... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 14-16 1991 For information concerning the meeting contact William C Pratt Program Coordinator MVHC University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha Nebraska 68182 The Oral History Association will hold its 1991 Annual Meeting on October 10-13 1991 at Snowbird near Salt Lake City Utah Proposals for papers panels and speakers particularly on such themes as women ethnic topics and the region of ...
... general for a higher order general reader The vast wealth of well chosen illustrations will Reviews Notes and Comments 129 Reviews Notes and Comments 1 29 be found a treasure house by those who respond to whatever is provocative in pictures--those who thrill to a Wyant Whittredge Mosler Sonntag or a Duveneck Bellows Henri Hopkins Twachtman DeCamp Weis Farny Wessel Blum Myers Selden Schille ...
... The Sorrow of the Nations The Sorrow of the Nations 385 THE SORROW OF THE NATIONS IN MEMORIAM WM MCKINLEY BY JOHN P SMITH SHARPSBURG MARYLAND Corresponding Member of the Maryland Historical Society and of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society There's darkness over every land - Man takes his fellow by the hand The hearts of men now almost fail For all the earth is one sad wail There's sorrow in the hut and hall Our land's ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments awards and retirements within the professional community of Ohio historians include John N Sobczak has replaced Von Hardesty as chairperson at Bluffton College for the 1978-79 academic year and Delbert Gratz is on sabbatical in Switzerland during 1979 at Antioch College Hanna Goldberg has been appointed Interim Executive Dean at the Yellow Springs campus and Irwin Abrams has ...
... general contact ILR Press School of Industrial and Labor Relations Cornell University Ithaca New York 14853-3901 Wright State University Press recently announced the publication of Weathering The Peace The Ohio National Guard in the Interwar Years 1919-1940 by Robert L Daugherty This book is a narrative history which describes how the Ohio ...
... generalized outline no general time period The general Adena-Hopewell time general time sequence has general prehistory of the eastern portion of the United States 40 H C Shetrone The Folsom Phenomena as Seen from
... general voice Concordant hailed him with reverberant acclaim Whence envious gods caught him on high the darling of their choice Rejoice ye patriots Seraphs too rejoice ...
... THE RAREY MANSION BY SARA LOWE BROWN Dear old mansion crowning the hill Sweetest of memories cling to you still Memories of the Rareys brave and good Who cleared the acres dense with wood They gathered brush from the wilderness wide And wearying home at eveningtide The mansion built at the edge of the wood Where a lowly cabin once had stood They tilled the soil and sowed the grain They chopped the logs to burn under the crane Spinning and weaving by candle-light They labored late in the winter ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews and Comments 315 Reviews and Comments 315 1885 A copy of each of these with his autograph he presented to the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio They are in the list of books presented to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Just as we go to press Henry Ford has contributed Reprints of the Fifth and Sixth Readers Copyright of 1866 These complete his series of reprints ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Country Printer New York State 1785-1830 By Milton W Hamilton New York Columbia University Press 1936 361p 375 One of the most colorful figures in the period immediately following the Revolutionary War was the country printer the printer-editor-publisher who was indeed a distinctive character in his community Too often the press as an institution and influence is identified with the great dailies published in the chief cities of our country Too little attention is ...
... general the contributors have agreed upon three things that education today faces a much larger task than it did during the life-time of Horace Mann that democracy is the best type of 3 72 BOOK REVIEWS 373 BOOK REVIEWS 373 social organization for this country and that public education has a positive responsibility to shape those habits of thought and action which in turn shape organized conditions of social action and that American education ...
... AUTO-SKETCH OF CHARLES WILLIAMS AUTO-SKETCH OF CHARLES WILLIAMS Charles Williams was the first white settler - so claimed - in what is now the city of Coshocton Mr Williams settled there in the spring of 1800 the town being laid out the next year For a season or two prior to his locating at Coshocton Mr Williams had grown a crop of corn on the prairie four miles up the Walhonding River Mr Williams was a typical pioneer and his sketch written by himself is of special interest because giving not ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 101 Reviews Notes and Comments 101 who figured in the stories and afterward led to an appreciative study of life on the plains with scarcely any depreciation in his estimate of the spectacular character of Buffalo Bill A famous Iowa writer has declared that nothing lies like history and expresses the opinion that we must go to the imagination for realities This is a part of his apology for writing a romance of the famous Johnny Appleseed While we are not prepared at ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 233 collection A very large and unique celt of Williamstite is one of the finest of its kind found in Ohio A new type of stone relic made of granite cylindrical about 4 inches long and 2 12 inches in diameter with a groove near each end is one of the novelties of this collection four specimens being shown An important addition to the Museum collections is the material taken from the so-called Hilltop mound which ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 429 Reviews Notes and Comments 429 REV NATHANIEL BARRETT COULSON LOVE Rev Nathaniel Barrett Coulson Love was born in Rushville Ohio October 29 1830 He died at his home in Perrysburg Ohio December 29 1922 He had therefore passed his ninety-second birthday He was one of the pioneer ministers of Ohio His father ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Dr William T Doherty Jr Professor of History and University Historian at West Virginia University has been named Editor of West Virginia History Dr Doherty will immediately assume the editorial duties of the quarterly publication of the Department of Culture and History Doherty earned undergraduate degrees from Southeast Missouri State University his Master of Arts degree from American University's School of Social Sciences and Public Affairs and his Doctor ...
... DOCUMENTARY DATA DOCUMENTARY DATA By BERTHA E JOSEPHSON During recent months the Department of Documents which includes under its jurisdiction state archives manuscripts maps posters photostats and broadsides has catalogued and arranged in a vertical file about one hundred small and pamphlet-folder maps Some of the more important of these are ANDREWS REPORT FOR 1854 MAPS ACCOMPANYING THE ISRAEL D One showing railroads in U S in operation and progress in the fifties two of the St Lawrence ...
... general session of the Ohio History Conference held Friday evening April 7 in University Hall Ohio State University consisted of an address on Tales of the Presidents or Gossip of History delivered by the editor of the Toledo Blade Grove Patterson enthusiastically introduced to an audience of approximately two hundred persons by Arthur C ...
... general collection of books 921 volumes bound pamphlets 1663 making a total unaccessioned of 3730 volumes and bound pamphlets At the last Annual Meeting the Secretary in announcing the large number of newspaper volumes added within the previous year stated that it was not probable that so many volumes could be added this year Eight hundred volumes were mentioned as the assured increase for the year that ends today By actual count however 2198 ...