... DANIEL NELSON DANIEL NELSON The Great Goodyear Strike of 1936 It was the first CIO strike a stepping stone toward the automobile industry an affirmation of the potentialities of the sit-down strike a case study of rank and file militancy and a remarkable example of the effects of non-violent agitation' Its beginnings were obscure its consequences uncertain The circumstances in which the strike was carried on and the method used rather than the immediate causes or results made it a turning ...
... 140 Ohio Arch 140 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE GRAND REVIEW It was indeed a rare opportunity for a boy of fifteen to visit Washington and witness the grand review of the victorious Union armies in May 1865 Some idea of what this implied may be gathered from a communication describing the event written by Mr Randall's father Rev D A Randall and published in a Cincinnati paper As already stated the two were companions on this occasion and seated side by side opposite the reviewing ...
... Executive Mansion Executive Mansion 271 such recommendation into effect had been taken or attempted by the general assembly On February 16 1917 a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee to investigate the cost of purchasing a residence already erected and also the cost of purchasing a site and causing a proper residence to be erected thereon in Columbus to be used as a home for future governors of the state 107 0 L 7 60 On March 30 1917 the governor approved an act ...
... THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING THE MAKING OF PINE TAR IN HOCKING COUNTY BY PASCAL A BRIGHT One of the primitive industries in southern Ohio where pine trees are found native was the making of pine tar In the summer of 1929 in company with Mr Emory Bainter who then lived on Big Pine Creek Mr A L Burgess of Columbus whose photographs have done so much to help popularize the state parks and his son I was on a trip in the park region of Hocking County We were in the hollow which contains Sand ...
... ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS ADDRESS AT FORT MEIGS By W J CAMERON The best proof a nation can give that it is gro w ing up is a lively interest in its history From the records of what they have done a people can form an estimate of what they are and from that they may draw an augury of their future Not only does history recall the past it also explains the present This pilgrimage to scenes immortalized in early northwestern history arranged by the historical societies in Ohio Indiana Michigan and ...
... 422 Ohio Arch 422 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the entrance of the Campus and facing the High street thoroughfare The legislature passed those two bills and the hopes of these officers who have labored for twenty years now see the consummation of our labors And now I have the pleasure of introducing our honored and devoted President Professor G Frederick Wright ADDRESS OF PROF G FREDERICK WRIGHT Ohio has been behind many of her sister states in appreciating her archaeological and ...
... Historical News Historical News Columbia University is preparing for publication a new and complete edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton The editors wish to locate any letters to or from Hamilton and any other Hamilton documents that are in private hands Communications may be addressed to Harold C Syrett Executive Editor The Papers of Alexander Hamilton Columbia University New York 27 New York On the editorial board are John A Krout chairman Harold C Syrett executive editor Henry Steele ...
... 628 Ohio Arch 628 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Preble County Historical Society due to his removal from Preble County but predicts continued growth and development of Fort St Clair Park in the days to come H R MCPHERSON Columbus Ohio September 26 1927 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK MONUMENT During the year the committee has sought to care for and improve the grounds The monument is located on high ground overlooking the Mad River Valley with a rather steep slope to the south and west Before ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ALBERT DOUGLAS The county of Ross is one of the richest in Ohio in historic lore It figured potently in the pioneer and early state annals Chillicothe was the first capital of the state There on April 25 1852 was born Albert Douglas who at the last annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he has long been a life and interested member was elected a Trustee Mr Douglas was educated in the Chillicothe ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 4 1959 TH E O H IO ACADEMY OF HISTORY held its twenty-sixth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 4 1959 Three concurrent morning sessions were devoted to a variety of topics Alfred D Low of Youngstown University as chairman of the section on modern European history introduced David C Riede of the University of Akron and Grover C Platt of Bowling Green State University who ...
... AN UNKNOWN GRAVE AN UNKNOWN GRAVE JOHN JAMES PIATT The following poem with preface was read by Mr Piatt at the Annual Banquet of the Ohio Society S A R held at the Columbus Club on the evening of April 19 1904 On the title page of an interesting volume of family history recently published at Columbus I read two sentencesthe first from Edmund Burke Those who do not treasure up the memory of their ancestors do not deserve to be remembered by posterity The other is from the Bible Children's ...
... TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND TWO PREHISTORIC VILLAGES NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO By EMERSON F GREENMAN Foreword During the field season of 1930 four sites in northern Ohio were excavated for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society The two forming the subject of this paper were on the Cuyahoga River six and seven miles south of the Public Square of the city of Cleveland Excavations were under the direction of the writer and Mr Robert Goslin field assistant Tuttle Hill was ...
... BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE BASEBALL IN ITS ADOLESCENCE by CARL WITTKE Chairman o f the Department o f History and Dean of the Graduate School Western Reserve University In 1939 Americans celebrated the centenary of their national pastime because a baseball commission created in 1907 to settle the hotly disputed question of who originated the modern game awarded the honor to Abner Doubleday A number of writers continue to insist that Alexander Cartwright of New York City drew up the first ...
... THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL HISTORY TO THE THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL HISTORY TO THE COMMUNITY by HENRY CLYDE HUBBART Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University As we all know the day of the supremacy of political or national history has passed instead we have many historical categories The mighty torrent of history has been sluiced into various channels the economic the social the constitutional the international or diplomatic and more recently the intellectual the regional the local This is ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By Bertha E Josephson During the first two months of the current year the Department of Documents has been devoting as much time as possible to an inventory and organization of numerous heterogenous and individual items Because these materials do not belong to any definite collections they have hitherto been neglected yet many of them are of considerable importance and value They are now being sorted and a card catalogue with name and subject crossreferences ...
... AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT by ERMINIE W VOEGELIN During the past half century or throughout the period that anthropology has been an academic discipline in American universities all branches of the subject--physical anthropology ethnology and archaeology anthropological linguistics and folklore-- have put much emphasis upon original field research No student of anthropology is considered professionally fully trained until he or she has had actual experience in ...
... About WS 2004 Winter-Spring 2004 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange by Bradford W Scharlott PDF of this article 18 Steubenville Ohio and the ...
... VIRGINIA R VIRGINIA R BOYNTON Contested Terrain The Struggle Over Gender Norms for Black Working-Class Women in Cleveland's Phillis Wheatley Association 1920-1950 When Adrien Jean Smith came to live at the Phillis Wheatley Association PWA of Cleveland Ohio in 1947 the young unemployed black woman was hired as a domestic servant by the home for black working women Although her work satisfied her employers for a time Smith's off-hours behavior constantly irritated and concerned the black ...
... THOMAS S THOMAS S MACH George Hunt Pendleton The Ohio Idea and Political Continuity in Reconstruction America The severe defeat of the Democrats in the 1866 election in Ohio and across the country left some of the party's political positions meaningless With a Republican majority in Congress and Reconstruction issues under its control the Democratic Party pinned its future on the ideas of a politician in the throes of resurrecting a political career George Hunt Pendleton a leading Democrat ...
... MEMORIAL TO THOMAS WILSON MEMORIAL TO THOMAS WILSON W C MILLS This memorial was submitted by the writer at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society June 6 1902EDITOR It is my sad duty to record for the annals of our Society the decease of our esteemed friend Dr Thomas Wilson late curator of Archaeology in the Smithsonian Institution Washington D C whose death occurred early Sunday morning May 4th 1 90 2 Dr Wilson was a great friend of our Society and was also ...