History Archives - State Library of Ohio

Frontier rebels: the fight for independence in the American West, 1765-1776

by Patrick Spero

The untold story of the “Black Boys,” a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick […]

The war before the war: fugitive slaves and the struggle for America’s soul from the Revolution to the Civil War

by Andrew Delbanco

Explains how fugitive slaves escaping from the South to the northern states awakened northerners to the true nature of slavery and how the Compromise of […]

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson’s world was […]

Barracoon: the story of the last “black cargo”

by Zora Neale Hurston; edited by Deborah G. Plant; foreword by Alice Walker

In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children […]

Why old places matter: how historic places affect our identity and well-being

by Thompson M. Mayes

The book reveals the fundamentally important yet under-recognized role old places play in our lives. While many people feel a deep-seated connection to old places […]

Controversial monuments and memorials: a guide for community leaders

by David B. Allison

This book addresses tough issues that museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders face with the challenges of competing historical memory, claims of heritage desecration […]

The annotated memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

by Elizabeth D. Samet

Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, highly collectible edition that will […]

Women of the blue & gray: true Civil War stories of mothers, medics, soldiers, and spies

by Marianne Monson

North, South, black, white, Native American, immigrant– the women in these micro biographies were wives, mothers, sisters and friends whose purposes ranged from supporting husbands […]

Rising in flames: Sherman’s March and the fight for a new nation

by J.D. Dickey

Dickey shares new perspectives into Sherman’s epic March to the Sea. He profiles profiling the heated divides of the antebellum years, and how Sherman’s legendary […]

Leadership in turbulent times

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or […]

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