most influential author and critic in the United States favorably reviewed a book of poems by a young Dayton Negro Paul Laurence Dunbar The review in the Harper's Weekly of June 27 1896--by a happy coincidence it was Dunbar's birthday--instantly and dramatically created a national reputation for ...
... Who Wrote Who Wrote The Harp of a Thousand Strings By GEORGE KUMMER OF THE ECCENTRICS who flourished in the backwoods areas of America in the first half of the nineteenth century the Hardshell Baptist preachers were among the most amusing to outsiders Travelers through the South and West found diversion in contemplating the oddities of these sermonizers who unlike the clergy of most other denominations made no bones about chewing tobacco or drinking whiskey in public1 Dead set against ...
... Historical News Historical News A Service Center for Teachers of History has recently been established by the American Historical Association It is located at 400 A Street SE Washington 3 DC Dr George Barr Carson Jr is the director The service center was created for the purpose of providing scholarly leadership in meeting the problems of history teachers The center offers direct assistance to teachers and to schools in strengthening history courses and increasing the effectiveness of teachers ...
... BOOK REVIEWS HAYES OF THE TWENTY-THIRD THE CIVIL WAR VOLUNTEER OFFICER By T Harry Williams New York Alfred A Knopf 1965 xviii324vip illustrations maps and index 595 I have a subjective judgment on this book and I may as well make it now as later the first two chapters I liked very much the other fourteen I found tedious In Chapter I The Golden Years Williams deals in a general way with the background of Rutherford B Hayes and offers some very shrewd insights on his Civil War career Chapter II ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX The Bank Wars the Idea of Party and the Division of the Electorate in Jacksonian Ohio Among the recent interpretations that have reinvigorated Jacksonian studies two in particular have proved to be central to understanding that period first that the Bank of the United States and banking in general were issues with more political than economic significance and second that it was during the Jacksonian era that Americans learned to accept the legitimacy and competitive ...
... ROBERT L ROBERT L DAUGHERTY Problems in Peacekeeping The 1924 Niles Riot On November 1 1924 Niles Ohio was the scene of one of the state's most famous riots Replete with violence the riot was characterized by beatings overturned automobiles and even shootings Bands of armed men freely roamed the streets of Niles meeting with little or no opposition from law enforcement agencies Local civil authority in the Niles area-both municipal and county-had all but evaporated in the face of violence and ...
... Book Notes Book Notes William McKinley A Bibliography By Lewis L Gould and Craig H Roell Westport Connecticut Meckler Corporation 1988 xvi 238p illustration chronology bibliography indexes Published as part of Meckler's Bibliographies of the Presidents of the United States 1789-1989 edited by Carol Bondhus Fitzgerald this book represents the first attempt to assemble a comprehensive guide to writing on McKinley's life and his years in office In this ambitious series Meckler Corporation has ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Empire as a Way of life An Essay on the Causes and Character of America's Present Predicament Along With a Few Thoughts About an Alternative By William Appleman Williams New York Oxford University Press 1980 xiv 226p notes 1495 Even more than most of the works of William Appleman Williams this slim volume is an attempt to influence the social and political currents of our time Unfortunately it is written with no sense of the tensions that necessarily exist between ...