... The analyst of the career of a public figure functioning under a system of representative government finds that the problem of statesmanship is peculiarly complicated The hazards in leadership often seem to conspire to punish statesmanship confronting public figures with dire alternatives which subsequent biographers must not fail to weigh on the scales of the possible and probable As McKinley bluntly explained when pushing a compromise to end a silver stalemate in the house of representatives ...
... Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 various mounds and parks He congratulated the Society on its work and stated this meeting will give him renewed enthusiasm Mr Randall stated that the Historical Commission of Ohio was appointed without legal authority a year ago last January or February by Governor Cox it is simply a committee acting voluntarily The purpose is to gather at once the material and data of the activities of Ohio in connection with the Great War This ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO ARCH A EOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO The accompanying map of Ohio showing the distribution of prehistoric Mounds and Enclosures in the state is reproduced on a reduced scale from the Archaeological Atlas of Ohio This map will be of special interest to the public as it shows at a glance the centers of occupation and the relative distribution of prehistoric man in the territory included The valleys of the larger rivers-the Miamis the Scioto the Muskingum the Hocking and their ...
... 624 Ohio Arch 624 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications are the World War trophies from the government flags and documents of the 332nd infantry World War relics loaned by Captain John L Hamilton a dress made of glass for Maxine Elliott in 1901 World War relics loaned by Mr G R Weaver Columbus Ohio World War relics presented by Reverend Arthur H Limouze Columbus Ohio an Egyptian mummy presented by Dr J Morton Howell United States Minister and Envoy Extraordinary to Cairo Egypt The ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 143 THE CHINESE QUESTION 143 gent of California which in the form finally adopted by the House on June 17 recommended that the President open negotiations with China to secure a change or abrogation of existing treaties that permitted the unlimited immigration of its citizens 29 Evarts had to await the arrival of two Chinese ministers in Washington Chen Lan Pin and Yung Wing on September 21 before he could even act upon the demands of Congress Then he hesitated until ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson By MICHAEL LES BENEDICT New York W W Norton amp Company Inc 1973 x 212p notes appendix bibliographical essay and index Cloth 695 paper 245 Among the countless studies of American political institutions few have dealt with impeachment Historians and political scientists writing about Reconstruction or President Andrew Johnson have avoided treating his impeachment in depth Although few scholars any longer accept the once ...
... Putting Aircraft to Work The First Air Freight by ROGER E BILSTEIN Orville and Katherine went to Simms to see Mr Phil o Parmelee sic start to Columbus with several bolts of silk in an aeroplane He flew there in 61 minutes and delivered the goods From BISHOP MILTON WRIGHT'S Diary November 7 1910 NOTES ON PAGE 277 248 OHIO HISTORY 248 OHIO HISTORY Milton Wright a bishop of the United Brethren in Christ church in Dayton Ohio maintained a keen interest in the activities of his lively family ...
... PROTECTION OF PREHISTORIC MOUNDS AND PROTECTION OF PREHISTORIC MOUNDS AND VILLAGE SITES In late years institutions for archaeological research located outside of the State of Ohio have come into the state and largely encroached upon the field of study and investigation which should be reserved for the purposes of home state exploration To give such societies as The Ohio State Archaeological amp Historical Society as is justly due them the right of way in this matter the 80th General Assembly ...
... HONORABLE JAMES E CAMPBELL 46 8President of Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Former Governor of Ohio TRIBUTE TO JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL TRIBUTE TO JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL BY DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORABLE JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL The present opportunity is taken by the University to extend to you most cordial greetings in recognition of your distinguished citizenship and of the approaching anniversary of your birthday The University unable to be in session on July seventh ...
... FOREWORD FOREWORD BY DR WM W PENNELL As a native of Holmes County and one of its residents for many years my earliest recollections cling to the things that claimed the attention of its people at a very interesting period Among these were the threat of war between the North and South if Lincoln should be elected president runaway slaves and the story Uncle Tom's Cabin These were not peculiar to that county conditions there could have been duplicated a thousand times The threat had no deterring ...
... 594 Ohio Arch 594 Ohio A r ch and Hist Society Publications The most important problem now claiming the immediate attention of the Secretary of the Society is the upbuilding of the Library A large extension of its newspaper collection in the very near future is in prospect The present opportunity may not continue indefinitely The library is accumulating gradually a creditable collection of county histories of Ohio This can be supplemented at any time After a thorough canvass of the Ohio ...
... NOTES AND QUERIES NOTES AND QUERIES The annual spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held at the Fawcett Center on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus April 24 and 25 1981 Address all inquiries to Professor H Roger Grant OAH Program Chair Department of History The University of Akron Akron Ohio 44324 Phone 216 375-7006 A call for papers is requested for the Thirteenth Annual Dakota History Conference to be held at Madison South Dakota on the campus of Dakota State ...
... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY HISTORY OF A DECADE 1932-1942 BY HAROLD E D AV I S Attending the annual meetings of the Ohio College Association in the late twenties the author noted that his fellow historians were rarely present even in the meetings of the Social Science Section After attending the Ohio History Conference arranged by Dr Harlow Lindley in the spring of 1931 he was convinced of the desirability of some organization however informal which would bring ...
... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... Mr Mr Republican Turns SOCIALIST ROBERT A TAFT and Public Housing by RICHARD O DAVIES To the great majority of his contemporaries Senator Robert A Taft embodied the traditional values of self-help private enterprise and dislike for governmental welfare programs Most Americans believed that Taft had as his major purpose the root and branch eradication of all New Deal welfare and regulatory programs His adamant opposition to the proliferation of such governmental activities supposedly led to a ...
... 408 Ohio Arch 408 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications That was my first impression and Dr Schlesinger's that the Archaeological Museum will become in time the mecca for county historians or as he phrased it a laboratory for scientific historical research experiment synthesis and exploitation - forever We are still receiving papers from 67 of the 88 Ohio counties in many cases two or three papers from a county making about 150 papers in all scrap-books are being formed steadily by daily ...
... H H ROGER GRANT Erie Lackawanna An Ohio Railroad The Erie Railroad possessed a strange past In the nineteenth century it could claim to be an unusual road For one thing it was America's first long-distance trunk line Under the corporate banner of the New York amp Erie Railway the company in April 1851 completed a 483-mile route Between the Ocean and Lakes linking the New York communities of Piermont on the Hudson River with Dunkirk on Lake Erie The railroad also extolled its distinctive broad ...
... Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Philip Bevan -- Minor Poet of Ohio 213 Although Bevan's verse was modeled after the English school and so was representative of that period of imitation in poetry which possessed American poets at the opening of the nineteenth century his frank avowal of love for the new nation and his delight in the beauty of the frontier states are reason enough to mark him as one of the important members of the minor school Then too the reprinting of America will ...
... SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 by HARVEY WISH Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University History-writing has no prouder tradition than the pretentious seminar for graduate students and yet in far too many cases it has no rival for stuffiness and ineptitude That the seminar has survived and is in no immediate danger of extinction is not due to the guiding principles of Ranke or Herbert B Adams but rather because it serves as a ...