... About WS 2003 Winter-Spring 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier by Amy Hill Shevitz PDF of this article 19 A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner by Virginia E ...
... THE SOCIETY'S STATE MEMORIALS WAHKEENA NATURAL HISTORY PRESERVE by DAVID H STANSBERY OVER 200000000 years ago coarse sand and gravel from a slowly eroding mountain range were washed into a shallow sea that covered what is now south-central Ohio During the millions of years that followed the huge beds of sand that formed along the edge of this ocean were first compressed into solid rock then were slowly lifted above the sea level This rock formation the Blackhand Sandstone forms the bedrock ...
... strikes me as something extraordinarily good I got an enormous kick out of it It's by Boyd of St Paul who is 29 Bruccoli Some Sort of Epic Grandeur 178 F Scott Fitzgerald to Maxwell Perkins c 15 March 1926 in Bruccoli Fitzgerald A Life In Letters 140 30 F Scott Fitzgerald to Maxwell Perkins 28 July 1925 in Bruccoli Fitzgerald A Life in Letters 124 31 John W Crawford A Malicious Panorama review of Through the Wheat by Thomas Boyd the Nation 117 ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent appointments and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include the following at the Ohio State University Alan D Beyerchen appointed to associate professor Robert J Donia to assistant professor and Joseph H Lynch has assumed new duties as Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Andreas Dorpalen who retired this year received the Distinguished Service Award of the Ohio Academy of History in April At the ...
... RICHARD K RICHARD K FLEISCHMAN AND R PENNY MARQUETTE Chapters in Ohio Progressivism The Cincinnati and Dayton Bureaus of Municipal Research and Accounting Reform Introduction During the Progressive era in American history reformers attacked corruption bossism unbridled plutocracy and what they perceived to be the decay of traditional American morality Following the depression of 1893 one of the most severe in the nation's history many reformers focused on a new common cause-the appalling ...
... 90 OHIO HISTORY 90 OHIO HISTORY Three books by Louis Filler have recently been re-published Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education and Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom Second Edition with New Preface both by the University Press of America and A Dictionary of American Social Change by the Robert E Krieger Publishing Company Other books of interest are Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin A Guide issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ...
... Historical News Historical News SEVERAL LA R GE C H ESTS containing important papers of Samuel M Golden Rule Jones were discovered early this year in the attic of the S M Jones Company of Toledo The papers include original letters to Jones copies of letters from Jones clippings from Toledo newspapers on his election and administration as mayor of
... Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 probably purchase these volumes at that price if they had the opportunity to do so It is suggested that two years hence a request should be made for the republication of the volumes to be distributed at cost to those desiring to purchase ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Within the past year progress has been made in additions to the library Books and bound pamphlets to the number of 882 have been accessioned ...
... 110 Ohio Arch 110 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications TRIBUTE TO DR W O THOMPSON RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY TO HIS SURVIVING RELATIVES At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Secretary Galbreath concluded a tribute to Dr W O Thompson as follows After retirement from the presidency of the Ohio State University November 5 1925 Dr Thompson became president emeritus of that institution In that position there was no diminution of the widening ...
... ERIC JOHANNESEN ERIC JOHANNESEN The Architectural Legacy of Guy Tilden of Canton For forty years from the mid-1880's to the mid-1920's Guy Tilden was the leading architect of Canton Ohio according to Edward T Heald Stark County's encyclopedic historian1 Of Tilden's enormous output only a remnant exists but this sample serves to indicate both the variety and the quality of building done in a growing Ohio industrial town during those years Buildings reveal the needs ambitions tastes and whims of ...
... Captain Brown Outfits the Mount Vernon Blues For the Toledo War by PAUL L MASSA The Mount Vernon Blues a militia rifle company was organized in 1835 when Ohio mobilized its military forces in preparation for possible hostilities with Michigan This dispute between the state of Ohio and the territory of Michigan over the location of their common boundary line is known as the Toledo War In ...
... AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT by ERMINIE W VOEGELIN During the past half century or throughout the period that anthropology has been an academic discipline in American universities all branches of the subject--physical anthropology ethnology and archaeology anthropological linguistics and folklore-- have put much emphasis upon original field research No student of anthropology is considered professionally fully trained until he or she has had actual experience in ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ABOLITION Emigrant Aid Society of Montgomery County 16 Abolition issues 5-30 passim Administrative issues Ohio House of Representatives Partisanship in the Ohio House of Representatives 19001911 An Analysis of Roll-Call Voting by John M Wegner 146-170 Agriculture The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 by Chris Cumo 31-41 Ahlers John F 131n 19 Air Commerce Act 125 Airmail Act Kelly Law 126 127 Airmail False ...
... strike German voters on strikes and a strike of 1910 The strikestrike did not end until strike cast 12000 votes for Socialist Party candidates in the city council election nearly 30 ...
... strike German voters on strikes and a strike of 1910 The strikestrike did not end until strike cast 12000 votes for Socialist Party candidates in the city council election nearly 30 ...
... OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR OHIO IN THE SPANISH AND PHILIPPINE WAR THOMAS M ANDERSON Few can fulfill Pliny's motto To do what deserves to be written To write what deserves to be read Great generals are nearly always able administrators and have often proved themselves great statesmen The ability to command and to administer go together but few military commanders have wielded equally well the sword and pen Julius Caesar The foremost man of all the world was at once a great orator ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE CIVIL WAR LITHOGRAPHS OF ALFRED EDWARD MATHEWS by ELIZABETH R MARTIN THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan THE CIVIL WAR lithographs of the Ohioan Alfred Edward Mathews in the Ohio Historical Society collections are representative of the contribution made by the soldier artist to the pictorial record of the Civil War No war before or since has been so fully portrayed by amateurs and professionals in the art media of its time--oil water color ...
... George Armstrong Custer 651 George Armstrong Custer 651 GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER BY GOVERNOR GEORGE WHITE On December 5th 1839 the people of New Rumley were extending their neighborly congratulations upon the birth of a boy Today after the lapse of nearly a hundred years the people of Ohio are extending to the village of New Rumley their congratulations upon the same event and the nation honors Ohio as the birthplace of George Armstrong Custer a national hero In the unveiling of this splendid ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVI PAGE For Index of Authors see Contents PAGE Abstract of the Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Held April 20 1937 290-292 Annual Report of the Secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 21 1936--April 20 1937 271-278 ARCHAEOLOGY Greenman Emerson F Two Prehistoric Villages near Cleveland Ohio 305-366 ART--ANECDOTES FACETIAE ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Connected Thoughts A Reinterpretation of the Reorganization of Antioch College in the 1920's By Stephen R Herr Lanham Maryland University Press of America 1997 xii 282 p tables endnotes bibliographic essay index In the long history of Antioch College two presidents have been revered Horace Mann for his liberal educational policies in the 1850s which introduced females and minorities and Arthur E Morgan for his work-study concept in the 1920s The work-study co-op program ...