... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 2 99 NEXT PRESIDENT AN OHIOAN The Republican National Convention in Chicago June 12 nominated Senator Warren G Harding on the tenth ballot for President of the United States The Democratic National Convention in San Francisco July 5 nominated Governor James M Cox on the forty-fourth ballot for President of the United States The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society is a strictly non-partisan institution but because of the ...
... Slavery and Antislavery Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors By Louis FILLER I T IS P OSSIBLE that a revaluation of slavery and antislavery--and more especially of the relationship between antislavery and abolition--has been in order perhaps overdue The literature about these last two related fields is of course enormous but whether the residue of them which the historical profession carries about with it and can bring to bear upon them suffices to maintain our understanding ...
... settlement of the Old Northwest Territory-particularly Ohio-and turns them into fiction None of the stories based on these historical facts is over two pages long yet through their substance and juxtaposition Scott creates a distinctive vision of that period and place which seems emotionally true-regardless of its factuality The briefness of the stories the spare writing and the abrupt surprising twists give this work something of the quality ...
... EDITOR'S NOTE EDITOR'S NOTE Historical anniversaries have a way of reviving interest in events and personalities-long forgotten or neglected Now that centennial observances of the Civil War have run their course our national memory is turning toward the last third of nineteenth century American history Already a major reconsideration of these years is underway A basic source for the study of the period 1865 to 1900 is one of Ohio's finest historical properties The Rutherford B Hayes Library ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments Notes and Reviews 531 dead A chart was shown delineating the bundled bones of Indians at the surface of the ground at Mille Lacs with mounds of earth built over them James W Lynd historian of the Sioux nation was quoted showing that the Dakota people were at Mille Laces at a very ancient period in fact so long ago that no tradition remained to show where they came from or how long they had been there No trace of two distinct classes of stone implements and ...
... 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 ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Reviews Notes and Comments 103 Resolutions adopted by THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION at its Annual Meeting held at Columbus Ohio December 27-29 1923 WHEREAS there has been in progress for several years an agitation conducted by certain newspapers patriotic societies fraternal orders and others against a number of school textbooks in history and in favor of official censorship and WHEREAS this propaganda has met with sufficient success to bring about not only ...
... 36 OHIO HISTORY 36 OHIO HISTORY WINE BARON'S CASTLE Marblehead Peninsula Lake Erie Low thunderheads like distant nebulous hills Hovering on the horizon and the lake In silvered calm reflective eye of summer Casting on earth and sky a spell of vast And brooding quiet -- almost as if time Were an unchanging landscape and its motions With those of wind and weather all suspended That was the afternoon we found the house Known to us only by vague history And local legend then an echoing shell Of ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fall meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held October 17 1986 at the University of Akron Retirements within the professional community include Jeanette E Tuve at the end of the 1984-85 academic year from Cleveland State University and promoted to the rank of Professor Emerita Edwin R King of the University of Dayton in May 1986 and in June 1986 Richard W Smith of Ohio Wesleyan University The Western History Association has put out a call for ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue DR CARL WITTKE is head of the Department of History Ohio State University WELLINGTON G FORDYCE instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland received his master's degree from Ohio State University His article is a part of a larger study of immigrant groups EDGAR B NIXON a descendant of one of the members of the Zoar community is a member of the staff of the Editorial Division of the Department of State Washington D C EDWIN ADAMS DAVIS is ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue ROB ERT S FLETCHER is associate professor of history at Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio W SHERMAN SAVAGE PhD Ohio State University 1934 is head of the Department of History at Lincoln University Jefferson City Missouri ALTA HARVEY HEISER who has done work at the University of Cincinnati writes nature and historical articles for the Hamilton Ohio Journal-News and does genealogical research JOSEPHINE E PHILLIPS of Marietta Ohio is a research worker in early ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Covered Wooden Truss Bridges of Greene County Ohio A collection of photos and data of a vanishing era By James H Shell Xenia Ohio Greene County Historical Society 1998 76p illustrations bibliography At first glance this slender volume appears to be just another covered bridge picture book Many of this genre emphasize numbingly repetitive photos of bridge exteriors and indeed the lead section of this book includes the expected photo gallery But this publication actually ...
... About WS 2003 Winter-Spring 2003 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Richest and Best Is the Wine of the West The Ohio River Valley and the Jewish Frontier by Amy Hill Shevitz PDF of this article 19 A High School to Remember The Greenfield Legacy of McClain Harris and Ittner by Virginia E ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 187-189 Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page NOTES AND QUERIES The 2001 spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 6 and 7 at Capital University in Columbus For details contact Prof Thomas C Maroukis Department of History amp Political Science Capital ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue H HOLMES ELLIS is Research Associate of the Lithic Laboratory for the Eastern United States at the Ohio State Museum and since 1939 is Assistant Curator of Archaeology Ohio State Museum WELLINGTON G FORDYCE Head of the History Department and Dean of Boys at Euclid Central High School is a member of Cleveland Council for American Unity and worker with immigrant groups in the process of Americanization JOHN I KOLEHMAINEN PHD in history Western Reserve ...
... 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 ...
... Book Notes Winter-Spring 2002 pp 94-95 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK NOTES Field Guide to Projectile Points of the Midwest By Noel D Justice and Suzanne K Kudlaty Bloomington and Indianapolis Indiana University Press 2001 xii 53 p 112 figures appendixes This slim volume is intended as a beginner's ...
... 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY 328 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY DOCUMENTARY DATA BY BERTHA E JOSEPHSON Among comments evoked by the April-June issue was a suggestion that researchers might like to learn more about the private papers of Ohio governors in possession of this department The official or public executive correspondence from 1803 to 1 928 and from 1941-1944 are under custody here as State Archives For the period from 1803-1878 there is an unpublished ...
... About WS 2004 Winter-Spring 2004 Contents Staff and Advisory Board OHS Board of Trustees Instructions for Authors PDF of these pages Click page numbers to view articles PDF links are also provided for printing articles Can't read PDFs Get Adobe Acrobat Reader ARTICLES 4 Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange by Bradford W Scharlott PDF of this article 18 Steubenville Ohio and the ...
... 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 ...