... Historical News Historical News THE ELEUTHERIAN MILLS-HAGLEY FOUNDATION in c ooperation with the University of Delaware is again offering two fellowships in American history and museum training The fellowships carry an annual stipend of 1800 renewable for the second year and lead to a master's degree The fourteenth annual spring exhibition at the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio The Turn of the Century Cincinnati from 1890 to 1910 will be held from April 22 through June 26 Leslie H ...
... JANET A JANET A MILLER Urban Education and the New City Cincinnati's Elementary Schools 1870 to 1914 In 1903 Richard G Boone the Superintendent of Schools in Cincinnati announced that schools in the city were gradually workng toward the modern idea The elementary course he stated had been enriched treatment of children was more humane and reasonable and teachers were awakened to what was being done elsewhere in the nation1 While still plagued with traditional problems of finance facilities and ...
... CARL M CARL M BECKER Newspapers in Battle The Dayton Empire and the Dayton Journal During the Civil War Throughout the Civil War as Union armies fought and bled Northern newspapers opposing and supporting the Lincoln administration engaged in a war of words that sometimes triggered violence on the home front Especially in the Middle West the Peace Democrats or Copperheads as these ultra-conservative Democrats came to be known employed the press for a continuing assault on Lincoln and his ...
... KAREN J KAREN J BLAIR Women's History as Local History In 1928 a crowd of 10000 witnessed the unveiling in Vandalia Illinois of an eighteen-foot-high marble statue entitled the Madonna of the Trail Donated by the Daughters of the American Revolution the large monument commemorated the sacrifices of pioneer Illinois mothers in the frontier era But like the role assigned until recently to women in the collective historical imagination the statue itself was an abstraction The Madonna did not ...
... RONALD M RONALD M JOHNSON Politics and Pedagogy The 1892 Cleveland School Reform On May 25 1892 a large crowd gathered at Cleveland's Stillman Hotel The occasion was the announcement of Andrew S Draper as the city's new school superintendent The assembled group listened attentively as H Q Sargent the school director introduced Draper a prominent New York educator Sargent dwelt momentarily on the recently reformed school system which had led to the creation of his own office Draper followed ...
... JAMES E JAMES E CEBULA The New City and the New Journalism The Case of Dayton Ohio Prior to the introduction of mass transportation systems the nineteenth century city was physically compact with diverse land usages in close proximity to each other With the availability of railroads street cars and inter-urban electric rail lines the urban population could live further away from the workplace and entrepreneurs would recognize the advantages of building in less congested areas These increased ...
... AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER AN EARLY AMERICAN CRUSADER NORTON STRANGE TOWNSHEND1 By JOH N F CUNNINGHAM Writing to G Sprague corresponding secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture in 1854--just ninety years ago--a young physician of Lorain County Ohio said I send you facts and observations relating to agricultural education also a brief notice of an attempt to establish an agricultural college in Ohio We will not stop to demonstrate but will take it for granted that agricultural ...
... AN EARLY REPORT ON OBERLIN COLLEGE AN EARLY REPORT ON OBERLIN COLLEGE by GEORGE PEIRCE CLARK Among the most copious diarists of nineteenth-century America though certainly not among the best known was the Rev John Pierce AB Harvard 1793 Congregational pastor of Brookline Massachusetts Nineteen manuscript volumes deposited in the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society1 testify at once to the industry and the limitations of Pierce as a chronicler of the res gestae of his time In the ...
... 130 OHIO HISTORY 130 OHIO HISTORY not to be bound by the result23 Under these circumstances talk of a Hayes Garfield or other candidacy persisted Hayes lightened the tension perhaps by giving a reception Monday evening for the incoming Republican governor General Edward F Noyes It was attended by the warring factions and described by Hayes as A very lively happy thing24 Late on Tuesday evening two Republicans--a state senator and a representative--rang Hayes's doorbell They assured him that ...
... MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 MAN AND NATURE IN MODERN OHIO1 by PAUL B SEARS Professor of Botany Oberlin College My theme is law It is a curious paradox that science whose practitioners proudly boast that they take nothing for granted rests upon faith Science is in fact what our theological friends would call an act of faith The faith to which I refer is a profound belief that the universe of our experience is a universe of law and order2 Without a conviction that the world of experience must ...
... Suggestions for a Plan of County Suggestions for a Plan of County Organization Charles Dick Lays the Groundwork for the Campaign of 1896 Edited by THOMAS E FELT CAMPAIGN textbooks for the party faithful have been used to inspire electoral success for close to a hundred years in this country and were the document published below just another one of this familiar species it would deserve no particular notice But this is a campaign textbook with a difference Where its more conventional brothers ...
... OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 OHIO HISTORY CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 249 AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION FOR WAR 1917-1918 By H A DE WEERD Admiral A T Mahan once described his fellow Americans as being aggressive combative and war-like but he added they are the reverse of military being out of sympathy with military tone and feeling1 A neglect of the study of military history and economy in the United States developed partly as a result of an ingrained American distaste for and ...
... THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL THE WORLD WAR MEMORIAL Soon after the close of the World War it was realized that the growth of the Museum and the Library of the Society had reached the limits of available space and that additional room would be needed not only for the exhibits that were coming in larger measure from the archaeological field of work but for newspaper files and for the trophies documents pamphlets books papers and manuscripts relating to the World War In the years 1919 and 1920 the need ...
... THE OHIO BUCKEYE THE OHIO BUCKEYE In a pamphlet entitled Ohio Emblems and Monuments compiled by the editor of the QUARTERLY in 1906 i s an account of the Ohio Buckeye which is here reproduced in adapted form It is somewhat singular but true nevertheless that the average Ohioan is not able to point out with certainty the tree whose name is the soubriquet of his state In the popular descriptions fact and fancy science and oratory are so promiscuously blended that there is nothing remarkable in ...
... A Granville Cooper's Experience A Granville Cooper's Experience With Barter in the 1820's By PETER FOX SMITH I N 1805 A COMPANY OF NEW ENGLANDERS from Granville Massachusetts journeyed over the mountains to the west crossed the Ohio River and settled near the center of the infant state of Ohio Today Granville Ohio which is populated by some two thousand villagers and fourteen hundred students of Denison University still retains some characteristics of her eastern heritage One of the oldest ...
... STEPHEN C STEPHEN C FOX The Bank Wars the Idea of Party and the Division of the Electorate in Jacksonian Ohio Among the recent interpretations that have reinvigorated Jacksonian studies two in particular have proved to be central to understanding that period first that the Bank of the United States and banking in general were issues with more political than economic significance and second that it was during the Jacksonian era that Americans learned to accept the legitimacy and competitive ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 337 OHIO SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION On Saturday April 18 1903 the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution held its annual meeting at the Great Southern Hotel Columbus Ohio There was a goodly attendance of members from various parts of the state The usual reports of officers and committees were heard and in the afternoon the election of officers occurred resulting in the following President Colonel James Kilbourne Columbus Vice-Presidents Isaac F Mack ...
... 288 Ohio Arch 288 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications erected their temple on the hilltop to the day of the traction car But that car like the one of Juggernaut is the irresistible chariot of the present that ruthlessly rolls over the veneration for the past The pamphlet prospectus in question devotes several pages to the history and description of the mound and properly presents it as one of the leading features which will make the proposed traction line a valuable and paying institution ...
... EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND EXPLORATIONS OF THE WESTENHAVER MOUND BY WILLIAM C MILLS The Westenhaver Mound is located in Wayne township Pickaway county Ohio on the west bank of the Scioto river The land on which the mound is situated is owned by Mr and Mrs George E Roth and lies about six miles southwest of Circleville and three miles north of the village of Yellow Bud The site of the earthwork is a level plateau comprising the first bottom of the Scioto river which at this point is ...
... JAMES F JAMES F RICHARDSON Urban Political Change in the Progressive Era The nature and sources of political change in the early twentieth century are among the favorite topics for assessment and reassessment among American historians The degree of concern is understandable for the Progressive period witnessed considerable expansion in governmental functions and major changes in governmental structure This transformation in form and function was perhaps more pronounced in the nation's cities ...