... Book Reviews Book Reviews Dangerous Relations The Soviet Union in World Politics 1970-1982 By Adam B Ulam New York Oxford University Press 1983 vi 325p notes index 2500 In a recent study of American diplomatic historiography Jerald Combs had some difficulty deciding if Adam Ulam had revisionist leanings or belonged firmly to the orthodox camp No such doubts could follow from Ulam's most recent study a continuation chronologically of his Expansion and Coexistence and the Rivals Ulam sees a ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 295 THE MEMOIRS OF RUFUS PUTNAM Compiled and annotated by Miss Rowena Buell Marietta Ohio Houghton Mifflin amp Co Boston and New York This is a work of rare historical value and one which every student of history and particularly of Ohio history will covet and consult with great satisfaction It consists mainly of the official papers and correspondence connected with the life and deeds of General Rufus Putnam who was the leader in the little band of pilgrims who came ...
... JAMES L JAMES L BURKE DONALD E BENSCH Mount Pleasant and The Early Quakers of Ohio In the charming old village of Mount Pleasant Jefferson County Ohio stands a monument to one of America's small but influential denominations the Society of Friends or Quakers People of other religious affiliations settled in Mount Pleasant too but the early history of the Mount Pleasant area was strongly influenced by those Friends who were among its first settlers Their monument is the large brick meeting ...
... THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE OHIO CANALS GEORGE WHITE DIAL LOCKLAND OHIO The observant passenger on the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton railway between Cincinnati and Troy Ohio will catch short glimpses of a broad ditch filled with sluggish water Winding its way through the beautiful Miami and Maumee valleys it follows the railroad for miles now on this side of the tracks now on that ofttimes close beside the river hidden by the foliage of the willows and the ...
... GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 GALLIPOLIS AS TRAVELERS SAW IT 1792-1811 By JOHN FRANCIS MCDERMOTT On the fourth of June 1790 Major John Burnham then at Marietta was instructed by General Rufus Putnam to proceed with the people engaged in the service of the trustees of the Scioto proprietors to a place on the Ohio next Chickamaga creek which will be shown to you by Col Meigs where you will begin operations The letter of instructions specified that the object is to erect four block ...
... 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 ...
... The Scioto Company and its Purchase The Scioto Company and its Purchase 109 THE SCIOTO COMPANY AND ITS PURCHASE The history of the founding of Gallipolis now turning in its career into its second century is one of the most interesting and at the same time one of the saddest studies in American annals It is the story of a disappointing and impracticable scheme and were it not for the fact that the blood of its founders mingling with the American stock of their day and generation has given ...
... 330 Ohio Arch 330 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications Wayne's Expedition against the Indians The awards were made to Irma Shupe Robert Cowden and Wilbur Conover as first second and third respectively The one by Miss Shupe was published in the Dayton Daily Journal of May 5th It is a most scholarly and comprehensive account of that dramatic dashing campaign by the intrepid Wayne No campaign in early American history is more thrilling in its character or more potent in its results It was ...
... GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF GEOGRAPHIC INFLUENCES IN THE HISTORY OF MILAN OHIO BY CHARLES G SHATZER Professor of Geology Wittenberg College Springfield Ohio Any one who seeks to glean the facts of the local history of northwestern Ohio for the period of the '40's and '50's from conversation with the men whose experience reaches into that period will hear repeated frequently the name Milan If interest prompts the question Where and what was Milan he will be told in terms of marked ...
... 242 Ohio Arch 242 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications ADDRESS OP EX-GOVERNOR JAMES E CAMPBELL All history may be searched in vain for a spectacle more pathetic than that of which we are today the witnesses no scene could appeal more deeply to our sympathies and none could be more inspiring It infinitely refreshes our patriotism in this day when the trimmer and truckler are abroad in the land to revive the glorious memories of a desperate war fought for a noble purpose As we gaze with ...
... 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 ...
... THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE THE PURITANIC INFLUENCE IN THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY 1788-1803 BY WINFRED B LANGHORST After the close of the Revolutionary War the rapid movement of settlers over the Appalachian range brought the frontier to eastern Tennessee and Kentucky and to the Monongahela and the Ohio Rivers East of this ever-shifting frontier land values were rising and land speculators and emigrants were searching the West for cheap and fertile lands1 The reports of the Indian traders had ...
... Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association Annual Meeting Ohio Valley Historical Association 20 3 INFLUENCES OF EARLY RELIGIOUS LITERATURE IN THE OHIO VALLEY FROM 1815 TO 1850 MRS IRENE D CORNWELL CINCINNATI A song for the Early Times out West And our green old forest-home Whose pleasant memories freshly yet Across the bosom come A song for the true and gladsome life In those early days we led With a teeming soil beneath our feet And a smiling Heav'n o'erhead Oh the waves of life were ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Alexandra Gripenberg's A Half Year in the New World Miscellaneous Sketches of Travel in the United States 1 888 Translated and edited by Ernest J Moyne Newark University of Delaware Press 1954 xv225p frontispiece and index This volume recounts the observations of Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg distinguished Finnish journalist author feminist and temperance advocate during a six months' visit to the United States in 1888 The baroness came to America as a delegate to an ...
... OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE OHIO DAY AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION On October 6 1 90 4 the Buckeyes from all parts of the United States celebrated Ohio Day upon the grounds of the Exposition St Louis Missouri The exercises were held in the afternoon and evening in the beautiful Ohio Building The Ohio Commission appointed by Governor Nash under authority of an act passed by the 75th General Assembly consisted of Hon William F Burdell President Columbus life member of the Ohio ...
... DOCUMENT DOCUMENT FROM PITTSBURGH TO SHAWNEE TOWN 1819 Edited by WILLIAM D HOYT JR Maryland Historical Society The people living along the Ohio River are miserably deficient in morals principles and manners and much addicted to drinking profanity and idleness Thus wrote Joseph Proud to Nathaniel G Maxwell from Shawnee Town Illinois December 22 1819 The letter containing these sentiments provides an interesting picture of travel down the Ohio at the close of the second decade of the nineteenth ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Woodland Sites in Nebraska By Marvin F Kivett Nebraska State Historical Society Publications in Anthropology No 1 Lincoln Nebraska State Historical Society 1952 102p 30 plates maps and bibliography Paper 200 This is a report on previously unpublished excavations in sites generally assignable to the Woodland Pattern in Nebraska as well as a discussion and summary of existing evidence on the place of Woodland in the Plains area The presence of Woodland manifestations in ...
... TOURS INTO KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST TOURS INTO KENTUCKY AND THE NORTHWEST TERRITORY Three Journals by the Rev James Smith of Powhatan County Va 1783-1795-1797 SKETCH OF REV JAMES SMITH BY JOSIAH MORROW LEBANON OHIO The writer of the following journals was born in Powhatan county Virginia September 17 1757 and died near Columbia in the Northwest Territory July 28 1800 He resided in his native county nearly all his life his removal to the north side of the Ohio having been made less than two ...
... BRIAN P BRIAN P BIRCH A British View of the Ohio Backwoods The Letters of James Martin 1821-1836 Although the British formed a sizeable minority of the early farm settlers in Ohio very little is known about them1 A few accounts exist of particular British notably Welsh and Scots colonies but with no language barrier to separate them from the broad tide of American settlers moving across the Appalachians in the early nineteenth century the British were largely absorbed into that stream and left ...
... TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY July 26 1912 The adjourned session of the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was held in the Hunter Society Room Page Hall Ohio State University Columbus Ohio at two o'clock P M Friday July 26 1912 in accordance with the action taken at the preliminary meeting held May 25 191 2 as recorded herein a nte p 328 The following ...