... HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS HERMAN MELVILLE AND THE OHIO PRESS By GEORGE KUMMER Early in 1858 Herman Melville passed through Ohio on a lecture tour The hastily written notices of his address which appeared in the newspapers of Cleveland Cincinnati and Chillicothe add a few details to our sketchy knowledge of his career as a lecturer and show how the author of Moby Dick impressed the people of what was then called the West The average Ohioan of that day was not greatly interested in ...
... BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE BUFFALO CHILD LONG LANCE Buffalo Child Long Lance a scholarly Indian chieftain from Alberta Canada spoke at the annual meeting of the Society October 2 An account of his address and his visit to Ohio is found on a succeeding page In introducing him at the annual meeting Governor James E Campbell President of the Society spoke in part as follows I am going to introduce a real live Indian of the Blood tribe His name in our language is Buffalo Child Long Lance His name in ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 137 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 137 of the Ohio State University was attended by over fifty persons representing the various organizations cooperating in the Ohio History Conference H C Shetrone director of the Society presided introducing Mrs Janet Wethy Foley of Akron New York who gave an address on An Adventure in Genealogy in which she related her own and her husband's experiences in adopting genealogy as their profession General Session 800 P M ...
... 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 Thirty-Sixth Annual Missouri Valley History Conference will be held in Omaha Nebraska March 11-13 1993 For further information contact Dale Gaeddert MVHC Coordinator Department of History University of Nebraska at Omaha Nebraska 68182-0213 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Twenty-first Annual Convention at Albuquerque New Mexico on May 28-June 1 1993 Those interested in presenting a paper or organizing a session should contact or ...
... SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANSOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY1 By JOHN GILLIN Cultural anthropology is a comparatively old branch of learning if we mean by it the contemplation of the objects of material culture and a vague awareness of strange customs The Babylonians of the time of Hammurabi are said to have had museums of artifacts recovered from the Sumerians and the Greeks notably Herodotus evinced a lively interest in the customs of barbarians It is only during ...
... Benjamin Franklin Chapter Columbus Ohio at the time of his death General Wright for many years past had taken an active part in the work of The Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society He was a life member February 25 1897 Governor Asa Bushnell appointed General Wright trustee of the Society to fill out the term made vacant by the decease of Judge William J Gilmore March 30 1898 Governor Bushnell appointed Mr Wright trustee for the full term ...
... 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 ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Celebrating the City A Pictorial Essay of Toledo 1890-1940 Compiled by Morgan J Barclay Toledo Toledo-Lucas County Public Library 1979 48p illustrations The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and Ohio Program in the Humanities combined forces to produce an outstanding exhibit displaying a selection of the work of two late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Toledo photographers Charles Mensing and Norman Hauger Thirty-eight of the photographs are reproduced in an ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 SHAPING THE SEMINAR IN LOCAL HISTORY1 by HARVEY WISH Associate Professor of History Western Reserve University History-writing has no prouder tradition than the pretentious seminar for graduate students and yet in far too many cases it has no rival for stuffiness and ineptitude That the seminar has survived and is in no immediate danger of extinction is not due to the guiding principles of Ranke or Herbert B Adams but rather because it serves as a ...
... GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH GEORGE BANCROFT SMITH Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio George Bancroft Smith Secretary-Treasurer of C F Kettering Inc Dayton Ohio was born November 16 1867 at Phillipsburg Ohio a son of Lewis R Smith who was actively identified in the legal profession at one time in the contracting business and of Mary John Smith Ancestry on father's side Scotch and Holland Dutch on mother's side of Welsh descent George Bancroft Smith received a public school education ...
... ARTHUR CHARLES JOHNSON ARTHUR CHARLES JOHNSON PRESIDENT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY It is our pleasure in this issue to present the newly elected President of the Society Mr Arthur Charles Johnson whose portrait appears on the page opposite The death of James E Campbell former governor of Ohio and in recent years president of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society left a vacancy that was difficult to fill After canvassing the availability and ...
... 402 Ohio Arch 402 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications 6 Stuart James-Three Years in North America Edinburgh 1833 Vol II 7 Shirreff Patrick-A Tour through North America Edinburgh 1835 8 Steele Mrs Eliza RA Summer Journey in the West New York 1841 9 Buckingham J S-Eastern and Western States of America London 1842 Vol II 10 Godwin Parke-Prose Writings of Wm Cullen Bryant Vol II Bryant Wm C--Illinois Fifty Years Ago New York 1901 11 Dickens Charles-American Notes London 1903 12 Fordham Elias ...
... 314 Ohio Arch 314 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historic building but no one has come forward with the money to purchase and preserve it It is likely to share the fate of the house in Niles in which William McKinley was born JUDSON HARMON Judson Harmon jurist attorney general in the cabinet of President Cleveland and twice elected governor of Ohio died in Cincinnati February 22 1927 He was a graduate of Denison University a lawyer of eminent ability and a life member of the Ohio ...
... Notes and Queries Winter-Spring 2003 p 64 PDF of Notes and Queries CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2003 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved The Legislative History Editorial Board of the Capitol Square Foundation seeks an academically trained historian to write a single volume comprehensive history of the Ohio General Assembly from 1803-present The expectation is that this work will be suitable for publication by a university press with the final manuscript completed by March 1 ...
... A WILSONIAN PARADOX A WILSONIAN PARADOX by PHILLIP R SHRIVER Historians are often prone to conjecture What might have happened if-- Perhaps no other event in the history of the United States has been the subject of as much hindsight speculation as this nation's refusal to join the League of Nations after the conclusion of the first World War Not a few historians have suggested that World War II was in large degree made inevitable when the United States declined to assume the role of world ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 353 Reviews Notes and Comments 353 a year we will have a highway of a splendid character and when the highway has been built the argument that was made in the State Senate last year against the removal of the house in which Grant was born from the State Fair Grounds to its original foundation will be entirely dissipated The foregoing is a succinct and informing statement of fact so far as the road is concerned supplemented by a prophecy in regard to the dissipation ...
... Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting 407 various mounds and parks He congratulated the Society on its work and stated this meeting will give him renewed enthusiasm Mr Randall stated that the Historical Commission of Ohio was appointed without legal authority a year ago last January or February by Governor Cox it is simply a committee acting voluntarily The purpose is to gather at once the material and data of the activities of Ohio in connection with the Great War This ...