Ohio: The History of a PeopleOhio State University Press, 2002 - 472 sider As the state of Ohio prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2003, Andrew R. L. Cayton offers an account of ways in which diverse citizens have woven its history. Ohio: The History of a People, centers around the many stories Ohioans have told about life in their state. The founders of Ohio in 1803 believed that its success would depend on the development of a public culture that emphasized what its citizens had in common with each other. But for two centuries the remarkably diverse inhabitants of Ohio have repeatedly asserted their own ideas about how they and their children should lead their lives. The state's public culture has consisted of many voices, sometimes in conflict with each other. Using memoirs, diaries, letters, novels, and paintings, Cayton writes Ohio's history as a collective biography of its citizens. Ohio, he argues, lies at the intersection of the stories of James Rhodes and Toni Morrison, Charles Ruthenberg and Lucy Webb Hayes, Carl Stokes and Alice Cary, Sherwood Anderson and Pete Rose. It lies in the tales of German Jews in Cincinnati, Italian and Polish immigrants in Cleveland, Southern blacks and white Appalachians in Youngstown. Ohio is the mingled voices of farm families, steelworkers, ministers, writers, schoolteachers, reformers, and football coaches. Ohio, in short, is whatever its citizens have imagined it to be. |
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... lived north and west of the Ohio River for a few years at best . As important , they thought they were very different from each other . Few understood , let alone respected , the Wyandot , Miami , Shawnee , and other Indians who lived ...
... lived north and west of the Ohio River for a few years at best . As important , they thought they were very different from each other . Few understood , let alone respected , the Wyandot , Miami , Shawnee , and other Indians who lived ...
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... lived at the mercy of their superiors - be they kings , queens , em- perors , or aristocrats - citizens actively participated in their govern- ment . In a monarchy , power flowed from the top down . The most important political ...
... lived at the mercy of their superiors - be they kings , queens , em- perors , or aristocrats - citizens actively participated in their govern- ment . In a monarchy , power flowed from the top down . The most important political ...
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... ) By 1813 , Worthington owned over 18,000 acres and lived in a fine Georgian mansion de- signed by Benjamin Latrobe . Thirty years old in 1803 , Worthington was a prickly and reserved man who communicated with others 4 Prologue.
... ) By 1813 , Worthington owned over 18,000 acres and lived in a fine Georgian mansion de- signed by Benjamin Latrobe . Thirty years old in 1803 , Worthington was a prickly and reserved man who communicated with others 4 Prologue.
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... lived in the state for at least a year and who were subject to a state or county tax . Although this provision did not amount to universal white male suffrage , it was remarkably demo- cratic . Merely paying taxes , not owning property ...
... lived in the state for at least a year and who were subject to a state or county tax . Although this provision did not amount to universal white male suffrage , it was remarkably demo- cratic . Merely paying taxes , not owning property ...
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... lived in log houses with bark roofs , erected fences around their fields , cultivated corn , wheat , oats , and fruit , and raised cattle , hogs , and horses.8 Most whites , however , were frightened of Indians , coveted their land ...
... lived in log houses with bark roofs , erected fences around their fields , cultivated corn , wheat , oats , and fruit , and raised cattle , hogs , and horses.8 Most whites , however , were frightened of Indians , coveted their land ...
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Strangers in Canaan | 13 |
Improving Ohio | 45 |
Defining Ohio | 105 |
Alternative Ohios | 139 |
The End of the Beginning | 237 |
Labor and Liberty | 301 |
The Good Life | 333 |
Champions of Their Lives | 397 |
Notes | 407 |
Bibliography | 431 |
Acknowledgments | 457 |
Index | 459 |
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Side 7 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to -the dictates of their own consciences ; that no man can, of right, be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience ; and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship.
Side 7 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
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