Lured by the prospect of a canal connecting with Lake Erie, eager developers settled in the Toledo area in the 1830s despite threats posed by the Black Swamp, Native Americans…

Toledo began the 20th century as it had ended the 19th–with a rapid expansion in industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. The titans of industry who shaped Toledo’s early history continued to…

Providing insights into midwifery, this work describes the development of nurse and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, and examines the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has…