This publication contains essays on the Colonial Period, obtained from talks at the various Ohio courts, and winners from our essay contests.
| 1972 | Title - Preface | |
| | Lord Dunmore's War | Prof. Michael J. Voris |
| | The Colonial Colleges | Dr. Phillip R. Shriver |
| | Howland's Relation | Frank G. Davis, Esq. |
| 1974 | Title - Preface | |
| | Why We Are Free - Our English Heritage | Dr. W. Frank Steely |
| | A Skeleton in Ohio's Backwoods Closet | Nolan W. Carson, Esq. |
| | A Synopsis of the Port Necessity Story | Robert E. Davidson |
| | A Treatise of Military Discipline - 1753 | Musket Commands |
| 1982 | Title - Preface | |
| | George Rogers Clark and the Revolution in the West | Lowell H. Harrison |
| | Not Under Oath | Eslie Asbury, .M.D. |
| | An Unlikely Set of Circumstances | Dean Ernest G. Muntz |
| 1985 | Title - Preface | |
| | The Battle of Miamiville | Steven Z. Starr, Esq. |
| | The Black Hornet | Robert M. Galbraith, Esq. |
| | Reminiscences of a Flight Surgeon | Frank Welsh, M.D. |
| 1988 | Title - Preface | |
| | Kentuckians I have Known or Heard About | John C. Lee, Esq. |
| | The Raven | Lawson E. Whitesides, Esq. |
| | Lengthening Shadows The Constitution Enters Its Third Century | Hon. John W. Peck |
| 1992 | Title - Preface | |
| | 100 Days in the Gulf | Colonel George Franklin Welsh |
| | Every Freeman and Every Freeholder Should be a Soldier | Lieutenant Colonel Lowell E. Wenger |
| | Captain John | Frank G. Davis, Esq. |
| 2000 | Title - Preface | |
| | No French and Indian War, No American Revolution | John K. Alexander |
| | The Society of The Cincinnati | Frederic C. Hirons |
| | Santa Elena | Pierson R. Davis |
| 2002 | Title - Preface | |
| | The Evolution of Piracy | Jonathan Lipps |
| | The Effects of the European Enlightenment on Early American Revolutionary Ideas and Literature | Michael Koucky |
| | The Influence of Privateering on the Colony of Roanoke | Julie Griff |
| | Abigail Adams: A Woman Ahead of Her Time | Leslie Messer |
| | The Chesapeake Bay: Colonies of Different Pasts, One Future | Emily Longenecker |
| | The Influence of the Great Law | Ellen Stedtefeld |
| | A Letter From Boston | Laura Boesch |
| | Roger Williams and the Founding of Rhode Island | Jonah Paul |
| | A Revolution is Just a Nice Name for "Rebellion" | Ryan Long |
