... THEBATTLE OF PICARDY THEBATTLE OF PICARDY HEROIC SERVICE OF THREE OHIO SOLDIERS In an article of absorbing interest Frank H Simonds in the Review of Reviews for March 1920 describes the great German offensive which began March 21 1918 The Germans called this the Kaiser's Battle the English have named it the Second Battle of the Somme but it will probably be more generally and permanently known as the Battle of Picardy In the number of men engaged and the losses it was the greatest battle in ...
... Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor Cleveland's Johnson Elected Mayor By EUGENE C MURDOCK One day in the early fall of 1897 thirty friends of Henry George closeted themselves with the great single-taxer in Tom L Johnson's New York offices The question before them was Should George be a candidate in the approaching New York mayoralty election Some of those present observed that their leader's health was not good and that an exhausing campaign could render permanent damage to him An eminent doctor ...
... NEWS and NOTES SEVERAL LANDMARKS in American history which are of importance to Ohio historiography and which were published many years ago have been reprinted in a series called American Classics in Political Economic and Literary History being issued by Frederick Ungar Publishing Co Inc of New York They are My Autobiography by S S McClure The Acquisition of Political Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America by John Bach McMaster The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier by Ralph ...
... THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE HUMILIATION OF HENRY WARD BEECHER IN THE WEST by DAVID MEAD Assistant Professor of English Michigan State College In the columns of Ohio's newspapers of nearly a century ago lies the dramatic account of Henry Ward Beecher's rejection as a lecturer by the indignant citizens of the West a story which has not been revealed by the biographers of the great Eastern divine Not that Beecher was the first celebrity to be humiliated by Ohio's lecture public ...
... JOHN BROWN JOHN BROWN ADDITIONAL NOTES BY C B GALBREATH JOHN BROWN'S FRIENDS IN WASHINGTON The following letter to John Brown Jr which so far as we know has never before been published states clearly whom the writer regarded as friends in Congress This letter is now of historic interest only Had it been published at the time it was written it would doubtless have created some commotion and have made trouble for some of the congressmen named The letter is here reproduced literally ROCHESTER N Y ...
... DANIEL PRESTON DANIEL PRESTON Thomas Kelsey Hardluck Entrepreneur In the years following the close of the War of 1812 a wave of economic speculation swept through the West The Treaty of Ghent which ended the war offered nothing in concrete terms beyond a much desired peace But if the United States had not won the war against the powerful British Americans could at least revel in the knowledge that they had not lost it either They quickly forgot the many near-disasters that the nation ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Organized for Prohibition A New History of the Anti-Saloon League By K Austin Kerr New Haven Yale University Press 1985 xvii 293p illustrations notes note on sources index 2500 The vineyards of temperance history have been well worked Since its organized beginnings in the 1820s temperance reform has appealed to countless thousands of Americans old and young female and male wealthy and poor liberal and conservative Consequently the movement has had a diversity a ...
... MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 by PAUL B SEARS Professor of Botany Oberlin College My theme is law It is a curious paradox that science whose practitioners proudly boast that they take nothing for granted rests upon faith Science is in fact what our theological friends would call an act of faith The faith to which I refer is a profound belief that the universe of our experience is a universe of law and order2 Without a conviction that the world of experience must ...
... THE HAYES MEMORIAL THE HAYES MEMORIAL FREMENT OHIO The Memorial building a beautiful structure of classic architecture built of gray Ohio sandstone is located among the great trees north of the Hayes residence facing Hayes Avenue Broad steps lead up to the bronze doors of the pillared portico On entering the great square hall or atrium flanked with eight massive columns one passes under the flags of the countries which claimed ownership of this region from the discovery of America until the ...
... 228 Ohio Arch 228 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications by assumed super and supra-natural means but in accordance with the laws which govern in the every day world of to-day The twelve labors of Hercules were not more onerous nor more beset with impending perils than were his efforts in the council chambers of chancellories and the closets of cabinets none the less along nervous lines of gathering armies in his task of arousing supine Europe to the point of stamping out the nameless ...
... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS DEMOCRATIC POLITICS AND SECTIONALISM THE WILMOT PROVISO CONTROVERSY By Chaplain W Morrison Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 1967 viii244p index 600 In December 1844 Preston King an influential New York Democrat confessed that after the events of the past year he did not trust the South and Southern men His attitude was shared by another New Yorker G F Kemble who thought that a sectional party was needed to counteract the power of slavery in the Democratic party ...
... CATHERINE M CATHERINE M ROKICKY Lydia Finney and Evangelical Womanhood In May of 1835 Lydia Andrews Finney bade farewell to her husband as he headed for his first look at Oberlin College in Oberlin Ohio Mrs Finney and their three children would stay in Cleveland with her parents until the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney settled himself as the professor of theology in Oberlin1 Separation between the couple was far from a new experience because of the position of the Reverend Finney as the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews PR Politics in Cincinnati Thirty-Two Years of City Government Through Proportional Representation By Ralph A Straetz New York New York University Press 1958 xvii312p bibliography and appendix 500 From an early day the political history of Cincinnati has been a study in contrasts The home of such notable national figures as Edward McLean Joseph B Foraker William Howard Taft Nicholas Longworth Judson Harmon and Robert A Taft it also numbers among its sons such divergent ...
... FREDERICK J FREDERICK J BLUE Friends of Freedom Lincoln Chase and Wartime Racial Policy Historians have long differed over what motivated Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation They have also disagreed over what place the President believed blacks should occupy after emancipation In failing to reach a consensus on what led Lincoln to the most important decision of his administration they have debated over what factors and persons may have influenced him1 Among those individuals ...
... The President and the Deacon in the Campaign of 1912 The Correspondence of William Howard Taft and James Calvin Hemphill 1911-1912 edited by WILLARD B GATEWOOD The reform impulse of the progressive movement strong and virile after a decade of growth dominated the political atmosphere in which the presidential campaign of 1912 took place So pervasive was its influence that the election turned out to be more of an intramural competition among various schools of progressive thought than a contest ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 127 William D Overman Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society was elected secretary Mr Cook's paper on Judge John Tyler--Pioneer Jurist will be published in the QUARTERLY later if not published otherwise Professor A T Volwiler's paper on Harrison Blaine and American Foreign Policy 1889-1893 will be published in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Vol 79 no 4 Mr Garrison's paper follows A ...
... FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS FINNEY'S FIGHT AGAINST THE MASONS by CHARLES C COLE JR Assistant Dean Columbia College Columbia University Mention antimasonry and the historian and scholar think immediately of the famous Morgan affair of 1826 The story of the abduction of William Morgan a bricklayer of Batavia New York after he had published a book revealing the secrets of Freemasonry is a familiar one in American history The resultant wave of ill-feeling against Masons which culminated in ...
... THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTHE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY IN A CHANGING WORLD By JAMES H RODABAUGH These are critical times when every institution must look well within itself and ask Are we necessary Is our purpose worthy Do we contribute to the welfare of a people at war Have we fulfilled our social obligations Are our plans for the future well considered and in step with social transformations Reduced to its simplest terms the purpose of the Ohio State ...
... The Soldier's Creed The Soldier's Creed By LESTER J CAPPON Patriotism is an essential factor in waging war and shaping its outcome Since the causes of a war as fixed in the minds of the participants affect both the deeper and shallower feelings of patriotism and are in turn influenced by it loyalty and the will to fight are closely interrelated The concern of the military in recent years with the soldier's ideas of war aims has aroused interest in his attitudes during previous conflicts Among ...
... Cleveland's Johnson First Term Cleveland's Johnson First Term By EUGENE C MURDOCK BACK IN THE EIGHTEEN FORTIE S a number of railroads had purchased from the city of Cleveland a strip of lakefront land one hundred and fifty feet wide between East Ninth Street and the Cuyahoga River In the decades that followed a valuable area of made land was built up on the lake side of the original strip The Union Depot erected in Civil War times and the adjacent railroad yards were located on this made land ...