Come visit the Northwest Territory Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about the Women's Suffrage Movement! 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 truth. The ... Read More
Come visit the Stark County Main Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski about women detectives! Generations of readers have enjoyed Nancy Drew, Miss Marple, and legions of spunky amateur female sleuths who picked up a flashlight to creep through the attic. But the 1980s brought a new heroine to the best seller list: the professional woman detective who gets her ... Read More
Come visit the Children's Theatre Workshop in Toledo (CTW) to see students perform the play Vietnam 101! Vietnam 101 is a historically based play by Rich Orloff. This play is a documentary theatre piece about the events of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the students at the Oberlin College campus, and was written with the help of firsthand ... Read More
Three years after work began to obtain a historical marker for legendary lesbian bar, Jack's/Summit Station, the team behind Free Beer Tomorrow is excited to host a rough cut screening of the film as part of Lesbian Visibility Month. Join us for our first public screening of the work in progress (essentially you will be seeing a rough draft, so ... Read More
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Rhiannon Knol! Rhiannon Knol will speak about the role wrong ideas have played in Renaissance and early modern science, focusing on the writings of Aristotle, Christopher Columbus, and Athanasius Kircher—and reactions by their readers, from Galileo and Harvey to Sor Juana de la Cruz—and ... Read More
Come visit the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with William Trollinger about how statues are used to interpret the history of the Civil War! The 2015 mass shooting in Charleston and now the recent events in Charlottesville have added fuel to the intense and sometimes heated debate in contemporary America about Confederate monuments and ... Read More
Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Dr. Joe Stahlman! Dr. Joe Stahlman (Tuscarora/Pennsylvania Dutch) is an anthropologist, historian, scholar, and researcher. He has over 30 years of research experience working with First Peoples and allies. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ... Read More
Come visit the Tremont Road Branch of the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with David Hassler about the Kent State Shootings. On May 4, 1970, four students were killed and nine injured on the campus of Kent State University by Ohio National Guard during a Vietnam War protest. Nearly forty years later, David scripted ... Read More
Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Kari Gunter-Seymore! Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour will discuss literature derived from the 32 Ohio counties “nestled within the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.” The Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our ... Read More
Come visit the Marvin Memorial 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 to ... Read More
Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook: The History of Travel!
Join the Ohio Humanities team for a webinar on Thursday, August 7, 2025 at 11:00am to learn more about our plans for the future, including potential carve-outs for cultural facilities in the state budget, developments at the NEH and in Congress, and examples of how other sectors have united to increase funding —even in challenging political climates. This virtual event ... Read More
