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.

In a series of original essays ten experts consider the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about Midwestern history and culture.

Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.

Anderson and Clayton propose a new perspective on American history that demonstrates how republic and empire have coexisted throughout history as two faces of the same coin.