... Book Reviews Book Reviews Free Soil The Election of 1848 By JOSEPH G RAYBACK Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1971 ix 326p notes and index 1250 Rayback's purpose is to analyze the campaign of 1848 from its origin in the early days of Polk's administration to the election of the Whig Zachary Taylor over Martin Van Buren for the Free Soilers and Lewis Cass for the Democrats The author finds that the presidential election of 1848 marked the emergence of antislavery sentiment as a ...
... Historical News Historical News THE WISCONSIN HISTORY FOUNDATION has been awarded a 45000 research and publication grant from Lilly Endowment Inc of Indianapolis Indiana in support of a three-year program on the history of the American Midwest About one-third of the grant will be used for grants-in-aid to post-doctoral scholars doing research on midwest history between the Civil War and World War I and the balance will be used for publication of the results of these studies as well as of ...
... JAMES F JAMES F RICHARDSON Urban Political Change in the Progressive Era The nature and sources of political change in the early twentieth century are among the favorite topics for assessment and reassessment among American historians The degree of concern is understandable for the Progressive period witnessed considerable expansion in governmental functions and major changes in governmental structure This transformation in form and function was perhaps more pronounced in the nation's cities ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS REMBRANDT and THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY b y WILLIAM C KEENER A FEW MONTHS ago the Metropolitan Museum of Art shocked the public and certainly surprised the museum world by paying the remarkable sum of 2300000 for Rembrandt's painting of Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer It was an historic occasion and one filled with more than its share of drama Socialites art dealers critics collectors and museum people gathered for the sale in the austerely ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Dr Allan Peskin of Cleveland State University has been promoted to Professor Peter Rutkoff of Kenyon College has received an NEH Fellowship Department Chairman for more than 30 years Dr Robert E Bader of Mount Union College has retired at the end of the 1980-81 academic year Professor Richard Doyle of Mount Union College spent Spring 1981 on sabbatical to ...
... A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR A PIONEER AUTHOR TO A PIONEER EDITOR ONE of the most interesting books relating to pioneer days is John McDonald's Sketches a small volume of 267 pages reprinted from a series of articles contributed to the Western Christian Advocate The author was born in 1775 and died in Ross county Ohio in 1853 He passed through the rough wild experience of frontier life-was in turn boatman hunter surveyor military officer and state legislator Colonel McDonald was a ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Ohio Pottery and Glass Marks and Manufacturers By Lois Lehner Des Moines Iowa Wallace-Homestead Books 1978 113p illustrations notes bibliography A useful updating of John Ramsay's 1947 check list of Ohio potteries with additional material on Ohio glass manufacturers this work contains brief company histories arranged alphabetically by town or city and accompanied by reproductions of known ware marks The bibliography indicates an uneven utilization of available material ...
... 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 ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 8 1961 T HE OHIO ACADEMY o f History held its twenty-eighth annual meeting at the Ohio State Museum on April 8 1961 Two concurrent sessions were held in the morning and two in the afternoon Robert L Gilmore of Ohio University presided over the Latin American history section at which Father Charles E Ronan SJ of Xavier University delivered a paper entitled Clavigero Eighteenth Century Voice of ...
... 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 374 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY the semi-centennial program at two o'clock An abstract of the minutes of the meeting of the Board of Trustees follows ABSTRACT OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY APRIL 23 1935 The regular annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened in the Trustees' Room of ...
... An Ohio Farmer's Account of Morgan's Raid An Ohio Farmer 's Account of Morgan's Raid Edited by ARVILLE L FUNK A LTH OUG H OHIO contributed soldiers to all of the major battles of the Civil War the state itself was to know war only through an exciting thirteen-day invasion of its borders by The Thunderbolt of the Confederacy General John Hunt Morgan and his Confederate cavalry division The purpose of the raid through Kentucky Indiana and Ohio in July 1863 was to divert federal troops in these ...
... Minutes of the Meeting of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History Columbus April 13 1957 One hundred historians attended the spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History at the Ohio State Museum on Saturday April 13 1957 At one of the two concurrent morning sessions Erving E Beauregard of the University of Dayton introduced Edward J Goodman of Xavier University who presented a paper on Spanish Nationalism in the Struggle Against Napoleon and Alfred D Low of Marietta College ...
... GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA GUILLOTIN THINKS OF AMERICA By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT Among the many Frenchmen who came under the influence of Benjamin Franklin and American ideas in the last quarter of the eighteenth century not the least interesting was Joseph Ignace Guillotin His project for a colony in the Ohio Valley came to nothing because the disastrous adventure that befell the advance party discouraged and frightened the families he had planned to lead there but though the colony did not ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Bibliography of Ohio Archaeology By Richard G Morgan and James H Rodabaugh Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1947 v 189p Paper 250 This bibliography is by far the best of its kind the reviewer has seen The number of entries will come as a surprise to those who think of the archaeology of a state area as including a few titles or even perhaps a hundred titles The number of published references available will be surprising even to those who ...
... Thirty-Second Annual Meeting Thirty-Second Annual Meeting 569 Col Curry stated that he would start the collection by presenting the Society a full roster of Ohio soldiers in the civil war On motion the meeting adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 28 1917 Present Messrs Wright Cole Buck Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus Randall Wood and Thompson Absent Messrs Hayes Palmer and Campbell The meeting was called to order by President Wright Secretary Randall ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 645 Forty-First Annual Meeting 645 they shall have settled well did not seem advisable nor would it have been possible owing to lack of funds Careful leveling and grading of the park area or as much of it as may be deemed advisable remains as a task for the future A preliminary step would be the breaking up of the entire tract and seeding it to wheat This would facilitate leveling and grading by thorough harrowing or disking and dragging and the wheat stubble would ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Presidency of Rutherford B Hayes By KENNETH E DAVISON Westport Conn Greenwood Press Inc 1972 xiii 266p illustrations notes and index 1200 In his account of the Hayes presidency Professor Davison has attempted to correct the interpretation of the Gilded Age as an era of ruthless plunder depicted by Parrington Beard Josephson Twain and others He portrays Hayes as a decent high-principled experienced statesman a unifier pacifier and reformer He views the Hayes ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FRANK L PACKARD The announcement of the sudden death of Frank L Packard on Friday morning October 26 brought sadness to a wide circle of friends in Ohio and other states In Columbus where he was personally known as almost no other citizen the expressions of regret were general and sincere The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society of which he had been a trustee since he was appointed by Governor Davis October 15 1921 was ...
... JEFFERY C JEFFERY C LIVINGSTON Between America First and All-Out Internationalism The Fulbright Resolution and Ohio Republican John M Vorys In the US House of Representatives on June 16 1943 Congressman John M Vorys interrupted a floor debate on domestic programs to present the Fulbright Resolution Passed by the House in September 1943 the Fulbright Resolution was during the Second World War the first official endorsement of permanent US participation in a collective security arrangement The ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Cleveland Artists Foundation CAF has put out a call for papers on the topic of Cleveland's artistic heritage Proposals for papers on broad topics associated with regional art and cultural history which determine the context of Cleveland's art within national movements will be considered for presentation at the 1896-1996 Cleveland's Artistic Heritage Symposium to be held March 3031 1996 at the Cleveland Museum of Art For the symposium prospectus or more ...