... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Museums Association OMA a nonprofit statewide organization of nature centers zoos art science history and natural history museums has located its headquarters at the Ohio Historical Center in Columbus Ohio Although separate from the Ohio Historical Society the OMA provides workshops conferences annual meetings and a monthly newsletter to OHS and other organizations throughout the state in an effort to provide educational opportunities for staff ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding 18651920 By RANDOLPH C DOWNES Columbus Ohio State University Press 1970 x 734p notes bibliography and index 1750 At long last the historiography of Warren Gamaliel Harding has reached the point where two thorough and scholarly books have appeared The statement refers to The Rise of Warren Gamaliel Harding 1865-1920 by Randolph C Downes and The Harding Era Warren G Harding and His Administration by Robert K Murray The road to this ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Wilderness For Sale The Story of the First Western Land Rush By Walter Havighurst New York Hastings House 1956 xii372p end paper maps abridged bibliography and index 450 Mr Havighurst who has already given us Upper Mississippi Land of Promise and other studies of the old Northwest now adds a sparkling new volume to his series It is a timely and welcome book The old America seems to be breaking up and moving West said Morris Birbeck an English emigrant in the year 1817 ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 261 and our record in military production would have been far more brilliant than it was In the afternoon session held in the Auditorium of the Ohio State Museum and presided over by Stanton L Davis of the Case School of Applied Science the following papers were read by James M Miller of Waynesburg College Waynesburg Penna and by Philip D Jordan of Miami University THE SPIRITUAL FORCE IN EARLY WESTERN CULTURE By JAMES ...
... JOHN W JOHN W BEAR THE BUCKEYE BLACKSMITH1 by ROBERT GRAY GUNDERSON Associate Professor of Speech Oberlin College On the week end of February 21 1840 twenty-three thousand enthusiastic Whigs crowded into Columbus for the Ohio Whig convention2 A heavy rain drenched the delegates as they milled about seeking quarters in the thriving capital city which that year proudly reported six thousand inhabitants to the bureau of the census The arrangements committee announced that every Whig house in ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIV INDEX TO VOLUME XXXIV Adams John characterized 30-31 Pacific squadron present 208-209 213 Adams Rufus W Young Gentleman and Press notices 207-213 Lady's Explanatory Monitor 138-141 Scrapped 206-207 The Akron Centennial 522-547 Silver service 207 Akron Day 531-533 Sponsor presents loving cup 213 Balloon race 523-524 Sponsor receives flags 213 D A R Dedication of Tablet by 546 The battleship Ohio launched 1820 press Dedication of Tablet to Industrial notices 213-215 Leaders ...
... CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING CINCINNATI AS A FRONTIER PUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE CENTER 1796-1830 by WALTER SUTTON Department of English University of Rochester Cincinnati was a frontier village with one newspaper and a population of 500 when the first book published in the territory lying north and west of the Ohio River came from the press of William Maxwell in 1796 The log-cabin settlement on a north bend of the Ohio River was only six years old Six more years were to pass before it ...
... FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY FORTS MIAMI AND FORT INDUSTRY With Mention of Other Forts in and Near the Maumee River Basin BY CHARLES E SLOCUM M D PH D DEFIANCE OHIO There were at least five forts or stockades of defense in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio River in its earlier history that were called Fort Miami namely 1 The first one was built in November 1679 by ReneRobert Cavelier Sieur de la Salle by the River St Joseph of Lake Michigan on rising ground near its mouth Parkman's La Salle ...
... 360 Ohio Arch 360 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications dresses followed by Hon Geo E Pomeroy of Toledo Past Governor of Society Colonial Wars Prof G F Frederick Wright Hon James M Richardson of Cleveland President General Sons of the American Revolution and Colonel Webb C Hayes To all who attended the exerices were of great interest and made the day memorable while the hospitality of Port Clinton's patriotic people to all the visiting delegates will long be gratefully remembered Prof Wright ...
... THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH THE REPORT OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MORNING SESSION The annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society convened at 10 o'clock a m Tuesday April 25 1933 in the auditorium of the Museum and Library Building of the Society There were present Miss Helen Bareis Mrs George U Marvin Mr M B Binning Mr O F Miller Mr O J Demuth Mr H M Povenmire Mr Jerry Dennis Mrs George D Reah Mrs ...
... 232 Ohio Arch 232 Ohio Arch and His Society Publications PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY MAIN EVENTS IN HIS LIFE William McKinley was born at Niles Trumbull County Ohio and was descended from Scotch and Irish ancestry James and William McKinley the heads of the two branches of the McKinley family in this country one in the Southern the other in the Northern States came from the north of Ireland James was the father of David McKinley the great-grandfather of the late President James McKinley settled ...
... 620 Ohio Arch 620 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications appointed by the Governor to make a complete survey of all the historical and archaeological parks and sites to outline a program for their improvement and maintenance and to submit an estimate of the amount that should be appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose Our experience with the work of caring for these parks has shown us that in most instances even the essential needs of these parks cannot be adequately met because of ...
... JOHN JAY JANNEY AND HIS RECOLLECTIONS OF THOMAS CORWIN edited by JAMES H HITCHMAN It is a fortunate occurrence when the unpublished recollections of an able recorder like John Janney are preserved His comments on Thomas Corwin afford an exceptional contemporary view of Ohio courts lawyers and politics in the 1830's and 40's and vivid personal reminiscences about the former governor's ability to influence people1 Corwin's political career spanned the years from 1818 to 1865 the era of sectional ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The McNamara Strategy and the Vietnam War Program Budgeting in the Pentagon 1960-1968 By Gregory Palmer Westport Greenwood Press 1978 169p tables notes bibliography index 1595 Recently a research fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London Gregory Palmer has written an important critique of rationalism in American strategy and especially in the McNamara Pentagon Published in Greenwood's Contributions in Political Science series and ...
... COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS THE POWDER HORN by WILLIAM G KEENER and DONALD A HUTSLAR OUR COUNTRY MUST AND SHALL BE DEFENDED WE WILL ENJOY OUR LIBERTY OR PERISH IN THE LAST DITCH In a parlor game these ringing phrases might be attributed to a Samuel Adams or a Patrick Henry They belong instead to one Tim Tansel Together with a running deer the arms of the United States a young lady vaguely representing Liberty four equestrian military figures and a tribute to A Gin Jackson they comprise the ...
... ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN ADAM HURDUS AND THE SWEDENBORGIANS IN EARLY CINCINNATI By Ophia D Smith Many volumes have been written about the hardships and accomplishments of pioneer preachers in the Western Country Most of these however deal with men of orthodox faith The Swedenborgians equally self-sacrificing but unorthodox and misunderstood have received little attention because they were few in number Yet they were people of influence--they were readers and thinkers and doers In ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Howe Brothers and the American Revolu t ion By IRA D GRUBER New York Atheneum 1972 notes and index 1495 Why some twenty years after it had won the world's greatest empire did Great Britain have to admit military defeat to a small number of colonists on the periphery of that empire This question has perplexed historians for generations and the literature explaining the reasons fills library shelves Current historiography points to a combination of an ideological ...
... IMMIGRANT COLONIES IN CLEVELAND IMMIGRANT COLONIES IN CLEVELAND By WELLINGTON G FORDYCE In any discussion of the social political religious and economic problems of the United States as related to its immigrant population the cities of New York Chicago and Detroit are usually the principal cities mentioned Little Italy The Ghetto or Chinatown are more apt to provoke visions of the settlements in New York and Chicago than those of any other city The foreign districts of New York are generally ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Abolitionists amp the South 1831-1861 By Stanley Harrold Lexington The University of Kentucky Press 1995 x 245p illustrations notes bibliography index 2995 Did the struggle to end slavery cause the Civil War Twentieth-century theories of the war from Charles Beard's economic interpretation to the currently fashionable cultural split between North and South have relegated abolitionist radicals to the sidelines as a causative factor in the war and by implication ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Manuscript Sources in the Library of Congress for Research on the American Revolution Compiled by John R Sellers Gerard W Gawalt Paul H Smith and Patricia Molen van Ee Washington DC Library of Congress 1975 iii 372 p indexes 870 The Library of Congress is many things to many people a legislative library a leader in the introduction of new library techniques the world's largest depository of written materials and the custodian of internationally significant collections ...