Ohio History Scholarship, November 2014

H-Ohio Ohio history scholarship, November 2014

Discussion published by Jon Miller on Thursday, November 6, 2014

[I'll start posting bibliography on a monthly or semimonthly basis. The list for November 2014 is all articles. JM]

Recent Ohio history scholarship, November 2014

Arndt, Leann K. “From the Stacks.” Missouri Historical Review 108, no. 2 (January 2014): 141–44. Biography of photographer and Ohio native Jacob Baumgardner (1870-1942), who moved to Missouri in 1912.

Bernier, Robert. “Ultimate Racing Machines.”Aviation History 24, no. 3 (January 2014): 14–15. Describes airplanes that raced at the 1932 National Air Races in Cleveland.

Bigelow, Ann. “My Damned Melancholy.” Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 32–43. History of suicide and depression among Ohio frontier settlers at the end of the eighteenth and start of the nineteenth centuries, with especial attention to the case of attorney Matthew Backus, who corresponded with Dr. Benjamin Rush.

Buecker, Thomas R. “The Father of Lincoln, Nebraska: The Life and Times of Thomas P. Kennard.” Nebraska History 95, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 78–93. Biography of Thomas Perkins Kennard (1828-1920), who grew up on a Belmont County, Ohio farm.

Carson, Bob. “Championship Hospitality.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 44–53. On the history of professional golf, with particular attention to the changes to the sport that occurred after the 1920 U.S. Open at Inverness Golf Course in Toledo, Ohio.

Cox, Jim. “Cleveland’s Public Sculptor.” Timeline 31, no. 2 (April 2014): 2–17. On the career of sculptor William Mozart McVey (1905-1995) and his commissions for Cleveland public works.

Eckhouse, Morris. “Baseball Magic At League Park.” Timeline 31, no. 2 (April 2014): 18–33. History of Cleveland baseball stadium League Park, which opened in 1891 and was much used until 1931.

“First Ladies National Historic Site and Saxton McKinley House.” Journal of American History 101, no. 1 (June 2014): 213–17. Description of the First Ladies National Historic Site and Saxton McKinley House in Canton, Ohio.

“Fort Recovery Monument.” Timeline 31, no. 2 (April 2014): 34–37. History of efforts to install a memorial for a 1791 battle at Fort Recovery, Ohio, which culminated in the 1912 monument still standing at Fort Recovery Museum and Historic Site.

Friesen, Eric. “The Denk Variations.”Queen’s Quarterly 121, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 252–61. Biography of pianist Jeremy Denk, winner of a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, who studied piano at Oberlin College.

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Grant, Jr, Philip A. “Northwest Ohio Press Reaction to the Death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Northwest Ohio History 81, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 165–69. Studies the newspaper coverage of the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945.

Hacker, Meg. “When Saying ‘I Do’ Meant Giving Up Your U.S. Citizenship.”Prologue 46, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 56–61. On the marriage and citizenship in America, with attention to former Ohio Congressman John L. Cable’s 1922 “Married Women’s Independent Nationality Act,” which repealed the 1907 Expatriation Act.

Hakensen, David R. “A Paradise Lost.” Minnesota History 64, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 34–44. Biography of author Helen Drusilla Blackburn Hoover (1910-1984), who was born in Greenfield, Ohio, and studied at Ohio University before moving west.

“Historic Preservation.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 58–58. On the conservation and reuse of historic buildings and district, including the Peoples Banking Company building in Oberlin, Ohio; Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio; and the Fort Piqua Hotel in Piqua, Ohio.

Horsman, Reginald. “Marietta in the Age of Sail.” Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 2–13. History of early to mid-nineteenth-century oceangoing shipbuilding in Marietta, Ohio.

Ingraham, Charles H. “Farmer’s Institutes/Community Institutes.”Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 187–95. History of the Ohio Farmers’ Institutes and Community Institutes from the late nineteenth-century to the middle of the twentieth century.

Kigans, Fran. “Ichabod Nye.”Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 166–69. Biography of Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Nye, who moved to Marietta in 1785 after his marriage to the daughter of General Benjamin Tupper.

———. “Samuel P. Hildreth Obituary.” Tallow Light, Spring 2014. Obituary for Marietta physician and historian Samuel Prescott Hildreth (1783–1863).

———. “William Addy.” Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 160–160. Short biography of Reverend Dr. William Addy of Marietta’s Fourth Street Presbyterian Church in the middle nineteenth century.

Kigans, Kran. “Anslem Tupper Nye.” Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 199–200. Biography of nineteenth-century Marietta mayor Anselm Tupper Nye.

Kinney, Thomas A. “High Gloss.” Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 18–31. History of the Cleveland paint business of Henry A. Sherwin (1842-1916).

Koontz, Tomas M., and Jens Newig. “From Planning to Implementation: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches for Collaborative Watershed Management.”Policy Studies Journal 42, no. 3 (August 2014): 416–42. doi:10.1111/psj.12067. Describes watershed and water quality management in twenty-first century Ohio.

Lewis Shedd, Mary. “William Ambrose Shedd.”Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 153–60. Biography of William Ambrose Shedd, nineteenth-century missionary, diplomat, and college professor

Lewis, Walter. “Shipwright Henry H. Tiebout.” Inland Seas 70, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 44–51. Describes the life of early nineteenth-century New York shipwright Henry H. Tiebout, who moved to Ohio for the end of his life.

Miller, Jon. “From the Periodical Archives: Selections from the Akron Offering: A Ladies’ Literary Magazine.” American Periodicals 24, no. 1 (March 2014): 79–92. Describes The Akron Offering, a literary magazine published in Akron in 1849 and 1850. Includes selections on the subjects of poverty, women’s rights, the California Gold Rush, and travel by road from Seville, Ohio, to Akron.

Nelson, Christopher. “Frederick Douglass Patterson.”Timeline 31, no. 2 (April 2014): 50–54. Biography of Frederick Douglass Patterson, an African American businessman, teacher, and congressional delegate who studied at Ohio State University.

Olaiz, Hugo. “The Kirtland Temple as a Shared Space: A Conversation with David J. Howlett.” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 47, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 104–23. Interview with assistant professor of religion David J. Howlett on the past and present of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Kirtland Temple in Kirtland, Ohio.

Pollak, Oliver B. “Moses D. Pass, Md, and Stars of David in the Nebraska Sand Hills.” Western States Jewish History 46, no. 4 (Summer 2014): 53–64. Biography of Ukrainian-born Jewish doctor Moses D. Pass, who emigrated to America in 1882 and studied medicine at the Cleveland Medical College in Cleveland, Ohio.

Post, Robert C. “Our Mel Kranzberg: Risks He Took, Stumbles, and Sometimes a Second Thought.” Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 20, no. 1 (October 2014): 6–16. On the career of history of technology professor Melvin Kranzberg, who taught at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio.

“Quaker Yearly Meetinghouse.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 20–23. History of the Quaker Yearly Meetinghouse in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio.

Rentschler, Thomas B. “Woefully Deficient in Cavalry Arms.”Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 44–49. History of the carbines manufactured in Ohio during the Civil War, with attention to the people of the Hamilton, Ohio Cosmopolitan Arms Company.

“Restoring the Wright Factory.” Air & Space Smithsonian 29, no. 2 (July 6, 2014): 12–12. On the restoration efforts in the Dayton, Ohio Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park and the aircraft factory once owned Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Rivard, Betty. “Marietta Manufacturing Company.”Goldenseal 40, no. 2 (Summer 2014): 30–35. History of the Marietta Manufacturing Company and the construction and repair of boats, barges, and watercraft on the Ohio River between 1915 and 1970 at the confluence of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, above Galliopolis, Ohio at Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

Sanders, Stuart W., and Sergeant Wilbur F. Hinman. “Battlefields & Beyond.” Civil War Times 53, no.

1 (February 2014): 26–27. Includes an excerpt from the diary of Ohio Infantry sergeant Wilbur F. Hinman relating his experience at the battle of Perryville found on October 8, 1862.

“Scioto Historical.” Scioto Historical. Accessed September 2, 2014. http://sciotohistorical.org/.

Shope Stiefbold, Angela. “Hillbilly Comedy in Cincinnati: The Willie Thall Papers at the Cincinnati Museum Center.” Ohio Valley History 14, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 73–76. Describes the career and papers of George William Blumenthal, a major figure of Cincinnati’s WLW radio and television programming in the 1940s and 1950s.

Simmons, David A. “Bringing the Canals to Ohio.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 24–37. History of canals in nineteenth-century Ohio.

———. “The Challenge of Canal Engineering.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 30–31. Describes the engineering of canals in general and of the Ohio & Erie and Miami & Erie canals in particular.

Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

“Smoke Break.” Civil War Times 53, no. 2 (April 2014): 26–27. Civil War-era photograph of officers from the 45th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, smoking.

Snow, Violet. “In Search of Private Davies.”Civil War Times 53, no. 5 (October 2014): 40–45. Describes the author’s study of her ancestor, William Morgan Davies, a member of the 95th Ohio Infantry. Includes excerpts from his Civil War diary.

Suciu, Peter. “The 22nd Annual Show of Shows Featured Hard-to-Find Uniforms, Medals, and Guns and a Chance to Meet Distinguished Veterans.”Military Heritage 16, no. 1 (July 2014): 22–25. Describes the Ohio River Valley Military Society’s 22nd annual Show of Shows (SOS), a show of military history collectibles from around the world, in Louisville, Kentucky from February 26, 2014 to March 2, 2014.

“Tallmadge Church.” Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 14–17. History of the Tallmadge Church in Tallmadge, Ohio.

“Tattered Souvenir.” Civil War Times 53, no. 4 (August 2014): 82. Presentation of a photograph of Private John Webb of the 19th Ohio Infantry with a Union Brigade flag, c. 1861-1865.

“Thomas Corwin.” Timeline 31, no. 1 (January 2014): 50–54. Biography of Whig Congressman and Senator Thomas Corwin (1794-1865), who was also a prosecuting attorney in Warren County.

“Washington County Extension Radio.” Tallow Light 44, no. 4 (Spring 2014): 184–87. History of the late 1930s radio programs of Washington County, Ohio Agricultural Agent Arthur H. Smith.

White Jr., John H. “Pygmy Steam Power.” Timeline 31, no. 3 (July 2014): 38–43. Describes the history of steamboats in Ohio.

-- Jon Miller, The University of Akron, H-Ohio Review Editor