... LORI D LORI D GINZBERG Women in an Evangelical Community Oberlin 1835-1850 Women and men joined the first coeducational college in order to create both a model Christian community and trained missionaries for the world's enlightenment and regeneration' Oberlin College was not a feminist experiment for the concept of feminism did not truly exist It was an evangelical project in which women were an integral part An understanding of why certain women came to Oberlin and what they found there may ...
... THOMAS CORWIN AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN THOMAS CORWIN AND THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN REACTION 1858-1861 by DARYL PENDERGRAFT Assistant Professor of History Iowa State Teachers College By the year 1858 it had become apparent to many of the leaders of the young Republican party that the party's future success required a stronger appeal to the conservative elements of the North The taint of radicalism that was attached to the new party was plainly frightening many of the property-owning ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries The Ohio Labor History Project of The Ohio Historical Society has completed the Preliminary Guide to Sources in Ohio Labor History a forty-seven page pamphlet listing over 350 entries Copies can be obtained for 225 by writing to Ohio Labor History Project Ohio Historical Society ArchivesManuscripts Division Columbus Ohio 43211 Please make checks payable to the Ohio Historical Society The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a 25000 grant to the ...
... ROBERT M ROBERT M MENNEL AND STEVEN SPACKMAN Origins of Welfare in the States Albert G Byers and the Ohio Board of State Charities For the past fifteen years government programs to aid poor and dependent people have been attacked by both liberals and conservatives In the 1960s a coalition of academics and social workers formed the welfare rights movement to criticize the inadequacy of New Deal and Great Society programs and to propose various strategies to bring about a guaranteed national ...
... SHIRLEY LECKIE SHIRLEY LECKIE Brand Whitlock and the City Beautiful Movement in Toledo Ohio We are hearing much of the city beautiful in these days wrote Brand Whitlock in 1912 Hardly a city or a town that has not its commission and its plans for a unified treatment of its parks for a civic center of some sort-in a word its dream To Whitlock who had recently appointed a second Toledo City Hall and Civic Center Commission these were the expression of that divine craving in mankind for harmony ...
... CRAW FO RD COUNTY A Study of Midwestern Copperheadism by THOMAS H SMITH The Copperhead movement in the Middle West during the Civil War was not the simple case of pro-Southern sympathy and treason that the Republican propagandist charged but rather it was a complex of social economic and political antagonism to the Lincoln administration As diverse as its motives was the geographic heterogeneity of the movement no one specific locality or region held its nucleus Its strongest support however ...
... The Wisconsin Archaeological Society The Wisconsin Archaeological Society 341 about Madison describing the locations of the camps trail and fur-trade stations as described by early travelers He was followed by Mr Emilius O Randall secretary of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society who protested that he was not a professional archaeologist history being his bent if he had any bent at all and regretted that his place on the program was not filled by Prof W C Mills the successful ...
... ROBERT EARNEST MILLER ROBERT EARNEST MILLER War Within Walls Camp Chase and the Search for Administrative Reform The historical literature about Civil War military prisons can be divided into three major categories prisoners' accounts accounts of the camp administrators and subsequent historical analyses1 Interest in how captives lived in these prisons North and South has never abated The historian's desire to find out what prison life was really like however has been frustrated by the utter ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 349 Reviews Notes and Comments 3 49 officers in the allied service There were also citations and high honors conferred upon him Ohioans will experience genuine pride in reading this interesting record of the World War service of one of her distinguished sons The Journal is supplemented by the official reports of General Dawes and the work as a whole deserves a place in every library with a department devoted to World War history We must add of course that these ...
... THE PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS THE PRESERVATION OF DOCUMENTS ONE of the earlier issues of the QUARTERLY contained timely suggestions regarding the preservation of old documents letters and memoranda relating to our early history There has also been no little discussion on this question elsewhere notably in the American Historical Association The result has been to awaken an interest in such articles and a search in old trunks in garrets and in other such receptacles incident to our American ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 149 His grandfather Isaac Zane had been buried in 1813 - and of course he attended the funeral He gave me the family history of Isaac Zane and his wife - whom of course he distinctly remembered and told me of the marriage of Isaac Zane to the daughter of Tarhe who he said was his great-grandfather At the time he left for Canada they were just cutting the brush out of the main street of Bellefontaine the new village There died here lately Mrs Garwood a grand-daughter ...
... BRIAN M BRIAN M LINN Pretty Scaly Times The Ohio National Guard and the Railroad Strike of 1877 The employment of the Ohio National Guard at Newark during the railroad strike of 1877 represents an effective use of military force during a potentially explosive labor dispute In contrast to West Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois Missouri and Indiana the state authorities of Ohio did not have to call on federal troops to enforce civil authority During the strike relations between the militia ...
... Monument to General Anthony Wayne Unveiled 591 Monument to General Anthony Wayne Unveiled 591 tried paths the kind of courage by which we can maintain our self-respect after it is restored and by which we can defend it from behind the walls of a new Fort Defiance Sustained by such courage we can go on and on invincible against whatever evil may be lurking in a new Fallen Timbers Let us then accept this bronze figure which you are soon to see as a symbol of civic courage--this figure of Anthony ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS BUCYRUS CENTENNIAL The centennial of the city of Bucyrus Ohio was most appropriately celebrated in a program of exercises extending from October 2 to 5 1921 There were addresses by Honorable Harry L Davis Governor of Ohio Honorable Hugh L Nichols former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio Honorable Benson W Hough Judge of the Supreme Court Mrs Frank H Alfred great-granddaughter of Samuel Norton one of the founders of Bucyrus Nevin O ...
... FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE FRANKFURT-AM-MAIN AND BALDWIN-WALLACE COLLEGE by F A NORWOOD Associate Professor of History Baldwin-Wallace College Without German Pietism John Wesley would not have had a warming of the heart He would have remained a devoted strict churchman somewhat bigoted fulfilling his ecclesiastical duties unflinchingly but he would never have gained access to the hearts of the multitudes he would not have kindled a fire that enlightened and warmed the hearts and ...
... THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND THE NORTHEASTERN RELIGIOUS PRESS AND JOHN BROWN by WILLIAM S ROLLINS Analyst National Research Council On October 16 1859 long-smoldering passions in North and South which within a year and a half would burst into the flame of civil war were thrown new fuel On that day John Brown and eighteen staunch followers raided Harper's Ferry Virginia to free the slaves1 After more than twenty-four hours of havoc Colonel Robert E Lee commanding a handful of United ...
... The Early Historical Writings of The Early Historical Writings of James Ford Rhodes 1885-1886 By ROBERT CRUDEN JAMES FORD RHODES the Cleveland-born historian of the Civil War and Reconstruction periods is perhaps Ohio's most significant contribution to American historiography His seven-volume History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877 New York 1892-1906 written in a spirit of sectional reconciliation remains an impressive ...
... 538 Ohio Arch 538 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications The Secretary Mr Galbreath closed the afternoon session with an account of the capture imprisonment and execution of Edwin Coppoc who was with John Brown at Harper's Ferry dwelling particularly on the plan of Cook and Coppoc to escape from jail at Charleston and the story of the coffin of Coppoc which is now in the museum of the Society This account in ampler form is found elsewhere in the present issue of the QUARTERLY ANNUAL MEETING ...
... INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL INDEX TO MINUTES OF THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY AND THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Accessions to Museum 600-605 Braden James A 584 599 Allyn M Q 645 Braun Herman Sr 599 Amos Frank C 584 Brundage Dr H M 645 Archaeological and Historical Society Buchwalter Captain E L 636 holds Annual Meeting 584-683 new Burr Karl E 645 policies 647-651 change in fiscal year Burroughs John Address on by G amendments to Constitution ...
... A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM A HARMAR SESQUICENTENNIAL SYMPOSIUM By Louis A WARREN The program this evening has been arranged in the form of a symposium in memory of the 150th anniversary of General Joseph Harmar's expedition against the Miami Indians here at Fort Wayne in 1790 We are pleased indeed to have three able speakers who can speak with authority on the various phases of the expedition You will observe on your program that the subjects to be discussed will approach the general ...