... Potts Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 101-120 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Visions of America 17871501788 The Ohio of Reverend Manasseh Cutler By Louis W Potts Manasseh Cutler SC 2324 Ohio Historical Society Collections During the winter of 1786 the Congregational minister at Ipswich Hamlet later Hamilton took time from tending his flock of seventy or so congregants to jot his secular musings to Jeremy Belknap a fellow ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The United States 1830-1850 The Nation and Its Sections By Frederick Jackson Turner New York Peter Smith 1950 xiv602p maps and index 500 This book was originally published by Henry Holt in 1935 For several years it has been difficult to obtain and scholars and librarians have reason to be grateful both to Henry Holt for releasing the book and to Peter Smith for the reissue Technically this photo-offset edition is excellent and it is doubtful if any but an expert in ...
... Specimens of Ante-Bellum Specimens of Ante-Bellum Buckeye Humor By GEORGE K UM MER Native American humor that is humor which by reason of its subject matter and technique possesses an emphatic native quality1 flourished vigorously in the backwoods of the United States for several decades before the Civil War Produced by the folk and recorded by rural doctors lawyers preachers and journalists it portrayed the comedy of character and background as seen in various parts of the country From it ...
... GENERAL SIMON PERKINS GENERAL SIMON PERKINS BY WALTER W SPOONER From advance proofs of the sixth volume of Randall and Ryan's History of Ohio By permission of the publishers the Century History Company New York Simon Perkins of Warren was one of the earliest and most influential promoters of settlement and progress in northeastern Ohio and a citizen of distinguished reputation and usefulness in varied activities and affairs A native of Connecticut he first came to Ohio in the summer of 1798 on ...
... THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY IN THE WORLD WAR BY PROFESSOR WILBUR H SIEBERT THE UNIVERSITY'S CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL DEFENSE ACT In 1920 the War Records Committee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published a large and handsomely illustrated volume of nearly 750 pages entitled Technology's War Record In March 1922 the Harvard University Press issued the second volume of Memoirs of the Harvard Dead in the War Against Germany which covers the period ...
... THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE E 0 RANDALL In that striking and stirring century known as the sixteenth began the voyages of discovery and the expeditions for occupancy by the Anglo Saxon and the Gaul of the North American continent The French were led by Jacques Cartier who in 1534 entered the Gulf of St Lawrence Other chivalrous and adventurous Frenchmen followed with various experiences until 1608 when Samuel Champlain encamped upon the Heights of Quebec and established a ...
... WILLIAM SANDERS SCARBOROUGH SCHOLARSHIP THE NEGRO RELIGION AND POLITICS by FRANCIS P WEISENBURGER During the years in which William Sanders Scarborough was professor and then president at Wilberforce University his scholarly activities in the field of linguistics his work and writings in the field of race relations his contributions in the areas of religious journalism and church organization and his varied public services were significant Each of these demands some consideration As was ...
... PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS PRESENTATION OF McGUFFEY READERS On Tuesday evening February 15 1927 a meeting of unusual interest was held in the audience room of the Museum and Library Building on the Ohio State University Campus The program announced a joint session of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society and the McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio The purpose of the meeting is indicated in the following announcement The McGuffey Society of Columbus Ohio presents to the Ohio ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner Volume One 1830-1859 Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer Boston Northeastern University Press 1990 xxxvii 538p illustrations editing principles chronology abbreviations list of recipients notes 13000 per set The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner Volume Two 1859-1874 Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer Boston Northeastern University Press 1990 vii 703p illustrations notes index 13000 per set Literary giant Henry James dubbed him the ...
... BURKE AARON HINSDALE BURKE AARON HINSDALE BY HAROLD E DAVIS HIRAM COLLEGE Burke Aaron Hinsdale came of pioneer stock For generations his ancestors had been pioneers If his pioneering was of a different sort it was nevertheless pioneering Gifted with a rugged constitution he had an unbounded capacity for work and tireless energy which kept his pen busy through an eventful life as the bibliography of his published works shows A voracious mind and a certain independence of judgment-- a pioneer ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO ALEXANDER COFFMAN ROSS AUTHOR OF TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO I am a Buckeye from the Buckeye State This was the proud declaration of the author of Tippecanoe and Tyler too as he faced a large and enthusiastic audience in New York City just before he gave to fame that political campaign song-the most effective ever sung in the history of the Republic Alexander Coffman Ross first opened his eyes to the light in Zanesville O May 31 1812 His father Elijah ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E AND ROBERT W MCCORMICK Agricultural Trains An Innovative Educational Partnership Between Universities and Railroads The handbill said 110 PM Thursday October 26 19111 but by one o'clock a crowd had collected and was greeting each farm wagon or buggy as neighbors arrived A stranger might have described the gathering as festive not the exuberance of a 4th of July celebration but an expectant air akin to a farm auction or the county fair Beside the Hocking Valley Railroad ...
... Index Index COMPILED BY LAURA RUSSELL ADDRESS to the People of the Western Country An by Daniel Drake 10 Adena 143-144 illustration 145 African Colonization Society 151 Albrecht Carl W bk notes 93 Allen William 149 Aller Kenneth P 135 Allison Col C W B 38 41 42 43 America Enters the World A People's History of the Progressive Era volume seven by Page Smith rev 77-79 American Academy of Arts and Sciences 105 American Art Its Awful Attitude by John Frankenstein 8 16 23 American Philosophical ...
... 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 ...
... ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND ROBERT CUMMING SCHENCK FIRST CITIZEN AND STATESMAN OF THE MIAMI VALLEY by FRED B JOYNER Professor of History Miami University In 1937 in a radio address celebrating Founders Day of Miami University President A H Upham called attention to the fact that the university had sent two ambassadors to the Court of St James Whitelaw Reid was one Robert Cumming Schenck was the other The work of the former is well known The career of Schenck is less well known A ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... 542 Ohio Arch 542 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Mr Simpson has had three able assistants physically strong and industrious who have done much of the heavy work involved in moving the newspaper files and keeping them in order with no expense to the Society except that in furnishing to each of these workers one meal a day He has gotten along harmoniously and pleasantly with these assistants and from this source has succeeded in getting a service that would have cost the Society ...
... IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDY OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN OHIO IN no State of the Union are there more objects of archaeological interest than in Ohio and never before were we so well prepared to study them successfully as at the present time Pre-eminently is it the case with such objects as our earthworks that they need to be studied by comparison with other such works the world over Their treasures of knowledge cannot be rendered by themselves nor even with all the ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Organizations CRESTLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY Crestline Ernest G Hesser President The guest speaker for the April 28 meeting was Edward S Thomas curator of natural history of the Ohio Historical Society He spoke on the subject Outdoor Ohio in Natural Color and illustrated the talk with his own colored slides of landscapes birds wild flowers insects and other wild life The society plans a historical pilgrimage to Schoenbrunn and also a ...
... 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 ...