... HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS HISTORIANS AND THEIR HELPERS by JOHN HALL STEWART Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University For far too many years far too many people have been calling themselves--or permitting others to call them--historians I have been conscious of this ever since I first entered the ranks of what we academic folk like to think of as the professional historians But I was never as fully aware of the dangers inherent in this common practice until I began to ...
... Historical News Historical News THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES LIBRARY has recently published in mimeograph form a twenty-page annual report of the director of research Watt P Marchman He reports the addition of more than a thousand books in the library's field of interest and several hundred manuscript items Included in the latter are a veto message of President Hayes with notations in his own hand a collection of articles about Hayes by Frank G Carpenter and a William Cullen Bryant letter A ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Banks or No Banks The Money Issue in Western Politics 1832-1865 By WILLIAM GERALD SHADE Detroit Wayne State University Press 1972 328p maps tables notes bibliography and index 1595 Banks or No Banks develops a new thesis from which to view the banking controversies of the mid-nineteenth century and the role of the bank issue in state politics Mr Shade looks at the social roots and proposes a broad social interpretation of the significance of the issue He also tries to ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 275 mind gave way completely Wolfley begged his superiors to grant him leave and return him to Ohio Two days later on May 7 1844 the surgeon was admitted to the sick list as mentally deranged24 When the Decatur put in at Porto Praya Wolfley's commander determined to leave him in the hands of the United States Agent for the Cape Verde Islands The town of Porto Praya rests on a table-land high above the harbor of St Jago ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Women and the American Labor Movement From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I By Philip S Foner New York The Free Press Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1979 xi 621p illustrations notes bibliography index 1595 The wealth of material on American working women in Philip Foner's new book should convince even the most intransigent critic of women's history that working women do have an active lively and moving history Foner making use of the growing body of excellent ...
... ROBERTA MENDEL ROBERTA MENDEL Carl Frederick Wittke Versatile Humanist There're too many do-gooders and organizers and not enough quiet humanitarians among us Cleveland Sun Press November 18 1971 Native Ohioan Carl Frederick Wittke distinguished himself in many areas of academe At such Ohio institutions of higher learning as Ohio State University Oberlin and Western Reserve University he is recognized as an outstanding teacher administrator and mediator Nationally he is remembered as an ...
... 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 ...
... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Keeping the Buckeye in the Buckeye Division Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division 1940-1945 On 15 October 1940 Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division of the Ohio National Guard reported for what was supposed to be a one-year tour of Federal service Five years later Beightler and the Buckeye Division returned to Ohio Its original mission had been to expand to full wartime strength and train draftees from Ohio at ...
... 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 century wrestling with equitable funding for Ohio schools and the School Facilities Commission ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Civil War Letters of an Ohio Soldier SO Chamberlain and the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry By Dick and Judy Chamberlain Flournoy California Dick Chamberlain 1990 ix 67p illustrations Letters written by a Seneca County soldier during the years 1861 -65 are interspersed with the authors' explication of their contents A candid portrayal of campaigning with the Army of the Cumberland the letters speak with a certain rude eloquence of the tedium and hardship of the tented ...
... 644 Ohio Arch 644 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NECROLOGY Since the last Annual Meeting of the Society five alphabetically arranged lists of our membership have been prepared and mailed to members in various parts of the state with a request that the Secretary be notified of the death of any member A card-index list of the members has also been prepared for the use of the President During the year the Society lost by death the following members LIFE MEMBERS Mr A M Woolson Toledo Ohio ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 333 ROBERT WHITE McFARLAND The Faculty of the Ohio State University as a mark of respect and wishing to preserve in some permanent form a simple record of the life of its late member and associate Robert White McFarland who died at his home Oxford Ohio October 23 1910 prepared the following memorial Professor McFarland was born in Champaign county Ohio June 16 1825 and was a descendant of Simon Kenton He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1847 and for four ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 427 Reviews Notes and Comments 427 ago entertained Lafayette In the failure to adopt and carry out generally a program for such celebration of the anniversary of this remarkable tour the patriotic societies of America lost a real opportunity The following editorial of the Cincinnati Times-Star of May 18 reflects the spirit that this celebration revived in the Queen City of the West WHEN LAFAYETTE CAME TO CINCINNATI The most romantic figure in American history was not ...
... FRANK P FRANK P VAZZANO The Feud Renewed Martin Davey John Bricker and the Ohio Campaign of 1940 They were old enemies Democrat Martin L Davey and Republican John W Bricker two fierce rivals posed against each other for the second time in a contest for Ohio's governorship Their first race in 1936 degenerated into a barrage of accusations and mudslinging Their second in 1940 promised more of the same If anything as Davey's local newspaper the Ravenna Evening Record and Daily Courier-Tribune ...
... 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 ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SOLDIERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BURIED IN OHIO This is the title of a book which has long been in demand by citizens of Ohio and many beyond the borders of that state who have learned through tradition or otherwise that their Revolutionary ancestors came to this state and are probably buried here The arduous work of collecting material for this volume was undertaken by the Daughters of the American Revolution under the ...
... TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS TRAILING ADAM'S ANCESTORS BY HENRY C SHETRONE Lest the above title may not be readily intelligible to the reader it may be explained that this paper has to do solely with the origin and antiquity of the human race It goes without saying that humans through the ages have concerned themselves with queries as to the genesis significance and destiny of their kind It is equally true that every race and every people from the lowest savagery to highest civilization have ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 Forty-First Annual Meeting 653 change in Logan Elm during the past year The famous old tree continues to hold its own against the elements More than four thousand visitors registered at the park during July and possibly as many or more in August could they have been checked Some time during the first week of August a sneak thief carried away the register and either the same party or another ran an automobile through the wire fence near the creek This makes it ...
... 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 Illinois and was appointed by President Grant commissioner for the Union Pacific Railway in 1869 If a daguerreotype or painting of the Senator is in the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 68 NUMBER 3 JULY 1959 The Apathetic Foxes By ALONZO FINLEY KERCHEVAL FOXES ARE LIKE HUMANS in many ways Few folks realize that foxes once lived in this country under organized governments of their own and attended their own schools and churches just like human folks Many years ago the first red foxes were brought to America to supply the hunting needs of wealthy Virginia planters The red fox thrived and multiplied and soon ...