Topic Guides

Interested in finding out more about a range of topics in Ohio’s past? Ohio’s collection of Chronicling America topic guides provides introductory information about a person, group, place, event, concept, or other phenomena in Ohio’s history. These guides also give you important dates, helpful search terms and strategies and links to sample newspaper articles on topics that were widely reported on by the Ohio press of the time. For even more topic guides, see Chronicling America’s Recommended Topics, created and maintained by the Library of Congress.