... Historical News Historical News The Alexander Hamilton Bicentennial Commission established by congress in 1954 for the celebration of the two-hundredth anniversary of Hamilton's birth in 1957 is pursuing a comprehensive program of memorial exercises publications activities in the field of education and public affairs commemorative exhibitions and the issuance of special coins stamps and medals Its publication program is well under way with Columbia University undertaking to edit and publish a ...
... THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLTHE ESTABLISHMENT OF DERMATOLOGY AND SYPHILOLOGY AS MEDICAL SPECIALTIES IN NORTHERN OHIO1 Dr William T Corlett and the Renaissance of the 1890's by WILLARD L MARMELZAT MD Department of Dermatology and Syphilology University Hospitals of Cleveland The rise of dermatology as a medical specialty in Ohio is of particular medico-historical interest for the evolution of the treatment of skin diseases with which this paper deals is not only of local and ...
... compiled by compiled by HELEN M THURSTON A Survey of Publications on the History and Archaeology of Ohio 1970 to 1971 ARCHAEOLOGY Central States Archaeological Journal 1970 published by several archaeological societies Ohio Archaeologist 1970 published by the Archaeological Society of Ohio A quarterly devoted to the discussion and illustration of artifacts found primarily in Ohio PRUFER OLAF H and ORRIN C SHANE III Blain Village and the Fort Ancient Tradition in Ohio Kent Ohio Kent State ...
... DARWIN H DARWIN H STAPLETON Abraham Flexner Rockefeller Philanthropy and the Western Reserve School of Medicine In September 1914 the president of Western Reserve University in Cleveland Charles F Thwing addressed a friendly letter to an important ally of the university's medical school I am glad to say to you that your Western Reserve Medical School is opening tomorrow in excellent form The students seem to be overflowing We have a little larger first-year class than we ought to receive We ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held Friday and Saturday 23-24 April 1993 at Wittenberg University The Oral History Association will hold its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7 1993 at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel in Birmingham Alabama For more information write to Kim Lacy Rogers Department of History Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013-2896 The Forest History Society announces the availability of Alfred D Bell Jr ...
... THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY by SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE Director University of Oklahoma Press It has been said that if you scratch a historian you will surely find an author There is scarcely a discipline in America today as productive as history--and I do not exclude even the sciences whose cosmic chill seems to work inversely enkindling the imagination of mankind the more as the outlook for the future becomes the less Perhaps it is because the record ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Ryan Columbus O C E Schenk J R Schindel Murray Seasongood Frank H Schaffer D H T Smith Rufus B Smith Dr R W Stewart Thomas T Swift G S Sykes Rev Geo A Thayer Bryant Venable Emerson Venable R O Venable Dr Chas E Walton J W Worthington F B Wiborg J O White Charles B Wilby Joseph Wilby John F Winslow Isidor Wise Paul Wisenall E J Wohlgemuth Everett I Yowell MARTIN DEWEY FOLLETT Judge M D Follett one of the organizers of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 35 nized the cheering by standing upon his automobile and waving his hat Grant street Fifth avenue and Wood street were lined with thousands The moment the automobile bearing the President appeared in Water street it was the signal for the beginning of one of the greatest ovations ever extended a nation's chief executive in this day Every boat tooted whistles as did locomotives and factories The spectators cheered People on the ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN OHIO This is the title of a book which has long been in demand by citizens of Ohio and many beyond the borders of that state who have learned through tradition or otherwise that their Revolutionary ancestors came to this state and are probably buried here The arduous work of collecting material for this volume was undertaken by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the ...
... A WILSONIAN PARADOX A WILSONIAN PARADOX by PHILLIP R SHRIVER Historians are often prone to conjecture What might have happened if-- Perhaps no other event in the history of the United States has been the subject of as much hindsight speculation as this nation's refusal to join the League of Nations after the conclusion of the first World War Not a few historians have suggested that World War II was in large degree made inevitable when the United States declined to assume the role of world ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Historiography and WARREN G HARDING re The Shadow of Blooming Grove Warren G Harding in his Times by Francis Russell New York McGraw-Hill Company 1968 xvi691p index 1250 The image of Warren G Harding has been derived largely from pre1940 books by Samuel Hopkins Adams Frederick Lewis Allen Mark Sullivan and William Allen White To these life-and-times accounts must be added the memoirs of Nan Britton Harry Daugherty and Gaston B Means The picture presented was ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 218-234 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 INDEX Volume 110 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P QR S T UVW XY ABBOTT family of Geauga County Ohio 53 62 63 Abolition See antislavery movement Acts of God the Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America by Ted Steinberg 191 ...
... array of topics for the period 1500-1763 Entries will discuss the military diplomatic and strategic significance of Indian nations European colonies locales forts battles wars treaties individuals etc Send inquiries to Alan Gallay Department of History Western Washington University Bellingham Washington 98225 The Forest History Society has established the John M Collier Award for Forest History Journalism in memory of Collier's long ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEP H SON Since the last summary this department has accomplished a general check-up on accessioned and unaccessioned manuscript materials with an interfiling of collections in the manuscript vaults so that all collections cataloged and uncataloged are now filed in one alphabetical arrangement Temporary cards were made for the uncataloged collections and these are now in the Manuscript Catalog This was done to simplify housing of collections and ...
... AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN MAYOR BY ALFRED HEWETSON MITCHELL A native of Ohio who became America's first woman mayor has been honored at Argonia Kansas by a plaque which was erected through the efforts of Kansas club women and dedicated on November 10 1933 Kansas believes in flowers for the living so this plaque was unveiled in the presence of Mrs Susanna M Salter the Ohio-born woman who had made history at the age of twenty-seven when she was elected mayor of Argonia in ...
... JAMES F JAMES F RICHARDSON Urban Political Change in the Progressive Era The nature and sources of political change in the early twentieth century are among the favorite topics for assessment and reassessment among American historians The degree of concern is understandable for the Progressive period witnessed considerable expansion in governmental functions and major changes in governmental structure This transformation in form and function was perhaps more pronounced in the nation's cities ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 193 Reviews Notes and Comments 193 owners through whose hands it has passed in the long period since it was originally written They have recorded in it quaint receipts accounts and other matters of little or no value today For a time it appears to have been used as a copy-book It is however in spite of these insertions a venerable interesting and legible document which throws strong sidelights on the activities of the frontier army during this interesting period ...
... SHULL'S ROAD SHULL'S ROAD The following letter addressed to the Editor by John William Scholl professor emeritus in the University of Michigan contains enough of historical data to warrant its publication as a matter of record ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN April 6 1946 Dear Sir I have before me a Road Map of Montgomery County Ohio made revised in 1936 by Victor C Smith then County Engineer which contains an especially interesting error Near the northeast corner of the county in Wayne Township there is a ...