... township and local societies endorsed candidates Strong Federalist opposition in this state as in New England was the stimulus for Republican organization and propaganda Drawn entirely from original sources the book is an excellent picture of how Jefferson manipulated the patronage of the party he had founded gave it a national organization and through the party press and personnel established it in power for a forty-year run He retired to ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 595 MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY SOCIETY BUILDING COLUMBUS OHIO OCTOBER 2 1924 Present Messrs Campbell Bareis Prince Goodman Johnson Wood Furniss and Dawes On motion of Mr Wood duly seconded James E Campbell was elected President of the Society Professor Prince moved that George F Bareis be elected First Vice President of the Society At the suggestion of ...
... Minutes of the Meeting Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 2 1955 The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History was held at the Ohio State Museum April 2 1955 Two sessions were scheduled for 10 A M The chairman of one Wilfred E Binkley of Ohio Northern University introduced Charles B Forcey of Miami University who presented a paper entitled Progressivism Forerunner of Fascism Remarks were offered by Louis Filler of Antioch College and Thomas LeDuc of ...
... B O O K R E V I E W S PROGRESSIVISM IN OHIO 1897-1917 By Hoyt Landon Warner Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1964 xiii 556p bibliography and index 1000 In 1914 Ohio cities under-represented in the state legislature by design and careful calculation were under the control and sway of what Newton D Baker called the rustic garland that makes a member from Pike County our sovereign A half century later Ohio cities in 1964 are still under-represented--but ...
... 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 ...
... ANDREW McILROY ANDREW McILROY No Interest No Time No Money Civil Defense in Cleveland in the Cold War In recent years historians have shown that fear of the atomic bomb pervaded all aspects of American life in the early cold war era Paul Boyer argued that the ever-present reality of the bomb was so great that it was built into the very structure of our minds giving shape and meaning to all our perceptions Magazines such as Life Time and Newsweek offered evidence through a wealth of articles ...
... 265 265 Book Reviews The Loyalist Americans A Focus on Greater New York Edited by Robert A East and Jacob Judd Tarrytown Sleepy Hollow Restorations 1975 xiv 176p illustrations notes appendix index 1200 Few aspects of life during the colonial era have failed to be singled out and judged in terms of their importance to the American Revolution yet important phases of that event remain inadequately explored Although the subject of several recent investigations Loyalism is a case in point For this ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO The Feud Renewed Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Campaign of 1940 They were old enemies Democrat Martin L Davey and Republican John W Bricker two fierce rivals posed against each other for the second time in a contest for Ohio's governorship Their first race in 1936 degenerated into a barrage of accusations and mudslinging Their second in 1940 promised more of the same If anything as Davey's local newspaper the Ravenna Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune ...
... MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN MARK TWAIN IN OBERLIN By RUSSEL B NYE On the night of February II 1885 the Union Library Association of Oberlin Ohio presented readings by Samuel L Clemens and George W Cable as the third number of its annual lecture series The Twain-Cable lecture took place in the First Congregational Church of Oberlin where Clemens according to a program of the entertainment now in the Oberlin College Library gave as his part of the evening readings of King Sollermun The Tragic Tale of ...
... Think Kindly of Think Kindly of Us of the South A LETTER TO WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN edited by LEE N NEWCOMER The following letter to William Tecumseh Sherman dates from a short and almost forgotten era of United States history the few years following the Civil War in which the South thought well of General Sherman Southern liking for Sherman though short-lived was well-grounded in fact Before the war Sherman taught at what later became Louisiana State University he liked the southerners and ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR DR WILLIAM H ALLEN'S REPORT ON THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Dr William H Allen head of the Institute of Public Service New York was employed by the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Reorganization to make an examination of all state educational agencies In his report on the work of the Society he sketches briefly the aims and ...
... Historical News Historical News THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE MORMON CHURCH has microfilmed all military records of the division of soldiers' claims of the Ohio adjutant general's office The microfilmed records include grave registration data on Ohio veterans of all wars in which Ohioans participated rosters of Ohio soldiers in these wars and indexes to the rosters original hand-written muster rolls of the Ohio units in the Civil War records of payment to Squirrel Hunters rosters of Ohio ...
... TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE GREAT EARTHWORK BUILDERS OF OHIO By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY A brief description of the various types of primitive weaving shown in the cloth from the burial mounds of the great earthwork builders of Ohio will help materially to a clearer understanding of the early pre-loom stages of the textile art in general which probably passed through a similar evolution in certain other parts of the world Primitive ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era SHGAPE announces the third SHGAPE Article Prize a biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of US history in the period 1865-1917 The article must have appeared in journals dated 1995 or 1996 Eligibility is open to any graduate student or individual with a doctorate awarded after 1987 who has not yet published a book An article may be nominated by the author or ...
... 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 ...
... A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 A CHECK-LIST OF OXFORD IMPRINTS 1827-1841 Periodicals The Literary Focus a monthly periodical edited and published by the Erodelphian and Union Literary Societies of the Miami University Stilus optimus et praestantissimus dicendi effector ac magister Oxford Ohio printed at the Societies' Press J D Smith pr 1827-28 Vol I June 1827-May 1828 12 issues June-November 1827 published by J B Camron pr Hamilton Ohio December 1827-May 1828 published by the ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Edmund J Danziger of Bowling Green State University has been promoted to Chairman of the Department of History Gary R Hess of Bowling Green State University has been appointed Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve David C Skaggs of Bowling Green State University will take a leave of absence to attend the ...
... AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HARDING PAPERS by DONALD E PITZER April 25 1964 marked the beginning of an opportunity for a new perspective in telling the story of the life and times of Warren G Harding On that date The Ohio Historical Society opened to the public a collection of Harding papers which it had received in the preceding six months from the Harding Memorial Association at Marion Ohio1 Material never before available for scholarly research thus began to shed a clearer light upon Harding and ...
... METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE METHODS OF TREATMENT OF SOME OF THE MORE COMMON DISEASES BY THE PIONEER PHYSICIANS OF OHIO By DAVID A TUCKER MD As a preface to the description of the treatment of some common diseases in the Ohio Valley a century or more ago I should like to sketch briefly the knowledge with which the physician of that period was equipped First he was familiar with the gross appearance of body in health and disease as anatomical studies were greatly stressed but knew ...
... WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AND THE ASHTABULA SENTINEL By EDWIN HARRISON CADY Few facts about the formative years of William Dean Howells are known except what the author himself left in the form of personal reminiscence Books such as A Boy's Town My Literary Passions My Year in a Log Cabin and Years of My Youth are mellow and interesting autobiography Mildred Howells' Life in Letters of her father contains a few early letters and two revealing photographs The amount of ...