... ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY ON THE HISTORY OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY BY RAYMOND D CAHALL For more than a score of years I have been giving a course at Kenyon College on the Intellectual History of Europe It has been a combination of James Harvey Robinson's course and of the reading of the greatest books dealt with in that course As I have brought it up to date added here or diminished there I have sought to avoid the panoramic and encyclopedic and have tried to lead my students to a ...
... GIRTY'S ISLAND GIRTY'S ISLAND BY N B C LOVE DESHLER O Girty's Island in the Maumee River a hundred years ago was the headquarters of the Indians and was the home for a time of Simon Girty Rich in verdant foliage of varied green And many kindred growth of stately trees Plants flowers and vines with nectar for bees Blended in a quivering summer sheen And around the waters ebbying tide Bending low long boughs with vines interlace And reflect in the liquid mirror's face Scintillating like moving ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Harry Hopkins Ally of the Poor and Defender of Democracy By George McJimsey Cambridge Harvard University Press 1987 xiv 474p illustrations notes index 2500 Perhaps it was the common bond of a Grinnell College education that lured George McJimsey to Harry Hopkins as a biographical subject Certainly few men other than heads of state and a handful of generals were more important than Hopkins during World War II and no one including Franklin D Roosevelt himself was more ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 4 73 Mrs Mary E Bray Charles R Bartlett Mrs Catharine M Bartlett Louis M Hanff Mrs Frances P Hanff Rutland After the dinner Prof Hulbert Senator Dana and Edwin D Mead spoke briefly after which the meeting dissolved After the meeting several signed the membership roll of the Rutland Chapter of the Ohio Company of Associates GOLDWIN SMITH A Pupil's Recollection Just two score years ago-in the Fall of 1870-the editor of the QUARTERLY-then a slip of a lad just emerging ...
... THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 THREE VALLANDIGHAM LETTERS 1865 CONTRIBUTED BY CHARLES H COLEMAN Associate Professor of History The Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charleston The two letters from Clement L Vallandigham to Horace Greeley editor of the New York Tribune are from the Greeley Papers in the New York City Public Library The letter to James W Wall prominent New Jersey Peace Democrat is from the manuscript collection of the library of the New York Historical Society The ...
... BAKER ON THE FIFTH BALLOT THE DEMOCRATIC ALTERNATIVE 1932 by ELLIOT A ROSEN A study of history's might-have-beens is often more interesting and informative than one would suspect from the bare recital of what happened For in addition to the zest of narrative it has the delight of speculation Very often the threads which lead to a great decision are intertwined with other strands which if they had prevailed might have brought about an entirely different aftermath What would have been the ...
... Historical News Historical News THE INSTITUTE OF EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE and the Jamestown Foundation announce the establishment of a special prize competition for the best unpublished book-length manuscript about seventeenth-century America The annual prize will consist of 1000 and publication by the institute All manuscripts submitted whether winning an award or not will be considered for publication by the institute The competition will be judged by the publications committee of ...
... 226 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 226 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY and Commander Webb C Hayes for terms of three years The Committee realizing the deep interest and long service of Mr Harold T Clark and bowing to his personal desire for retirement nominated for the third vacancy Dr Charles E Holzer of Gallipolis The Secretary was instructed by the Chairman to cast the ballot for each of the nominees President Johnson Last year Dr Overman of our staff presented a ...
... Benjamin H Pershing Religion in the Twentieth Century H Clyde Hubbart Ohio in the First World War 1917-1918 J Otis Garber Depression Activities and Harlow Lindley The Sesquicentennial Celebration Pathway of Progress--A Short History of Ohio By David W Bowman New York American Book Company 1943 546p cloth illus 148 The importance of Ohio history has been quickened by the appearance of this attractive book which is bound to stimulate the ...
... ROBERT D ROBERT D ACCINELLI Was There a New Harding Warren G Harding and the World Court Issue 1920-1923 In the past ten years a revised more flattering image of Warren G Harding and his administration has appeared in historical writing1 Although many historians still hold the Harding presidency in low esteem a group of revisionists has sought to upgrade its reputation These revisionists do not agree in all respects about either Harding or his administration but they have produced more ...
... 528 Ohio Arch 528 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK GEORGE CARPENTER Frank George Carpenter well known correspondent traveler and author was born at Mansfield Ohio May 8 1855 He was the son of George F and Jennette L Carpenter He was graduated from the University of Wooster Ohio in 1877 with the degree of A B Later he received the degrees of A M and Litt D He married Joanna D Condict of Mansfield Ohio January 10 1883 Mr Carpenter began newspaper work as legislative correspondent of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Fall Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be October 13-14 1989 at Ohio University The Missouri Valley History Conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska at Omaha's History Department will be held March 8-10 1990 Those interested in further information concerning the conference should contact Jerold Simmons Program Coordinator MVHC Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Pennsylvania Historical and ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fourteenth annual Duquesne University History Forum will be held on October 27 28 and 29 1980 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Well established as one of the major professional meetings of its type having sessions in all fields of history the Forum is the largest annually held meeting in the northeastern United States Those interested in submitting proposals for papers andor complete sessions or who desire to serve as a moderator or ...
... MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG MARK TWAIN'S HADLEYBURG by GUY A CARDWELL Professor of English Washington University St Louis Citizens of Oberlin Ohio have claimed for their town the distinction of being the original for Hadleyburg in Mark Twain's The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg The story reflects Twain's resentment they think at the unfavorable reception they accorded his readings in the First Congregational Church on February 11 1885 Mr Russel Nye examines and approves this Oberlin tradition in a ...
... Dedication of the Hayes Memorial Dedication of the Hayes Memorial 455 life of the man who from youth to advanced years really served his fellowmen and such a memory will undoubtedly be an inspiration to them to take a high view of the calling of citizenship and to prepare themselves by study and thought to render such service as is within their capacity and opportunity ADDRESS OF U S SENATOR POMERENE United States Senator Pomerene spoke as follows I am glad to have the opportunity to come to ...
... Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerarld Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 125-143 This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerald A Brief Literary Friendship By Brian Bruce click to view full image In June 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a spiteful letter to his editor Max Perkins about ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 193-217 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS Joyous Greetings The First International Women's Movement 1830-1860 By Bonnie S Anderson New York Oxford University Press 2000 xii 288p illustrations notes bibliography index 3000 Anyone interested in history ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D JENKINS Robert Bulkley Progressive Profile Twenty years ago American historians characterized progressivism as a political movement whose reform impulse was rooted in the status anxieties of its predominately middle-class membership Since then a generation of historians has effectively challenged the simplicity of that hypothesis and replaced it with the notion that progressivism was more diffuse in nature No longer viewed then as a movement cohesive in philosophy and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America Edited and with an Introduction by Charles DeBenedetti Bloomington Indiana University Press 1986 276p illustrations notes index 2250 The publication of this book serves to remind us of the great loss the historical profession suffered in the death of Charles DeBenedetti at so young an age An edited work with eight chapters written by various authors it is a book that should have a large readership both inside and outside the ...