... The three decades preceding the American Civil War appear in retrospect as an era of intellectual as well as political turbulence Everywhere the forces of romantic subjectivism were gaining ground at the expense of longestablished modes of thought and behavior In religion the revivalist spirit placed the heart above the head and swept away the discipline imposed by ecclesiastical formalism in philosophy the mechanistic sensationalism of Locke yielded to more intuitive approaches to the problem ...
... 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 ...
... HUGH T HUGH T LOVIN The Ohio Farmer-Labor Movement in the 1930s Throughout the 1930s a generation of American radicals sought unsuccessfully to build a viable third party on the considerable political terrain that lay to the left of the New Deal coalition Their failure in the greatest of all American depressions has long been accounted either a tribute to the resiliency of the two-party system and the political skill of Franklin Roosevelt or a confirmation of the utopian chiliastic character ...
... 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 and streams And 'twas here he dreamed his boyhood dreams One of our boys Just one of our boys One of our ...
... HONORABLE JAMES E CAMPBELL 46 8President of Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Former Governor of Ohio TRIBUTE TO JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL TRIBUTE TO JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL BY DR WILLIAM OXLEY THOMPSON HONORABLE JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL The present opportunity is taken by the University to extend to you most cordial greetings in recognition of your distinguished citizenship and of the approaching anniversary of your birthday The University unable to be in session on July seventh ...
... 406 Ohio Arch 406 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications TERMS EXPIRE IN 1917 Col Webb C Hayes Fremont Dr W O Thompson Columbus Dr G Frederick Wright Oberlin APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR Hon J W Harper Cincinnati 1915 Hon J W Yeagley New Philadelphia 1915 Hon James E Campbell Columbus 1916 Hon Myron T Herrick Cleveland 1916 Prof B F Prince Springfield 1917 Mr E O Randall Columbus 1917 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES SOCIETY BUILDING JUNE 29 1914 The annual meeting of the trustees of the Society ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D JENKINS Robert Bulkley Progressive Profile Twenty years ago American historians characterized progressivism as a political movement whose reform impulse was rooted in the status anxieties of its predominately middle-class membership Since then a generation of historians has effectively challenged the simplicity of that hypothesis and replaced it with the notion that progressivism was more diffuse in nature No longer viewed then as a movement cohesive in philosophy and ...
... 98 Ohio Arch 98 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications STORY OF THE FIRELANDS The following interesting account of the Firelands is taken from the West Liberty Banner Unnumbered native Ohioans not to speak of hundreds of thousands of residents of the state from foreign lands and other states of the union must have wondered why a fertile and productive tract in northern Ohio a district which in no way hints of the ravages of fire should be called the Firelands Among all the vicissitudes of ...
... Communications Communications To the Editor Marc Raphael has used his experience as an interviewer for the Columbus Jewish History Project to write a short analysis of the opportunities and difficulties surrounding oral history in an ethnic community Autumn 1977 Much of what Professor Raphael writes is solid and well-reasoned In certain technical areas however he stated as fact what is at best opinion or presented information which is less than accurate Raphael's most significant contribution ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 1 23 ALFRED R M cI NTIRE Hon Alfred R McIntire died on Monday September 21 1903 near Jewelsburg Colorado while a passenger upon a train from Emmett Idaho to his home at Mt Vernon He was born July 14 1840 on a farm near Mt Hope Holmes county Ohio and at the age of fourteen removed with his parents to Knox county and settled upon a farm near Fredericktown His ancestors on both the paternal and maternal sides were Irish His grandfathers emigrated to America and his ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 83-84 Copyright 2001 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 Ohio Academy of History Fall Meeting will be held October 5 2001 at Kenyon College in Gambier For more information please contact Roy Wortman Department of History Kenyon College Gambier Ohio 43022 phone 740 ...
... 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 ...
... THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY THE PUBLIC AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY by SAVOIE LOTTINVILLE Director University of Oklahoma Press It has been said that if you scratch a historian you will surely find an author There is scarcely a discipline in America today as productive as history--and I do not exclude even the sciences whose cosmic chill seems to work inversely enkindling the imagination of mankind the more as the outlook for the future becomes the less Perhaps it is because the record ...
... 136 Ohio Arch 136 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE BUNCH OF GRAPES TAVERN In Old Boston Taverns -a rare little pamphlet published in Boston in 1886 and written by Samuel Adams Drake--is an entertaining little chapter on the Bunch of Grapes Tavern the inn that figured so historically in the early stages of the organization of the Ohio Company of Associates The tavern stood in King Street now State Street at the upper corner of Kilby Street It was not far from the site of the Boston ...
... Essay and Comment Essay and Comment OHIO NETWORK OF AMERICAN HISTORY RESEARCH CENTERS A PROPOSAL A general characteristic of Americans has always been the overemphasis on quantity and competition to the point of blurring a full consideration of the advantages of quality and cooperation The rapid changes of the twentieth century resulting in the formation of a complex of ever-increasing interwoven relationships between people and their institutions necessitates the redirection of traditional ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Among recent publications concerning Ohio history are the following the Marion County Historical Society is publishing a new history of Marion County the first comprehensive history of the county since 1907 those interested should write to the Marion County 1979 History PO Box 976 Marion Ohio 43302 The Putnam County Historical Society has available Putnam County Pioneer Association Centennial History 1873-1973 1880 History and 1895 Atlas of Putnam County one ...
... John Henri Kagi--Biographical Notes 423 John Henri KagiBiographical Notes 423 at once raised a regiment of volunteers in Pennsylvania and served throughout the conflict with great distinction He was wounded a number of times and rose to the rank of brigadier general His son Edward entered the war as a private rose to the rank of captain and was killed in action Governor Geary in 1866 was elected governor of Pennsylvania a position which he held to within two weeks of his death which occurred ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 313 Reviews Notes and Comments 313 conditions at the time he said I am not surprised at the action of the United States government Slavery is now recognized as morally and economically wrong but at the time of the Harper's Ferry raid it was legalized by the United States and the State of Virginia It is generally admitted now that the blow at Harper's Ferry hastened the outbreak of the Civil War which brought slavery to an end in the United States John Brown's ...
... CONSTITUTION OF CONSTITUTION OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY1 ARTICLE I Name and Location Section 1 This Society which is organized as a corporation not for profit under the laws of the State of Ohio shall pursuant to its Articles of Incorporation be known as The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and shall have its offices at Columbus Ohio where its principal business shall be transacted ARTICLE II Purposes Section 1 The purposes of this Society as set ...
... A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD A CENTURY OF STATEHOOD ADDRESS BY GEORGE K NASH On the evening of Saturday December 27 1902-the members of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce participated in their Annual Christmas Dinner It was an elaborate banquet held in the spacious hall of the Chamber of Commerce Many distinguished speakers were present among them being Major-General Henry C Corbin Major-General Samuel B M Young Major-General Adna R Chaffee Hon John G Milburn of Buffalo One of the speakers of the ...