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Bending to the Color Line: The Fight For Women’s Suffrage in Ohio

Dayton Metro Library Brookville Branch 120 Blue Pride Drive, Brookville, Ohio

Come visit the Dayton Metro Library's Brookville Branch for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Carol Lasser! In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place in a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance.  Yet in Ohio, the ... Read More

For their Own Cause

Spring Hill Historic Home 1401 Springhill Lane NE, Massillon, Ohio

Come visit the Spring Hill Historic Home for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Kelly Mezurek! Dr. Mezurek will be discussing her book, For their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops (The Kent State University Press, 2016), which explores the story of the 27th USCT in the Civil War. From the inside cover: "The men faced daily battles ... Read More

The Newark Earthworks: One of the World’s Ancient Wonders

Rowfant Club 3028 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

Come visit the Rowfant Club for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Brad Lepper! The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1-  400, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles, using more than seven million cubic feet of ... Read More

Rebels in Corsets: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Women’s Suffrage Movement

Come visit the Columbus chapter of the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Susan Trollinger! The story of the women’s suffrage movement is often told (even by US historians) as a peaceful transition by which white male politicians happily gave women the right to vote. This could not be further from the ... Read More

The Great Hopewell Road: Ohio’s Ancient Superhighway

Cheers Chalet 1211 Coonpath Rd NW., Lancaster, Ohio

Come visit the Cheers Chalet with the Fairfield County Heritage Association for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Brad Lepper! The Great Hopewell Road was a set of parallel earthen walls built by the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1-  400. They began at the monumental Newark Earthworks and ran southwest in a remarkably straight line. ... Read More

Frankenstein! Myth, Monster, and Popular Culture

Upper Arlington Public Library 2800 Tremont Rd, Upper Arlington, Ohio

Come visit the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski! Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein towers over Western literature as one of the most influential novels ever written and science’s most enduring myth.  Technologies of artificial intelligence, laboratory fertilization, cloning, and titanium body parts make Shelley’s monster more relevant with each passing decade. Frankenstein also launched the horror ... Read More

Photography during the Civil War

Lorain County Community College 1005 Abbe Road North, Elyria, Ohio

Come join the Quincy Gillmore Civil War Round Table and visit Lorain County Community College for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook! The American Civil War prompted photographers to take their cameras out of their studios in an effort to capture images of the war. The results changed perceptions of war and was a catalyst for an ... Read More

Not Since Tecumseh: Darkness at Midday over the Ohio Country – Total Eclipse of the Sun – April 8, 2024

Upper Arlington Public Library 2800 Tremont Rd, Upper Arlington, Ohio

Come visit the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Tom O'Grady! The last time Ohio was witness to a total eclipse of the sun was on June 16, 1806. The 1806 eclipse has gone down in history as Tecumseh’s Eclipse. Tecumseh was working to create a confederation of Native tribes to resist continued losses ... Read More

My Ohio

HeART Gallery at St. Paul's Lutheran Church 428 N Erie St, Toledo, Ohio

Come visit the HeART Gallery in Toledo for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with David Baker! David has lived in Ohio for more than thirty years, and his poetry springs directly out of his life and experiences here. These poems illuminate our villages and farms—from Lake Erie to the Ohio River—our big-city gardens, small-town neighborhoods, and family life. David ... Read More

Not Since Tecumseh: Darkness at Midday over the Ohio Country – Total Eclipse of the Sun – April 8, 2024

Milan-Berlin Township Public Library 19 East Church Street, Milan, Ohio

Come visit the Milan-Berlin Township Public Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Tom O'Grady! The last time Ohio was witness to a total eclipse of the sun was on June 16, 1806. The 1806 eclipse has gone down in history as Tecumseh’s Eclipse. Tecumseh was working to create a confederation of Native tribes to resist continued losses ... Read More

Serpent Mound — an Icon of Ancient Ohio

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Join the Richland County Genealogical Society online for a virtual Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Brad Lepper! Serpent Mound in Adams County is one of the largest and most spectacular earthen sculptures in the world. The age of the serpent is a subject of current debate with some archaeologists arguing that it was built by the Adena culture at ... Read More

Pretty Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics

Hilliard Branch of the Columbus Metro Library 4500 Hickory Chase Way, Hilliard, Ohio

Come visit the Columbus Metro Library's Hilliard Branch with the National League of American Pen Women branch of Central Ohio for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski! Guest Speaker Linda Mizejewski is a Distinguished Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. Linda has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Slovakia and Romania, and her research ... Read More

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