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Randall Buchman Defiance College ARTICLES Andrew R. L. Cayton Communication Technology Transforms the Marketplace: 4 Miami University The Effect of the Telegraph, Telephone, and Ticker on the John J. Grabowski Merchants’ Exchange Case Western Reserve by Bradford W. Scharlott University and Western Reserve Historical Society Steubenville, Ohio, and the Nineteenth-Century 18 Steamboat Trade R. Douglas Hurt Iowa State University by Jerry E. Green George W. Knepper University of Akron BOOK REVIEWS Robert M. Mennel University of New Hampshire The Collected Works of 31 Vol. 5, Popular Government & The Anti-trust Act and the Supreme Zane Miller Court. Edited with commentary by David Potash and Donald F. Anderson; Marian J. Morton Vol. 6, The President and His Powers & The United States and John Carroll University Peace. Edited with commentary by W. Carey McWilliams and Frank X. Gerrity. Larry L. Nelson —REVIEWED BY CLARENCE E. WUNDERLIN JR. Ohio Historical Society, Fort Meigs From Blackjacks To Briefcases: A History of Commercialized 32 Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States. By Robert Harry Scheiber Michael Smith. —REVIEWED BY JAMES E. CEBULA. University of California, Berkeley Confronting American Labor: The New Left Dilemma. By Jeffrey W. 33 Coker. —REVIEWED BY TERRY A. COONEY. Warren Van Tine The Ohio State University European Capital, British Iron, and an American Dream: The Story 34 of the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad. By William Reynolds; Mary Young edited by Peter K. Gifford and Robert D. Ilisevich. University of Rochester —REVIEWED BY CRAIG R. SEMSEL. EDITORIAL STAFF To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of 35 Emerson Opdyke. Edited by Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas. Shirley T. Wajda —REVIEWED BY STEPHEN ROCKENBACH. Guest Editor Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier. 36 Patricia Walsh By Amy DeRogatis. —Reviewed by William H. Bergmann. Production Editor continues next page

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“Lest We Be Marshall’d”: Judicial Powers and Politics in Ohio, 37 BOOK NOTES 49 1806Ð1812. By Donald F. Melhorn Jr. —REVIEWED BY JOHN E. DOUGLASS. NOTES & 52 Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the 38 QUERIES U.S.-Israeli Alliance. By Warren Bass. —REVIEWED BY WALTER L. HIXSON. Permission to Remain Among Us: Education for Blacks in Oberlin, 40 Ohio, 1880Ð1914. By Cally L. Waite. —REVIEWED BY ABEL A. BARTLEY. Sex Radicals and the Quest for Women’s Equality. By Joanne E. 41 Passet. —REVIEWED BY T. J. BOISSEAU. Touched with Fire: Five Presidents and the Civil War Battles That 42 Made Them. By James M. Perry. Reviewed by Allan Peskin. Ohio’s Founding Fathers. By Fred J. Milligan. —REVIEWED BY 43 JEFFREY P. B ROWN. Our Common Country: Mutual Good Will in America. By Warren 44 G. Harding; edited by Warren G. Harding III with an introduction by Robert H. Ferrell. —REVIEWED BY PHILIP PAYNE. Builders of Ohio: A Biographical History. Edited by Warren Van 45 Tine and Michael Pierce. —REVIEWED BY DAVID C. HAMMACK. Journal of a Voyage Around the World: A Year on the Ship Helena 46 (1841Ð1842). By Thomas Worthington King, edited by Steven E. Kagle. —REVIEWED BY MICHAEL SOKOLOW. Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the 47 Rural Landscape. By Terence J. Centner. —REVIEWED BY GINETTE ALEY. On the Right Track: Some Historic Cincinnati Railroads. By John 48 H. White Jr. —REVIEWED BY H. ROGER GRANT. The River Home: A Memoir. By Dorothy Weil. 48 —REVIEWED BY JAMES E. CEBULA.

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OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2003Ð2004

William K. Laidlaw Jr., Executive Director

OFFICERS Grant L. Douglass, President Nancy S. Dix, Vice President Elaine H. Hairston, Vice President Robert H. Jeffrey, Treasurer Charles B. Nuckolls Jr., Secretary

TRUSTEES David B. Baker, Marietta Alan S. Katchen, Columbus Marnie C. Black, Cincinnati George P. Kulchytsky, Parma William K. Block Jr., Toledo John J. Kulewicz, Columbus Joyce E. Brown, Urbana Ann Kiser Lowder, Columbus Nancy S. Dix, Hebron Charles B. Nuckolls Jr., Cincinnati Grant L. Douglass, Columbus Lucy McKewen Porter, Columbus Patricia S. Eldredge, Hudson Richard T. Prasse, Cleveland Elaine H. Hairston, Pataskala Richard D. Ruppert, Toledo Thomas E. Huenefeld, Cincinnati Mac A. Stewart, Delaware Robert H. Jeffrey, Columbus Marian J. Vance, Delaware

EX OFFICIO Bob Taft, Governor of Ohio Doug White, President, Ohio Senate Greg L. DiDonato, Minority Leader, Ohio Senate Larry Householder, Speaker, Ohio House of Representatives Chris Redfern, Minority Leader, Ohio House of Representatives Susan Tave Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction Roderick G. W. Chu, Chancellor, Ohio Board of Regents Mark Heppner, President, Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums Thomas T. Taylor, President, Ohio Academy of History Michael Herschler, President, Ohio Academy of Science Richard C. Simpson, Chair, Ohio Historical Society Development Board Louis Mitchell, Chairman, Ohio Historical Society Foundation Bruce E. Johnson, Director, Ohio Department of Development

EMERITI John J. Chester, Columbus Dixie S. Miller, Bexley Rex E. Haecker, Circleville Phillip R. Shriver, Oxford George W. Knepper, Munroe Falls Robert Burns Smith, Columbus