Project MUSE®: Ohio History - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Ohio History.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 114 (2007) through current issueLatest Articles: Ohio HistoryTWOProject MUSE®Ohio History1934-60420030-0934Latest articles in Ohio History. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Falling for Fallout? The Marketing and Consumption of Fear and Shelter in Northeast Ohio, 1961–63
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/945221
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Going back several decades, scholars from a variety of fields have dug deeply into the nature of popular anxieties about nuclear conflict during the early Cold War (1950s–’60s). That Americans lived more or less constantly “under the shadow” of the bomb is well established. Nearly every aspect of American life was impacted, from political and military affairs to the interaction of state and society, and from cultural production to the daily minutiae of work and family life.1 Working from a similar conviction—and emphasizing a roughly two-year period from July 1961 to October 1963—this article uses the example of northeast Ohio to explore the relationship between local media coverage and its popular consumption on
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388/image/coversmallFalling for Fallout? The Marketing and Consumption of Fear and Shelter in Northeast Ohio, 1961–632024-11-26text/htmlen-USFalling for Fallout? The Marketing and Consumption of Fear and Shelter in Northeast Ohio, 1961–632024-11-262024TWOProject MUSE®1187282026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002024-11-26Draining the Swamp: The Destruction of an Essential Landscape
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/945222
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A drive through rural northern Ohio reveals a landscape that stretches out before you in a seemingly endless expanse of green. Rolling hills dotted with picturesque farms and quaint, small towns spread out on either side of the road. The fields are lush and vibrant, bursting with tall cornstalks, sunflowers, and soybeans, their leaves rustling in the gentle breeze. Trees stand tall and proud, their branches reaching up toward the sky. The occasional creek or stream, often found in large drainage ditches, trickle through the valleys, adding a soft babbling sound to the serene atmosphere. In the distance, the shores of Lake Erie shimmer, the water stretching out as far as the eye can see, giving the impression that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388/image/coversmallDraining the Swamp: The Destruction of an Essential Landscape2024-11-26text/htmlen-USDraining the Swamp: The Destruction of an Essential Landscape2024-11-262024TWOProject MUSE®624832026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002024-11-26Collection Notes: Three Newly Uncovered Letters of George Armstrong Custer
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/945223
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Three letters written by George Armstrong Custer, directed to and published in his hometown newspaper in the summer and fall of 1862 but unnoticed by Custer’s biographers and historians, shed new light on important episodes during the rebellion. Written in July, September, and October of 1862, the letters recount Custer’s service on the federal Army of the Potomac headquarters staff of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. In them Custer tells of President Abraham Lincoln’s unannounced visit to Harrison’s Landing in Virginia, gives an eyewitness account of the Battle of Antietam from the perspective of McClellan’s headquarters, and reports on Lincoln’s subsequent visit to the Army of the Potomac to cajole McClellan into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388/image/coversmallCollection Notes: Three Newly Uncovered Letters of George Armstrong Custer2024-11-26text/htmlen-USCollection Notes: Three Newly Uncovered Letters of George Armstrong Custer2024-11-262024TWOProject MUSE®1089572026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002024-11-26From Le Nain Rouge to Voyageurs: Celebrating French Heritage in Today’s Midwest
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/945224
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Various cultural associations do critical work to sustain French and Franco-phone cultural heritage on the North American continent, such as the Centre de la Francophonie des Amériques, the French Heritage Corridor (of the Midwest), and the Acadian World Congress, to name a few. Overlooking the Midwest, attention to French cultural festivals in North America focuses on Carnaval in Quebec City1 and Mardi Gras in New Orleans.2 Bastille Day celebrations in the United States have also been documented,3 as have a several commemorations of specific historical events, like the arrival of General Lafayette’s ship to Baltimore4 and the bicentennial of his 1824 tour of the nascent United States.5 These events overshadow many
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388/image/coversmallFrom Le Nain Rouge to Voyageurs: Celebrating French Heritage in Today’s Midwest2024-11-26text/htmlen-USFrom Le Nain Rouge to Voyageurs: Celebrating French Heritage in Today’s Midwest2024-11-262024TWOProject MUSE®1356912026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002024-11-26Tipping the Scales: One Man’s Freedom by Stanley U. Robinson Jr (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/945225
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In late 1954, Wilson and Phyllis Head, an interracial couple (he was Black; she was white), decided to buy a home in an all-white neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. No laws at the time forbade racial discrimination in housing, and the Heads encountered a fair amount of resistance. But they succeeded in moving into their new home without the violence that occurred in Birmingham, Chicago, Detroit, and elsewhere in the country.Tipping the Scales chronicles the Heads’ experience from the perspective of the Columbus lawyer who worked with them to secure and safely occupy their new home. This posthumously published memoir was assembled from the lawyer’s diaries by his family and supportive writers and editors. This
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/388/image/coversmallTipping the Scales: One Man’s Freedom by Stanley U. Robinson Jr (review)2024-11-26text/htmlen-USTipping the Scales: One Man’s Freedom by Stanley U. Robinson Jr (review)2024-11-262024TWOProject MUSE®57332026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002024-11-26