... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The ABC-CLIO America History and Life Award is a biennial award of 750 given to recognize and encourage scholarship in American history in journal literature advancing new perspectives on accepted interpretations or previously unconsidered topics The award is not confined to any particular subject area or chronological period but instead seeks to recognize journal articles that display a seminal character articles that do not simply elaborate previous ...
... HENRY T HENRY T HUNT AND CIVIC REFORM IN CINCINNATI 1903-1913 by LANDON WARNER Associate Professor of History Kenyon College One April day in 1903 two law students were watching with interest and curiosity the voting processes during a municipal election in their native city Cincinnati1 Stationed near a polling booth in one of the notorious precincts along the river front they witnessed a long line of Negro voters shuffle from the Silver Moon flophouse through the polling place and with ...
... 566 Ohio Arch 566 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dealers of the kind in question with something of the nature of a certificate from year to year Yours respectfully DAVID BOYLE Superintendent Provincial Museum PAGE HALL COLUMBUS O March 25 1904 MY DEAR PROF MOOREHEADI feel that the dealers and so-called commercially inclined collectors are a great menace to our scientific museums in very many ways Many dealers collect specimens giving little or no attention to authentic data and offer ...
... OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 OHIO'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1912 by LANDON WARNER Assistant Professor of History and Political Science Kenyon College A constitutional mandate requires the submission to Ohio's electorate in 1952 of this question Shall there be a convention to revise alter or amend the constitution1 Provision for periodic review dates from the constitution of 1851 It was introduced as a democratic reform based on Thomas Jefferson's oft-quoted dictum that no law ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 21 1950 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 21 in connection with the Ohio College Association The morning session at 1000 A M was attended by nearly one hundred persons This session was devoted to a panel discussion conducted by the members of the committee on the teaching of history in Ohio colleges of which Frank L Esterquest of Western College is the chairman Robert L Jones of Marietta ...
... ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO ARCH A EOLOGICAL MAP OF OHIO The accompanying map of Ohio showing the distribution of prehistoric Mounds and Enclosures in the state is reproduced on a reduced scale from the Archaeological Atlas of Ohio This map will be of special interest to the public as it shows at a glance the centers of occupation and the relative distribution of prehistoric man in the territory included The valleys of the larger rivers-the Miamis the Scioto the Muskingum the Hocking and their ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries This issue of Ohio History marks the completion of the editor's first volumeyear and provides the occasion for a brief report on his tenure and a glimpse into the future The journal has undergone a major revitalization during the past three years and the editor's chief task has always been to continue this process We have increased the number of articles and documents carried per issue enlarged the reviews section and tried to give greater weight to those ...
... SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM Police Roundup of Chinese in Cleveland in 1925 A Case Study of a Racist Measure and the Chinese Response On September 22 1925 a Chinese waiter named Yee Chock was found dead with his head chopped off in the Chinatown section of Cleveland Ohio Identifying such a hatchet murder as being connected with rivalry among tongs a kind of Chinese association in America the Safety Director of Cleveland Edwin D Barry ordered a wholesale arrest of all the Chinese ...
... 548 Ohio Arch 548 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications to Cornstalk whose headquarters for years were nearby who was the chief Indian at the treaty and who was one of the noblest and most influential chiefs in Ohio history This closed the proceedings of the Annual Meeting and upon motion it was adjourned ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 25 1918 Present Messrs Wright Campbell Randall Wood Prince Ryan Bareis Moore Treadway Schaus and Cole Absent Messrs Thompson Hayes ...
... MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN AN AVERAGE CITY CLEVELAND 1876-1900 by JAMES B WHIPPLE Instructor in History Western Reserve University I Studies of municipal politics have tended to emphasize the best governed city or the worst In many ways this may be an accurate reflection of the national scene where contemporaries were preoccupied with the same extremes Cleveland between 1876 and 1900 does not fall into either of these classifications Nevertheless taken as ...
... THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN OHIO AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY By JAME S H RODABAUGH The end of the nineteenth century in a very real sense sounded the knell of the frontier or pioneer period of American development and opened the doors upon a new era in which industrialization and its concomitant social and economic reorganization and readjustments and political bewilderment were the dominant forces Frederick Jackson Turner opened his remarkably perceptive ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The C au ti ou s Dipl oma t Ch a rles E Bohlen and the Soviet Union 1929-1969 By T Michael Ruddy Kent The Kent State University Press 1986 xii 219p notes bibliography index 2700 In this first book T Michael Ruddy gives us both a useful sketch of the career of one of the most important American foreign service officials of the middle third of the twentieth century and a sense of the Cold War as he saw it A product of the Ivy League establishment Charles Bohlen was ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 287 students of the Ohio State University Mr C P McClelland and Mr C C Huntington working under the direction of Professor J E Hagerty of the Department of Political Science and Economics Ohio State University and by whom the preface is written In an introductory note by the Secretary of the Society it is said This monograph does not attempt of course to discuss in any way the question of the policy of the State as to the retention or abandonment of the canals The ...
... 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 ...
... K K AUSTIN KERR The Movement for Coal Mine Safety in Nineteenth-Century Ohio In the nineteenth century Ohioans as other Americans faced a host of new situations arising from the industrial revolution As the level of industrial production increased unique forms of occupational organization emerged which often confronted workers or the public with unaccustomed hazards creating demands that government begin regulating the affairs of private industry By the 1860s state government began addressing ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Meeting at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 24 1947 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 24 1947 in joint meeting with the Mississippi Valley Historical Association at the luncheon conference with 160 in attendance President F P Weisenburger introduced Governor Thomas J Herbert who made some appropriate remarks as to the historian's place in the world today He then introduced Harlan Hatcher Dean of the College of Arts ...
... 578 Ohio Arch 578 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications proceedings and looked forward with pleasure to his closer connection with its work There being no further business before the Society upon motion it adjourned The president announcing that the annual meeting of the trustees would immediately follow ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING SEPTEMBER 24 1915 There were present Messrs G F Wright E O Randall E F Wood D J Ryan B F Prince H E Buck L P Schaus G F Bareis J E Campbell W ...
... 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 ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 66 NUMBER 1 J ANUARY 1957 Faith vs Economics The Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad 1845-1883 By JOHN E PIXTON JR In the 1850's Cincinnati was Queen of the American West and eastern railroad builders pressed eagerly toward the prize of her commerce1 And even before the rails reaching westward from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore breached the Appalachian barrier Ohio promoters were building lines to connect with them By 1857 ...
... 118 Ohio Arch 118 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EDITORIALANA VOL XXVIII No 1 JANUARY 1919 BIOGRAPHY OF GROVER CLEVELAND The following letter which we gladly publish speaks for itself NEW YORK CITY October 31 1918 Editor Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society DEAR SIR I should be grateful if friends of Mr Cleveland who possess published addresses or other critical comment of historical value concerning his policies or character or letters to or from him or personal recollections ...