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Valerie Boyer

Coded Language of Negro Spirituals during the Underground Railroad

St. Paul United Church of Christ 101 Perry St, Wapakoneta, Ohio

Come visit St. Paul's United Church of Christ with the Auglaize County Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the spirituals during the Underground Railroad in Ohio! Negro Spirituals, which have since been renamed African American Spirituals, have been sung by enslaved people and their descendants since as early as the 18th century, and ... Read More

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In These Hills

The Over-the-Rhine Museum is excited to display its latest project: "In These Hills." Come check it out March through June 2025! "In These Hills" is an examination of the Appalachian families who came to the neighborhood in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s in search of work. Dr. Deborah R. Weiner is working with past residents and museum staff to tell ... Read More

Ilan Evyatar at Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

Virtual Author Talk with Ilan Evyatar & Yonah Jeremy Bob

Virtual

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Ilan Evyatar and Yonah Jeremy Bob as they discuss their book Target Tehran. Evyatar and his co-author Yonah Jeremy Bob describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal ... Read More

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Author Daniel Schulman at the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

Author Talk with Daniel Schulman

Park Synagogue 27500 Shaker Blvd, Pepper Pike, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Daniel Schulman to discuss his book, The Money Kings. This book tells the incredible saga of the German Jewish immigrants – with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman – who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance. Schulman ... Read More

Free
Jonathan Sanflofer at the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

Author Talk with Jonathan Sanflofer

The Maltz Museum 2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Jonathan Sanflofer to discuss his book, The Lost Van Gogh. From celebrated artist, legal counterfeiter and award-winning Jewish author Jonathan Santlofer comes The Lost Van Gogh, a spellbinding thriller of masterpieces, masterminds and the mysterious underbelly of the art world. In this highly-anticipated sequel to The Last Mona ... Read More

$10 – $12

Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish

Coshocton County District Library Main Branch 655 Main Street, Coshocton, Ohio

Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! By now most Americans likely know something about Amish life—that the Amish depend on horse and buggy for transportation, that they do not plug into the electrical grid, that their cuisine is delicious, and that they live according ... Read More

Author Jennifer Lang at the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

YogaProse: Using Your Practice to Write Your Story

The Maltz Museum 2929 Richmond Road, Beachwood, Ohio

Join author and yoga instructor Jennifer Lang for an inspiring experience of play and work! The workshop will incorporate pranayama, asana, meditation and writing exercises. You will explore how using the body, focusing the breath, emptying the mind and practicing physical poses can help us see clearer and enrich your writing. This program is for all levels of yoga practitioners ... Read More

$10 – $12
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Aldus Society Speaker Series: Alan Farmer

Thurber Center 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio

Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Alan Farmer! Farmer will discuss recent advances in estimating the numbers of lost books to consider how lost books might reshape our view of the early modern English book trade and the cultural history of England from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. The ... Read More

Author Margalit Fox at the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

Author Talk with Margalit Fox

Cuyahoga County Public Library South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch 1876 South Green Rd., Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Margalit Fox to discuss her book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum. In 1850, Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she ... Read More

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Rabbi Sharon Brous at the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival

Closing Night with Rabbi Sharon Brous

Congregation Mishkan Or 2600 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood, Ohio

The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Rabbi Sharon Brous to discuss her book, The Amen Effect. In a time of loneliness and isolation, social rupture and alienation, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Brous makes the case that the spiritual work of our time, as instinctual as ... Read More

$15

Ohio In the Civil War

Stark County Civil War Roundtable 1275 E Nimisila Rd, North Canton, Ohio

Come learn about Ohio in the Civil War at the Stark County Civil War Roundtable with Mark Holbrook!

Matthew Donahue, speakers bureau

Modern Art and Popular Culture

Earnest Brew Works 4342 S Detroit Ave, Toledo, Ohio

Come visit Earnest Brew Works for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about modern art and pop culture! This presentation examines the way in which popular culture has been used in the world of visual arts. This tradition goes back to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during the cubist era, to the pop art movement of the ... Read More

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