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  • Author Talk with Margalit Fox

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

    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

    Free
  • Closing Night with Rabbi Sharon Brous

    Congregation Mishkan Or 2600 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood, Ohio, United States

    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, United States

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

  • Modern Art and Popular Culture

    Earnest Brew Works 4342 S Detroit Ave, Toledo, Ohio, United States

    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

  • Crawford County Auctionfest

    Virtual

    The Crawford County History Alliance is hosting an Auctionfest online! Join them online to be a part of Auctionfest 2025. 202 choice items are ready for bidding. Follow the link below to get registered and start bidding. Thank you in advance for your support! Bucyrus Rotary Auction Site. In addition to some items, this year you can bid on various ... Read More

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

    Campus Martius Museum 601 Second Street, Marietta, Ohio, United States

    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

  • The Woman Detective in Pop Culture

    Stark Library Main Branch 715 Market Ave. N, Canton, Ohio, United States

    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

  • Vietnam 101: Performed by the Children’s Theatre Workshop of Toledo

    Children’s Theatre Workshop 2417 Collingwood Blvd, Toledo, Ohio, United States

    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

  • Free Beer Tomorrow: Rough Cut

    Gateway Film Center 1550 N High St, Columbus, Ohio, United States

    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

    $10 – $22
  • Aldus Society Speaker Series: Rhiannon Knol

    Thurber Center 91 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, United States

    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

  • Statues, Flags, and the Ongoing Battle over the Meaning of the Civil War

    Cleo Redd Fisher Museum 203 E Main St, Loudonville, Ohio, United States

    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

  • Learning from Dr. Joe Stahlman

    Virtual

    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

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