Join OLHA on October 6-7 for their Annual Meeting, organized around the theme “History as Necessity” and in partnership with the Society of Ohio Archivists. Sessions will discuss a wide array of ways in which collecting, sharing, and commemorating Ohio’s local history can, and perhaps should, become more central in the operations of organizations.

View the full conference brochure here.

Register online, or via mail using the form in the conference brochure.

The registration deadline is September 22, 2023.

Ohio Humanities is sponsoring the keynote address by Chief Glenna Wallace of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma and a follow-up discussion session at the Ohio Local History Alliance Annual Meeting and Conference. Among other presentations, Chief Wallace’s talk will be complemented by a late afternoon plenary delivered remotely by Colin Calloway, Professor of History at Dartmouth University. With this year’s conference, OLHA continuing an effort to highlight and encourage Ohio’s historical societies learn and present more about under-represented histories in Ohio, including American Indian and African American experiences. This year, OLHA is planning to encourage folks to think about the lands we now call Ohio, and to recognize the people who were in Ohio before the “first settlers” came to the state.