... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Adena People No 2 By William S Webb and Raymond S Baby with chapters by Charles E Snow and Robert M Goslin Columbus Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society 1957 xi123p illustrations map chart tables bibliography and index Paper 300 This attractive well organized and well executed volume summarizes the current views of the authors concerning the Adena people and their culture in the Ohio Valley Data from forty-nine new Adena sites for the most ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Union amp Emancipation Essays on Politics and Race in the Civil War Era Edited by David W Blight and Brooks D Simpson Kent Ohio The Kent State University Press 1997 x 231p illustrations notes selected bibliography index 3500 Examining the impact of slavery and race on American politics and culture during the decades surrounding the Civil War this collection of essays is especially useful for scholars of northern party politics in the 1850s In the first of three essays ...
... BOOK REVIEWS THE LIBERTY LINE THE LEGEND OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By Larry Gara Lexington University of Kentucky Press 1961 xi201p index 500 Although the underground railroad was a reality much of the material relating to it belongs in the realm of folklore rather than history Most legends have many versions and the story of the underground railroad is no exception Few people can provide details when asked about the institution Specific information is usually crowded out by vague ...
... CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO CHARLES DICKENS IN OHIO by ALFRED R FERGUSON Assistant Professor of English Ohio Wesleyan University Soon after his arrival in the United States in January 1842 Dickens wrote to an English friend There is a great deal afloat here in the way of subjects for description I keep my eyes open pretty wide and hope to have done so to some purpose by the time I come home1 That he kept his eyes open is evidenced by his vivid letters to Forster2 his friend and biographer and by ...
... The Pioneer Poet Lawyer The Pioneer Poet Lawyer 3 05 THE PIONEER POET LAWYER BY N B C LOVE D D A volume lies before me the property of the Way Library Perrysburg Ohio It is called THE FOREST RANGERS It is a tale of the northwest wilderness of 1794 Wayne's March and battles are a prominent feature with possible incidents connected therewith both of fact and fiction The author was Andrew Coffinberry Wright and Leg were the publishers Columbus Ohio 1842 I do not know how large the edition or the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Richard Nixon 1969 Washington DC Office of the Federal Registrar National Archives and Records Service General Services Administration 1971 lii 1081p appendices and index 1450 Most students of the history of the United States particularly those working in the recent period have long since found this continuing series to be a valuable research tool one to which they can turn with confidence for a standard and ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 101 for the purpose of recapturing the lost arts of prehistoric man in the utilization of flint and other lithic materials and for the establishment of a laboratory of actual materials to be used for purposes of comparison This project it will be recalled was financed by Messrs Arthur C Johnson and H Preston Wolfe pending other sources of support The Director had hoped that the Lithic Laboratory might become a ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... Brand Whitlock's Macochee Brand Whitlock's Macochee Puritan Theo-Politics in the Midwest By ABE C RAVITZ TO BE REGARDED as an American Hardy or an American Turgenev was a lifelong ambition of Brand Whitlock wellknown midwest political figure and diplomat who to his everlasting disappointment failed in his ambitious quest for such literary renown1 Held in high esteem however by political scientists and historians alike for his successful methods in the administration of local government and ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Teach the Freeman The Correspondence of Rutherford B Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education 1881-1887 Edited by Louis D Rubin Jr Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press 1959 Two volumes lv236302p index 1000 Through the philanthropy of a textile manufacturer of Norwich Connecticut the John F Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen was established for the purpose of uplifting the lately emancipated population of the Southern States and their posterity by ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS ennsylvania Agriculture and Country Life 1640-1840 By Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher Harrisburg Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission 1950 xiv605p Paper 250 cloth 300 For two centuries prior to 1840 agriculture dominated the economic life f Pennsylvania and during much of that period the breadbasket of America was replenished from the abundant harvests of her fields In e years that followed 1840 the raising of wheat ceased to be the farmers' ainstay and the dairy ...
... SAMUEL MEDARY--JOURNALIST AND SAMUEL MEDARY--JOURNALIST AND POLITICIAN 1801-1864 BY HELEN P DORN Ohio has produced some of the most interesting and challenging and certainly the most virile journalists in the United States Nevertheless the memory of man is short and prominent figures are soon forgotten unless their achievements are recreated by future generations Samuel Medary was such a man He was born of Quaker parents in Montgomery County Pennsylvania at the beginning of the nineteenth ...
... SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT SAMUEL FURMAN HUNT CHARLES W HOFFMAN Under the dome of the church of St Paul in London lies its builder the great Christopher Wren on his tomb is the modest inscription Reader if you seek his monument look around The memory of Hunt will not be perpetuated like that of Wren in magnificent buildings beautiful in architecture and symmetrical in their proportions but it will endure for generations in that temple of respect and affection intangible yet real that he erected in the ...
... BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH BIRTHPLACE OF JOHN BROUGH EDGAR ERVIN The following article clears up the disputed question concerning the birthplace of John Brough one of Ohio's famous war governors It also presents many interesting events in the life of the governor Mr Edgar Ervin the writer is the present member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Meigs county Mr Ervin was educated in the country schools subsequently receiving special training for public life in the Capitol School of ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS OHIO'S MONUMENT TO GENERAL ANTHONY WAYNE UNVEILED ADDRESS OF HONORABLE JAMES W GOOD SECRETARY OF WAR IN HOTEL COMMODORE OLIVER HAZARD PERRY TOLEDO OHIO SEPTEMBER 14 1929 In introducing the Secretary of War Toastmaster Mr Grove Patterson spoke as follows Now ladies and gentlemen I am sure that I speak for the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the auspices of which this monument was constructed and these exercises ...
... JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION JOSIAH HARMAR AND HIS INDIAN EXPEDITION By HOWARD H PECKHAM When the Revolutionary War ended the new United States of America faced a problem that is acutely familiar to us today Nobody wanted to remain in the Army or Navy At the conclusion of the Revolution there were probably 20000 to 30000 men under arms The single unifying aim of the war -- independence from Great Britain - - appeared to have been won at least on the battlefield Acknowledgement of ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 8 1949 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 8 1949 in connection with the Ohio College Association More than one hundred persons attended the several sessions The morning session at 10 AM was devoted to a panel discussion on the subject American Cultural History as a Field of Specialization in the College and the Graduate School Members of the panel were Lyon N Richardson chief librarian ...
... The Harrison Table Rock and Ball's Battlefield The Harrison Table Rock and Ball's Battlefield 363 No other county in the state is so rich in early history as Sandusky A British post was established here during the Revolutionary War Here the first permanent white settlers located and the first marriage between whites was performed Especially during the War of 1812 was it a famous battleground In marking one by one these historical places we as an organization are not only showing patriotism in ...
... ANDREW BIRTLE ANDREW BIRTLE Governor George Hoadly's Use of the Ohio National Guard in the Hocking Valley Coal Strike of 1884 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the United State experienced a large number of labor strikes that involved outbreaks of violence While the causes of this violence are both numerous and varied some students of labor history cite the intervention of police forces as a major catalyst1 Indeed the list of clashes between police and labor during this ...
... The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 367 The McGuffey Society at the Logan Elm 367 accomplishments of the Americans who came here and out of a wilderness carved a commonwealth Following this came the illuminative and interesting address by former Governor James E Campbell President of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society entitled LOGAN AND THE LOGAN ELM Ladies and Gentlemen Logan whose Indian name was Tah-gah-jute was the chief of the small tribe of Indians known as the Mingos ...