Ohio: The History of a PeopleAs 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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... believed , " a more exalted opin- ion is held of the Jews and Judaism . " A Christian - Jewish meeting at the new temple showed that " the difference between the Jew and Gentile is not so great after all , " something that was " worth ...
... believed , " a more exalted opin- ion is held of the Jews and Judaism . " A Christian - Jewish meeting at the new temple showed that " the difference between the Jew and Gentile is not so great after all , " something that was " worth ...
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... believed that Roman Catholicism , with its priests , Latin mass , and more ambiguous attitude toward sin , was fun- damentally anti - American . How could people pledged to obey an Ital- ian pope behave like republican citizens ? The ...
... believed that Roman Catholicism , with its priests , Latin mass , and more ambiguous attitude toward sin , was fun- damentally anti - American . How could people pledged to obey an Ital- ian pope behave like republican citizens ? The ...
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... believed had grown stale and corrupt because they were more interested in greed and power than in doing good . Although a devout Christian , Jones believed that churches as well as political parties were responsible . Jones's goal as a ...
... believed had grown stale and corrupt because they were more interested in greed and power than in doing good . Although a devout Christian , Jones believed that churches as well as political parties were responsible . Jones's goal as a ...
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Labor and Liberty | 303 |
The Good Life | 335 |
The Future Is Past | 365 |
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