recommended reading
Interested in finding out more? Here is our recommendation list that tell the history of Columbus. Please consider purchasing through Amazon (with CHS as your AmazonSmile charity) or through your local bookstore.
Advancement-Negro Contributions in Franklin County, 1803-1953, Frontiers of America, Columbus Chapter, 1954.
Blankenship, Leslie, Death and Devastation Strike Columbus, Ohio!: A Story of the Great Flood of 1913, North Liberty Publications, 1996.
Barrett, Richard E., Aviation in Ohio, 2012.
Barrett, Richard E., Columbus 1860 - 1910, Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Barrett, Richard E., Columbus 1910 - 1970, Arcadia Publishing, 2006.
Barrett, Richard E., Columbus in Vintage Postcards 1898 - 1950, Arcadia Publishing, 2002.
Barrett, Richard, Made in Columbus Automobiles, Columbus Historical Society, 1996.
Bonowitz, Marvin, Mount Vernon Avenue, Jewish Businesses in a Changing Neighborhood 1918-1999, Columbus Jewish Historical Society, 1999.
Brunetto, Landa Masdea, The Valley Dale Ballroom, 2018.
Carr, Joe F, The Man Who Built the National Football League, 2010.
Cole, Charles C., Jr., A Fragile Capital: Identity and the Early Years of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University Press, 2001.
Columbus Creative Cooperative, Columbus, Past, Present & Future, 2012.
Conte, Jean, German Village, Mountain Automation Corp, 1994.
Custodio, Brenda & Dutton, Brenda, Franklinton: History and Heritage, Franklinton Historical Society, 1997.
Darbee, Jeffrey T., Taking the Cars: A History of Columbus Union Station, Columbus Historical Society, 2003.
Darbee, Jeffrey T., German Columbus, Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
Engle, Jason. The Air Force (U.S. Armed Forces), Amber Books, 2021.
Felix, James, The American Addition: The History of a Black Community, University of Michigan Press, 1972.
Garrett, Betty and Edward R. Lentz. Columbus: America’s Crossroads, Continental Heritage Press, 1980.
Gerber, Carole, Through Children’s Eyes: Stories of Old Columbus, Columbus Historical Society, 2003.
Hamper, Anietra, Secret Columbus: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure, 2018.
Harden, Mike, Columbus Celebrates the Millennium, Community Communications, 2000.
Historic Homes of Olde Towne, Olde Towne East, 2000.
Holmes, Ken, Black inventors: crafting over 200 years of success, Global Black Inventor Research Projects, 2008.
Hooper, Osmond C, History of Columbus, Ohio, 1920.
Howard, Arnette, Listen for the Jazz, Keynotes in Columbus History, Olde Towne East, 1992.
Hunker, Henry L., Columbus, Ohio: A Personal Geography, Ohio State University Press, 2000.
Hunter, Bob, and Lucy Wolfe, A Historical Guidebook to Old Columbus: Finding the Past in the Present in Ohio's Capital City, Ohio University Press, 2012.
Hunter, Bob, Players, Teams, and Stadium Ghosts, 2019.
Hunter, Bob, Road to Wapatomica: A modern search for the Old Northwest, 2021.
Hunter, Bob, Thurberville, 2017.
Inman, Mary K., The Fowler Family Gets Dressed, Texas Tech University Press, 2000.
Kirk, Robert F., The Building of an Airport: Port Columbus, 2019.
Latimer, Sandra, Newsroom Buddies, A Working Friendship at United Press International, 2014.
Lee, Alfred E., History of Columbus, 2 vols., 1892.
Lentz, Edward R., As It Were: Stories of Old Columbus Vol. 1, Red Mountain Press,1998.
Lentz, Edward R., As It Were: Stories of Old Columbus, Vol. 2, Red Mountain Press, 2001.
Lentz, Edward R., Columbus: The Story of a City, Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Leonard, Lee, A Columnist's View of Capitol Square: Ohio Politics and Government, 1969-2005, 2009.
Lucas Sullivant, Franklinton Historical Society Book Committee, 2000.
Mark, Mary Louise, Negroes in Columbus, 1923.
Martin, William T., History of Franklin County, 1858.
Moore, Opha, History of Franklin County, Ohio, 3 vols, 1930.
Meyers, David and Elise, Ohio’s Black Hand Syndicate, The Birth of Organized Crime in America, 2018.
Meyers, David and Elise, Wicked Columbus, Ohio, 2015.
Meyers, David and Elise, Historic Columbus Crimes, 2010.
Meyers, David andElise Meyers Walker, Kahiki Supper Club: A Polynesian Paradise in Columbus, 2014.
Meyers, David & Elise Meyers Walker, Carrying the Coal to Columbus, 2017.
Meyers, Howard & Watkins Loeffler, Columbus: The Musical Crossroads, 2008.
Motz, Doug & Christine Hayes, Lost Restaurants of Columbus, Ohio, 2015.
The Ohio Immigrant Alliance, Far From Their Eyes: Ohio Migration Anthology, 2021.
Perkins, Michael, LeVeque: The First Complete Story of Columbus’ Greatest Skyscraper, Author House, 2005.
Quillen, Frank U., Ph.D., The Color Line in Ohio, 1913, 1969.
Rieland, Tom, WOSU Sparks Flew, 2019.
Roman, Bob, Ohio State Football: The Forgotten Dawn, 2016.
Rose, Donald G., A Night of Horror, 2016.
Schieber, Curt, Columbus Beer, Recent Brewing and Deep Roots, 2017.
Shook, LaVon, History of the Ohio State Fair, Bookmasters, Inc., 2000.
Studer, Jacob, History of Columbus, Ohio,1872.
Tebben, Alex, Prohibition in Columbus, Ohio, 2017.
Tootle, James R., Baseball in Columbus, Arcadia Publishing, 2003.
Willis, James A., Central Ohio Legends & Lore, 2017.
Willis, Chris, The Columbus Panhandles, 2007.
