Ohio and Erie Canal / by Triplett, Boone

“…Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio)…”
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The Ohio & Erie Canal : a Glossary of Terms, Revised and Expanded. by Woods, Terry K.

“…Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) Terminology.…”
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Bond of Union : Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. by Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.…”
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Untold. Building the Erie Canal : explained

“…Building the Erie Canal : explained…”
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Ohio's Grand Canal : a Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal. by Woods, Terry K.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Planning and Construction; 2 Early Operation; 3 Administration and Finance; 4 Operation of the Lease; 5 The Flood; 6 Effects of the Canal; Appendix: Rebuild Contracts of the Ohio & Erie Canal; Notes; Recommended Reading; Index…”
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Canal fever : the Ohio & Erie Canal, from waterway to canalway /

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgments / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Part 1: Historic Ohio & Erie Canal -- 1: History of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Sam Tamburro -- Side bar: Where the canal meets the road / Glenn Harper -- 2: Building the canals: the engineers / Jack Gieck -- 3: Mucking through: common labor on the Ohio & Erie Canal / George Knepper -- 4: Natural history, natural resources, and the Ohio & Erie Canal / Joseph T Hannibal -- 5: Traveler's tale: along the Ohio & Erie Canal in 1834: Maximilian, Prince of Wied: an annotated translation / Joseph T Hannibal, Sabina F Thomas, and Michael G Noll -- 6: Hands of the diligent / Kathleen Fernandez -- 7: Voices on the canal / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- 8: East versus west: the industrial valley / Richard Sicha -- Part 2: Long Twilight -- 9: Railroad fever and canals in Ohio / H Roger Grant -- Sidebar: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic railroad-today / Robert W Bobel -- 10: William Bennett's Navarre, the canal town / Sam Tamburro -- 11: Crossing the cultural fault line: the historic landscape of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Glenn Harper -- 12: Rising water and waning support: the Ohio & Erie Canal's final years / Peg Bobel -- Sidebar: Canal maintenance in the twenty-first century / Peg Bobel -- 13: Ditch and the path in the backyard / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Sidebar: What is in a name? …”
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Enterprising waters : the history and art of New York's Erie Canal / by Utter, Brad L., Hopkins-Benton, Ashley, Quinn, Karen E.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enterprising waters: New York's Erie Canal -- Introduction: Art of the Erie Canal -- Part I. …”
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Shaping America. Lesson 14, The market revolution. Part 4

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) Design and construction.…”
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America, the story of us. Episode 4, Division

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.…”
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Myron Holley : and what he did for liberty and true religion by Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) sh 85044623…”
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The Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828. by Cornog, Evan

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.…”
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The Ohio canals by Wilcox, Frank N. (Frank Nelson), 1887-1964

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction to the second edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- Canal excavation -- Locks and lock building -- About canal boats -- The Ohio and Erie Canal -- From Cleveland to Portsmouth -- The Miami-Erie Wabash Canal -- The Sandy-Beaver Canal -- The Pennsylvania Cross-Cut -- The passing of the canals.…”
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Ohio Canals. by Wilcox, Frank

Table of Contents: “…About Canal Boats ""; ""4. The Ohio and Erie Canal ""; ""5. From Cleveland to Portsmouth ""…”
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A place in history : Albany in the age of revolution, 1775-1825 by Roberts, Warren, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…-- Philip Schuyler's Hudson River visitors, 1776-83 -- Mme. de La Tour du Pin's two-year stay in Albany, 1794-96 -- Albany and the Erie Canal -- Conclusion: Albany, past and present : observations and images (with some musings thrown in) -- Appendix A: Thomas Jefferson and Angelica Schuyler Church in Paris -- Appendix B: The responses of two Americans to the French Revolution : Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson -- Appendix C: Talleyrand and the XYZ Affair -- Appendix D: David's depiction of Talleyrand in the coronation of Napoleon and Joséphine.…”
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The whiskey merchant's diary : an urban life in the emerging Midwest by Mersman, Joseph J., 1824-1892

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Two immigrant families and their start in America -- Jenkins's boarding house : 8 November 1847-31 December 1847 -- Theater and circus : 1 January 1848-11 March 1848 -- Music and dancing : 12 March 1848-29 April 1848 -- The Miami and Erie Canal : 30 April 1848-5 May 1848 -- Cigars and saloons : 6 May 1848-9 August 1848 -- In charge of the store : 10 August 1848-1 October 1848 -- Mosher's boarding house : 2 October 1848-28 November 1848 -- Farewell to Cincinnati : 17 December 1848-17 February 1849 -- Starting in St. …”
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The North Country Trail : the best walks, hikes, and backpacking trips on America's longest national scenic trail by Strickland, Ron

Table of Contents: “…Zoar Village and the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail -- 3. Hocking Hills State Park/State Forest -- 4. …”
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To secure the blessings of liberty : selected writings of Gouverneur Morris by Morris, Gouverneur, 1752-1816

Table of Contents: “…To the inhabitants of the colony of New-York (1769) -- Political inquiries (1776) -- Oration on the necessity for declaring independence from Britain (1776) -- Public letters to the Carlisle Commissioners (1778) : To the Carlisle Commissioners, June 20 ; To the Earle of Carlisle, July 21 ; To the Earl of Carlisle, September 19 ; To Sir Henry Clinton, October 20 -- Proposal to congress concerning the management of the government (1778) -- Report of the committee on the treasury (1778) -- Some thoughts on the finances of America (1778) -- To the Quakers, Bethlemites, moderate men, refugees, and other the Tories whatsoever, and wheresoever, dispersed (1779) -- "An American" letters on public finance for the Pennsylvania Packet (1780) : February 17 ; February 24 ; February 29 ; March 4 ; March 11; March 23 ; April 11 ; April 15 -- Righteousness establisheth a nation (1780) -- Observations on finances: foreign trade and loans (1781) -- Ideas of an American on the commerce between the United States and French islands as it may respect both France and America (1783) -- Address to the assembly of Pennsylvania on the abolition of the bank of North America (1785) -- The Constitution of the United States (1787) : Letter to congress -- American finances (1789) -- Observations on government, applicable to the political state of France (1789) -- Memoir written for the king of France (1791) : Speech for the kin fog France ; Observations on the Constitution -- Notes on the form of a constitution for France (1791) -- Remarks upon the principles and views of the London Corresponding Society (1795) -- Oration on the death of George Washington (1799) -- Speeches in the senate on the repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801 : First speech on the judiciary establishment (1802) -- Letters to the New York Evening Post on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) : August 30 ; December 24 -- Funeral oration for Alexander Hamilton (1804) -- Oration on the love of wealth (1805) -- Oration on patriotism (1805) -- On prejudice (1805) -- AN answer to war in disguise (1806) -- Notes on the United States of America (1806) -- The British Treaty (1807/1808) -- On the Beaumarchais claim (1807-1808) : February 24 ; January 11 -- To the people of the United States (1810) -- Election address (1810) -- Letters to the Evening Post on Albert Gallatin's plan for enforcing the Non-Importation Act (1811) : December 19 ; December 21 ; December 23 ; December 24 ; December 26 ; December 27 -- Erie Canal commission report (1812) -- An address to the people of the state of New York on the present state of affairs (1812) -- Discourse before the New-York Historical Society (1812) -- Oration before the Washington Benevolent Society (1813) -- Essays for the Examiner (1814) : April 9 ; May 14 ; Jun 25 ; June 23 -- Oration on Europe's deliverance from despotism (1814) -- To the legislators of New York (1815) -- An inaugural discourse (1816) -- To the bank directors of New-York (1816) -- Address on "National Greatness."…”
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Building the empire state : political economy in the early republic by Murphy, Brian Phillips

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Building the empire state : political economy in the early republic by Murphy, Brian Phillips

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Corruption and Reform : Lessons from America's Economic History

Table of Contents: “…Glaeser and Claudia Goldin -- The concept of systematic corruption in American history / John Joseph Wallis -- Limiting the reach of the grabbing hand : graft and growth in American cities, 1880 to 1930 / Rebecca Menes -- Digging the dirt at public expense : governance in the building of the Erie Canal and other public works / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. …”
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The filth of progress : immigrants, Americans, and the building of canals and railroads in the West by Dearinger, Ryan, 1979-

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Aesthetics of Religion : a Connective Concept. by Grieser, Alexandra K.

Table of Contents: “…In Conversation: Essays About the Connectivity of an Aesthetics of Religion; Subjects and Sense-Making; Consumer Culture and the Sensory Remodelling of Religion; Social Aesthetics, Atmosphere and Proprioception; Semiotics and Aesthetics: Historical and Structural Connections; The Artificiality of Aesthetics: Making Connections on the Erie Canal; Authors Biographies; Index.…”
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An engineer's alphabet : gleanings from the softer side of his profession by Petroski, Henry

Table of Contents: “….; "enginerd."; Erector set.; Erie Canal.; ethics.; expert witness.; Daubert.; Kumho.; F; factor of safety.; failure.; "Faith of the Engineer…”
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Panorama water front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River

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Happenstance by Root, Robert L.

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The Making of the Ohio Valley States 1660-1837. by Drake, Samuel Adams

Table of Contents: “…S KENTUCKIANS""; ""THE NATIONAL ROAD""; ""THE FIRST STEAMBOAT""; ""THE ERIE CANAL, 1825""; ""INDIANA A STATE, 1816""; ""EMIGRANTS ON THE PRAIRIES""; ""ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN, 1810, 1837""; ""ALSATIAN EMIGRANTS TO OHIO""…”
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Forging the "Bee Line" railroad, 1848-1889 : the rise and fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique by Olson, Arthur Andrew III, 1950-

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Technical Innovation in American History by Welch, Rosanne

Table of Contents: “…Babbitt, Sarah "Tabitha" (1779-1853)Ballard, Martha (1735-1812); Banjo Clock; Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910); Burr Truss Bridge; Canals; Canning Factory; Charting the Gulf Stream; Circular Saw; Coffee Percolator; Cotton Gin; Cotton Sewing Thread; Dental Floss; Diffraction Grating; Erie Canal; Evans, Oliver (1755-1819); Factory Girls' Association (Lowell, Massachusetts); Fire Hydrant; Fitch, John (1743-1798); Flatboat; Fulton, Robert (1765-1815); Gas Tungsten Arc Welding; Greene, Catharine Littlefield (1755-1814); High-Pressure Steam Engine; Interchangeable Parts; Internal Combustion Engine…”
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