... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART In Search of the Mound Builders The State Archaeological Association of Ohio 1875-1885 If the State Archaeological Association of Ohio is at all remembered today it is as the forerunner of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society That organization emerged from the wreckage of the earlier state archaeological association on March the 12th and 13th 1885 and has been known as the Ohio Historical Society since 1954 The significance of Ohio's first state ...
... 48 Ohio Arch 48 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications represent the majesty the dignity the power and the glory of this Great Republic THE GOSPEL OF BURNISHED STEEL AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE BROAD STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MAY 25 19 24 Although the Honor Roll which we are dedicating today contains names only of World War soldiers it is thought something should be said about the soldiers of former wars and perhaps in this day of mistaken pacificism something about war in general As this ...
... INTRODUCTORY REMARKS INTRODUCTORY REMARKS By PHILIP C NASH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN It is my very great pleasure and honor to declare open the sessions of the Maumee Valley International Historical Convention It was 146 years ago that the Battle of Fallen Timbers was fought and all the events that we are commemorating in this Convention occurred more than a century ago There has been an orderly and gradual development of civilization in this neighborhood and in this country ever since those days ...
... PLACE-NAMES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO PLACE-NAMES IN FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO BY W EDSON RICHMON D Introduction For at least three centuries it has been manifestly impossible for any one man to take all knowledge as his province The specialization brought about by the widening strain of human knowledge is most easily seen in the fields of modern science Especially among the younger and smaller sciences there is no self-sufficiency however and each finds it necessary to rely upon its sisters So it is ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Jacksonian Persuasion Politics and Belief By Marvin Meyers Stanford Calif Stanford University Press 1957 vii234p appendices bibliography and index 500 This slim volume is the latest in the recent series of attempts to discern the elusive meaning behind that deceptive textbook phrase Jacksonian democracy Professor Meyers' monograph will not win a Pulitzer prize be chosen as a book-club selection or reappear in paper-bound dress as a layman's treat It will for years ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR A LIFE OF WILLIAM ALLEN William Allen A Study in Western Democracy By Reginald C McGrane Columbus Ohio The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1 925 279 p William Allen was one of those political luminaries who never quite attained the brilliance of a star of the first magnitude in the political firmament of his state and nation Very nearly but never ...
... MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST MARIUS ROBINSON A FORGOTTEN ABOLITIONIST LEADER By RUSSEL B NYE Marius Racine Robinson one of the more important figures of the antislavery movement in Ohio has been more or less lost from public view Neither the Dictionary of American Biography the National Cyclopaedia of Biography nor any of the standard biographical dictionaries list his name yet in the rise of abolitionism in Ohio he played a great part as agent editor organizer and propagandist -- ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE The Experience of Revolution and the Beginnings of Party Politics in Ohio 1776-1816 The American Revolution would scarcely be worth the name if it signified nothing more than separation from Great Britain In fact it was the beginning of an experiment to create a republic in which a free people could be governed justly without resort to the traditional sources of state power hereditary right and ancient prescription The new republic however did not take shape ...
... Lewis D Lewis D Campbell and the Know-Nothing Party in Ohio b y WILLIAM E VAN HORNE The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the The period of the late 1840's and early 1850's was one of confusion in the ranks of the two old established parties a situation which resulted in large part from the controversy over the status of slavery in the territories acquired by the United States during the decade 1840-1850 Even the Free Soil party formed on the basis of ...
... MICHAEL SPEER MICHAEL SPEER The Little Steel Strike Conflict for Control Historically strikes in the American iron and steel industry have been bloody affairs The 1892 Homestead strike and the 1919 steel strike stand as outstanding examples of industry's militant refusal to share the power of decision-making with labor representatives for steel management such strikes provided what amounted to an opportunity for crushing an incipient union movement By the mid-1930's however the conflict ...
... F M WHITAKER F M WHITAKER Ohio WCTU and the Prohibition Amendment Campaign of 1883 The Woman's Christian Temperance Union may be said to be a product of Ohio in at least two ways One its foundation is the only lasting result of a phenomenon of the winter and spring of 1873-1874 known as the Woman's Crusade which achieved its first success and national recognition in Ohio This movement in which bands of respectable ladies marched in groups upon saloons in various locations singing praying and ...
... OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BY C B GALBREATH Ohio is great in many ways The achievements of her sons are not confined to the spectacular vocations of statesmanship and war Piatt and Howells and other writers have given her a respectable place in the literature of the republic The Darling Nelly Gray of our Hanby the Dixie of our Emmett and the Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling of our Thompson have gone round the world and found ...
... THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS OF ANTISLAVERY COALITION by JOSEPH G RAYBAC K Assistant Professor of American History The Pennsylvania State College If there is one aspect of American history that has received the attention that is its due it is the role of the abolitionist in the antislavery movement The main outlines of the part played by that small semifanatical body of men and women have long been revealed the eternal history of the ...
... RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO RELIGION AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OHIO by BERNARD MANDEL Fenn College Cleveland Ohio Foremost in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution was the guarantee that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibit the free exercise thereof This amendment however was not a conclusive establishment of religious freedom for three reasons First it was a statement of principle which was accepted in theory but often ...
... PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVISED MAY 1 1936 By HARLOW LINDLEY Adams Jacob Private in Company F 21st O V V I Diary Introduction by H M Povenmire 1929 99p 025 Anderson James H Colonel William Crawford 34p 25 Anderson James H Life and Letters of Judge T J Anderson and Wife 535p 150 Written and compiled during the Civil War Contains much valuable source material on local Ohio history Backus Emma S ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Reviews Notes and Comments 547 Senator Fess then delivered an eloquent address on the origin and achievements of the government of the United States He paid a glowing tribute to the Revolutionary fathers and the framers of our institutions This he followed with a survey of the progress under our republican form of government His address was received with frequent applause by the attentive and appreciative audience Mr Henry Williams recited the famous message of ...
... PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO PHILIP BEVAN--MINOR POET OF OHIO BY PHILIP B JORDAN That portion of the history of the United States known as the Middle Period spanning the years 18121850 is remarkable among other things for the conception and development of an intense pride in the nation itself and in the cultivation of a spirit of nationalism which preserved its intensity until well past the Civil War period Politically this pride and affection for country expressed itself in the ...
... REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1931 The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 10 o'clock a m in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building On motion of the Secretary Mr Arthur C Johnson President of the Society was chosen President of the meeting The minutes of the previous ...
... Editorialania Editorialania 285 mortal enemies Five of their chief Werowances came aboard us and crossed the bay in their barge The picture of the greatest of them is signified in the mappe The calfe of whose leg was three-quarters of a yard about and all of the rest of his limbs so answerable to that proportion that he seemed the goodliest man we ever beheld His hayre the one side was long the other close shore with a ridge over his crown like a cockes comb His arrows were five quarters long ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Blacks in Ohio History Edited by Rubin F Weston Volume IV of The Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 44p illustrations notes 200 As the nation moves into its third century under the Constitution Professor Weston remarks in the introduction it is imperative that all groups who made America be recognized and that their contribution be included in the history books With this purpose in mind one in a series of ...