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{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ohh.2023.a912506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.2023.a912506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Edited Letters Between Michael Hillegas and Jacob Kriebel: 1822–1840","authors":"Sally K Francis, Dale E. Schmolinsky, Benedikt Schreiner, L. Allen Viehmeyer","doi":"10.1353/ohh.2023.a912499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.2023.a912499","url":null,"abstract":"Edited Letters Between Michael Hillegas and Jacob Kriebel1822–1840 Sally K Francis (bio), Dale E. Schmolinsky (bio), Benedikt Schreiner (bio), and L. Allen Viehmeyer (bio) This local history examines the struggles and triumphs of two nineteenth-century American families as described in 12 letters written between 1822 and 1840 and exchanged between Michael Hillegas and Jacob Kriebel, situating them as second-generation German immigrants and Ohio pioneers within the socioeconomic conditions of rural nineteenth-century Ohio and Pennsylvania. Land ownership and successful harvests were a focal point of each letter, attesting to the importance of location in these new lands. Topics of discussion found throughout the letters include: weather conditions, crops, livestock, family health, births, deaths, and religious issues. Additionally, some historical information is provided in each letter, such as canal construction and the presence of disease, namely cholera. Similar to many people who immigrated to North America in the early eighteenth century, the Kriebel and Yeakel (or Jäkel) ancestors of two of the authors of this article fled their homelands in Harpersdorf, Silesia (now Poland), and went to the estate of Count von Zinzendorf in Saxony, Germany. They were in search of religious freedom that had eluded them since the Protestant Reformation. In his 1904 memoirs, Adm. Winfield Schley observed, “The first [End Page 26] instinct for individual independence the world over has usually taken form in a defense of primitive faith, of right to pray in our own hearts in our own way.”1 The Yeakels followed the teachings of Caspar Schwenckfeld, a Silesian nobleman and radical reformer, who was born about 1489 and was thus a contemporary of Martin Luther who had been born six years earlier in 1483. Schwenckfeld was especially concerned about the interpretation of the Eucharist. Denying the real presence of Jesus in the bread and wine, he advocated a spiritual understanding of communion. In 1526 he suggested a cessation of the sacrament of communion until all reformers agreed on its interpretation and practice. Schwenckfeld was declared a heretic and spent the remainder of his life hiding in exile. In the 1720s, several hundred followers of Schwenckfeld still lived in Silesia (formerly Germany, now Poland). Under pressure to convert to Catholicism, they petitioned the emperor for religious tolerance but were unsuccessful. First, they fled to Saxony on foot, leaving behind most of their wealth such as looms, livestock, and homes because the journey was about 18 hours long. They remained on Count von Zinzendorf ’s estate in the village of Berthelsdorf, Saxony, for eight years, until they were forced out in the spring of 1734. Then they crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the St. Andrew and landed at the Philadelphia dock on September 22, 1734. Although they intended to settle together, they settled individually or in very small groups throughout what is now Montgomery ","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"883 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"America’s Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest by Stephen T. Kissel (review)","authors":"R. Scott Hurd","doi":"10.1353/ohh.2023.a912502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.2023.a912502","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: America’s Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest by Stephen T. Kissel R. Scott Hurd America’s Religious Crossroads: Faith and Community in the Emerging Midwest. Stephen T. Kissel. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-252-08627-4. 268 pp., paper, $28.00. Following the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, waves of European, Anglo, and African Americans settled in what by 1848 would become the states of Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota. These new arrivals established not only homesteads and settlements but also faith communities, which, according to author Stephen Kissel, had an outsized impact on shaping the region’s culture and society. The predominating Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists, Roman Catholics, Quakers, and African Methodist Episcopalians, converged with adherents of the Rappite, Shaker, and Mormon utopian faiths, resulting in what Kissel describes as a “crossroads of religious activity” (2) during an era concurrent with the Second Great Awakening. These groups were not homogenous and at times coexisted in tension. Considered together, however, Kissel maintains that these disparate faith groups formed a beautiful “mosaic” that accelerated the region’s growth, stability, and cultural refinement. This mosaic can be seen by viewing the region’s history through a “religious lens of analysis,” (2) which Kissel argues is a growing trend among contemporary historians, constituting a “new wave of religious historiography” (xii). Previous historians of the antebellum Old Northwest, while not ignoring the presence of religious groups, had treated their societal contributions as peripheral. With his present volume, initially his doctoral dissertation, Kissel seeks to fill this gap in analysis, arriving at the following conclusion: “Organized religion facilitated many of the region’s earliest advances in literacy, formal education, civic and moral accountability, charitable public outreach, and social reform” (2). Kissel unfolds his thesis in six thematically focused chapters, beginning with how early settlers’ homes were centers of hospitality and worship, laying a “foundation for a potentially ecumenical and religiously tolerant society” (30). Publication and distribution of religious tracts and bibles, especially by [End Page 110] circuit-riding preachers, fostered a regional literacy boom. The establishment of Sunday schools, seminaries, and religious colleges dominated the region’s educational infrastructure and offered a religion-based pedagogy. The erection of churches swelled civic pride, revivals fostered religious enthusiasm and social connections, and church bells marked time, offered warnings, and announced celebrations. Through Articles of Faith and Rules of Decorum, local congregations shaped communities’ moral behavior and dispensed justice before the permanent establishment of civil courts. And church-sponsored benevolent societies and ","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"College Football Grounds at Ohio University: The Development of a Social Anchor","authors":"Chad S. Seifried, Benjamin Downs, Khirey Walker","doi":"10.1353/ohh.2023.a912500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.2023.a912500","url":null,"abstract":"College Football Grounds at Ohio UniversityThe Development of a Social Anchor Chad S. Seifried (bio), Benjamin Downs (bio), and Khirey Walker (bio) Located near the northern bank of the Hocking River, Peden Stadium at Ohio University (OU) received recognition in 2009 as a historical site by the Ohio Historical Society. In that declaration, Peden Stadium, located in Athens, Ohio, was recognized as the “oldest of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) stadiums and one of the oldest of its type in the country.” Opening originally as the Ohio University Athletic Plant in 1929, Peden Stadium was renamed in 1960 to honor former football and baseball head coach and athletic director Don Peden, who worked at the university from 1924 until his retirement in 1949.1 Since its opening, Peden Stadium received many notable renovations inspired by both university and external stakeholders. For instance, the most recent major renovation to Peden Stadium was completed in 2018 when the Perry and Sandy Sook Academic Center opened. Designed by MSA Sport (Cincinnati), the Sook Center cost $7 million to complete and offers classroom space, a computer lab, meeting rooms, and offices for staff who support approximately 425 student-athletes and other student groups that use the facility. For stadium attendees, the Sook Center also adds to the gameday experience by offering new, high quality concession stands, additional restrooms, and other fan and/or hospitality services, such as club space and a reception room.2 [End Page 68] Of note, the Sook Center was constructed in partial fulfillment of Ohio University’s “The Promise Campaign,” which importantly sought to raise $450 million for university students and faculty. OU committed to the Sook Center because their own self-study suggested they were deficient in offering academic space to their student-athletes and that fan amenities were lacking in comparison to contemporary facilities provided by MAC peers. The university believed strongly in a report issued by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) Committee on Academics, which communicated that the emergence of academic centers leads to higher rates of retention, graduation, and overall academic performance.3 Over time, the construction and subsequent renovation of Peden Stadium through 2018 helped establish the facility as a legitimate and significant social anchor for the campus, region, and university fan nation.4 As a social anchor, Peden Stadium supports its fan nation through cultural activities, such as tail-gating, celebrating, and initiating social dialogue, which in turn help to create, promote, or maintain “social capital, identity (group or individual), and/or social networks.” Sport stadia like Peden Stadium can achieve that status because they often generate interaction. In essence, sport stadia “connect entire communities and . . . provide stability for future development, recruitment, and maintenance of communities or fan nations.”5 Stadia can ","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Back under the Jurisdiction of the Rev. Provincial”: The Dominican Sisters and the Limitations of Female Agency in the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Church in the Midwest","authors":"Elisabeth C. Davis","doi":"10.1353/ohh.2023.a912498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.2023.a912498","url":null,"abstract":"“Back under the Jurisdiction of the Rev. Provincial”The Dominican Sisters and the Limitations of Female Agency in the Nineteenth-Century Catholic Church in the Midwest Elisabeth C. Davis (bio) Introduction In 1864, Alexandre Jandel, the master general of the Order of St. Dominic (a Catholic religious order), wrote a letter to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine in Ohio and Kentucky informing them that they were no longer under the jurisdiction of the American leader of the Order of St. Dominic, the provincial,1 but were now under the authority of the local bishops, diocesan congregations.2 The Sisters responded, requesting to be placed “back under the jurisdiction of the Rev. Provincial.”3 To them, becoming diocesan communities meant that they might lose their places within the international Dominican community; moreover, they feared that their position under Episcopal leadership would possibly limit their autonomy within the local dioceses and allow for various abuses of power by the diocesan clergy. Despite the feeling that Jandel’s proclamation had been abrupt, the question of who had authority over the Sisters had been an ongoing debate since their origins in antebellum America.4 Founded by American women, the Kentucky and Ohio Dominican Sisters [End Page 9] of St. Catharine faced an uncertain future from their inception. Within the first four decades of their existence, the clergy nearly disbanded the Sisters multiple times as these women struggled to find their place within the international and American communities. This article examines two such moments: the possible dissolution of the Sisters by Raphael Muños, a Dominican friar, and their placement under the diocesan clergy by Alexandre Jandel, the leader of the international order. The Sisters actively took part within these conflicts navigating the various lines of authority and power within the nineteenth-century American Catholic Church. While the topic of nineteenth-century Catholic sisters’ agency has been well explored, it has not fully included the history of the Dominican Sisters.5 Perhaps the most analytical study of the Sisters is Margaret Hogan’s dissertation, “Sister Servants: Catholic Women Religious in Antebellum Kentucky.” Hogan’s work places the Dominican Sisters in conversation with other women religious, particularly the Loretto and the Sisters of Charity. Through her comparison, Hogan’s dissertation identifies themes for the life of women religious in Kentucky.6 This article places these local politics within the order in the context of larger debates over jurisdiction and authority. It explores the boundaries of [End Page 10] female agency and action within the expanding Catholic Church. In doing so, it adds to the vibrant historiography on nineteenth-century women religious, both in the American Catholic Church and the American Midwest. Origins and Key Terms The organization of the Order of St. Dominic (the Dominicans) is key to understanding the position of the ","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dissent and Patriotism","authors":"Thomas Weyant","doi":"10.1353/ohh.0.0070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.0.0070","url":null,"abstract":"The fiftieth commemoration of the Kent State University shootings came and went within a context no one could have predicted: a global pandemic. Years of preparation for the event were turned on their head due to social-distancing protocols and the need to refrain from mass gatherings.1 Only weeks later, thousands of Americans marched in the streets protesting racial injustice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.2 At the same time, small pockets of right-wing","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"129 1","pages":"53 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43790031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Darwin Comes to the Old Northwest","authors":"Stuart A. Stiffler","doi":"10.1353/ohh.0.0071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.0.0071","url":null,"abstract":"A decade following American publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species in 1860, a small, early core of volumes relevant to threaded themes of posited biophysical evolution and a vibrant new empirical science were starting to be available to settlers in the American Old Northwest. These titles, in company with intelligence disseminated in local newspapers and in public address, present an early view of what was to become an evolving climate of regional opinion. A dramatic arousal of public interest emerged finally into the semblance of a major American cultural debate.1 The emergence of numerous small stock and subscription libraries in the Old Northwest, intended to service the general reading of curious settlers, has been documented. An earnest solemnity, rooted in an ambiance of mission and ambition, became attached to the organization of these local reading and study societies and survives in some of their names: First Moral Library As-","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"129 1","pages":"82 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48904430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond Truman: Robert H. Ferrell and Crafting the Past by Douglas A. Dixon (review)","authors":"D. DeBlasio","doi":"10.1353/ohh.0.0074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.0.0074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"129 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46352112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Research Note: A Newly Uncovered Letter by Albion W. Tourgée on His Capture during the Civil War","authors":"Stephen E. Towne","doi":"10.1353/ohh.0.0072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.0.0072","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"129 1","pages":"104 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45577449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Origins of the Buckeye Nickname","authors":"R. Irwin","doi":"10.1353/ohh.0.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ohh.0.0068","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82217,"journal":{"name":"Ohio history","volume":"129 1","pages":"27 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48573016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}