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Faces and Places:  American History through Ohio Biography

Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography

The state of Ohio has been home to many notable people throughout American history, including several U.S. presidents, major Native American figures such as Tecumseh and The Prophet, "Wild West" legend and markswoman Annie Oakley, innovators like the Wright brothers, Progressive-era reformer Lillian Wald, and astronauts Neil Armstrong and John Glenn. "Faces and Places" uses the lives of these significant people to illustrate and explore key themes in American history, from exploration to technological change to political reform.

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  • Home Sweet Home: Life in Nineteenth Century Ohio, Library of Congress
    This site focuses on 19th century family life in Cincinnati, OH. There are five sections including Family Life, Singing Schools, Religion, Rural Values, Temperance, Parlor Music, and Minstrel Songs. Each section allows access to primary source material in visual and audio formats and comes complete with a history of the city and society as well as background history for each object/source, bibliographies, and biographies of people integral in the shaping of the period.
  • United States Colored Troops Buried in Ohio
    This page is maintained by the Washington Senior High research history class, led by teacher Paul LaRue, in Washington Court House, Ohio. For several years, Mr. LaRue's class has been tracking gravesites of Civil War-era U.S. Colored Troops, and this site indexes all of the gravesites they have found in Ohio by county.
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Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography
Faces and Places: American History through Ohio Biography

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