... 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 ...
... 36 Ohio Arch 36 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications NOTES HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD Honorable James W Good Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Hoover was the most distinguished official who attended the unveiling of the monument in honor of General Anthony Wayne and he delivered the principal address at the banquet in the evening in the Commodore Perry Hotel No one who heard him would have predicted that this would be the last distinguished service of this character he would perform ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Washington United States Government Printing Office 1934 Vol I preliminary printing 15 V ol s II and III 200 each Of the projected volumes of this monumental work the ones now published are especially important to those interested in the history of Ohio The series deals with certain western tracts of land which were governed by Congress and the National Executive as colonies or ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments Reviews Notes and Comments 149 The calendaring of Letters Received in the War Department files was approved Dr Mereness was given an extension of leave to September 30 with the understanding that he would continue to exercise general supervision over the work and that it would be carried forward by Mr Smith SOLON J BUCK Secretary COLONEL HARRY PARKER WARD Colonel Harry Parker Ward a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society died at his home ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR HISTORICAL COMMISSION OF OHIO The following communication from Professor Carl Wittke Secretary of the Historical Commission of Ohio to members of the Historical Guild and others interested is self explanatory THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY April 12 1923 DEAR SIR-- In response to the call to the Historical Guild of the state for a conference in Columbus to discuss plans ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History A Comprehensive Reference Book of Special Interest to Teachers in Ohio Schools Compiled by George F Jenny Columbus Ohio Sesquicentennial Commission 1953 124p 050 A Handbook to Aid in the Study of State amp Local History is at once the most comprehensive and the most challenging publication of its nature that has come to our desk Inspirational seems a misnomer for a work of this sort but it is just that Surely ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Kensington Stone A Mystery Solved By Erik Wahlgren Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1958 xiv228p illustrations bibliography and index 500 Few artifacts of American history have aroused as much interest as the Kensington stone This stone with its runic inscriptions supposedly discovered by a Minnesota farmer in 1898 has been the subject of several books by Hjalmar Holand No American scholar has taken the trouble to examine in detail the case which Holand has ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society will be held in the Museum and Library Building Saturday September 9 1922 The forenoon session which opens at nine o'clock will be devoted chiefly to reports of officers and the various committees of the Society Matters of more than ordinary importance will be ...
... edited by edited by FRANK R LEVSTIK Life Among the Lowly An Early View of an Ohio Poor House The care of the poor in Ohio during the early nineteenth century was largely based on English legislation of the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries In 1795 statutes of the Northwest Territory provided a means whereby the poor could be employed through a system of annual farming-out to the lowest bidder The farmers were thus authorized to keep the poor at moderate labor For the next two ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR Know Ohio a Souvenir of the Buckeye State By J L Clifton and B A Aughinbaugh 64 p Columbus Ohio 25 cents This is the title of a neatly printed attractively bound and extensively illustrated booklet of sixty-four pages each carrying eight by five inches of printed matter The writer has before him the revised proof sheets of the second printing of this work and is impressed with the belief that it will become very popular with ...
... HAROLD HOLZER HAROLD HOLZER Lincoln and the Ohio Printmakers Much has been written about the engraved and lithographed portraiture of Abraham Lincoln a pictorial genre that did much to benefit the nation's sixteenth president both politically and historically1 These crude and homely portrayals helped introduce the little-known Lincoln to American voters following his unexpected nomination to the presidency in 1860 Later engravings and lithographs provided audiences with the first ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews With Shield and Sword American Military Affairs Colonial Times to the Present By Warren W Hassler Jr Ames Iowa State University Press 1982 x 462 p maps notes selected bibliography index 2950 This book is the first comprehensive history of the American military past since Walter Millis's Arms and Men A Study in American Mlitary History 1955 T Harry Williams's The History of American Wars From 1745 to 1918 1981 might have claimed that position had not its author's ...
... CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN CORNELIUS SEDAM AND HIS FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON'S TIME1 BY MRS EMMA S BACKUS Cincinnati Ohio The old days were great because the men who moved in them had mighty qualities --THEODORE ROOSEVELT Grand old times with a grand old father This tribute to the times and the man was penned by a son of the subject of this sketch in 1885 when Matthew Sedam then residing at Terre Haute Indiana wrote reminiscently to his younger brother David at Cincinnati recalling early ...
... CONTRASTS IN 150 YEARS OF PUBLISHING CONTRASTS IN 150 YEARS OF PUBLISHING IN OHIO BY CHARLES M THOMAS Nathaniel Willis the publisher of the Scioto Gazette found it necessary to cut the size of his paper to half a sheet in the latter part of the year 1 8 02 He explained the reason for this by the following paragraph which is found in his issue for November 13 By reason of the Menongehalia river not having been navigable for some time past we have been disappointed in receiving a supply of paper ...
... JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN M JAMES FAIRCHILD BALDWIN MD 1850-1936 by GEORGE M CURTIS MD James Fairchild Baldwin surgeon extraordinary was born in the little village of Orangeville New York on February 12 1850 He died at Columbus Ohio on January 20 1936 approximately 86 years of age He had practiced almost sixty years and nearly forty of these as a surgeon A master of his craft this rugged individualist was finally conquered by one of the surgical diseases of which the least was then known i e ...
... Warren King Moorehead Warren King Moorehead And His Papers By JOHN W WEATHERFORD The enduring love of Warren King Moorehead 1866-1939 may be summed up in one word Indians When not busied with their ancient remains he was struggling with the manifold problems they face in this century Penobscot and Pueblo alike shared his attention When through the generosity of Ludwig King Moorehead and Singleton Peabody Moorehead the Ohio Historical Society acquired his papers it was principally because he ...
... Mr Mr Republican Turns SOCIALIST ROBERT A TAFT and Public Housing by RICHARD O DAVIES To the great majority of his contemporaries Senator Robert A Taft embodied the traditional values of self-help private enterprise and dislike for governmental welfare programs Most Americans believed that Taft had as his major purpose the root and branch eradication of all New Deal welfare and regulatory programs His adamant opposition to the proliferation of such governmental activities supposedly led to a ...
... REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR To the Officers Trustees and Members of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Herewith is submitted in condensed form the sixteenth annual report of the undersigned as Director of the Society Presumably you are not so much concerned with past accomplishments of the organization which speak for themselves as with the future The temper of the times appears to demand that the Society along with others of its kind should conscientiously ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Barber and the Historian The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 Edited by John A Garraty Columbus Ohio Historical Society 1956 xxiv156p illustrations and index Paper 300 The publication of this correspondence first in successive issues of the Ohio Historical Quarterly during 1955 and now in book form is a noteworthy event on several counts In the first place the letters give an intimate view of James Ford Rhodes which adds to our ...
... EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO EDUCATION IN TERRITORIAL OHIO BY W ROSS DUNN In tracing the beginnings of education in that part of the old Northwest that later became Ohio the historian naturally turns to that much noted work of the decadent Congress of the Articles of Confederation the Northwest Ordinance or the Ordinance of 1787 His efforts are not unrewarded for Article Three contains the oft quoted declaration that schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged However this ...