... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Greek Revival Architecture in America By Talbot Hamlin New York Oxford University Press 1944 Cloth 439p 750 The author who is librarian of the Avery Memorial library and the Fine Arts library at Columbia University is an architect and the author of a number of books on architecture In this book he has traced the important trend in American architecture and life during the period previous to the Civil War emphasizing the development of Greek revival architecture in the ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 2 A P R I L 1958 Paul Laurence Dunbar and William Dean Howells By JAMES B STRONKS IN THE SUMMER OF 1896 William Dean Howells then the most influential author and critic in the United States favorably reviewed a book of poems by a young Dayton Negro Paul Laurence Dunbar The review in the Harper's Weekly of June 27 1896--by a happy coincidence it was Dunbar's birthday--instantly and dramatically created a national reputation for ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW By August Meier and Elliott Rudwick New York Oxford University Press 1979 xii 289p notes illustrations bibliographical essay index 1500 The gulf of suspicion and hostility between the black community and labor that derived from the AFL craft union's systematic exclusion of blacks and occasional black strikebreaking was wider in Detroit than elsewhere in the industrial north in the 1930s In Detroit Henry Ford had furthered the gulf ...
... AMY HILL SHEVITZ AMY HILL SHEVITZ Bull Moose Rabbi Judaism and Progressivism in the Life of a Reform Rabbi When he spoke Mrs R told me it was just like the voice of God This is how one of his congregants described Rabbi Isador Philo almost fifty years after his death His successor in the pulpit of Reform temple Rodef Sholom in Youngstown Ohio eulogized Philo in 1948 with similar words He was blessed with a rich resonant voice and a keen analytical mindhis entire dignified physical appearance ...
... 528 Ohio Arch 528 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications time program through study of conditions and methods utilized by other organizations and to crystallize these in definite form for presentation to the Legislature in 1933 Special emphasis is being given the requirements of the public and of tourists in the matter of developing historical archaeological and other outdoor attractions and to providing that they may be properly marked so that they may be readily intelligible On motion of Mr ...
... MANSEL G MANSEL G BLACKFORD Scientific Management and Welfare Work in Early Twentieth Century American Business The Buckeye Steel Castings Company At 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon the first heat was turned off from one of the furnaces in the new works of the Buckeye Malleable Iron and Coupler Company in South Columbus Someone gave a signal and in a minute everyone in the building and out of it was on hand to watch the great crane as it lifted the smoking ladle and carried it to the furnace Then ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 planned with Ohio State University Broadcasting station and is being offered each Tuesday afternoon over WOSU This series which is professional in caliber has attracted wide attention and is being rebroadcast by several additional stations Dr William D Overman as historian deserves credit for the exhaustive research which has made these broadcasts unique up to the present time As of January 1 1940 two members of ...
... The Ohio-Columbus Centennial The Ohio-Columbus Centennial 447 to their homes without a serious accident There was abundant entertainment for all and there was no extortion anywhere Every feature of the celebration over which the commission had control was absolutely free yet when the books were closed every expense had been provided for The great Sunday afternoon meeting at the park seemed to indicate that the tumult and the shouting had not driven out of mind the more serious considerations ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio Its People and Culture By George C Crout and W E Rosenfelt Minneapolis T S Denison amp Co 1977 281p illustrations maps index 695 I optimistically launched my reading of Ohio Its People and Culture with the hope that the book would help to meet the need of junior high school teachers for a fresh and lively treatment of Ohio history Unfortunately my optimism was misplaced In a word the book is sloppy It appears to lack clarity in conceptualization is permeated with ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 561 listened to some arguments I made there and now he will get even by forcing me to listen to him He holds a policy in the same life insurance company in which I hold a policy but I will not give the name of the company myself but I will say that this man has a great gift of getting into good company and I want to congratulate him this afternoon on getting into this company here He belongs to a race that is a hundred per cent ...
... McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 McKinley's Attempt to Avoid War 135 tional sovereignty22 In effect Spain still clung to sovereignty over Cuba and autonomy for the island At the same time that McKinley was dealing with the Spanish minister he made a final attempt to get the Cuban Junta to cooperate Rubens later explained that just before McKinley's message went to Congress the president's emissary told him that if the Cubans agreed to the armistice McKinley would place a reference to Cuban ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Middle Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1900-1948 Compiled and edited by Dean A Sullivan Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1998 xviii 238p illustrations bibliography index Baseball if no longer reigning as the national pastime still occupies a secure place in America's collective psyche Evidence of this nostalgic affection is deeply rooted in the game's vast statistical lore it's colorful phraseology and an odd sometimes zany cast of characters Figures such as ...
... 408 Ohio Arch 408 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications That was my first impression and Dr Schlesinger's that the Archaeological Museum will become in time the mecca for county historians or as he phrased it a laboratory for scientific historical research experiment synthesis and exploitation - forever We are still receiving papers from 67 of the 88 Ohio counties in many cases two or three papers from a county making about 150 papers in all scrap-books are being formed steadily by daily ...
... edited by edited by ROBERT PRICE The Road to Boston 1860 Travel Correspondence of William Dean Howells Young William Dean Howells' travel letters written for two Ohio newspapers during the summer of 1860 and collected here for the first time record the weeks immediately preceding one of the most oft-retold incidents in the story of American letters The time was the first week of August the place Boston's famed Parker House James Russell Lowell editor of the Atlantic Monthly was hosting a ...
... EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND EXPLORATION OF THE TREMPER MOUND WILLIAM C MILLS The Tremper mound is situated five miles north of the city of Portsmouth on the west side of the Scioto river in Rush township Scioto county Ohio The land upon which it is located is a part of the estate of Senator William D Tremper Portsmouth which consists of more than seven hundred acres of the rich bottom lands at the confluence of the Pond creek and Scioto valleys The immediate site of the mound is a level ...
... HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS HOMES OF THE MOUND BUILDERS WILLIAM JACKSON ARMSTRONG Col W J Armstrong was inspector of the United States consulates under the administrations of President Grant He is the author of Siberia and the Nihilists The Heroes of Defeat etc - EDITOR The Mound Builder is still a mystery His story has not been told He is not yet intelligibly tangent to any known race He is not only prehistoric but unconnected His clues are shy and evasive lacking the thread of either written ...
... Baseball's First Professional Manager Baseball's First Professional Manager By HAROLD SEYMOUR It is fairly common knowledge that Ohio holds the distinction of fielding the first admittedly professional team in baseball history the Cincinnati Red Stockings1 It is less well known that the manager of that famous team was perhaps the outstanding baseball figure of his time Harry Wright's career spanned the amateur and early professional periods of baseball and provided a link between the two He ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Nelson Lichtenstein has been named the new editor of Ohio History He received his BA from Dartmouth and his PhD from the University of California Berkeley He has published articles in Labor History Radical America New Politics and the Dictionary of American Biography Editor of the recently published The Kennedy Years and The Johnson Years two volumes in the Facts on File Political Profile series Dr Lichtenstein served as lecturer in history at The Ohio State ...