Ohio's Western Reserve

This volume collects essays and documents from a wide selection of sources-many now out of print and difficult to locate-to provide a highly readable story of the settlement and development of the "e;New Connecticut"e; region of Ohio. Four divisions in the book logically organize the social, economic, and political study of the region: "e;Conquest and Settlement: Native Americans to New Englanders"e;; "e;The Pioneers: Town Building, Society, and the Emergence of an Economy"e;; "e;The Transition Years; Slavery, the Civil War, and the Reserve in National Politics, 1850-1880"e;; and "e;A Changing Legacy: Industrialism, Ethnicity, and the Age of Reform."e; The volume ends in 1920, when the unique features of the Western Reserve of Ohio-the architecture, the landmarks, the New England lifestyle-had largely faded into American history as a result of industrialism, urbanism, and the pressure of a changing ethnic base.