[…] to political favors promised by his supporters. Harrison’s presidency focused on foreign policy, internal improvements, naval expansion, and antitrust legislation. The Sherman Antitrust Act, the oldest U.S. antitrust law, was passed during his administration. After leaving office, Harrison retired to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and wrote two books before his death in 1901. William McKinley (1897-1901) McKinley was born […]

[…] to political favors promised by his supporters. Harrison’s presidency focused on foreign policy, internal improvements, naval expansion, and antitrust legislation. The Sherman Antitrust Act, the oldest U.S. antitrust law, was passed during his administration. After leaving office, Harrison retired to Indianapolis, where he practiced law and wrote two books before his death in 1901. William McKinley (1897-1901) McKinley was born […]

[…] of e-readers led many to predict that print books would become obsolete as people loaded their shiny, new Kindles with the latest bestsellers. Thankfully, that prediction has not come to pass. Reading books is as popular as it has ever been, as evidenced not only by annual sales figures from the publishing industry, but also the rise of indie bookstores […]

[…] who marries the beautiful Julia and produces a son named William. Erasmus disappears for long stretches of time, and after Julia dies, Olivia takes over the boy’s care. Several years pass before Erasmus returns to claim his son, and Olivia follows the two of them down the river to a settlement, where Erasmus is involved in the dangerous business of […]

[…] who marries the beautiful Julia and produces a son named William. Erasmus disappears for long stretches of time, and after Julia dies, Olivia takes over the boy’s care. Several years pass before Erasmus returns to claim his son, and Olivia follows the two of them down the river to a settlement, where Erasmus is involved in the dangerous business of […]

[…] who marries the beautiful Julia and produces a son named William. Erasmus disappears for long stretches of time, and after Julia dies, Olivia takes over the boy’s care. Several years pass before Erasmus returns to claim his son, and Olivia follows the two of them down the river to a settlement, where Erasmus is involved in the dangerous business of […]

[…] collaboration with the American Association of University Women. The award was presented for forty years, ending in 2003. Martha Kinney Cooper and Florence Roberts Head were dear friends until Head’s passing. As Cooper wrote in tribute to Head in the fall 1962 Ohioana Quarterly, “We, of the Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library, owe much to this outstanding woman . . […]

[…] around and earned her some respect.) Imagine becoming a librarian, one of the gentlest of careers, and finding no place to work but inside a prison, where you had to pass a search inspection each day to get to your job, and as you left each evening. As an employee there, you were automatically suspect that you would bring contraband […]

[…] Artemisia is not squeamish about the dead. She actually prefers their silence and lack of curiosity about her scarred hands. She must help cleanse their bodies so each soul can pass into the next life. Unfortunately, not all bodies are cleansed by a Gray Sister. Those that die quiet, natural deaths return as roaming spirits more easily controlled. But those […]

[…] Steel League, hoping to get ballplayers to come and play for them, theoretically offering them jobs that didn’t conflict with their baseball orientation. In May of 1918, the military brass passed a new draft resolution that stated that all able-bodied men must “work or fight,” as it became known. It was aimed particularly at street bums, racetrack regulars, pool hall […]