... LEE WILLIAMS LEE WILLIAMS Newcomers to the City A Study of Black Population Growth in Toledo Ohio 1910-1930 Negroes no longer live in a few houses in a widely separated section They have come to constitute in themselves a good size city1 Beginning around 1915 increasing numbers of Afro-Americans pushed out of the south into northern and midwestern urban communities large and small The massive migration of blacks to the north is well known but has been documented chiefly for the largest ...
... NANCY J NANCY J BRCAK Country Carpenters Federal Buildings An Early Architectural Tradition in Ohio's Western Reserve The Western Reserve1 of Ohio was settled in large part by New England emigrants and slightly later by upstate New Yorkers who were themselves transplanted New Englanders These people migrating west in the 1810s and 1820s brought with them a storehouse of cultural tradition as well as dreams for prosperity and success Both the architectural historian Talbot Hamlin and the Ohio ...
... A Report on the First Ohio Institute A Report on the First Ohio Institute on Local and State History By ROBERT C WHEELER Imagine turning people away from a meeting on history Yet it actually happened at Newark this fall on October 30 at the first Ohio Institute on Local and State History One hundred fifty persons from forty-two Ohio communities representing thirty-five local and county historical societies and museums squeezed and elbowed their way into the Newark Mound Builders Country Club ...
... CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE CINCINNATI-A CIVIC ODE WILLIAM HENRY VENABLE Professor William Henry Venable ranks among the first of Ohio's most honored educators and authors For many years he was professor in the High Schools of Cincinnati His published works embrace history poetry literature and fiction He has been a devoted student of the literature of the Ohio Valley He delivered the address on Ohio Literary Men and Women at the Ohio Centennial celebration Chillicothe May 20 1903 His splendid ode ...
... 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 ...
... OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY Vol XLIII OCTOBER 1934 No 4 COLUMBUS OHIO THE F J HEER PRINTING CO 1934 PREFACE PREFACE Charles Hammond as a lawyer politician and editor was a commanding figure in the life of the pioneer West Under his direction the Cincinnati Gazette was one of the most influential newspapers in the country An able journalist of a later period asserted that among all the editors of Ohio--indeed of the Great West--he is the chief object of ...
... THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS THE LIBERTY PARTY LEADERS OF OHIO EXPONENTS OF ANTISLAVERY COALITION by JOSEPH G RAYBAC K Assistant Professor of American History The Pennsylvania State College If there is one aspect of American history that has received the attention that is its due it is the role of the abolitionist in the antislavery movement The main outlines of the part played by that small semifanatical body of men and women have long been revealed the eternal history of the ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Cities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning By John W Reps Princeton Princeton University Press 1979 xii827p maps illustrations notes selected bibliography index 7500 For John Reps the West begins in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys including the Great Lakes and reaches to the Pacific It or parts of it existed as a frontier as early as the sixteenth century and as late as the 1880s in Oklahoma This definition of the region of course rests not on ...
... Book Reviews Book Reviews Women and the American Labor Movement From Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I By Philip S Foner New York The Free Press Macmillan Publishing Co Inc 1979 xi 621p illustrations notes bibliography index 1595 The wealth of material on American working women in Philip Foner's new book should convince even the most intransigent critic of women's history that working women do have an active lively and moving history Foner making use of the growing body of excellent ...
... AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE AN EARLY PROPOSAL FOR A STATE POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL BY ROSCOE H ECKELBERRY Assistant Professor Dept of History of Education Ohio State University The proposal by Governor Ethan Allen Brown of Ohio on January 8 1819 for the establishment of a state polytechnic school must have been one of the earliest in this country The early governors of Ohio like those of many of the other states were far ahead of the legislatures in their educational vision and their conviction of ...
... NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD IN OHIO NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD IN OHIO The Old Trails Chapter Daughters of the American Colonists Columbus Ohio unveiled a bronze tablet on the West Broad Street bridge in Columbus on October 5 1927 Mrs W C Moore Regent of the Chapter presided and Mayor James J Thomas made introductory remarks Mrs Lewis C Laylin of Columbus State Historian of the Daughters of American Colonists gave a short history of the road in Ohio and Mrs Frank C Martin State Regent unveiled the ...
... OHIO OHIO Archaeological and Historical PUBLICATIONS FROM CHARTER TO CONSTITUTION BEING A COLLECTION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE TERRITORY OF THE NORTHWEST AND THE STATE OF OHIO FROM THE CHARTERS OF JAMES I TO AND INCLUDING THE FIRST CONSTITUTION OF OHIO AND THE STATE PAPERS RELATING TO ITS ADMISSION TO THE UNION SHOWING THEREBY THE HISTORICAL CHAIN OF TITLE OF SAID STATE FROM 1606 TO 1803 BY DANIEL J RYAN THE FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA TO SIR THOMAS GATES SIR GEORGE SOMERS AND OTHERS ...
... Haverkamp Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 121-135 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 Roosevelt and Taft How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912 By Michael Haverkamp click to view full image We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord Teddy Roosevelt told supporters outside the Republican ...
... Haverkamp Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 121-135 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 Roosevelt and Taft How the Republican Vote Split in Ohio in 1912 By Michael Haverkamp click to view full image We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord Teddy Roosevelt told supporters outside the Republican ...
... HISTORICAL NEWS HISTORICAL NEWS Historical Societies ALLEN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Mrs Harry B Longsworth Secretary and Editor The October and December issues of the Reporter Nos 33 and 34 are devoted to an article on the Faurot Opera House in Lima The story was prompted by the contemplated razing of the Faurot Block The Opera House constructed in 1881 at a cost of 22500000 was said to have been the finest between New York and Denver The Society opened the season's meetings on October 30 ...
... Annual Report of the Society for 1960 Annual Report of the Society for 1960 AFTER LAST YEAR ' S extensive report of the Society's development through its seventy-five years we shall offer but a simple review of the activities for 1960 At the end of each year the heads of the divisions and the departments prepare annual reports which are submitted to the director These statements supply most of the information from which the Society's annual report is compiled The work of the Society is after ...
... The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly The OHIO HISTORICAL Quarterly VOLUME 64 NUMBER 2 APRIL 1955 The Correspondence of George A Myers and James Ford Rhodes 1910-1923 - II Edited by JOHN A GARRATY RHODES TO MYERS Boston January 7 1913 Dear George I do not wonder that you were irritated in not getting an earlier answer to yours of Oct 15 last but I have been very busy since my return from Seal Harbor without however accomplishing very much1 In the first place I have had some unsatisfactory investments ...
... THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION THE OPENING SCENES OF THE REBELLION BY COLONEL S K DONAVIN In the spring of 1861 I was a reporter and traveling correspondent on the Daily Exchange newspaper of the City of Baltimore When the telegraph announced that Mr Lincoln had reached Pittsburg en route for Washington City to be inaugurated President of the United States I left Baltimore by the Northern Central Railway for the purpose of meeting him and noting the incidents of his journey When I reached ...
... Book Reviews Summer-Autumn 2001 pp 193-217 Copyright 2001 by the Ohio Historical Society All rights reserved This article is presented page by page according to the original print version If a sentence seems to end abruptly scroll down to continue with the next page BOOK REVIEWS Joyous Greetings The First International Women's Movement 1830-1860 By Bonnie S Anderson New York Oxford University Press 2000 xii 288p illustrations notes bibliography index 3000 Anyone interested in history ...
... THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY THE USEFUL RESULTS OF HISTORICAL CONTROVERSY An Illustration and Suggestion WILLIAM Z DAVIS LL D Judge Ohio Supreme Court The present controversy about the discovery of the North Pole suggests the thought that the truth of history is established by adverse criticism and thorough investigaton and that the truth cannot be hidden forever A striking illustration of this is found in the bibliography of the discussion over the question Who discovered the ...