... 562 Ohio Arch 562 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications GATHERING UNDER THE OAKS On July 6th the Secretary of the Society was the honored invitee of the committee of arrangements at the semi-centennial anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican party held at Jackson Mich in a picturesque grove of oak trees just outside the city limits It was at Jackson Mich on July 6 1854 that the first great mass meeting of members of the Whig Abolitionist Anti-slavery Democrat and other members ...
... Book Notes Book Notes The Covered Bridges of Pennsylvania A Guide By Susan M Zacher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1982 vi 141p illustrations maps bibliography index As its title might indicate this book functions primarily as a tourist guide to the covered bridges which are found throughout Pennsylvania Following a brief introduction to truss types the book consists of a list of the 227 extant covered bridges in the state with the bridges grouped by region and by ...
... Book Notes Book Notes William McKinley A Bibliography By Lewis L Gould and Craig H Roell Westport Connecticut Meckler Corporation 1988 xvi 238p illustration chronology bibliography indexes Published as part of Meckler's Bibliographies of the Presidents of the United States 1789-1989 edited by Carol Bondhus Fitzgerald this book represents the first attempt to assemble a comprehensive guide to writing on McKinley's life and his years in office In this ambitious series Meckler Corporation has ...
... Index Index THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Volume 63 ABOUT HISTORIANS 74-76 192Bahmer Robert H Keep the Record 193 293-295 416-418 Straight 225-239 Academic Procession An Informal HisBaker Nina Brown Cyclone in Calico tory of the American College 1636The Story of Mary Ann Bickerdyke 1953 by Ernest Earnest rev 307-308 rev 426-427 Adams William A 255 Baldwin Charles C and Pease map of The Admission of Ohio to the Union Western Reserve 270-271 by Benjamin H Pershing ...
... JOHN E JOHN E MOSER Principles Without Program Senator Robert A Taft and American Foreign Policy When it came to domestic policy there was very little that was confusing about Senator Robert Alfonso Taft of Ohio 1889-1953 A die-hard conservative Taft remained up until his death a convinced enemy of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the assault on the Constitution which he believed it to represent So solid were his political credentials that he came to be known widely as Mr Republican defining ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Chadwyck-Healey recently announced the availability of the papers of Charles Sumner on microfilm and a printed Guide and Index to all 26000 letters Compiled and edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer the Charles Sumner Papers Project represents the publication of virtually the entire known correspondence of Sumner 1811-1874 and throws new light on the man as well as on the major American political and social issues of the nineteenth century For details concerning ...
... JOHN M JOHN M MULDER The Heavenly City and Human Cities Washington Gladden and Urban Reform Historians have generally viewed the rise of the social gospel during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a response to the problems posed by industrialization immigration and urbanization Ever since the publication of Arthur M Schlesinger's pioneering analysis in 19321 historians have examined American religious groups especially American Protestants to determine the ways in which they ...
... CHRIS CUMO CHRIS CUMO The Carmichael Case Animal Science At The Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station 1905-1921 The late nineteenth century was an important period in Ohio because agricultural education and science began to take shape then Farmers had welcomed the Morrill Act of 1862 and the Ohio legislature translated it into institutional form by creating The Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College in 1870 which the Board of Trustees renamed The Ohio State University in 18781 Its creation ...
... JEFFREY P JEFFREY P BROWN Samuel Huntington A Connecticut Aristocrat on the Ohio Frontier Samuel Huntington Jr was one of the many ambitious Americans who went west in the early nineteenth century hoping to improve their station in life Although most western pioneers were humble yeoman farmers a significant number of well-to-do citizens also emigrated to the frontier in search of their fortunes Huntington typified this latter group Born to one of Connecticut's most prominent families he moved ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS A ND EXHIBITS COLLECTIONS OF THE RUTHERFORD B HAYES STATE MEMORIAL ONE OF OHIO'S finest historical properties is the Rutherford B Hayes State Memorial located in Spiegel Grove the twentyfive-acre home estate of the nation's nineteenth president at Fremont Administered jointly by the Ohio Historical Society and the Rutherford B Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes Foundation this public memorial includes the stately Victorian brick mansion of the president and his family the graves ...
... MARVIN FLETCHER MARVIN FLETCHER War in the Streets of Athens On an August evening in 1904 terror struck the citizens of the small southeastern Ohio town of Athens Thousands of Ohio National Guard and regular army troops were on joint maneuvers in the area On the evening of August 19 some of the regulars marched into town with the aim of freeing one of their comrades who had been arrested by some national guardsmen and locked in the county jail When the military police tried to stop them the ...
... JAMES W JAMES W GEARY Clement L Vallandigham Views the Charleston Convention The Democratic National Convention which opened at Charleston South Carolina on April 23 1860 provided the setting for one of the most significant turning points in American history The delegates who gathered at this southern city to select a presidential candidate and a platform failed in both efforts Radical southerners refused even to consider a program of popular sovereignty as defined by Stephen A Douglas the ...
... SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL SUBJECT AND TITLE INDEX TO VOL XLVII For Index of Authors see Contents ABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF Stevens H R A Study of Notable Ohioans 159-167 Abstract of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society April 1 1938 215-217 Advancing the Ohio Frontier by Frazer Ells Wilson--Book review by J O M 188-191 American Frontier by Elisabeth Peck--Book review by Lois R Hiestand 374 AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS--FOREIGN ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Shawnee By Jerry E Clark Lexington University Press of Kentucky 1977 ix 99p illustrations bibliographical essay 495 Jerry E Clark's summary of the most important findings about the Shawnee is yet another addition to the award-winning Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf a series subsidized by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by numerous groups and individuals interested in Kentucky history Not intended to be an original contribution to knowledge The ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Bloody Mohawk By T Wood Clarke New York The Macmillan Company 194 0 372p 350 The author begins his story at the beginning so to speak when the Iroquois first settled in the Mohawk Valley The story ends with the war for American Independence inasmuch as the last three chapters are composed of biographical sketches of the little-known leaders of the patriots the loyalists and of the Iroquois in that struggle We are told that this is a frankly popular history and ...
... Historical News Historical News David C Riede has been appointed an instructor in the department of history at the University of Akron Mr Riede received the BA and MA degrees in history from the University of Iowa and is now completing his dissertation for the doctor's degree Maxwell Whiteman has been appointed assistant director of the American Jewish Archives Jacob R Marcus the director of the archives is the recipient of the 1954-55 National Service Award of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity This ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era SHGAPE announces the third SHGAPE Article Prize a biennial competition for the best published article dealing with any aspect of US history in the period 1865-1917 The article must have appeared in journals dated 1995 or 1996 Eligibility is open to any graduate student or individual with a doctorate awarded after 1987 who has not yet published a book An article may be nominated by the author or ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES Cincinnati Jacob Marcus Director The growing collections of congregational minute books genealogies and personal papers of notable Jewish personalities are being cataloged and made available for researchers Dr Stern-Taeubler's book The Court Jew has recently been published BRECKSVILLE EARLY SETTLERS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Brecksville Ernest Green President The association is at present furnishing a room at the museum ...
... 436 THEODORE E THEODORE E BURTON Theodore E Burton was born at Jefferson Ohio December 20 1851 was graduated from Oberlin College in 1872 received the degree of LL D from Oberlin and Dartmouth Colleges and from New York University Ohio University and other institutions was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland in 1875 was elected to the National House of Representatives and served through the fifty-first fifty-fourth to sixtieth and sixty-sixth and sixty-eighth ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA MEETING OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION In the historic and picturesque city of New Orleans on the days of Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday December 29 30 and 31 1903 was held the nineteenth annual meeting of the American Historical Association It proved to be an event of unusual interest and enjoyment The American Historical Association was organized at Saratoga New York September 10 1884 and now numbers some twenty-five hundred members comprising the leading ...