Publisher’s Note

The Kent State University Press is pleased to welcome Donna M. DeBlasio to the editorial team of Ohio History. Professor DeBlasio joins her Youngstown State University colleague, L. Diane Barnes, as coeditor of this second issue of volume 123. Beginning with volume 124 in 2017, Dr. DeBlasio will assume sole editorship of the journal.

Our profound thanks to Professor Barnes for her outstanding work as editor of Ohio History. Under her guidance the flame of Buckeye State scholarship has burned brightly. We look forward to that fire continuing to burn with equal brilliance under the editorial hand of Donna DeBlasio.