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An Equal Share of Freedom
American Jews, Zionism, and World War I
Essays illustrating the American Jewish experience during World War I. An Equal Share of Freedom sheds new light on several important and interrelated dimensions of American, Jewish, and world history...
Collective Bargaining and the Battle for Ohio
The Defeat of Senate Bill 5 and the Struggle to Defend the Middle Class
This study outlines the landmark “We Are Ohio” labor coalition. In 2011, Ohio Governor John Kasich and his Republican-controlled legislature passed the radical Senate Bill 5 designed to impede...
Imagining Central America
Short Histories
A concise review of the major events, social movements, politics, and economics of the seven countries that comprise Central America. Given the strategic location of Central America, its importance...
Best-Laid Plans
The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal Greenbelt Towns
A history of the New Deal program intended to improve the living conditions of America's underclass. In 1935, under the direction of the Resettlement Administration, the United States...
The Speaking Stone
Stories Cemeteries Tell
The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards. While working on a novel, author and longtime Cincinnati resident Michael Griffith starts visiting...
Surveying in Early America
The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History
In Surveying in Early America: The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History, award-winning photographer Dan Patterson and American historian Clinton Terry vividly and accurately document and retrace the steps surveyors took to map the Ohio River Valley. Patterson and Terry thoroughly create detailed and historically accurate narratives paired with exquisite and vivid photographs of these little known expeditions of our founding father. Working with Colonial re-enactors at sites in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, from Fort Normal to Colonial Williamsburg, Patterson recreates the effort of Washington and his team of surveyors to map the American wilderness and occasionally lay personal claim land to great expanses of land along the way. Through the lens of Patterson camera, readers will see what Washington saw as he worked to learn his trade and then lead expeditions into the American interior using instruments and methods employed 260 years ago.
Jim Crow Sociology
The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology
Jim Crow Sociology examines the origin, development and significance of Black Sociology through the accomplishments of early African American male and female sociologists at Historically Black Colleges and Institutions (HBCUs) Atlanta University, Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University and Howard University.
200 Years of the University of Cincinnati
Three Volume Set with Slip Case
This limited edition three-volume slipcased set celebrates the bicentennial of the University of Cincinnati. The set consists of hardback editions of In Service to the City: A History of the University...
Rethinking America's Past
Voices from the Kinsey African American Art and History Collection
While visitors to art and history museums may be there to simply enjoy the curated objects, the question of what is included (and excluded) in these collections and who has the power over this process...
Maria Longworth Storer
From Music and Art to Popes and Presidents
While the adage may go, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” the story of Maria Longworth Storer necessitates a new adage—at the front of every great city is a great woman. After being shunted...
In Service to the City
A History of the University of Cincinnati
With roots reaching back to 1819, the University of Cincinnati has long been at the frontier of higher education in the Ohio Valley. While it has aspired to fulfill its mission to serve the public good,...
From the Temple of Zeus to the Hyperloop
University of Cincinnati Stories
As the University of Cincinnati celebrates its bicentennial, students, faculty, staff, and alumni look back on the university’s remarkable past and its progression as a pioneer in higher education....
These Oppressions Won’t Cease
An Anthology of the Political Thought of the Cape Khoesan, 1777-1879
The Khoesan were the first people in Africa to undergo the rigors of European colonization. By the early nineteenth century, they had largely been brought under colonial rule, dispossessed of their...
See No Evil
New Zealand’s Betrayal of the People of West Papua
See No Evil issues a challenge to New Zealanders. The book begins by relating the little-known history of West Papua, but its focus is on the impact of New Zealand’s foreign policy on the indigenous...
50 Years of UC Blue Ash College
Inspiring Student Success - Then, Now, Always
The University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College first opened its doors in the fall of 1967. Built upon a mission to make higher education more accessible and affordable, UC Blue Ash welcomed an entering...
Looking East
William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to Asia: the Photographs of Harry Fowler Woods
In 1900, Cincinnatian William Howard Taft successfully completed his tenure as Dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law and began an appointment under President William McKinley as Governor-General of the Philippines. As a federal administrator and diplomat, Taft negotiated amicable trade and cultural interactions between East and West, and in 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt dispatched him on a mission to China, Japan, and the Philippines to further improve U.S.-Asian relations. His large entourage included prominent fellow Cincinnatians and the president's daughter, Alice, as well as photographer Harry Fowler Woods and a host of American diplomats. This is the remarkable story of Taft's mission and Woods' fascinating documentary photographs.
An Equal Share of Freedom
American Jews, Zionism, and World War I
Collective Bargaining and the Battle for Ohio
The Defeat of Senate Bill 5 and the Struggle to Defend the Middle Class
Imagining Central America
Short Histories
Best-Laid Plans
The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal Greenbelt Towns
The Speaking Stone
Stories Cemeteries Tell
Surveying in Early America
The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History
In Surveying in Early America: The Point of Beginning, An Illustrated History, award-winning photographer Dan Patterson and American historian Clinton Terry vividly and accurately document and retrace the steps surveyors took to map the Ohio River Valley. Patterson and Terry thoroughly create detailed and historically accurate narratives paired with exquisite and vivid photographs of these little known expeditions of our founding father. Working with Colonial re-enactors at sites in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, from Fort Normal to Colonial Williamsburg, Patterson recreates the effort of Washington and his team of surveyors to map the American wilderness and occasionally lay personal claim land to great expanses of land along the way. Through the lens of Patterson camera, readers will see what Washington saw as he worked to learn his trade and then lead expeditions into the American interior using instruments and methods employed 260 years ago.
Jim Crow Sociology
The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology
Jim Crow Sociology examines the origin, development and significance of Black Sociology through the accomplishments of early African American male and female sociologists at Historically Black Colleges and Institutions (HBCUs) Atlanta University, Tuskegee Institute, Fisk University and Howard University.