Ohio in Photographs
A Portrait of the Buckeye State
By Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber
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Introduction by John Fleischman
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Foreword by John R. Kasich
Ohio in Photographs is a collection of stunning images that capture the texture of life in the Buckeye State. Two of the region’s’s leading landscape photographers, Ian Adams and Randall Lee Schieber, present a rich array of places and people from each of Ohio’s eighty-eight counties.
Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional · Ohio · Ohio and Regional · Travel | Pictorials
Home Front to Battlefront
An Ohio Teenager in World War II
By Frank Lavin
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Foreword by Henry Kissinger
Home Front to Battlefront contributes the rich details of one soldier’s experience to the broader literature on World War II, offering insight into the wartime career of a Jewish Ohioan in the military from enlistment to training through overseas deployment via personal letters, recollections, official military history, and more.
Letters · World War II · Military History · American History · Ohio and Regional · Trade Nonfiction
The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney
The Politics and Jurisprudence of a Northern Democrat from the Age of Jackson to the Gilded Age
By David M. Gold
In The Jacksonian Conservatism of Rufus P. Ranney, David M. Gold works with the public record to reveal the contours of the life and work of one of Ohio’s most intriguing legal figures. The result is a new look at how Jacksonian principles crossed the divide of the Civil War and became part of the fabric of American law and at how radical antebellum Democrats transformed themselves into Gilded Age conservatives.
American History · Legal and Constitutional History · 19th century · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · American History, Midwest
No Money, No Beer, No Pennants
The Cleveland Indians and Baseball in the Great Depression
By Scott H. Longert
A lively history of the ups and downs of a legendary team and its iconic players as they persevered through internal unrest and the turmoil of the Great Depression, pursuing a pennant that didn’t come until 1948. Illustrated with period photographs and filled with anecdotes of the great players, this book will delight fans of baseball and fans of Cleveland.
Baseball History · Ohio and Regional · Great Depression · Ohio · Trade Nonfiction · American History, Midwest
Winold Reiss and the Cincinnati Union Terminal
Fanfare for the Common Man
By Gretchen Garner
After designing and installing the massive murals for the Cincinnati Union Terminal in the 1930s, German immigrant artist Winold Reiss fell into relative obscurity, despite the vibrancy and boldness of his meticulous mosaic works. Art historian Garner pays this early modernist his due, putting him in the context of his international peers and the art movements that continue to invigorate our aesthetic landscape today.
The Bellwether
Why Ohio Picks the President
By Kyle Kondik
Every four years, Ohio finds itself in the thick of the presidential race. What about the Buckeye State makes it so special? In The Bellwether, Kyle Kondik, managing editor for the nonpartisan political forecasting newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball, blends data-driven research and historical documentation to explain Ohio’s remarkable record as a predictor of presidential results and why the state is essential to the 2016 election and beyond.
Political Science | Political Process | Campaigns & Elections · Politics · Ohio and Regional
The Bellwether
Why Ohio Picks the President
By Kyle Kondik
Every four years, Ohio finds itself in the thick of the presidential race. What about the Buckeye State makes it so special? In The Bellwether, Kyle Kondik, managing editor for the nonpartisan political forecasting newsletter Sabato’s Crystal Ball, blends data-driven research and historical documentation to explain Ohio’s remarkable record as a predictor of presidential results and why the state is essential to the 2016 election and beyond.
Political Science | Political Process | Campaigns & Elections · Politics · Ohio and Regional
Capitol Punishment
An Andy Hayes Mystery
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
All eyes are on swing state Ohio in the midst of a presidential election, and protecting a controversial reporter seems simple enough to Andy. But then a body shows up in the Statehouse.
Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
The Common Lot and Other Stories
The Published Short Fiction, 1908–1921
By Emma Bell Miles
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Edited by Grace Toney Edwards
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Introduction by Grace Toney Edwards
The seventeen narratives of The Common Lot and Other Stories, published in popular magazines across the United States between 1908 and 1921 and collected here for the first time, are driven by Emma Bell Miles’s singular vision of the mountain people of her home in southeastern Tennessee. That vision is shaped by her strong sense of social justice, her naturalist’s sensibility, and her insider’s perspective.Women
Short Stories (single author) · Women Authors · Appalachia · United States · Ohio and Regional
Under Ohio
The Story of Ohio’s Rocks and Fossils
By Charles Ferguson Barker
A geologist takes young readers underground to reveal the fascinating story of Ohio’s geology.
Earth Sciences (Juvenile Nonfiction) · Ohio · Young Readers · Ohio and Regional
Keeping Heart
A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine
By Otis Trotter
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Introduction by Joe William Trotter Jr.
Organized around the life histories, medical struggles, and recollections of Otis Trotter and his thirteen siblings, Keeping Heart is a personal account of an African American family’s journey north during the second Great Migration.
Memoir · Biography, African American · African American Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Political Science | Civil Rights · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
All the Way to #1
The Story of the Greatest High School Football National Championship Teams of the 20th Century
By Timothy L. Hudak and John R. Pflug Jr.
The 20th century was the defining era of high school football, and during that time a select group of programs across the country solidified their reputations as the nation’s greatest. These programs—with legendary coaches like Paul Brown, Wright Bazemore, Gerry Faust, and Bob Ladouceur—produced national championship teams at schools such as Massillon, Valdosta, Moeller, and De La Salle.But which of these teams was the greatest?All
Keep On Fighting
The Life and Civil Rights Legacy of Marian A. Spencer
By Dorothy H. Christenson
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Introduction by Mary E. Frederickson
Dot Christenson records the life story of remarkable leader, Marian Alexander Spencer, who joined the NAACP at thirteen and grew up to achieve a number of civic leadership firsts and a legacy of lasting civil rights victories.
Biography, African American · Biography, Activists · Biography & Autobiography | Women · Political Science | Civil Rights · American History · African American Studies · Ohio · Ohio and Regional · History | African American
A Photographer’s Guide to Ohio
Volume 2
By Ian Adams
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Foreword by Guy L. Denny
In A Photographer’s Guide to Ohio: Vol. 2, Ian Adams expands on his previous work, adding over 120 natural features, scenic rivers and byways, zoos and public gardens, historic buildings and murals, and even winter lighting displays to the list of places to visit and photograph in the Buckeye State.
Photography | Techniques · Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional · Travel - Special Interest · Travel - Midwest · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Slow Burn
An Andy Hayes Mystery
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Almost two years have passed since Aaron Custer supposedly set a fire at a house in Columbus that killed three college students, when it starts to seem likely that the wrong man is in prison.
Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Fourth Down and Out
An Andy Hayes Mystery
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Andy Hayes, everyone’s not-so-favorite former Buckeye quarterback, thinks retrieving a laptop with a damning video should be easy enough—until bodies start to pile up and the case gets personal.
Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Women of the Mountain South
Identity, Work, and Activism
Edited by Connie Park Rice and Marie Tedesco
Scholars of southern Appalachia have largely focused their research on men, particularly white men. The essays of Women of the Mountain South debunk the entrenched stereotype of Appalachian women as poor and white, and shine a long-overdue spotlight on women too often neglected in the history of the region.
Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional · Appalachia
A Young General and the Fall of Richmond
The Life and Career of Godfrey Weitzel
By G. William Quatman
Despite his military achievements and his association with many of the great names of American history, Godfrey Weitzel (1835–1884) is perhaps the least known of all the Union generals. After graduating from West Point, Weitzel, a German immigrant from Cincinnati, was assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans.
Biography & Autobiography | General · American Civil War · Military History · Ohio and Regional
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War
Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America’s Heartland
By Stephen E. Towne
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society.
American Civil War · Intelligence · National and International Security · Ohio and Regional · Midwest · American History, Midwest
Follow the Blue Blazes
A Guide to Hiking Ohio’s Buckeye Trail
By Connie Pond and Robert J. Pond
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Foreword by Steven M. Newman
From the startling rock formations and graceful waterfalls of Old Man’s Cave, to Native American mounds, battlefields, and scenic rivers, Connie and Robert J. Pond provide a captivating guide to often-overlooked treasures around the state.
Travel - Midwest · Ohio and Regional · Guidebook · Midwest · Ohio
A Conversation about Ohio University and the Presidency, 1975–1994
By Charles J. Ping
When Charles Ping first arrived at Ohio University in 1975, the university was experiencing a decline in student enrollment and confronting serious financial challenges. But rather than focusing on its problems, Ping instead concentrated on Ohio University’s potential.
Soulful Bobcats
Experiences of African American Students at Ohio University, 1950–1960
By Carl H. Walker and Betty Hollow
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Foreword by Roderick J. McDavis
During the 1950s, a group of ambitious young African Americans enrolled at Ohio University, a predominantly white school in Athens, Ohio. Years later, eighteen of them decided to share their stories, recalling the joys and challenges of living on a white campus before the civil rights era.
Memoir · Biography, African American · African American Studies · Ohio and Regional · Athens, Ohio · Ohio
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
By Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining. Looking beyond the slogans and seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, can reveal deeper causes of conflict.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Conflict Resolution (Business and Econ.) · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Environmental Studies
Mountaintop Mining in Appalachia
Understanding Stakeholders and Change in Environmental Conflict
By Susan F. Hirsch and E. Franklin Dukes
Residents of the Appalachian coalfields share a history and heritage, deep connections to the land, and pride in their own resilience. These same residents are also profoundly divided over the practice of mountaintop mining. Looking beyond the slogans and seemingly irreconcilable differences, however, can reveal deeper causes of conflict.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Conflict Resolution (Business and Econ.) · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Environmental Studies
The Locavore’s Kitchen
A Cook’s Guide to Seasonal Eating and Preserving
By Marilou K. Suszko
In more than 150 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, Marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. From asparagus in the spring to pumpkins in the fall, Suszko helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal homegrown or locally grown foods as well as how to store fresh foods, and which cooking methods bring out fresh flavors and colors.
Cookbooks · Nature · Food Studies · Ohio and Regional · Guidebook
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
By Joyce M. Barry
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.The
Social Science | Regional Studies · Women’s Studies · Environmental Policy · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature
By Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Contemporaries were shocked when author Mary Noailles Murfree revealed she was a woman, but modern readers may be more surprised by her cogent discussion of community responses to unwanted development. Effie Waller Smith, an African American woman writing of her love for the Appalachian mountains, wove discussions of women’s rights, racial tension, and cultural difference into her Appalachian poetry.
American Literature · Women’s Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies · Gender Studies · Ohio and Regional · Literature · Appalachia
Blood of the Prodigal
An Amish Country Mystery
By P. L. Gaus
Mystery and foreboding lurk in a quiet Old Order Amish community when a young boy goes missing one early morning without a trace. With a strong distrust of law enforcement and the modern “English” ways, the bishop must put his faith in an unlikely partnership. Will he find the boy before it’s too late?
Mystery · Amish · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
The Emergence of the Moundbuilders
The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
Edited by Elliot M. Abrams and AnnCorinne Freter
Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000 bc.Edited
Archaeology · Native American Studies · Anthropology · American History · Ohio and Regional · Ohio
Fourth Down and Out
An Andy Hayes Mystery
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Andy Hayes, everyone’s not-so-favorite former Buckeye quarterback, thinks retrieving a laptop with a damning video should be easy enough—until bodies start to pile up and the case gets personal.
Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Fourth Down and Out
An Andy Hayes Mystery
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
Andy Hayes, everyone’s not-so-favorite former Buckeye quarterback, thinks retrieving a laptop with a damning video should be easy enough—until bodies start to pile up and the case gets personal.
Fiction | Mystery & Detective | Private Investigators · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Citizen-General
Jacob Dolson Cox and the Civil War Era
By Eugene D. Schmiel
The wrenching events of the Civil War transformed not only the United States but also the men unexpectedly called on to lead their fellow citizens in this first modern example of total war. Jacob Dolson Cox, a former divinity student with no formal military training, was among those who rose to the challenge. In a conflict in which “political generals” often proved less than competent, Cox, the consummate citizen general, emerged as one of the best commanders in the Union army.
American Civil War · American History · History · Military History · United States · North America · Americas · Ohio and Regional
Once I Too Had Wings
The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
By Emma Bell Miles
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Edited by Steven Cox
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Foreword by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Previously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals of Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919) contain poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman’s perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century.
Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · Women Authors · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
The Wright Company
From Invention to Industry
By Edward J. Roach
A fascinating window into Wilbur and Orville Wright‘s legendary Wright Company, its place in Dayton, its management struggles, and its effects on early U.S. aviation.
Aviation History · Business and Economics · History of Technology · Ohio and Regional
Shake Terribly the Earth
Stories from an Appalachian Family
By Sarah Beth Childers
In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life family tales that affected the entire region to make sense of her personal journey and find the joy and clarity that often emerge after the earth shakes terribly beneath us.
Memoir · Creative Nonfiction · Appalachia · United States · North America · Americas · Literature · Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional
Way’s Steam Towboat Directory
By Frederick Way Jr. and Joseph W. Rutter
After the initial release in 1983 of Way’s Packet Directory, 1848–1983, the demand was enormous for a similar treatment of the steam towboats that once populated the Mississippi River System. Captain Frederick Way, Jr.,
History · American History · Ohio and Regional · Transportation History
Appalachia in the Classroom
Teaching the Region
Edited by Theresa L. Burriss and Patricia M. Gantt
Appalachia in the Classroom presents topics and teaching strategies for a twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia that reflect the diversity found within the region. It offers a critical resource and a model for engaging place in various disciplines and at several different levels in a thoughtful and inspiring way.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Ohio and Regional · Appalachia · Education
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste
Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
By Bill Best
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Foreword by Howard L. Sacks
The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Ora’s Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter—these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables you’ll encounter in Bill Best’s remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian culture associated with them.
Food Studies · Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection · Gardening · Essays in Horticulture · Appalachia · United States · Ohio and Regional
Mountains of Injustice
Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia
Edited by Michele Morrone and Geoffrey L. Buckley
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Foreword by Donald Edward Davis
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Afterword by Jedediah Purdy
Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Ohio and Regional · History | Historical Geography · Appalachia
Hero of the Angry Sky
The World War I Diary and Letters of David S. Ingalls, America’s First Naval Ace
By David S. Ingalls
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Edited by Geoffrey L. Rossano
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Foreword by William F. Trimble
Draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy’s only flying “ace” of World War I to tell his unique story.
Aviation History · History · American History · European History · Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · World War I · History | Modern | 20th Century · Military History · Ohio and Regional
The Collected Letters of Henry Northrup Castle
By Henry Northrup Castle
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Edited by George Herbert Mead and Helen Castle Mead
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Introduction by Alfred L. Castle
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Foreword by Marvin Krislov
Castle’s correspondence with family members and with George Herbert Mead— one of America’s most influential philosophers and his best friend at Oberlin College—reveals many of the intellectual, economic, and cultural forces that shaped American thought.
Letters · Biography & Autobiography | General · American Studies · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus
Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio’s Capital City
By Bob Hunter
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Photography by Lucy S. Wolfe
A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus invites Columbus’s families to rediscover their city with a treasure trove of stories from its past and suggests to visitors and new residents many interesting places that they might not otherwise find. This new book is certain to amuse and inform for years to come.
Travel - Midwest · Architecture · Ohio · Guidebook · Ohio and Regional · American History, Midwest
Sharp and Dangerous Virtues
A Novel
By Martha Moody
It’s 2047 in Dayton, Ohio. In response to food and water shortages, the U.S. government has developed an enormous, and powerfully successful, agricultural area—the “Heartland Grid”—just north of the city. In the meantime, in the wake of declining American power a multinational force has established itself in Cleveland. Behind these quickly shifting alliances lies a troubling yet tantalizing question: what will the American future look like?
Face to Face
The Photography of Lloyd E. Moore
Edited by Rajko Grlić
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Photography by Lloyd E. Moore
A remarkable collection of photographs by an ex-Marine who worked as a lawyer in Lawrence County, Ohio, for around thirty-six years.
Standing Our Ground
Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal
By Joyce M. Barry
Standing Our Ground: Women, Environmental Justice, and the Fight to End Mountaintop Removal examines women’s efforts to end mountaintop removal coal mining in West Virginia. Mountaintop removal coal mining, which involves demolishing the tops of hills and mountains to provide access to coal seams, is one of the most significant environmental threats in Appalachia, where it is most commonly practiced.The
Social Science | Regional Studies · Women’s Studies · Environmental Policy · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional
The Untried Life
The Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
By James T. Fritsch
Told in unflinching detail, this is the story of the Twenty-Ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, also known as the Giddings Regiment or the Abolition Regiment, after its founder, radical abolitionist Congressman J. R. Giddings. The men who enlisted in the Twenty-Ninth OVI were, according to its lore, handpicked to ensure each was as pure in his antislavery beliefs as its founder.
American History · History · Ohio and Regional · Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · Letters · American Civil War · Military History
Prosperity Far Distant
The Journal of an American Farmer, 1933–1934
By Charles M. Wiltse
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Edited by Michael J. Birkner
Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact.In wry and often affecting prose, Wiltse recorded a year in the life of this quintessentially American place during the Great Depression.
Literary Collections | Diaries & Journals · Americas · North America · United States · Appalachia · Ohio and Regional · Social Science | Regional Studies · History · American History · Food Studies · American Studies · Great Depression
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie
A History of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Edited by Paul Finkelman and Roberta Sue Alexander
Justice and Legal Change on the Shores of Lake Erie explores the many ways that the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio has affected the region, the nation, the development of American law, and American politics.The essays in this book, written by eminent law professors, historians, political scientists, and practicing attorneys, illustrate the range of cases and issues that have come before the court.
Legal and Constitutional History · American History, Midwest · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · American History, Midwest
The Engraving Trade in Early Cincinnati
With a Brief Account of the Beginning of the Lithographic Trade
By Donald C. O'Brien
Examines the vibrant engraving industry that helped fuel the growth of the “Queen City” and established its influence as the midwestern center for the print and engraving trade.
Art · Art History · Ohio and Regional · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas · American History, Midwest
Asylum on the Hill
History of a Healing Landscape
By Katherine Ziff
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Foreword by Samuel T. Gladding
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Afterword by Joseph Shields and Shawna Bolin
Asylum on the Hill is the story of a great American experiment in psychiatry, a revolution in care for those with mental illness, as seen through the example of the Athens Lunatic Asylum. Katherine Ziff’s compelling presentation incorporates rare photos, letters, and records, offering readers a fascinating glimpse into psychiatric history.
American History, Midwest · Architecture · History of Psychiatry · Ohio · American Studies · Ohio and Regional · Athens, Ohio
Ohio Canal Era
A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820–1861
By Harry N. Scheiber
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Foreword by Lawrence M. Friedman
Explores how Ohiou2009—u2009as a “public enterprise state,” creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and controlu2009—u2009led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.
American History · History · Legal and Constitutional History · Law · Transportation History · Ohio and Regional · American Studies
Ohio Canal Era
A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820–1861
By Harry N. Scheiber
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Foreword by Lawrence M. Friedman
Explores how Ohiou2009—u2009as a “public enterprise state,” creating state agencies and mobilizing public resources for transport innovation and controlu2009—u2009led in the process of economic change before the Civil War.
American History · History · Legal and Constitutional History · Law · Transportation History · Ohio and Regional · American Studies
Literary Cincinnati
The Missing Chapter
By Dale Patrick Brown
The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation’s first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks riverboat celebration, and the May Festival, there’s another side to the city—one that includes some of the most famous names and organizations in American letters.Literary
Mountains of Injustice
Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia
Edited by Michele Morrone and Geoffrey L. Buckley
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Foreword by Donald Edward Davis
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Afterword by Jedediah Purdy
Through compelling stories and interviews with people who are fighting for environmental justice, Mountains of Injustice contributes to the ongoing debate over how to equitably distribute the long-term environmental costs and consequences of economic development.
Social Science | Regional Studies · Environmental Policy · Ohio and Regional · History | Historical Geography · Appalachia
Mariemont
A Pictorial History of a Model Town
By Millard F. Rogers Jr.
Located near Cincinnati, Mariemont was designed as a self-sufficient town, its inspiration derived from the English Garden City and concepts developed in the early twentieth century. In 2007, Mariemont earned National Historic Landmark status from the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior.
Architecture · Social History · Architecture | History | General · Ohio and Regional
The Midwestern Native Garden
Native Alternatives to Nonnative Flowers and Plants
By Charlotte Adelman and Bernard L. Schwartz
The Midwestern Native Garden offers Midwestern gardeners and landscapers—amateurs and professionals—a comprehensive selection of noninvasive regional native wildflowers and plants to replace or complement popular nonnative species.
Gardening · Landscape Horticulture · Plant Guide · Guidebook · Ohio and Regional · Midwest
Hatred at Home
al-Qaida on Trial in the American Midwest
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins
One day in 2002, three friendsu2009—u2009a Somali immigrant, a Pakistan–born U.S. citizen, and a hometown African Americanu2009—u2009met in a Columbus, Ohio coffee shop and vented over civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan. Their conversation triggered an investigation that would become one of the most unusual and far–reaching government probes into terrorism since the 9/11 attacks.
Terrorism · Law Enforcement · American Studies · Ohio and Regional
The Locavore’s Kitchen
A Cook’s Guide to Seasonal Eating and Preserving
By Marilou K. Suszko
In more than 150 recipes that highlight seasonal flavors, Marilou K. Suszko inspires cooks to keep local flavors in the kitchen year round. From asparagus in the spring to pumpkins in the fall, Suszko helps readers learn what to look for when buying seasonal homegrown or locally grown foods as well as how to store fresh foods, and which cooking methods bring out fresh flavors and colors.
Cookbooks · Nature · Food Studies · Ohio and Regional · Guidebook
A Photographer’s Guide to Ohio
By Ian Adams
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Foreword by Hope Taft
Ian Adams, Ohio’s foremost landscape photographer, guides you to some of the most photogenic sites in the Buckeye State.
Photography | Techniques · Photography | Subjects & Themes | Regional · Travel - Special Interest · Travel - Midwest · Ohio · Ohio and Regional · Guidebook
Access with Attitude
An Advocate’s Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio
By David Marburger and Karl Idsvoog
For those who find themselves in a battle for public records, Access with Attitude: An Advocate’s Guide to Freedom of Information in Ohio is an indispensable weapon. First Amendment lawyer David Marburger and investigative journalist Karl Idsvoog have written a simply worded, practical guide on how to take full advantage of Ohio’s so-called Sunshine Laws.Journalists,
Law, Practical Guide · Guidebook · Ohio and Regional · Freedom of Information · Ohio · Midwest
