... Book Reviews Book Reviews The C au ti ou s Dipl oma t Ch a rles E Bohlen and the Soviet Union 1929-1969 By T Michael Ruddy Kent The Kent State University Press 1986 xii 219p notes bibliography index 2700 In this first book T Michael Ruddy gives us both a useful sketch of the career of one of the most important American foreign service officials of the middle third of the twentieth century and a sense of the Cold War as he saw it A product of the Ivy League establishment Charles Bohlen was ...
... LLOYD SPONHOLTZ LLOYD SPONHOLTZ The Politics of Temperance in Ohio 1880-1912 The Price of an Ohio License What's the price of a license How much did you say The price of men's souls in the market today A license to sell to deform to destroy From the gray hairs of age to the innocent boy How much did you say How much is to pay How compare with your gold A license to poison a crime oft retoldFix a price on the years and the manhood of manWhat's the price did you say1 In 1913 the Anti-Saloon ...
... NEWS and NOTES ONE OF THE BETTER results of the effort to recognize the centennial of the Civil War has been the establishment of a project to collect and publish the correspondence and other papers of Ulysses S Grant supreme commander of the Union armies and eighteenth president of the United States To accomplish this end the Ulysses S Grant Association was created through the efforts of the Civil War centennial commissions of Ohio where Grant was born and lived his early years Illinois which ...
... THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE THE FAILURE OF THE OHIO LIFE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY 1857 by MORTIMER SPIEGELMAN Most writers on the economic history of the United States refer to the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company as the institution whose failure precipitated the panic of 1857 The failure is usually attributed to depreciated railroad investments and the losses stated in amounts as high as 7000000 dollars1 A search into the history of this institution that played a leading ...
... CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI CHOLERA IN CINCINNATI By E W MITCHELL MD A worldwide epidemic of cholera beginning in far-off India in 1826 reached Russia in 1829 England in 1831 and was brought to this country in 1832 by immigrants landing in Quebec Dr Daniel Drake with characteristic foresight published early in 1832 a paper on cholera its causes symptomology and its treatment The first case in Cincinnati was that of a passenger on a steamboat from Portsmouth He had left Kingston Canada nine days ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 551 Academy of Sciences and a contributor to the organ of that body During his years of study and field explorations Mr Brown assembled a large collection of Geological and Archaeological specimens A few years before his death he presented to the Bellbrook High School where as a youth he had been a pupil his Geological collection and a few years previously gave his Archaeological collection to the Museum of the O S A and H Society On May 23 1861 in St Barnabas Church ...
... Historical News Historical News A number of cities are taking steps to preserve protect and in some cases reconstruct historical areas the American Society of Planning Officials has reported Such programs the society suggests are to the benefit of the cities because they stimulate tourist trade and save certain areas from declining into slums Charleston South Carolina has established by law a zone known as the old and historic Charleston district which comprises the area in which there is the ...
... STEVEN P STEVEN P GIETSCHIER The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State Like many public institutions of higher learning The Ohio State University's support for the principles of academic freedom has often been limited by the political and social views of those who have shaped its destiny Because of the university's location in the state capital and certainly because of its dependence upon a penurious General Assembly for funding Ohio State has over the years generally reflected its origins as a ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Papers of Ulysses S Grant Volume II April-September 1861 Edited by JOHN Y SIMON Carbondale Southern Illinois University Press 1969 xxix 399p foreword preface chronology maps illustrations calendar and index 1500 In his own lifetime Ulysses S Grant was an enigma to most politicians and generals who knew him The Grant revealed in his memoirs was either an overly modest or uncommonly fortunate general The shape of his character and the secrets of his success are not ...
... 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 ...
... THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO THE INTRODUCTION OF ANESTHESIA INTO OHIO By HOWARD DITTRICK MD Since the practical application of anesthesia for the relief of dental and surgical pain originated in the United States it is not strange that early Ohio practitioners followed closely along the trails blazed by colleagues in the Eastern States and in foreign centers of science Even the name anesthesia was coined by our own Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes directly following William Thomas Green ...
... Notes Notes 289 are many others as important as the 'Serpent' which need attention at once to preserve them A member of the Society writes We must do something before the centennial celebration for their purchase and protection or be disgraced Every member of the Society should use his influence to interest the members of the Legislature in the matter in order that the State may fitly add to the glory of its centennial by the purchase of the more important of the works of its prehistoric ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 ESSAY AND COMMENT 49 The True Profile of the Harding administration will emerge only as the new historiography is joined with a modification of the old DAVID H JENNINGS Professor of History Ohio Wesleyan University ESSAY AND COMMENT Oral History in Ohio During the past half century as the telephone and computer are replacing the personal letter and the telegraph a new era in historical research is emerging No longer does the detailed letter serve as the major source of ...
... Notes and Queries Winter-Spring 2004 p 52 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The 2004 Building Connections Conference will be held November 4-6 2004 at the Columbus Athenaeum Columbus Ohio The meeting is a collaboration of the Ohio Historical Society including the National Afro-American Museum amp Cultural Center National History Day in Ohio and Ohio Historic Preservation Office with Downtown Ohio Inc Heritage Ohio ...
... 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 M VESTAL Guide to Manuscripts at the Cinci nn ati Histo ri cal Society Librarians Cincinnati Hist Society DITTBRENNER CURTIS H and PAU L D YON Guide to ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for German-American Studies will hold its 18th Annual Symposium Thursday through Sunday April 14-17 1994 at The Pennsylvania State University The main topics will include Gateway to the New World German Migration to and from Pennsylvania from 1683-1993 The Pennsylvania Germans History and Culture and German-American Studies New Projects New Insights For further information about the symposium contact Eric Loop The Pennsylvania State University ...
... CAROLYN M CAROLYN M MORRIS Black Elected Officials in Ohio 1978 Characteristics and Perceptions Over the past few years Black political involvement has become a major focus of organized activities in Black communities Much of this involvement has been manifested in local elections involving Black candidates for public office The results of these elections have established beyond a shadow of a doubt that Black voters have the resources and the emotional commitment required to elect Black ...
... 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 pending other sources of support The Director had hoped that the Lithic Laboratory might become a ...
... 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 ...
... DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL DEDICATION OF MEMORIAL TO GENERAL GEORGE ARMSTRONG CUSTER On June 22 1932 in the presence of a very large representative and orderly assembly of people the statue of George Armstrong Custer was unveiled with appropriate ceremonies This celebration occurred too late to give an adequate account in the July issue of the QUARTERLY A full account will be given in the October issue The excellent program was carried out in every detail Hon Earl Lewis State Senator ...