... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The University Press of Wright State University is currently considering for publication book-length manuscripts on the following subjects aviation history black achievers gifted and talented children and Ohio life and history For additional information write to Carl M Becker Director University Press Wright State University Dayton Ohio 45435 The North American Society for Sport History will hold its Eighteenth Annual Convention at Banff Alberta Canada on ...
... 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 ...
... CHRISTOPHER G CHRISTOPHER G WYE Merchants of Tomorrow The Other Side of the Don't Spend Your Money Where You Can't Work Movement For the most part the racial ideologies expressed by black leaders during the nineteen thirties can be classified on a rough continuum from the traditionally conservative and accommodationist Urban League through the more activist and protest-oriented NAACP the labor movement and the rise of industrial unionism and finally the Socialist and Communist parties One ...
... GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN GENERAL BENJAMIN RUSH COWEN W H MACKOY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CINCINNATI The death of General Benjamin Rush Cowen January 29 190 8 at his home in Cincinnati removed one who during the eventful and critical period beginning with the nomination of General Fremont for the Presidency in 1856 and ending with the inauguration of President Hayes in 1877 was a prominent actor in the affairs of his party his state and the United States and whose public services entitle him to high ...
... 90 OHIO HISTORY 90 OHIO HISTORY Three books by Louis Filler have recently been re-published Horace Mann on the Crisis in Education and Wendell Phillips on Civil Rights and Freedom Second Edition with New Preface both by the University Press of America and A Dictionary of American Social Change by the Robert E Krieger Publishing Company Other books of interest are Social Action Collections at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin A Guide issued by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Ohio in the American Revolution A Conference to Commemorate the 200th Anniversary of the Ft Gower Resolves Edited by Thomas H Smith Volume I of The Ohio American Revolution Bicentennial Conference Series Columbus The Ohio Historical Society 1976 34p illustrations 200 Though not one of the thirteen original colonies the Ohio country did play a role in the revolutionary events that the American people have been commemorating during the bicentennial During the decade ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews The Diaries of George Washington Edited by Donald Jackson Charlottesville The University Press of Virginia 1976 Vol I 1748-65 v 373p Vol II 1766-70 xvi 374p illustrations maps notes bibliography index 1500 each These two volumes mark the beginning of the most massive historical editing project in the nation's history-the writings of George Washington At the same time they represent the acme in the efforts of the National Historical Papers and Records Commission's ...
... 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 ...
... A Survey of Publications A Survey of Publications In Ohio History and Archaeology August 1959--July 1960 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE DODDS Gilbert F Early Horticulture in Franklin County Franklin County Historical Society Special Bulletin No 4 December 1959 1-15 ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT FILLER Louis Slavery and Antislavery Subjects in Search of Authors Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 179-182 GARA Larry The Underground Railroad A Re-evaluation Ohio Historical Quarterly LXIX 1960 ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Woodland Sites in Nebraska By Marvin F Kivett Nebraska State Historical Society Publications in Anthropology No 1 Lincoln Nebraska State Historical Society 1952 102p 30 plates maps and bibliography Paper 200 This is a report on previously unpublished excavations in sites generally assignable to the Woodland Pattern in Nebraska as well as a discussion and summary of existing evidence on the place of Woodland in the Plains area The presence of Woodland manifestations in ...
... INDEX TO VOLUME XXIV INDEX TO VOLUME XXIV NOTE -That portion of this volume embracing the monograph entitled A History of Banking and Currency in Ohio Before the Civil War contained in pages 235-533 is separately indexed on pages 534-539 and is therefore not included in the General Index of this volume A Articles Editorialana - Concluded First Catholic Church in Ohio 226 Adair Gen John Burr's associate 121 History of Banking and Currency Be123 fore the Civil War 235 Adams County Early ...
... NANCY J NANCY J BRCAK Country Carpenters Federal Buildings An Early Architectural Tradition in Ohio's Western Reserve The Western Reserve1 of Ohio was settled in large part by New England emigrants and slightly later by upstate New Yorkers who were themselves transplanted New Englanders These people migrating west in the 1810s and 1820s brought with them a storehouse of cultural tradition as well as dreams for prosperity and success Both the architectural historian Talbot Hamlin and the Ohio ...
... DONALD J DONALD J RATCLIFFE Captain James Riley and Antislavery Sentiment in Ohio 1819-1824 Captain James Riley had an unusually powerful reason for hating slavery he had himself been a slave Riley was born in 1777 in Middletown Connecticut the fourth child of a humble farming family Between the ages of eight and fourteen he attended common school while earning his keep by working for local farmers At the age of fifteen tired of hard work on the land he decided to turn to a seafaring life ...
... WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 WILLIAM CHAMBERS IN AMERICA 1853 by W H G ARMYTAGE University of Sheffield America through British eyes has thrown up an enormous amount of comment and historical writing since the times of Mrs Trollope and the waspish Captain Basil Hall The recent reissue of an anthology bearing that title1 affords an excuse for adding yet a few more pages to that subject by calling attention to a work which is very often ignored when the subject is being studied It is a ...
... LETTERS FROM DR LETTERS FROM DR JOSEPH STRONG TO CAPTAIN JOHN PRATT Edited b y LOCKWOOD BARR The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Vol XIII No 4 March 1941 published extracts from the biography of Doctor Joseph Strong Yale 1788 written by one of his descendants Lockwood Barr Yale 1905 Since that publication there have been found in the Connecticut State Library fourteen heretofore unknown letters written by Dr Strong during 17931 795 while serving in the Legion of General Anthony Wayne in ...
... Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Minutes of Forty-second Annual Meeting 623 Mr Smith thinks no executor has been appointed up to this time He will learn definitely in regard to this soon If the Society thinks it of sufficient importance to acquire the Mound now is the time to institute active measures Signed B F PRINCE Chairman FORT LAURENS PARK The situation at Fort Laurens Park one mile east of Bolivar Ohio has been unsatisfactory for a long time Very little has been done since the ...
... LEONARD SCHLUP LEONARD SCHLUP The Sage of Athens Charles H Grosvenor and Presidential Politics in Ohio in 1908 Now largely forgotten by Ohioans Charles H Grosvenor 1833-1917 was an important political figure in Ohio during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries An Athens lawyer and veteran of the Civil War Grosvenor entered state politics in 1873 upon his election to the Ohio House of Representatives where he served as speaker from 1876 to 1878 He reached the pinnacle of his ...
... Albion W Albion W Tourgee Propagandist And Critic of Reconstruction By TED N WEISSBUCH LESS THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Ohioan Al b ion W Tourgee was referred to as the most neglected figure in American literature Increasing interest in the writers of the Civil War and Reconstruction era has caused a swing in the pendulum and now his name crops up often in the growing literature dealing with this period in our history Tourgee's work has always interested a small but devoted group of literary ...
... SHULL'S ROAD SHULL'S ROAD The following letter addressed to the Editor by John William Scholl professor emeritus in the University of Michigan contains enough of historical data to warrant its publication as a matter of record ANN ARBOR MICHIGAN April 6 1946 Dear Sir I have before me a Road Map of Montgomery County Ohio made revised in 1936 by Victor C Smith then County Engineer which contains an especially interesting error Near the northeast corner of the county in Wayne Township there is a ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Men of the Western Waters The Taking of Americas First West 17811794 By Dale Van Every Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1956 x244p maps illustrations appendices bibliography and index 400 This volume will be of great interest both to that portion of the general public which enjoys reading history and also to the student who pursues history as a vocation It is based upon a wide reading of the best works of scholars in the field and makes no pretense of having delved ...