... OHIO BATTLE FLAGS OHIO BATTLE FLAGS REPORT OF COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO PROVIDE FOR PLACING THE FLAGS IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE CAPITOL House Bill No 247 AN ACT To provide for the display of the battle flags now in the possession of the state in the rotunda of the state house WHEREAS There are now in the relic room of the state the battle flags carried by the sons of
... 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 ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J ANDERSON McCarthyism Before McCarthy Anti-Communism in Cincinnati and the Nation During the Election of 1944 The wave of intense anti-communist sentiment that swept over the United States in the years following the Second World War sometimes called the second red scare1 had a great impact on American society Political debate came to be dominated by the desire of both major parties to appear tough on international communism The political Left historically not a major force ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 557 THE OHIO WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION LAW Since the publication of the QUARTERLY for January 1920 frequent complaints have been made by the representatives of one of the dominant political parties in regard to the article entitled The Ohio Workmen's Compensation Law It has been charged that the author of that article Mr Mengert is a ...
... HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING HOWELLS' BLISTERING AND CAUTERIZING by Louis J BUDD Assistant Professor of English Duke University As a sexagenarian describing his early manhood William Dean Howells reminisced If there was any one who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860 I am sure I should not have known where to find him1 Such testimony cannot be ignored Yet it has encouraged our accepting too hastily the trite picture of still another introverted lad who quietly ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 12 1958 THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING of the Ohio Academy of History was held at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 12 1958 Three concurrent morning sessions offered papers on a variety of topics In the area of American social history ...
... DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS A LETTER FROM GREENE COUNTY OHIO DECEMBER 28 1817 Among recent acquisitions to the Manuscript and Archives collections in the Library of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is the following letter which describes pioneer conditions in Greene County Ohio in the year 1817 The letter was addressed to Nathan ...
... northwestOhio and southeast Michigan He would like to thank Drs James Q Graham and Bernard Sternsher emeriti of the Department of History at Bowling Green State University and James Marshall Donna Christian and the staff of the Local History and Genealogy Department of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Libary for their help and suggestions during the research process 1 Ballard C Campbell ...
... CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS 326 CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS CHARLES RICHARD WILLIAMS BY LUCY ELLIOT KEELER In all the generation of able men now passing few possessed the vitality and social charm coupled with the keen intellect scholarly tastes and professional acumen of the late Charles R Williams It had seemed incredible that such bright sparkling springs of life could ever run dry His death on May 6 1927 at his home in Princeton New Jersey brought a sense of acute loss to a very wide and ...
... 352 Ohio Arch 352 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications a demand that would have overcome his indifference to display and publicity Three of his sons were prominent in their day Rev B F Morris the author of his life Jonathan D Morris who served two terms as congressman from Ohio Isaac N Morris who served two terms as congressman from ...
... Historical News Historical News THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATIO N for State and Local History has established an annual prize and a grant-in-aid program to encourage the publication of sound interpretive localized history A prize of one thousand dollars will be awarded each year for the book-length manuscript in localized history which in the opinion of the research and publications committee makes the most distinguished contribution to American or Canadian historiography The grants-in-aid which are ...
... PREGLACIAL MAN IN OHIO PREGLACIAL MAN IN OHIO AT the meeting of the Boston Society of Natural History2 for November 4 1885 Mr Putnam showed an implement chipped from a pebble of black flint found by Dr C L Metz in gravel eight feet below the surface in Madisonville Ohio This rude implement is about the same size and shape of one made of the ...
... THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS The committee found that limitations of time made it necessary to rely on questionnaires in compiling a bibliography of the historical writings of Ohioans during the year 1949 Members of the
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Jonathan Draws the Long Bow By Richard M Dorson Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press 1946 274p 450 This reviewer used to enjoy the old story told in Licking County of how a remarkable providence once saved a sleepy pioneer resident of Granville from drowning in the rampaging waters of Raccoon Creek The villager drove into town late one pitchdark stormy night and did not learn until the next day that the planking of the bridge he crossed had been washed away by the ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS AR NOLD G ARY J An Inventory to the Microfilm Edition of the Washington Gladden Papers at the Ohio Historical Society MSS Processor Ohio Hist Society CHACE LAURA L and ALICE ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 for the purpose of recapturing the lost arts of prehistoric man in the utilization of flint and other lithic materials and for the establishment of a laboratory of actual materials to be used for purposes of comparison This project it will be recalled was financed by Messrs Arthur C Johnson and H Preston Wolfe ...
... settlements As the seventies ended the quantity of sinophobia printed in the nation's newspapers and spreading across the country in pamphlet form had reached serious proportions14 Within the Golden State it had become unquestionably the premier political issue It was probably in California's mining camps during the fifties that sinophobia and the enduring theme of Chinese cultural inferiority was launched After the Civil War California's ...
... compiled by compiled by PATRICIA B GATHERUM Checklist of Major Research-in-Progress and Completed Masters and Doctors Degrees on Topics Relating to Ohio REFERENCE WORKS DITTBRENNER CURTIS H and GERALD G NEWBORG Guide to Researching Ohio County and Municipal Government Records Archives specialists Ohio Hist Soc F ULLER SARA S Guide to ...
... 132 Ohio Arch 132 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications POEMS BY C B GALBREATH1 MORNING GLORIES From the shadows of night they called for the dawn In notes that were subtle and clear In a strain of music too exquisite For the range of mortal ear From their leafy columns and battlements That were moist with the morning dew A call for light and a reveille From the bells of their bugles they ...
... McCormick Winter-Spring 2003 pp 19-26 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner By Virginia E McCormick McClain High School Greenfield Ohio Photo courtesy Virginia E McCormick As Supreme Court justices legislators and educators begin the twenty-first ...