Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait is the winner of the 2003 Ohioana Book Award, the 2003 Outdoor Writers of Ohio Award, and the 2003 Best of Ohio Editor's Choice by Ohio Magazine. Sole photographer of six books and two long-running calendar series on Ohio, Ian Adams took the photograph selected by the US Postal Service for the official 2003 Ohio Statehood Stamp. With 260 lush photographs that he has selected for this composite portrait of his home state, Ohio's premier landscape photographer treats Ohioans to a grand tour of their state's natural and historical treasures. Stephen Ostrander, pundit of all things Ohioan, serves up a delicious but nutritious essay on each of Adams' pictorial themes.

Developed by the Ohio Bicentennial Commission's Advisory Council on Women, this collection profiles a few of the many women who have left their imprint on the state, nation, world, and even outer space.

As the state of Ohio prepares to celebrate its bicentennial in 2003, Andrew R. L. Cayton offers an account of ways in which diverse citizens have woven its history. Ohio: The History of a People, centers around the many stories Ohioans have told about life in their state. The founders of Ohio in 1803 believed that its success would depend on the development of a public culture that emphasized what its citizens had in common with each other. But for two centuries the remarkably diverse inhabitants of Ohio have repeatedly asserted their own ideas about how they and their children should lead their lives. The state's public culture has consisted of many voices, sometimes in conflict with each other. Using memoirs, diaries, letters, novels, and paintings, Cayton writes Ohio's history as a collective biography of its citizens. Ohio, he argues, lies at the intersection of the stories of James Rhodes and Toni Morrison, Charles Ruthenberg and Lucy Webb Hayes, Carl Stokes and Alice Cary, Sherwood Anderson and Pete Rose. It lies in the tales of German Jews in Cincinnati, Italian and Polish immigrants in Cleveland, Southern blacks and white Appalachians in Youngstown. Ohio is the mingled voices of farm families, steelworkers, ministers, writers, schoolteachers, reformers, and football coaches. Ohio, in short, is whatever its citizens have imagined it to be.