... Editorialana Editorialana 331 Hayes Spiegel Grove is indeed the Mount Vernon of Ohio It is this magnificent estate and home that the present owner Colonel Webb C Hayes is transferring to the State of Ohio for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society to be by the latter preserved intact for historic and educational purposes After reading Mr Meek's production one might think that Sandusky county had a monopoly on Ohio history It certainly is rich in the lore of the brave days of old ...
... History in the study and iin the schools by HENRY R WINKLER Like so many college students in our time we historians have been going through an identity crisis of our own Who are we Where are we going Why do we do what we do What is its purpose Is it worth the trouble Why And so on And so on Most of us to be sure manage to avoid thinking about the rationale of our subject most of the time Our work is interesting We are absorbed in it When we teach we receive some stimulation from our students ...
... AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT AN ETHNOHISTORIAN'S VIEWPOINT by ERMINIE W VOEGELIN During the past half century or throughout the period that anthropology has been an academic discipline in American universities all branches of the subject--physical anthropology ethnology and archaeology anthropological linguistics and folklore-- have put much emphasis upon original field research No student of anthropology is considered professionally fully trained until he or she has had actual experience in ...
... 392 Ohio Arch 392 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HAYES-TILDEN CONTROVERSY There is a saying Happy is the nation that has no history We doubt the truth of that trite-ism and would certainly take issue with its philosophy To say a nation has no history is to brand it as having been one lacking necessity and activity These latter elements wanting a nation would speedily lapse into lassitude and retrogression Certain it is that the nations that have contributed the most to the progress of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Rutherford B Hayes Library announced that it will publish a comprehensive microfilm edition of The Papers of Rutherford B Hayes A printed guide will accompany the microfilm edition The edition will include Hayes' genealogical records diaries commonplace books correspondence presidential records Civil War records business papers speeches notes vetoes executive orders and miscellaneous items For further information write to Thomas A Smith Manuscripts ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Archives-Library Division of The Ohio Historical Society is pleased to announce the opening of the Michael DiSalle Papers to the public DiSalle was governor of Ohio from 1959 to 1963 The collection contains 391 boxes of material covering in part DiSalle's years as governor the national elections of 1960 1964 and 1968 the Ohio gubernatorial elections of 1956 1958 and 1962 as well as material dealing with DiSalle's early career as a member of the Ohio ...
... 286 Ohio Arch 286 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications worship It may have been the great religious temple of the mound builders for the Ohio Valley The book gives a full account of the rescue of the mound from destruction by Prof F W Putnam the eminent American archaeologist of Cambridge Mass Professor Putnam succeeded in interesting some worthy and philanthropic ladies of Boston who purchased the property restored it and presented it to the Peabody Museum The latter institution ...
... The Black Hand The Black Hand 457 thyself be beaten by the cunning right hand of a boy Disgraced thou art and no longer shalt thou be numbered among the members of my frame And the hand clung to the rock and turned black and spread and grew until it was as the hand of a giant and while the chief Ahyomah and the tribe stood silently watching the wonder the defeated warrior wrapped his robe about him spoke no word of farewell and striding swiftly into the dark depths of the forest was seen no ...
... 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 ...
... The Reds of 1869 by DAVID QUENTIN VOIGT We are a band of baseball players From Cincinnati City We come to toss the ball around And sing to you our ditty And if you listen to the song We are about to sing We'll tell you all about baseball And make the welkin ring The ladies want to know Who are those gallant men in Stockings red they'd like to know When the victorious 1869 Red Stockings were on tour they introduced themselves by singing the team's official song set to the tune of Bonnie Blue ...
... 424 Ohio Arch 424 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications pass through the Governor's office for he holds the veto power and we are equally indebted therefore to good Governor Judson Harmon who has long been a member of our Society and taken a deep and active interest in its proceedings We had a very delightful and successful voyage through the Governor's office Governor Harmon is not able to be present in person but we are greatly favored in having with us his good Secretary Honorable George ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR AN EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOK Through the kindly interest of Mr Kora F Briggs the Society has come into the possession of an interesting school book published in Columbus in the year 1818 two years after this city became the seat of the state government From the copyright notice it appears that this book was first published in 1814 by the author Rufus W Adams On a page ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania A Guide By Susan M Zacher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1982 vi 141p illustrations maps bibliography index As its title might indicate this book functions primarily as a tourist guide to the covered bridges which are found throughout Pennsylvania Following a brief introduction to truss types the book consists of a list of the 227 extant covered bridges in the state with the bridges grouped by region and by ...
... PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND PYRAMIDS AND BURIED CITIES IN THE LAND OF THE MONTEZUMAS1 BURIED deep in the wildernesses of Mexico and Central America innumerable ruined cities await in silence the coming of the explorer-deserted temples and crumbling pyramids builded so-far back in the twilight of time that not a tradition remains of their founders In Yucatan alone no less than sixty-seven prehistoric cities have been discovered despite the fact that this wildest territory of Mexico ...
... 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 ...
... TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF TEXTILE FABRICS FROM THE BURIAL MOUNDS OF THE GREAT EARTHWORK BUILDERS OF OHIO By CHARLES C WILLOUGHBY A brief description of the various types of primitive weaving shown in the cloth from the burial mounds of the great earthwork builders of Ohio will help materially to a clearer understanding of the early pre-loom stages of the textile art in general which probably passed through a similar evolution in certain other parts of the world Primitive ...
... JAY D JAY D GREEN Nothing to Advertise Except God Christian Radio and the Creation of an Evangelical Subculture in Northeast Ohio 1958-1972 How I praise God for friends like you exclaimed an excited Elise Marshall in a 1961 letter There have been times in my life when I felt very lonely Now I have many friends who love my precious Lord the same as I do and I have sweet fellowship with each one of you even though I may never see you1 Testimonials like this were frequent in the 1960s among an ...
... THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE THE ARCHAIC CULTURES AND THE ADENA PEOPLE by WILLIAM S WEBB Head Department of Anthropology University of Kentucky The Early Hunters Early man in America cannot boast a record of great antiquity There is no evidence to suggest his development from more primitive ancestors in very ancient times as is the case of man's record in the Old World Early man in America was a migrant coming to this continent from Siberia as a hunter of big game some time ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The 38th Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 9-11 1995 For information about the conference contact Dale Gaeddert Chair MVHC University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The 1995 Western Historical Association Meeting will be held October 11-14 1995 in Denver Colorado For details write to the Western History Association University of New Mexico 1080 Mesa Vista Hall Albuquerque New Mexico 87131-1181 or phone ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent retirements within the professional community include Ruth Helmuth Case Western Reserve University Archivist William D Aeschbacher teacher and administrator at the University of Cincinnati and Lenore R O'Boyle and Leon C Soule of Cleveland State University The 1986 Northern Great Plains History Conference will be held September 25-27 For details contact Jack M Lauber University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Department of History Eau Claire Wisconsin 54701 ...