... MAUCK BRAMMER MAUCK BRAMMER Winthrop B Smith Creator of the Eclectic Educational Series William Holmes McGuffey 1800-1873 is generally credited with the phenomenal spread of moral eclecticism throughout the United States during the middle third of the nineteenth century Much of the credit should go however to his canny publisher Winthrop B Smith who was the first to recognize the evocative magic of the word eclectic as an advertising device He also wrested complete ownership of the McGuffey ...
... MATTHEW OYOS MATTHEW OYOS The Mobilization of the Ohio Militia in the Civil War Fort Sumter's fall in April 1861 broke like a thunderclap over Ohio Overnight fervent patriotism replaced months of indecision regarding Southern secession When President Abraham Lincoln called for 75000 militia on April 15 thousands of enthusiastic Ohioans rushed forward Among this mass the state's militia played an important role in the first weeks of mobilization At the heights of state government officials ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Taft Story By William S White New York Harper amp Brothers 1954 x282p illustrations and index 350 Within certain limits William S White a very able New York Times Washington correspondent has produced a useful study of the late Senator Taft It should be added quickly however that the limits are indeed limited The book does not pretend to be a biography in fact it is without documentation woefully out of balance and loosely put together Still there emerges a ...
... DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 DELAWARE IN THE DAYS OF 1812 ALICE HILLS Miss Hills is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution Delaware Ohio Chapter for which she prepared the following bit of local history In the war of 1812 Ohio or a part of it was the scene of much military action in which our own country and town played no small part Delaware situated so nearly in the centre of the state about half way between Chillicothe the capital and the scene of operations around Sandusky ...
... John Bailhache John Bailhache A British Editor in Early Ohio By WILLIAM L FISK THE WESTERN PRESS was one of the chief formative inf l uences upon public opinion in early ninteenth-century Ohio Cut off by time and distance from eastern standards and eastern inhibitions it might apprise its readers of the imminent threat of British interests in the Old Northwest and at the same time vigorously promote regional or sectional interests or gleefully involve itself in internecine warfare with other ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring Meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held Friday and Saturday 23-24 April 1993 at Wittenberg University The Oral History Association will hold its 1993 Annual Meeting on November 4-7 1993 at the Birmingham Raddison Hotel in Birmingham Alabama For more information write to Kim Lacy Rogers Department of History Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania 17013-2896 The Forest History Society announces the availability of Alfred D Bell Jr ...
... 222 Ohio Arch 222 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications sack Anthony Bleecker Samuel Bayard Peter G Stuyvesant and John Pintard met in the picture room of the old city hall in Wall Street to organize this society whose principal object should be to collect and protect materials relating to the natural civil and ecclesiastical history of the United States in general and the State of New York in particular The society was incorporated by an act of the legislature of February 9 1809 It is now ...
... AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL AMERICAN ABORIGINES AND THEIR SOCIAL CUSTOMS REV J A EASTON PH D Mr Easton was a native Ohioan born at Sinking Springs Highland County August 9 1852 His father and grandfather like himself were ministers in the Methodist Episcopal Church Eugene Easton his son the distinguished American newspaper correspondent in the Boer War is the present owner of Fort Hill Highland County which is crowned by one of the most interesting and best preserved prehistoric ...
... Index Index ABOLITIONISM The Southern Strategy of the Liberty Party by Stanley C Harrold Jr 21-36 books on rev 97-99 Academic freedom The 1951 Speaker's Rule at Ohio State by Steven P Gietschier 294-309 Action journal of the Ohio Farmer-Labor party 427 Adrian Michigan temperance crusade in 399 Aeschbacher WD book rev 463 Affairs of State Public Life in Nineteenth Century America by Morton Keller rev 102 Afro-American and the Second World War The by Neil A Wynn rev 111 Age of Urban Reform New ...
... JAMES H JAMES H LEE The Ohio Agricultural Commission 1913-1915 When James M Cox assumed the governorship for the first time in 1913 Ohio agriculture was passing through a period of rapid transition The demographic expansion of the late nineteenth century had inflated land values and crop prices a trend which converted agriculture into a potentially highly profitable enterprise Ohio farmers responded by gradually transforming themselves into rural businessmen they specialized developed more ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY Adkins C L presentation of model of Crabbe C C author of bill providing Civil War steamboat by 521 for publication of Diaries and Letters Alexander Mrs T B 502 of Rutherford B Hayes 504 Archaeological collections and specimens Curry W L 503 report of committee presented to the Society 519-520 on Fort Laurens by 532-533 Bareis George F 503 presides at Darby Franklin H 534 meeting of ...
... The Western Reserve and The Western Reserve and The Frontier Thesis By K ENNETH V LOTTICK IT IS GENERALLY CONCEDED that Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis was predicated upon a kind of geographical determinism--that somehow in crossing the Appalachian barrier old habits of thought and older customs and institutions suddenly withered away in the purer air of the new country1 Whether this thesis applied generally may be debated but it surely did not apply in western New York and in ...
... MARIAN J MARIAN J MORTON Homes for Poverty's Children Cleveland's Orphanages 1851-1933 Orphanages were first and foremost responses to the poverty of children Although historians disagree over whether orphanage founders and other child-savers were villainous saintly or neither there is little disagreement that the children saved were poor When this becomes the focus of the story orphans appear less as victims of middle-class attempts to control or uplift them than as victims of poverty ...
... HOMER D HOMER D BLANCHARD Lenau's Ohio Venture It is not often that we find in America documentary source material relating to events in the lives of German men of letters In the case of the poet Nikolaus Lenau however we do have such sources because he spent some time in the United States and purchased land in Crawford County Ohio This writer has discovered new documentary evidence which dispels the old legends about Lenau's visit to America and his speculation in Ohio land The time ...
... DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 DIARY OF IMPRISONMENT 51 Saturday 29 Very cold night--heavy frost No ax to be had My mess tried to make an apology for last nights treatment but I told them that I had been with my friend--out upon such selfishness Such is the action of a large portion of the prisoners Cannot send letters through without a CS stamp on them Wrote yesterday to wife but am waiting to get a stamp Lt Thos Hare gave me a stamp and I put the letter in the box Slept with Lt Anderson 3rd Iowa ...
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... BENJAMIN D BENJAMIN D RHODES An Ohio Kitchen Inspector and the Soviet Famine of 1921-1922 The Russian Odyssey of Henry C Wolfe Persistence paid off for Henry C Wolfe of Coshocton Ohio when he sought a job as a relief worker in Russia during the famine of 1921-1922 Wolfe eventually was to become internationally known as a writer and lecturer on foreign affairs one of his claims to fame was that he predicted in a Harper's magazine article the August 1939 alliance between Hitler and Stalin But in ...
... 588 Ohio Arch 588 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society in connection with the articles published Applause SCHOENBRUNN Rev J E Weinland Chairman of the Committee stated that he had not realized the importance of a written report but would make a short verbal report Schoenbrunn is the oldest village site in the State For years it was believed that Marietta was the oldest town in the State of Ohio and then the fact was unearthed that in 1772 a ...
... 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 A Signal Victory The Lake Erie Campaign 1812-1813 By David Curtis Skaggs and Gerald T Althoff Annapolis Maryland Naval Institute Press 1997 x 244p illustrations notes appendix glossary glossary of nautical terms bibliographic essay index 3495 The battle of Lake Erie in which an American naval squadron annihilated its British counterpart on 10 September 1813 was one of two defining engagements of the War of 1812 in the Old Northwest The British-Indian capture of ...