... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD William McKinley and the Expansion of Presidential Power In the wake of the Vietnam War and Watergate much attention both scholarly and popular has been devoted to the rise of the Imperial Presidency in this century1 Those who have traced the evolution of this concept of presidential power appear to date its modern emergence from the accession of Theodore Roosevelt to the office in September 1901 Writing in the mid-1950s in his influential The American Presidency Clinton ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 223 injustices combined with the unfair and oppressive policy of Governor Berkeley and his failure to quell the Indian uprisings led at last to the rebellion of the downtrodden planters under the leadership of Nathaniel Bacon a descendant of Lord Bacon Bacon led the planters successfully against the Indians and protected the frontiers then drove out Berkeley and remained master of Virginia until his death a few months later when Berkeley once more assumed control Then ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Solon Robinson Pioneer and Agriculturist Selected Writings Edited by Herbert Anthony Kellar Indiana Historical Collections XXI Indianapolis Indiana Historical Bureau 1936 Vol I 582p 200 Solon Robinson 1803-1880 inaugurated his adult career by founding a town and serving as an auctioneer in southern Indiana Subsequently as a pioneer in northern Indiana he formed a Squatters' Union ran a country store sold real estate engaged actively in politics established a ...
... Annual Report of the Society for 1960 Annual Report of the Society for 1960 AFTER LAST YEAR ' S extensive report of the Society's development through its seventy-five years we shall offer but a simple review of the activities for 1960 At the end of each year the heads of the divisions and the departments prepare annual reports which are submitted to the director These statements supply most of the information from which the Society's annual report is compiled The work of the Society is after ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Papers of Thirteen Early Ohio Political Leaders An Inventory to the 1976-77 Microfilm Editions compiled by Linda E Kalette has been published by the Ohio Historical Society Included in this inventory are the manuscript collections of Ethan Allen Brown Samuel Huntington Return J Meigs Jr Arthur St Clair Micajah T Williams Thomas Worthington Charles Hammond Thomas Kirker Othniel Looker Jeremiah Morrow Winthrop Sargent Edward Tiffin and Allen Trimble as ...
... REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR LIFE OF A NOTABLE SCHOLAR AND UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT William Watts Folwell The Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture Edited by Dr Solon J Buck The University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis Minnesota 1933 An autobiography of more than usual interest and value has recently come to our library It is entitled William Watts Folwell The Autobiography and Letters of a Pioneer of Culture It is edited by the wellknown ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CAMPBELL HONORED On July 7 1923 Honorable James E Campbell by general consent was hailed as the first citizen of Columbus on the occasion of the celebration of the eightieth anniversary of his birth Throughout the day he was the recipient in his office of many congratulatory greetings and messages from other states and nations In the evening a banquet was given in his honor at the Scioto Country Club by about 250 of his friends Honorable Claude Meeker of Columbus formerly ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Society of American Archivists SAA will hold its 1994 annual meeting at the Westin Hotel in Indianapolis Indiana September 6 through September 11 The general theme will be The Archival Core Defining the Profession in the Information Age For more information about the meeting contact either Bruce L Johnson Director of the Library at the Indiana Historical Society at 317 232-1879 or Eric Pumroy Head of Special Collections and Archives at Indiana ...
... MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST MAJOR-GENERAL ARTHUR ST CLAIR HON ALBERT DOUGLAS M C A brief synopsis of this address was delivered by Mr Douglas at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society Page Hall O S U March 22 1907 - EDITOR At the centennial celebration of Ohio statehood held at Chillicothe in May 1 90 3 I had the pleasure of offering the following preamble and resolution Recognizing that the people of Ohio have for one hundred years done injustice to the name ...
... THOMAS T THOMAS T SPENCER Auxiliary and Non-Party Politics The 1936 Democratic Presidential Campaign in Ohio Presidential candidates and political observers have long viewed Ohio as a key state In the 1936 presidential election both parties made an intense effort to capture the state's twenty-six electoral votes The Democrats were successful because of their candidate the popular incumbent Franklin D Roosevelt and their campaign strategy which was to go outside of the Democratic party to ...
... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE EARTHWORKS OF OHIO PREPARED BY MRS CYRUS THOMAS FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Continued from page 7 8 ANY observers in the State who have facts concerning the earthworks of Ohio in addition to those here stated will confer a favor upon the world by forwarding such information to Professor G F Wright Oberlin 0 the member of the Editorial Committee in charge of this department by whom the facts will be classified and published in future ...
... Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument Unveiling of Fort Recovery Monument 427 whose loss was unusually great but also to the British who stood as sponsors to the movements of the tribesmen for the British were not only redoubling their assistance to the tribes supplying them with arms and munitions but were in their own behalf taking bold measures of offensive warfare For it was at this time April 1794 that under the orders of Governor Simcoe three British companies commanded by Colonel Richard ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The Old Northwest as the Keystone of the Arch of American Federal Union A Study in Commerce and Politics By A L Kohlmeier Bloomington Indiana The Principia Press Inc 1938 257p This interesting if somewhat tedious monograph is a study of the economic or commercial development and political importance of the Old Northwest down to the Civil War The Old Northwest with its vast expanse of fertile soil and its other resources soon attracted a large population In the course ...
... Ohio Valley Hist Ohio Valley Hist Ass'n Fifth Annual Meeting 91 on its passenger list to preserve the equilibrium of its cash account A fine line of side-wheel boats has always been maintained between Cincinnati and Louisville and who has not heard of those magnificent double-deckers the United States and America that nightly carried great cabins full of happy travellers between those two cities until one night a disastrous collision brought a brilliant career to a tragic ending But a ...
... THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND THE WESTERNIZATION OF NEW ENGLAND ALBERT BUSHNELL HART LL D Mr Hart is professor of American History at Harvard University the author of many standard and popular works on United States History In 1902 he was chosen editor-in-chief of the co-operative history of the United States projected under the auspices of the American Historical Association The article herewith published was the address deliverd by him at Marietta on the occasion of the erection of a ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORIOHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS FOR THE YEAR 1886 WITH ABSTRACTS OF ADDRESSES AND PAPERS PRESENTED BEFORE THE SOCIETY COLUMBUS January 13th 1886 THE Society was called to order in the Chamber of the House of Representatives in the State House by Professor L D Brown The report of the Secretary showed the addition of ten members since the last meeting and several valuable donations to the library and museum The special committee ...
... Romance Rides the Circuit Romance Rides the Circuit By PAUL H BOASE Romantic love--unpredictable capricious and mercurial at its best--survived precariously for the mounted Methodist parson on the American frontier His salary when paid provided scarcely a living wage for one person limiting his bride's prospective dowry to little more than a horse saddle bags and blanket His ecclesiastical superior often cast an unfriendly even malignant eye toward his romantic endeavors His parish often ...
... NINTH ANNUAL REPORT NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Ohio State Archaeological and Historical SOCIETY TO THE GOVERNOR From February 19 1893 to February 19 1894 To th e HON WILLIAM MCKINLEY Governor of Ohio SIR-The eighth annual report of this Society was a resume of the work to that time chiefly along lines connected with the department of American Archaeology and History at the World's Fair Since the date of that report our labors have been principally directed toward completing in the best manner ...
... GREGORY L GREGORY L CRIDER William Dean Howells and the Gilded Age Socialist in a Fur-lined Overcoat William Dean Howells was among the foremost of several latenineteenth century novelists including Mark Twain and Hamlin Garland who left small midwestern towns to seek their literary fortunes in the East Esteemed as a first-rank novelist the Father of American Realism and the nation's most prominent literary critic he became a celebrated symbol of Gilded Age culture When four hundred guests ...
... Comments Notes and Reviews Comments N otes and Reviews 141 the contrary A shade of pathetic and almost tragic sadness was cast over the proceedings of the of the meeting by the fact that only a few short hours before the wires across the wide waters had flashed the news that General Roberts with the British troops had occupied Pretoria meaning that it was the beginning of the end for the plucky but all too rash Dutch descendants in the African republic and that England's star of empire was ...