... 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 ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CEBULA The New City and the New Journalism The Case of Dayton Ohio Prior to the introduction of mass transportation systems the nineteenth century city was physically compact with diverse land usages in close proximity to each other With the availability of railroads street cars and inter-urban electric rail lines the urban population could live further away from the workplace and entrepreneurs would recognize the advantages of building in less congested areas These increased ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 295 THE MEMOIRS OF RUFUS PUTNAM Compiled and annotated by Miss Rowena Buell Marietta Ohio Houghton Mifflin amp Co Boston and New York This is a work of rare historical value and one which every student of history and particularly of Ohio history will covet and consult with great satisfaction It consists mainly of the official papers and correspondence connected with the life and deeds of General Rufus Putnam who was the leader in the little band of pilgrims who came ...
... 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 ...
... Benjamin March with an Introductory Essay by Carl E Guthe in Museum of Anthropology of the University of Michigan Occasional Contributions Ann Arbor Michigan 1932no 3 1934 2 Appendix Celts I Rectangular in Transverse Cross-section Faces Flat Sides at Right Angles to Plane of Faces or Rounded Symmetrical 12 celts Fig 4 B sandstone 87mm long 65mm wide 14mm thick Broken blunt end missing C sandstone 80mm long 53mm wide 19mm thick Broken blunt end ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 4 OCTOBER 1959 Washington Gladden and The Labor Question By JOHN L SHOVER WHEN THE REV WASHINGTON GLADDEN of Springfield Massachusetts published a book called Working People and Their Employers in 1876 he was invading a controversial field considered the domain only of opportunists like Ben Butler or radicals like Wendell Phillips In a day when influential religious periodicals could label organized laborers ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The United States and NATO The Formative Years By Lawrence S Kaplan Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1984 xi 276p notes appendixes bibliographic essays index 3000 cloth 1200 paper This volume by a distinguished historian of American diplomacy contains elements of patchwork Some of the chapters have been published before others have not some are detailed analyses of events leading up to the creation of NATO and of the organization's early development others ...
... ROBERT BUTLER ROBERT BUTLER Book Notes The Story of Independence By Grace Miller Elizabeth Spellman Kathryn Boyer and Robert Boyer Independence Ohio Independence Historical Society 1979 248p drawings photographs appendices bibliography index This book is an example of local narrative history at its best The authors have concentrated on the story of one town in Ohio's Western Reserve and the record of its changes and growth While the book begins with a brief discussion of the geographic ...
... FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN FOUNDING OF THE FINNISH SETTLEMENTS IN OHIO By JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN In the fall of 1886 the septuagenarian Henry Howe returned to Ashtabula on his second historic tour of Ohio Not the least interesting innovation which there captured the fancy of the beloved white bearded chronicler was the presence at the Harbor of the Fins a new element lately come into this region1 The coming of the Finns to Ohio can be traced with some precision About eighteen years ...
... CHRIS CUMO CHRIS CUMO The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 The late nineteenth century was an important period in Ohio because agricultural education and science began to take shape then Farmers had welcomed the Morrill Act of 1862 and the Ohio legislature translated it into institutional form by creating The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1870 which the Board of Trustees renamed The Ohio State University in 18781 Its creation ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews On the Making of Americans Essays in Honor of David Riesman Edited by Herbert J Gans Nathan Glazer Joseph R Gusfield and Christopher Jencks Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press 1979 xiii 350p bibliography of Riesman's publications note on contributors 2500 There is some question to what extent this high-priced volume actually does honor to David Riesman the facile generalizations and chatty tone of about half the essays mar the quality of thefestshrift Joseph ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Liberty Line The Legend of the Underground Railroad By Larry Gara Lexington The University Press of Kentucky 1996 xiv 201p index Appropriately titled when originally published in 1961 this seminal work on one of America's most enduring legends is finally available in paperback edition Having researched written and lectured on this topic for nearly 50 years Professor Gara skillfully distinguishes fact and faction while chronicling the colorful and frequently misstated ...
... AN ECONOMIC ASPECT OF THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR by TOM EDWARD TERRILL In the early months of 1898 the McKinley administration confronted a mounting crisis with Spain over the Cuban revolution Domestic pressures exerted by the press and politicians especially in the month of March placed heavy demands upon President McKinley to intervene to pacify Cuba One of the President's closest advisers thought war was possible in February By March 28 he believed it was probable1 The report on the sinking ...
... Benjamin F Butler as Benjamin F Butler He apparently gave advice to Lincoln as well But as 1862 progressed Chase's influence decreased a situation about which he complained to many correspondents lamenting that he knew little beyond what he read in the newspapers and that it was his responsibility to figure out how to finance a war over which he had no influence In late 1862 and early 1863 ...
... Historical News Historical News Eventful Years and Experiences by Bertram W Kom has recently been published by the American Jewish Archives Cincinnati These studies deal with the life of the American Jew and include an essay on Isaac M Wise among others with Ohio connections Richard C Knopf historian of the Anthony Wayne Parkway Board has had several articles published recently Wayne's Western Campaign The Wayne-Knox Correspondence appeared in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ...
... LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM LEADEN PLATE AT THE MOUTH OF THE MUSKINGUM In the October QUARTE RL Y were published cuts of the leaden plate prepared for deposit at the mouth of the Conewango and the one buried at the mouth of the Kanawha On the following pages are illustrations of the remnant of the plate buried at the mouth of the Muskingum and what was probably its entire text This plate was considerably multilated A portion of the lead was cut away for bullets before the ...
... 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 ...
... AN IMPRESSION OF HARDING IN 1916 AN IMPRESSION OF HARDING IN 1916 by DOROTHY V MARTIN Curator of Manuscripts Burton Historical Collection Detroit Public Library It was as the keynoter and permanent chairman of the sixteenth Republican national convention that the name of Warren G Harding became known nationally for the first time Harry M Daugherty Harding's political manager confessed that his aim at that convention was simply to bring his protege before the delegates in such a way that they ...
... 226 Ohio Arch 226 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications JANUARIUS ALOYSIUS MACGAHAN Eulogy by William A Taylor Many years ago when a boy attending Dist No 6 school in Harrison township I was deeply but not then favorably impressed by this sentence in Kirkham's Grammar The evil that men do lives after them the good is often interred with their bones which I was called on to parse analyse and expatiate on generally by my teacher Philander H Binckley student philosopher literary writer and ...
... FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE SITE 45 ANIMAL REMAINS6 By ROBERT M GOSLIN Animal remains were found in great abundance at this site scattered through the black earth of the village deposit They include the bones of various mammals fishes birds and reptiles as well as the shells of mussels and snails Most of the bones are in a fragmentary condition but on the whole they are in an excellent state of preservation All of the animal skeletal material was saved and carefully ...