... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Lost America The Story of Iron-Age Civilization Prior to Columbus By Arlington H Mallery With the assistance of Mary Roberts Harrison Illustrations by Paula Mallery Introduction by Matthew W Stirling Director of the Bureau of American Ethnology Smithsonian Institution Columbus Ohio and Washington D C The Overlook Company 1951 xviii238p illustrations maps tables references index and appendix 450 This little volume has created a minor sensation in Ohio and other parts ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS The United States 1830-1850 The Nation and Its Sections By Frederick Jackson Turner New York Peter Smith 1950 xiv602p maps and index 500 This book was originally published by Henry Holt in 1935 For several years it has been difficult to obtain and scholars and librarians have reason to be grateful both to Henry Holt for releasing the book and to Peter Smith for the reissue Technically this photo-offset edition is excellent and it is doubtful if any but an expert in ...
... LEWIS L LEWIS L GOULD Chocolate Eclair or Mandarin Manipulator William McKinley the Spanish-American War and the Philippines A Review Essay The Spanish War An American Epic-1898 By GJA O'Toole New York W W Norton 1984 447p photographs notes bibliography index 1995 Sitting in Darkness Americans in the Philippines By David Haward Bain Boston Houghton Mifflin 1984 464p notes bibliography index photographs 2495 The Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection that followed were significant ...
... THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL THE CHARITY SCHOOL OF KENDAL Edited by HARLOW LINDLEY The discovery of an Agreement between Adam W Heldenbrand and the Charity School of Kendal dated November 27 1863 has aroused interest to learn more about this Ohio educational institution and the unique contract enacted there In the winter of 1810-11 one Thomas Rotch left Hartford Connecticut and explored Ohio as far south and west as Cincinnati Springfield and Urbana On this trip Rotch made notes about the ...
... EARLY FORGES IN OHIO EARLY FORGES IN OHIO BY WILBER STOUT The forge was the forerunner of the rolling mill and as such deserves some attention in the history of the iron industry in Ohio Forging was the method used by the pioneers in the refining and the shaping of crude iron into wares usable by the blacksmiths and mechanics of that day Although simple in design and small in output the forge was distinctly one of the early steps that led through many changes and advancements to the immense ...
... THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING THREE IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS RELATING TO WESTERN LAND CESSIONS AMONG the documents relating to western land cessions brought before Congress that are not found in the Journals are the three printed below They are all of great interest and all difficult of access I am not aware that the last one has ever been printed The first two are found in Hening's Statutes of Virginia Vol X the third is printed from a copy furnished by the Secretary of State of the State of ...
... OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL OHIO'S CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE REFORM BY C B GALBREATH Ohio is great in many ways The achievements of her sons are not confined to the spectacular vocations of statesmanship and war Piatt and Howells and other writers have given her a respectable place in the literature of the republic The Darling Nelly Gray of our Hanby the Dixie of our Emmett and the Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling of our Thompson have gone round the world and found ...
... EDITORIALANA EDITORIALANA Although this number of our Quarterly namely No 2 Vol XI is only the second number of its publication year we decide to have it conclude the eleventh volume thus making a volume complete from the July and October 1902 Quarterlies This volume however will also include a complete index of the previous ten volumes and the eleventh volume herewith issued Volume eleven therefore will have if not the usual amount of reading matter an adequate value in the complete index of ...
... 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 ...
... McCook Field 1917-1927 McCook Field 1917-1927 By MAURER MAURER IT IS FITTING that Dayton the birthplace of aviation should be the site of one of the great air fields of the United States Air Force And it is appropriate that the field which for many years has played a major role in the development of aircraft and equipment for the air force should bear the name of Wright The history of that air force activity in the Dayton area however goes back to a field that was not named for the Wright ...
... JONATHAN J JONATHAN J BEAN Marketing the great American commodity Nathaniel Massie and Land Speculation on the Ohio Frontier 1783-1813 Few figures in early American history are as controversial as the land speculator The land speculator has been portrayed as both a parasitical landlord and an important figure fostering the economic development of the frontier The career of Ohio land speculator Nathaniel Massie highlights the problems faced by those engaged in land development in the early ...
... TERRY A TERRY A BARNHART James McBride Historian and Archaeologist of the Miami Valley James McBride of Hamilton Ohio was a man of many parts At various junctures of his busy life McBride's multifarious activities embraced merchandising architecture banking civil engineering and several avenues of public service As respectable as those attainments were however his most enduring contributions were made as an amateur historian and archaeologist McBride is a prime example of the antiquarian ...
... ANNUAL ADDRESS OF F ANNUAL ADDRESS OF F C SESSIONS PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY Read in the Senate Chamber at the Fourth Annual Meeting Thursday Evening January 31 1889 ALMOST one year ago this Society went to Marietta O to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the settlement by Americans of the Northwest Territory of which Ohio is an integral part and of which she is the oldest State and one of the most powerful of American commonwealths The settlement was hence the first by Americans in ...
... Gold Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 165-189 Copyright 2001 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 Natural Rights and the Admission of Women to the Ohio Bar By David M Gold In 1859 the Judiciary Committee of the Ohio House of Representatives rejected the idea that laws should be enacted to enhance women's rights in any ...
... PATRICIA A PATRICIA A CARTER Housing the Women Who Toiled Planned Residences for Single Women Cincinnati 1860-1960 The Lawrence Home stands as a barrier to sickness and evil she opens her doors and invites the young unprotected girl to come in and make her home here-not that she may be rescued as a brand from the burning but that she may not even get near enough to the fire to be scorched She does not consider herself nor is she considered a charity inmate Her independence and self-respect are ...
... Socialist Party of Ohio-- War and Free Speech by Richard A Folk D uring World War I Ohio Socialists faced the dilemma of what action to take when two imperialistic-capitalistic economies come into conflict According to theoretical Marxism Socialists could not support a struggle the purpose of which was to expand the capitalist system In the United States the Socialist party's National Executive Committee followed this doctrine in August 1914 when it proclaimed the party's opposition to the ...
... JOHN J JOHN J GRABOWSKI From Progressive to Patrician George Bellamy and Hiram House Social Settlement 1896-1914 The institution most closely associated with the birth and early development of turn of the century Progressivism was the social settlement house which best symbolized the movement's drive for reform and order in urban America As aptly described by Allen Davis the settlement houses were spearheads for reform whose partisans were among the first to recognize and attack problems of ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Jonathan Draws the Long Bow By Richard M Dorson Cambridge Mass Harvard University Press 1946 274p 450 This reviewer used to enjoy the old story told in Licking County of how a remarkable providence once saved a sleepy pioneer resident of Granville from drowning in the rampaging waters of Raccoon Creek The villager drove into town late one pitchdark stormy night and did not learn until the next day that the planking of the bridge he crossed had been washed away by the ...
... VIRGINIA E VIRGINIA E McCORMICK Butter and Egg Business Implications From the Records of a NineteenthCentury Farm Wife Few stereotypes have a clearer image or more persistent endurance than that of the nineteenth-century married woman who devoted herself to home and family and relied upon her husband as the economic provider This image produces the perspective that a dramatic increase has occurred in the labor force participation of women of all income levels including married women who ...
... DONALD A DONALD A HUTSLAR God's Scourge The Cholera Years in Ohio Introduction Between 5 August and 23 September 1834 fifty-six residents of the small Ohio village of Zoar Tuscarawas County died of cholera Zoar was the home of a communal society of about three hundred German Separatists persons who had differed with the doctrine of the Lutheran Church and migrated to the United States During the summer of 1834 a boat on the Ohio Canal stopped at Zoar with one sick passenger Mr Allen Wallace he ...