... BOOK BOOK REVIEWS CHARLES EVANS HUGHES AND THE ILLUSIONS OF INNOCENCE A STUDY IN AMERICAN DIPLOMACY By Betty Glad Urbana University of Illinois Press 1966 365p bibliography and index 595 Charles Evans Hughes Secretary of State under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge 1921-1925 is considered important because he carried major responsibility for the definition of the foreign policy followed by the United States up to the eve of World War II p 1 Miss Glad divides her study into three ...
... 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 ...
... 676 Ohio Arch 676 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications tiers of imperishable renown such as our Millikans Eliots Burbanks Fords Shapleys and Grenfells have given the world Professor Hulbert was generously applauded at the conclusion of his address Dr Thompson then introduced the second speaker of the afternoon Dr G Clyde Fisher Curator of Visual Instruction in the American Museum of Natural History New York City Dr Fisher is a native Ohioan whose scholarly attainments and enviable record ...
... The Rubber Industry in Ohio The Rubber Industry in Ohio By WILLIAM D OVERMAN Many of us think of the rubber industry in terms of tire sizes and a system of retail distribution centers It is this But for the past half century or longer it has also been one of the moving factors in the life not only of the United States but of the entire world Also when many of us think of rubber we think in terms of a few large companies and a few well-known products which they manufacture But the rubber ...
... A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY A SURVEY OF PUBLICATIONS IN OHIO HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY AUGUST 1948--JULY 1949 Compiled by S WINIFRED SMITH AGRICULTURE GATES Paul Wallace Cattle Kings in the Prairies Mississippi Valley Historical Review XXXV 1948-49 379-412 Ohio source and market for cattle HAYTER Earl W Seed Humbuggery among the Western Farmers 18501888 Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly LVIII 1949 52-68 JONES Robert Leslie The Introduction of Farm ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 SPECULATIVE INTEREST IN OHIO LANDS IN 1829 AS REVEALED IN A LETTER FROM HENRY FARMER TO SAMUEL J BROWNE Edited by WILLIAM D OVERMAN The following letter from Henry Farmer to his brother-in-law Samuel J Browne of Cincinnati affords a detailed account by an observant and well-informed Englishman of the unsettled political economic and social conditions in England just prior to the Era of Reform 18321 The statistical data on the cost of poor relief ...
... TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 TRAVEL TO CINCINNATI IN 1853 EDITED BY WILLIAM D HOYT JR Writers have described the hardships of travel in the middle of the nineteenth century when railroads were in their infancy but few accounts are as expressive or as vivid as that penned by the Honorable Peter Vivian Daniel Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States while on his way to the Mississippi Valley to hold judicial sessions in his circuit A letter written to his daughter from the ...
... array of primary and array of cultural images array of collected papers of the principals concerned their presidents government publications English language papers published in Japan and some translated Japanese materials Hammersmith builds a detailed chronicle in support of his conclusions Chapter I is naturally devoted to Townshend ...
... VICTOR GILBREATH VICTOR GILBREATH BY C B GALBREATH The war with Mexico like all others had its sidelights its personal triumphs privations and tragedies among the men in the ranks Of course for the most part these are lost to history Occasionally however through some accidental circumstance these are lifted to the public view and endued with a degree of enduring fame not usually accorded to the central figure of the story The War of 1812 had its James Bird1 the war with Mexico had its Victor ...
... Scharlott Winter-Spring 2004 pp 4-17 PDF of this article CONTENTS of this issue Copyright 2004 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace The Effect of the Telegraph Telephone and Ticker on the Cincinnati Merchants' Exchange By Bradford W Scharlott O n the night of August 20 1847 the tireless telegraph promoter Henry O'Reilly installed a Morse telegraph instrument in a small room above the meeting hall of the Cincinnati Merchants' ...
... array of other reforms In addition to prohibition the WCTU supported research into the causes of alcoholism established kindergartens paid the salary of municipal police matrons and aligned itself with the farmer and labor insurgencies of the 1880s and 1890s28 More than any other single event in nineteenth-century American history the Woman's Temperance Crusade touched the lives of tens of thousands of women and legitimized for them a new and ...
... AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE JACKSON COUNTY IRON INDUSTRY A THESIS PRESENTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS BY VERNON DAVID K E ELER AB LLB INTRODUCTION The Cyclops here their heavy hammers deal Loud strokes and hissings of tormented steel Are heard around the boiling waters roar And smoky flames through fuming tunnels soar --Vergil In early Biblical times according to the fourth chapter of Genesis Tubal Cain born in the seventh generation of Adam was an ...
... array of recent secondary materials that would have given his account the depth of analysis we should expect For anyone to write of this period without consulting such essential works as Richard Kohn's Eagle and Sword The Federalists and the Creation of the Military Establishment in America 1975 Charles Royster's A Revolutionary People at War The Continental Army and American Character 1775-1783 1980 and James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward ...
... array themselves against each other instead of moving along in harmony and taking pride in the success of all the schools in the township It is believed that the present mongrel system should give place to the purely township system in which all the schools of a township should be under the exclusive control of a board of education chosen by the electors of the township15 This attitude is given expression in varying degrees by every State ...
... span p --- tr AGRICULTURE Heigh-Ho Come to the Fair Ohio Historical Society Echoes I No 9 September 1962 1 Brief discussion of agricultural fairs in Ohio and the founding of the state fair PORTER Thomas E A Letter Concerning the Early Maple Sugar Industry of Paint Creek Valley Paint Creek Valley Folk Publications No 14 Chillicothe Ohio Paint Creek Valley Folk Research Project 1963 6p Mimeographed ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT ABER Mina E The Rankin House Stop on Underground Railroad Negro History ...
... WILLIAM D WILLIAM D ANDREWS William T Coggeshall Boosterof Western Literature Students of nineteenth-century America have long been familiar with a type of person that intellectual historian Daniel Boorstin precisely labeled the booster1 Typically he was a small-town midwestern newspaper editor or dry-goods entrepreneur anxious to make a killing for himself and a reputation for his town--the order of his desires was never clear Promotion was his method the most insignificant occurrence in his ...
... WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS WILLIAM THOMAS MATHEWS The following sketch of William T Mathews one of the most distinguished painters of our state and generation was prepared by his brother Major Charles H Mathews New Philadelphia Ohio and is a sympathetic tribute to the memory of the notable citizen who was known as the Buckeye ArtistEDITOR William T Mathews bachelor artist was a resident of Washington D C for ten or fifteen years previous to his death which occurred at the Emergency Hospital ...
... ROBERT J ROBERT J ZALIMAS JR Contest MY seat sir Lewis D Campbell Clement L Vallandigham and the Election of 1856 After the October 1856 elections a heated political controversy arose in Ohio's Third Congressional District which mirrored the regional and factional turmoil dividing the nation The District lay in the southwestern part of the state and included three politically diverse counties Butler Montgomery and Preble In the election Democrat candidate Clement L Vallandigham lost to ...