Ohio Bicentennial Series

Buckeye Women

The History of Ohio's Daughters

By Stephane Elise Booth

By the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ohio women had held positions as university presidents, chief executive officers, judges, superintendents of schools, and lieutenant governor. They had won Pulitzer Prizes and, in one case, the Nobel Prize for Literature.…

Creating a Perfect World

Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio

By Catherine M. Rokicky

Powerful currents of religious revival and political and social reform swept nineteenth-century America. Many people expressed their radical religious and social ideals by creating or joining self-contained utopian communities.…

The Documentary Heritage of Ohio

Edited by Phillip R. Shriver and Clarence E. Wunderlin Jr.

Key to the successful teaching and learning of history is its personalization. In presenting documents that help Ohio's rich history come alive in the minds of its readers, this book has purposely sought to provide eyewitness, first-person narratives that will make the reader want to turn the page and keep on reading.…

Ohio on the Move

Transportation in the Buckeye State

By H. Roger Grant

Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buckeye state. From the "Canal Age" to the "Interurban Era," Ohio emerged as a national leader.…

Ohio’s First Peoples

By James H. O'Donnell

Although founders of the state like Rufus Putnam pointed to the remaining prehistoric earthworks at Marietta as evidence that the architects were a people of "ingenuity, industry, and elegance," their words did not prevent a rivalry with the area's Indian inhabitants that was settled only through decades of warfare and treaty-making.…