... strikes influenced strikes inter-union disputes and political negotiations and most useful of all they anchor Lewis' life and career firmly in the overall economic and political history of his time This biography even if it contains no startling new facts or interpretations will henceforth be indispensable for anyone studying both of these aspects of modern American history Dubofsky and Van ...
... strikers Compounding the problem is that Millett preemptorily decided to ignore the personal and psychological influences on Bullard's career in favor of an exclusive emphasis on professional influences But if we make allowances for the methodological and stylistic flaws in the book it emerges as a solid well-researched account of an average general whose career spanned an important period of army history Miami University Jeffrey Kimball ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence E Carter Vol XIII The Territory of Louisiana-Missouri 1803-1806 Washington Government Printing Office 1948 xi 641p 350 This is the first of three volumes devoted to what the editor calls for lack of a simpler name the Territory of LouisianaMissouri-the part of the Louisiana Purchase to the north of the present state of Louisiana called officially the District of Louisiana 1804-5 the Territory ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 105 the people as one might suppose it to have been in the days of the tenth century The author carries the credulity of his reader to the very limit For instance he fully describes the girls' and boys' schools at Lekin the name which he gives to the present site of Newark in the vicinity of which there still stand to-day vast and complete earth-works of those long lost tribes These people as General Beatty pictures them with a graphic pen reached a stage of ...
... edited by edited by DONALD A HUTSLAR Crossroads The Xenia Tornado A Retrospective View It is possible to factually document the cataclysmic tornado which cut a path through southwestern Ohio on the third of April 1974 Pictures can show the destruction words convey the impressions of the participants There will be many publications of this nature What is difficult perhaps impossible to impart is the break in historic continuity such an event will produce particularly in a community such as ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 149 His grandfather Isaac Zane had been buried in 1813 - and of course he attended the funeral He gave me the family history of Isaac Zane and his wife - whom of course he distinctly remembered and told me of the marriage of Isaac Zane to the daughter of Tarhe who he said was his great-grandfather At the time he left for Canada they were just cutting the brush out of the main street of Bellefontaine the new village There died here lately Mrs Garwood a grand-daughter ...
... Historical News Historical News THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a 45000 research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment Inc of Indianapolis Indiana in support of a three-year program on the history of the American Midwest About one-third of the grant will be used for grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest history between the Civil War and World War I and the balance will be used for publication of the results of these studies as well as of ...
... JON GLASGOW JON GLASGOW The Westward Expansion of the Manufacturing Belt The Ohio Machine Tool Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century For more than sixty years the Manufacturing Belt has been recognized as an important feature of the human geography of the United States Early studies mostly by geographers1 delimited the current areal extent of the region-roughly a quadrilateral with corners at St Louis Minneapolis Portland Maine and Richmond Later attention shifted from description to ...
... INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH INDEX TO THE MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-NINTH MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Allen William Life of 585 Dawes Beman G term expires is reAsh Cave report on 585-586 elected 589-590 Atwood J F 587 Dennis Jerry 579-580 Director report of 548-563 Baker R C 538 Dryer Mrs Orson D 538 Bareis George F 538 569 572 report on Dunham John M 538 Museum Committee 583-584 term expires is re-elected 589-590 elected Eaton S L 549-550 ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1971 to 1972 ARCHAEOLOGY Central States Archaeological Journal 1971 published by several archaeological societies CERAM C W The First American A Story of North American Archaeology New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc 1971 357p Ohio archaeology MILLER JEFFERSON J II and LYLE M STONE Eighteenth-Century Cer a mics fr om Fort Michilimackinac A Study in Historical Archaeology Washington DC ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Museums Association OMA a nonprofit statewide organization of nature centers zoos art science history and natural history museums has located its headquarters at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus Ohio Although separate from the Ohio Historical Society the OMA provides workshops conferences annual meetings and a monthly newsletter to OHS and other organizations throughout the state in an effort to provide educational opportunities for staff ...
... strikes since 1893 strike of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers and allied trades40 and a consideration of Indian problems of finance and currency which were leading to extreme anxiety and restlessness in the subcontinent41 The most serious business awaiting Hay's return from his two months' holiday was the growing apprehension in regard to China British public men were seriously concerned ...
... strike and the superintendent who decreed workshop rules in 1829 was shot by a discharged armorer who became a folk hero For the most part Smith concludes hard work prevailed at Harpers Ferry a systematic work regime did not p66 What Smith has provided in this well-written and splendidly illustrated volume however is far more than simply a chronicle of resistance to change He has shown first of all the decisive role of the state and in ...
... strike which threatened strike military targets first which would give Cleveland now labeled a non-military secondary target some time to evacuate The local emphasis on evacuation while the federal government recommended shelters probably only increased the level of public confusion Possibly some residents agreed with Pokorny who warned a hydrogen bomb might destroy the entire county making ...
... JOHN W JOHN W BEAR THE BUCKEYE BLACKSMITH1 by ROBERT GRAY GUNDERSON Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College On the week end of February 21 1840 twenty-three thousand enthusiastic Whigs crowded into Columbus for the Ohio Whig convention2 A heavy rain drenched the delegates as they milled about seeking quarters in the thriving capital city which that year proudly reported six thousand inhabitants to the bureau of the census The arrangements committee announced that every Whig house in ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries David E Kyvig history professor at The University of Akron recently received the Bancroft Prize for the best book in American history published in 1996 for his Explicit amp Authentic Acts Amending the US Constitution 1776-1995 The book acclaimed as a major contribution to the history of American legal constitutional and political development was published by the University Press of Kansas The Ohio Academy of History will hold its annual spring meeting 24-25 ...
... SIEUR DE LA SALLE SIEUR DE LA SALLE The Great French Explorer Along the Maumee and Wabash Rivers in the years 1669 and 1670 BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO M Jean Talon Intendant of New France wrote to Louis XIV king of France under date of loth October 1670 that he had dispatched persons of resolution who promise to penetrate further than has ever been done the one to the West and to the Northwest of Canada and the others to the South West and South Paris Document I New York ...
... 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 ...
... Index Index THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume 63 ABOUT HISTORIANS 74-76 192Bahmer Robert H Keep the Record 193 293-295 416-418 Straight 225-239 Academic Procession An Informal HisBaker Nina Brown Cyclone in Calico tory of the American College 1636The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke 1953 by Ernest Earnest rev 307-308 rev 426-427 Adams William A 255 Baldwin Charles C and Pease map of The Admission of Ohio to the Union Western Reserve 270-271 by Benjamin H Pershing ...
... strike me as one of much strike her bows and brawl away to her stern while she dipped and rolled and shot onward like a bird blown by the wind and fields houses woodlands and Islands whirled out of sight The young fellows aboard all clutched their hats and roared By Jove as with one voice the children crowed and laughed and tender little women cooed together in wild raptures and one brave ...