... Book Reviews Book Reviews Peace Heroes in Twentieth-Century America Edited and with an Introduction by Charles DeBenedetti Bloomington Indiana University Press 1986 276p illustrations notes index 2250 The publication of this book serves to remind us of the great loss the historical profession suffered in the death of Charles DeBenedetti at so young an age An edited work with eight chapters written by various authors it is a book that should have a large readership both inside and outside the ...
... OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OHIO'S FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW BY C B GALBREATH Recently the writer received a request for information on Ohio's Fugitive Slave Law Our school histories make clear what the national Fugitive Slave Law was but they rarely give any account of the measures adopted and enacted by certain northern states designed to accomplish the same purpose some years before the enactment included in the Compromise of 1850 which aroused a storm of opposition throughout the North It is the ...
... 10 Ohio Arch 10 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications paternalistic policy by the national government These potent matters extending to the very foundation of our national fabric are closely connected with the history of the navigation of the Ohio River and are to form topics for discussion during these sessions One hundred years have brought vast changes to this City It is doubtful to-day whether French workmen would have to be imported for shipyard laborers in this vicinity or whether it ...
... 106 Ohio Arch 106 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications historical library building at Pittsburgh though delivered for the promotion of a purely local enterprise are so replete with information and suggestion pertinent to historical libraries in general that we take pleasure in producing them in full WHAT AN HISTORICAL LIBRARY BUILDING SHOULD DO FOR PITTSBURGH BY REUBEN GOLD THWAITE S LL D Superintendent of the Wisconsin Historical Society and Lecturer in American History in the University ...
... THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE THE AMERICAN VETERANS OF FOREIGN SERVICE AND THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS by GEORGE T TRIAL National Historian Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States The oldest and largest organization in this country comprised solely of overseas ex-servicemen grew out of events in Columbus Ohio That organization is the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States often identified as the VFW The nearly 2000000 members of the VFW are all campaign-medal men who ...
... MINUTES OF MINUTES OF THE OHIO ACADEMY OF HISTORY Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus Ohio April 8 1949 The Ohio Academy of History met in Columbus April 8 1949 in connection with the Ohio College Association More than one hundred persons attended the several sessions The morning session at 10 AM was devoted to a panel discussion on the subject American Cultural History as a Field of Specialization in the College and the Graduate School Members of the panel were Lyon N Richardson chief librarian ...
... 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 ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 473 hours are spent with his family at home where his large library is a notable attraction His appointment as Trustee is regarded by the people who know him well as an eminently appropriate one Albert Douglas of Chillicothe was elected by the Board of Trustees to serve as one of their number for the term of three years from May 23 1913 He was born in Chillicothe Ohio on April 25 1852 He is descended from patriotic New Englanders his great-grandfather having served in ...
... Moore Winter-Spring 2002 pp 25-43 Copyright 2002 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page with footnotes according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page Class Conflict over Residential Space in an African American Community Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy By Leonard Moore When discussing the conflict over residential space in America historians have placed ...
... Volume 111 Index Summer-Autumn 2002 pp 229-256 PDF of Index and Contents to Volume 111 CONTENTS of Summer-Autumn 2002 issue Index for Volume 111 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Abraham Lincoln Man of Sorrow 24 Acid mine drainage 48-49 50 Adams administration 123-124 Adams John Quincy 124 125 Addams Jane 186 187 190 191 Works by The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements 187 Addison Evert E 53-54 African Americans Class Conflicts over Residential Space in an African ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The fourteenth annual Duquesne University History Forum will be held on October 27 28 and 29 1980 at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Well established as one of the major professional meetings of its type having sessions in all fields of history the Forum is the largest annually held meeting in the northeastern United States Those interested in submitting proposals for papers andor complete sessions or who desire to serve as a moderator or ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 193 Reviews Notes and Comments 193 owners through whose hands it has passed in the long period since it was originally written They have recorded in it quaint receipts accounts and other matters of little or no value today For a time it appears to have been used as a copy-book It is however in spite of these insertions a venerable interesting and legible document which throws strong sidelights on the activities of the frontier army during this interesting period ...
... SONG WRITERS OF OHIO SONG WRITERS OF OHIO C B GALBREATH If a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation--ANDREW FLETCHER No names are deathless save those of the world's singers - FRANCES E WILLARD If this ascription of power and immortality seems somewhat sweeping and a little too poetically generous the fact remains that music affecting as it does the emotional in man and touching all its keys exerts a distinct influence on individual and ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 225-238 Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page INDEX Volume 109 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W XYZ ABISAAB Rula J 93 Accounting for Growth Information Systems and the Large Corporation by Margaret Levenstein rev 114-115 Adams Edward 175-176 AFF See Army Field ...
... A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian A Salvation Army Prelude The Christian Mission in Cleveland Ohio By HERBERT A WISBEY JR At the corner of North Fourth and Oxford streets in Philadelphia a small inconspicuous plaque in the sidewalk declares Here on Sunday October 5 1879 was begun the work of the Salvation Army in the United States Although Philadelphia may be credited as the birthplace of the Salvation Army in America Salvation Army work actually was introduced in the United States at ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Spring meeting of the Ohio Academy of History will be held April 4th and 5th 1997 at Malone College in Canton Ohio The historical Encyclopedia of African American Associations is seeking scholars interested in contributing assigned entries This single-volume reference work will include associations established by African Americans and interracial groups working in the interest of African Americans For a list of entries and further information please ...
... COLLECTIONS COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITS EARLY OHIO PAINTERS CINCINNATI 1830-1850 by DONALD R MacKENZIE WHEN AN 1840 editor of the New York Star wrote Cincinnati What is there in the atmosphere of Cincinnati that has so thoroughly awakened the arts of sculpture and painting he was expressing an outsider's appraisal of the Queen City The famous Mrs Trollope after three years in Cincinnati had come nearer the truth with her observation on the indigenous American artist With regard to the fine arts ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 67 NUMBER 1 JANUARY 1958 Woodrow Wilson's First Romance By GEORGE C OSBORN MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN about Abraham Lincoln's romance with Ann Rutledge Although Ann first aroused Lincoln's romantic emotions very few facts are known about this love affair Indeed nearly all that has been written about Ann and Abe's romance is conjecture Although most Americans have heard of Lincoln's first romance not many realize that Woodrow ...
... The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc The Taylor-Livingston Centenary Etc 489 Jr of a paper prepared by his father Edward L Taylor Sr address by ex-Governor George K Nash address by Col James Kilbourne address by Hon Phil H Bruck recitation of poem by Mrs William Sprague address by Hon Thomas E Powell The program as carried out was from first to last impressive instructive and entertaining characterized by sentiment wit and humor Immediately upon the conclusion of the exercises supper was served ...
... HAL W HAL W BOCHIN Tom Corwin's Speech Against the Mexican War Courageous But Misunderstood On May 12 1846 by votes of 174 to 14 in the House and 40 to 2 in the Senate Congress granted President James K Polk's request for permission to enroll 50000 volunteers in a war begun by the act of the Republic of Mexico1 Despite the overwhelmingly favorable vote opposition to the war formed quickly especially among Whig abolitionists in New England who viewed the war as a southern plot to increase ...