... 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 ...
... Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 Forty-First Annual Meeting 631 my deep appreciation of their cooperation in the welfare of the Museum Respectfully submitted Signed WILLIAM C MILLS Mr John R Horst Chairman of the Committee on EARLY OHIO SCHOOL BOOKS stated that the Ray collection is almost complete and progress is being made in securing other books used in the early schools of the state As to the McGuffey books while the Committee is still ...
... ESSAY AND COMMENT ESSAY AND COMMENT Preservation of the Newsreel Films of President Harding by Robert W Wagner Efforts of the professional archivist in his attempt to preserve historical materials are often complicated by the very nature of the substance he is trying to preserve For example all 35mm motion picture film from 1888 to 1951 was made with a cellulose nitrate base which makes the reels highly flammable and under some circumstances highly explosive A partially decomposed nitrate film ...
... Historical News Historical News THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY HISTORY DEPARTMENT has established an annual national master's essay competition open in the academic year 1959-60 The first William P Lyons Master's Essay Award will be made for the best essay submitted by July 15 1960 in manuscript form from those which have merited MA degrees from American universities during 1959-60 The award will recognize work that is exemplary in style and method based solidly on original sources and interpretatively ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Reviews Notes and Comments 615 Judged impartially at this distance it looks a little as though neither Brooks nor Burlingame was eager to fight a duel Of course each naturally desired the public to think that he was not lacking in courage to meet the other in mortal combat While it would doubtless have been dangerous for Brooks to travel through the hostile North direct to Canada had the public been advised of his going a journey to the point designated seems not ...
... TO CINCINNATI TO CINCINNATI BY EDWARD A M'LAUGHLIN 1798This poem appeared as one of a collection printed in Cincinnati in 1841 The general title of the book was Lovers of the Deep To any one who is acquainted with the culture of Cincinnati the prophetic vision of the poet can be keenly appreciated City of gardens verdant parks sweet bowers Blooming upon thy bosom bright and fair Wet with the dews of spring and summer's showers And fanned by every breath of wandering air Rustling the foliage of ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 227 planned with Ohio State University Broadcasting station and is being offered each Tuesday afternoon over WOSU This series which is professional in caliber has attracted wide attention and is being rebroadcast by several additional stations Dr William D Overman ...
... Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 Minutes of the Annual Meeting 567 of the earth my people urged me to make four requests-First that the flame of their fireplace may not sway to and fro sickness Second that their weapon may be sharpened on both sides Success in war Legends say that there was once a race that had a sharp bony structure growing out on both sides of their forearms for use in war Third that the number of days I left behind me may be proportionately divided among my relatives ...
... 224 Ohio Arch 224 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications FIRST NAVIGATOR OF THE OHIO RIVER It is a most interesting but generally unknown fact which we have verified by a letter from Mr William Loeb secretary to the President that the brother of the grandfather of President Roosevelt was the first man to navigate a steamboat on the
... OHIO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY OHIO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS OF HISTORY University of Akron Akron Reuben V Smith Summerfield Baldwin Chairman Homer R Cotterham Clara G Roe King Bradow Clarence D Leckey Case Institute of Technology Antioch College Yellow Springs Cleveland Irwin Abrams Chairman Stanton Ling Davis Chairman Louis Filler George A Carroll James Horton Kenyon C Kramer ...
... LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY LITERARY PERIODICALS OF THE OHIO VALLEY IN a course of investigations concerning Western literary undertakings the writer has given some attention to the history of periodical publications particularly those devoted to literature There have been many such publications in the valley of the Ohio River ...
... 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 ...
... agriculture in New York and Columbia University history of aviation and radio administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower and the lives of Adlai E Stevenson and Robert A Taft The number of oral history programs across the nation became large enough in 1966 that a national organization was formed the Oral History Association which sponsors an annual three day meeting a newsletter and special publications Until very recently ...
... 1920s Vignettes at the end of each of his nine chapters highlight notable people and places along the way Vacha eschews footnotes and endnotes in the text although the bibliographical essay at the end of the book will help those who want to know more His major sources included his personal collection of material as well as local newspapers scholarly works and memoirs Appendixes list the longest-running plays in the history of Cleveland's ...
... The MacGahan Monument The MacGahan Monument 217 Thy hills thy fields thy woods have been Since boyhood days my own blood-kin And long my soul and the soul of thee Are blent as one for eternity In infant eyes thy mother-face Poured deep the wine of mystic grace And now to me thy voice and spell Speak high as heaven and deep as hell To breathe of thee all I have known Or dreamed beloved and my own Were to assail a sacred lore But thine and mine forevermore Thus much howe'er I may impart That in ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY Friday April 12 1946 100 P M The meeting was called to order by President Arthur C Johnson Sr at 100 PM with a larger and more representative attendance than usual In opening the meeting President Johnson made the following introductory remarks We are now at an important crossroads in the life of the Society We will not ...
... LAURA RUSSELL LAURA RUSSELL Book Notes Choose You This Day The Legacy of the Hanbys By Dacia Custer Shoemaker Edited by Harold B Hancock and Millard J Miller Westerville Ohio The Westerville Historical Society 1983 xv 137p illustrations notes appendix selected bibliography index The publication of this book represents the final realization of Dacia Custer Shoemaker's dream to rescue the Hanbys from obscurity by preserving and recording many ...
... northeastern Indiana The culture has not been well-defined but there is a recurring complex including such objects as mocassin-shaped shell gorgets circular shell gorgets shell beads birdstones and massive copper beads39 Chronological evidence is almost entirely lacking but on typological grounds the Gravel Kame culture has been placed tentatively in the general Adena-Hopewell time period In addition to these four prehistoric cultures which ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications U S GRANT ONE OF OUR BOYS BY BERTYE Y WILLIAMS One of our boys In the long ago He trudged along through the winters' snow To the old school-house that you see there still Oft' he went with grist to the White Oak mill When the days of summer were long and fair Met the other boys and went swimming there 0 he knew these woods and hills ...
... INVOCATION INVOCATION BY REV W H SHEPFER GRACIOUS GOD OUR HEAVENLY FATHER acknowledging our weakness and our sinfulness we invoke thy divine blessing upon us as we have come together to recall the heroic lives and sacrifices of our forefathers in this section of our great country Through the Spirit of Truth give us O God wisdom and understanding We acknowledge Thee Dear Father as the Giver of every good and perfect gift Thou art the Source from whom all our blessings flow We acknowledge Thee ...