... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... 586 Ohio Arch 586 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications the show places of Ohio Its interest for botanists is well known and Professor Robert F Griggs has published a survey of this and a much larger region of which it is a part under the name of the Sugar Grove Region This pamphlet is a Biological Survey and is published by the Ohio State University Not least among the attractions of the region to which a much more distinctive name the Queer Creek Region might be given are the trees most ...
... PHILLIP R PHILLIP R SHRIVER A Hoover Vignette Fifty years after his defeat for reelection by Franklin D Roosevelt Herbert Hoover remains one of America's most tragic presidents For many if not most his name continues to conjure up an aura of depression of frustration of failure Arthur M Schlesinger Jr historian of The Age of Roosevelt recalls one of the myriad jokes that fixed a nation's scorn upon FDR's unhappy predecessor in the early 1930s It has Hoover asking Andrew Mellon for the loan of ...
... Book Notes Book Notes Middle Innings A Documentary History of Baseball 1900-1948 Compiled and edited by Dean A Sullivan Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 1998 xviii 238p illustrations bibliography index Baseball if no longer reigning as the national pastime still occupies a secure place in America's collective psyche Evidence of this nostalgic affection is deeply rooted in the game's vast statistical lore it's colorful phraseology and an odd sometimes zany cast of characters Figures such as ...
... Charles F Charles F Brush and the First Public Electric Street Lighting System in America By MEL GORMAN THE DEVELOPMENT OF street lighting is one of the most important factors which can be considered in gauging the social history of urban life Until the middle of the eighteenth century there was very little incentive for the dweller to leave his house after dark but with the advent of the industrial revolution the tempo of life exerted more and more pressure of activities which could not be ...
... Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerarld Summer-Autumn 2000 pp 125-143 This article is presented page by page and footnoted according to the original print version If a sentence appears to be incomplete scroll down to continue with the next page Copyright 2000 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved Thomas Boyd and F Scott Fitzgerald A Brief Literary Friendship By Brian Bruce click to view full image In June 1925 F Scott Fitzgerald wrote a spiteful letter to his editor Max Perkins about ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Early Stockaded Settlements in the Governador New Mexico By Edward Twitchell Hall Jr Columbia Studies in Archaeology and Ethnology Vol II Pt I New York Columbia University Press 1944 96p Illus 200 This is a report of excavations carried on in north-central New Mexico by a joint expedition from Columbia University and the Laboratory of Anthropology Santa Fe New Mexico The purpose of the expedition was to expand our knowledge of the Rosa culture phase the oldest known ...
... Brand Whitlock's Macochee Brand Whitlock's Macochee Puritan Theo-Politics in the Midwest By ABE C RAVITZ TO BE REGARDED as an American Hardy or an American Turgenev was a lifelong ambition of Brand Whitlock wellknown midwest political figure and diplomat who to his everlasting disappointment failed in his ambitious quest for such literary renown1 Held in high esteem however by political scientists and historians alike for his successful methods in the administration of local government and ...
... THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E THE BACKGROUND OF CALVIN E STOWE'S REPORT ON ELEMENTARY PUBLIC INSTRUCTION IN EUROPE 1837 By CHARLES G MILLER In 1836 Calvin E Stowe was a professor in a theological seminary Lane in the young state of Ohio Though no formal connection existed between the seminary and the State there already existed the idea of the higher schools' responsibility to the State to such a degree that the General Assembly requested Stowe with no mention of compensation but see below quite ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 353 Reviews Notes and Comments 353 The amount of money provided in the different states for additional compensation to World War veterans varies from 2500000 in Rhode Island to 45000000 in New York TABLET FOR CAMPUS MARTIUS The Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution will have placed upon the old Campus Martius house at Marietta a tablet marking this as an important historic point in our state It will be unveiled Wednesday September 28 1921 Dr Edwin Earl Sparks of ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Prejudice and the Old Politics The Presidential Election of 1928 By Allan J Lichtman Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 1979 xii - 366p charts tables appendix notes bibliography index 2000 The 1928 race between Alfred E Smith and Herbert Hoover is probably the most studied presidential election of this century Believing that a fusion of traditional and quantitative methods is necessary to explain the outcome Allan J Lichtman offers a sophisticated ...
... GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT GEORGE WELLS KNIGHT Dr George Wells Knight joined the Faculty of the Ohio State University in 1885 He served as teacher of History in that institution to within a short time of his death which occurred Wednesday morning February 10 1932 In this long and uninterrupted service his teaching and personality left an impression upon a large number of students who in their turn will transmit it in an ever widening circle of influence When he came to accept a position in the ...
... Historical News Historical News A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of the President's Civil War Centennial Commission was held in Washington DC on January 14-15 1958 Major General U S Grant 3d chairman of the commission presided at the sessions and Dr Bell I Wiley the distinguished Civil War historian of Atlanta Georgia made the keynote address The purpose of the commission is to lead the nation in a fitting celebration of the centennial of the Civil War At the meeting a thirteen-point program was outlined ...
... PATRICK D PATRICK D REAGAN The Ideology of Social Harmony and Efficiency Workmen's Compensation in Ohio 1904-1919 From 1912 through the early 1920s progressive reformers tried to enact social insurance legislation through a state-by-state and stepby-step strategy to ameliorate the industrial conditions of work accidents sickness unemployment and premature old age An integral part of the campaign concerned the workmen's compensation movement in Ohio from 1904 through 1919 The successful ...
... Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting 577 end of the biennium but the improvement of the grounds has not yet been started We wish at this time to submit the following extract from the deed of conveyance to the Society from Miss Clarissa C Moor of the tract referred to above Provided always and these presents are upon this express condition that the premises hereby conveyed shall be used for a park and monument site and approaches Said grantee its successors and assigns ...
... BOOK REVIEWS BOOK REVIEWS Bibliography of Ohio Archaeology By Richard G Morgan and James H Rodabaugh Columbus The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society 1947 v 189p Paper 250 This bibliography is by far the best of its kind the reviewer has seen The number of entries will come as a surprise to those who think of the archaeology of a state area as including a few titles or even perhaps a hundred titles The number of published references available will be surprising even to those who ...
... A Prophecy A Prophecy 351 Wait on the Queen of Arts in her own bowers Perfumed with all the fragrance of the earth From blooming shrubbery and radiant flowers And hope with rapture wed life's calm and peaceful hours Oft as the spring wakes on the verdant year And nature glows in fervid beauty dress'd The loves and graces shall commingle here To charm the queenly City of the West Her stately youth with noble warmth impress'd Her graceful daughters smiling as in MayApollos these and Hebes those ...
... ROBERT P ROBERT P SWIERENGA Ethnicity and American Agriculture Ethnic Patterns in Land Settlement Rural America was never as ethnic as urban America The vastness of the agricultural hinterland and the traditional family farm both worked against the formation and survival of ethnic communities Nevertheless ever since Americans populated the land every national and denominational group in greater or lesser degree is represented in the farming population Rural America especially the Upper Middle ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries Recent promotions appointments and awards within the professional community of Ohio historians include Carolyn Komer joined the Bowling Green State University Center for Archival Collections as a part-time conservatorbookbinder Reuben G Bullard and Willard W Winter of the Cincinnati Bible College recently served as core staff members of the Tel Abila excavations in Jordan Wilson Hoffman began his tenure as Thorn and Frances Pendleton Professor of History at ...
... compiled by compiled by CHARLES A ISETTS A Survey of Publications on the History of Ohio 1974 to 1976 ANTISLAVERY Cardinal Eric J Antislavery Sentiment and Political Transformation in the 1850's Portage County Ohio Old Northwest 1 1975 223-238 Harrold Stanley C Jr Forging an Antislavery Instrument Gamaliel Bailey and the Foundation of the Ohio Liberty Party Old Northwest 2 1976 371-387 Ludwig Charles Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad Scottdale Pennsylvania Herald Press 1975 184p Lupold ...