Ohio Presidents - The Internet:

• American National Biography http://www.anb.org/ , (Most libraries maintain a subscription.)
• American Presidents: Life Portraits http://www.Americanpresidents.org
• The History Channel www.Historychannel.com
• Presidents of the United States http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTVS
• The Whitehouse Historical Association http://www.whitehousehistory.org

Ohio Presidents - Books:

• Beschloss, Michael, Gen. Ed. American Heritage Illustrated History of the Presidents
• DeGregorio, William A. The Complete Book of United States Presidents, 1996
• Kane, Joseph N. Presidential Fact Book, 1999
• Kunhardt, Phillip B., Jr., Kunhardt, Philip B., III, Kunhardt, Peter W., The American President, 1999
• McPherson, James M., Gen. Ed., "To The Best of My Ability."

Ohio's Utopian Communities - The Internet:

• http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/zoar
• http://www.cwru.edu/affil/shakhist

Ohio's Utopian Communities - Books:

• Berry, Brian J.L. America's Utopian Experiments: Communal Havens from Long-Wave Crises. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1992.
• Brewer, Priscilla J. Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. Hanover: University Press of New England, 1986.
• Dobbs, Catherine R. Freedom's Will: The Society of the Separatists of Zoar: An Historical Adventure of Religious Communism in Early Ohio. New York: William Frederick Press, 1947.
• Hurt, R. Douglas. The Ohio Frontier: Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720-1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
• Knepper, George W. Ohio and Its People. Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997 (1989).
• Morhart, Hilda Dischinger. The Zoar Story. Dover, Ohio: Seibert Printing , 1969 (1968).
• Ohio Historical Society. Zoar: An Experiment in Communalism. Columbus: Ohio Historical Society, 1970.
• Randall, Emilius Oviatt. History of the Zoar Society: From Its Commencement to Its Conclusion; A Sociological Study in Communism. New York: AMS Press, 1971 (1904).
• Robison, Elwin C. "Heavenly Aspirations and Earthly Realities." Timeline, vol. 17 no. 6 (November-December 2000), pp. 2-25.
• Rokicky, Catherine M. Creating a Perfect World: Religious and Secular Utopias in Nineteenth-Century Ohio. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2002.
• Tyler, Alice Felt. Freedom's Ferment: Phases of American Social History from the Colonial Period to the Outbreak of the Civil War. New York: Harper, 1962 (1944).

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