... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Joe L Dubbert 43 Professor of History at Muskingum College died September 27 1983 after a valiant fight against cancer Born in Laurens Iowa Dr Dubbert pursued a fascination for rural American culture at Parsons College BA 1962 and the University of Minnesota PhD 1967 He joined the history department of Muskingum College in 1967 and has been credited with re-animating the study of American history at that institution Noted for his fairness his common sense ...
... 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 ...
... PETER WITT 377 PETER WITT 377 irascible exterior and his biting invective there were qualities of honesty fidelity and generosity that made him the loyal sentimental friend of many people He had genuine oratorical gifts though he sometimes attacked unreasonably and without full information about the facts and he had a tongue that he always found it hard to curb He never attacked with a rapier A meat cleaver was his favorite tool as he himself readily admitted to his friends But he never lacked ...
... THE ODYSSEY OF PETROLEUM VESUVIUS NASBY by DAVID D ANDERSON After more than a century the American Civil War remains garbed in tragedy and pathos heroes and hero worship sentiment and cynicism as it has been since the guns fell silent and the printing presses began to pour out a still unabated torrent of memoirs histories and biographies As an age of heroes it is resplendent with the names of Lincoln Grant Lee Sherman Sheridan -- and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby Perhaps the least remembered of ...
... 36 Ohio 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications This state was the thoroughfare for all the races and all the people in their struggle to reach the west Its foundations were laid by the very best brains of this country when that great American stream of settlers founded this composite Ohio Wherever you look you will find the Ohio man and as long as we have The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society to perpetuate the greatness of the Ohioan and mark the places where they have ...
... Notes and Queries Winter-Spring 2004 p 52 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The 2004 Building Connections Conference will be held November 4-6 2004 at the Columbus Athenaeum Columbus Ohio The meeting is a collaboration of the Ohio Historical Society including the National Afro-American Museum amp Cultural Center National History Day in Ohio and Ohio Historic Preservation Office with Downtown Ohio Inc Heritage Ohio ...
... strikes gave laborers an strikers at the Homestead works I believe he is a sincerely good man with the wish to help all he can25 Howells and Carnegie became good friends following the author's evening at the Carnegiery meeting socially on several occasions in New York and abroad Try as he might to heed Lindau's warning to remember the poor Howells was a helpless disciple of the worldly ...
... PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PRESENTATION OF RARE COLLECTION BY PROFESSOR EMERSON VENABLE After adjourning to the Library as above noted the following proceedings were had SECRETARY GALBREATH Mr Emerson Venable teacher author and writer will present the Dolores Cameron Venable Memorial Collection in honor of his late wife MR EMERSON VENABLE Mr Galbreath and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society I regret that my daughter Evelyn Venable is unable to be present on ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The University Press of Wright State University is currently considering for publication book-length manuscripts on the following subjects aviation history black achievers gifted and talented children and Ohio life and history For additional information write to Carl M Becker Director University Press Wright State University Dayton Ohio 45435 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Eighteenth Annual Convention at Banff Alberta Canada on ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries A number of scholarly meetings of interest to Ohio History readers will be held in April The Ohio Academy of History holds its annual spring meeting April 28-29 at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow on the Ohio State University campus Ashland College hosts the regional-state meeting of the history honorary society Phi Alpha Theta on April 22 and a week later on April 29 the Ohio Academy of Medical History holds its annual meeting at the Howard Dittrick Museum ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to this Issue RICHARD G MORGAN is curator of archaeology H HOLMES ELLIS assistant curator of archaeology is now in war production work ROBERT GOSLIN was formerly a museum assistant in archaeology MRS HOWARD JONES MARY MCMULLIN JONES is president of the Ohio History Day Association EL M ER E NOYES is studying for his doctorate in history at the Graduate School of Ohio State University A Communication November 13 1942 Mr Charles M Thomas Department of History Ohio State ...
... ROGER MEADE ROGER MEADE Book Notes Studies on Indiana Indiana History Resource Series Volume I A Bibliography of Theses and Dissertations Submitted to Indiana Institutions of Higher Education for Advanced Degrees 1902-1977 Compiled by Betty Jarboe and Kathryn Rumsey Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1980 xiii 377p author index name and subject index bibliography This bibliography was compiled with the idea that nowhere else has Indiana been more thoroughly studied than its universities ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The State History Day Contest for Ohio will be held in Cleveland on Saturday May 16 1981 at the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University To qualify for the sixth annual state event 6th through 12th grade students throughout Ohio will compete in one of eleven district contests Students may compete in one of the following categories individual paper individual or group projects and individual or group performances on the junior ...
... URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE STETHOSCOPE ET CETERA OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By HOWARD DITTRICK M D The period 1835 to 1858 was one during which there was little or no advance in the scientific side of medicine According to F H Garrison the scientific movement did not start until well after the middle of the nineteenth century Medicine of the early half was with a few exceptions only part and parcel of the stationary theorizing of the preceding ...
... strikes riots vigilantism strike breakers angered white workers but it is difficult to comprehend western Americans' fierce antipathy at times an almost pathological fear of what a swelling number discerned as degenerate Chinese Daniels believes that as early as 1870 when Chinese formed about 10 percent of the state's population the antiChinese issue had become perhaps the most important in ...
... CHARLES M CHARLES M CUMMINGS The Scott Papers An Inside View of Reconstruction In the light of contemporary turbulence over racial integration resurgent southern Negro voting power and upgrading of black history special significance accrues to the private papers of Robert Kingston Scott which were acquired in July 1969 by the Ohio Historical Society1 Scott was a Henry County Ohio physician who became a brevet major general for service in the Civil War then headed the Freedmen's Bureau in South ...
... HOWARD A HOWARD A DeWITT The New Harding and American Foreign Policy Warren G Harding Hiram W Johnson and Pragmatic Diplomacy The historiographical rehabilitation of Warren G Harding has produced a revisionist portrait of a President with moderate talent and moderate views who used persuasion compromise and conciliation to achieve a modicum of success in domestic and foreign affairs1 Although historians are divided over the extent and long-range importance of Harding's accomplishments there is ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Academy of History annual meeting will be held on Friday and Saturday April 26-27 1991 at Capital University in Columbus Ohio For details concerning the meeting contact Clayton R Koppes OAH Program Committee Oberlin College Department of History Oberlin Ohio 440741095 The Second Annual University of Cincinnati Social History Conference invites interested scholars to submit papers in social history broadly defined as any aspect of the history of ...
... MICHAEL J MICHAEL J ANDERSON McCarthyism Before McCarthy Anti-Communism in Cincinnati and the Nation During the Election of 1944 The wave of intense anti-communist sentiment that swept over the United States in the years following the Second World War sometimes called the second red scare1 had a great impact on American society Political debate came to be dominated by the desire of both major parties to appear tough on international communism The political Left historically not a major force ...