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

Dayton Metro Library Electra C Doren Branch 701 Troy St., Dayton, Ohio

Come visit the Dayton Metro Library's Doren 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

Meet the Sheroes: A Night of Jack’s/Summit Station Nostalgia

Ohio History Connection 800 E. 17th Ave., Columbus, Ohio

Join us for an amazing stroll down memory lane with 4 of the featured storytellers from the documentary #Free Beer Tomorrow. On this particular journey we are going to open the vaults of the 1970s and 80’s Jack’s/Summit Station communities. Learn first hand about the courageous women (and a few guys) who were fight-the-power rabble rousers, first lovers, trailblazers and ... Read More

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

Book Signing & Superhero Trivia with Mark Waid

Carol and John's Comic Book Shop 17462 Lorain Ave, Cleveland, Ohio

Stop by Carol and John's Comic Book Shop in Cleveland for trivia and book signings with Mark Waid, author of Superman: Birthright and Batman/Superman: World's Finest! This event, and all events for Superman’s Cleveland, is funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant. Find out more about this event series here!

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park Commemoration Ceremony

Hopewell Culture National Historic Park 16062 State Route 104, Chillicothe, Ohio

Come visit the Hopewell Culture National Historic Park to celebrate its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! Stay tuned for updates about programming for this event.

Superman’s Cleveland Conference: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Cultural Icon!

Cleveland Public Library 525 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

In honor of the 85th anniversary of the creation of Superman in Cleveland, Ohio, Ursuline College and the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library are hosting a conference dedicated to exploring the first superhero’s connections to the city of Cleveland, his relationship to the broader cultural environment, and Superman’s legacy within the medium of comics itself. The ... Read More

Newark Earthworks Open House

Newark Earthworks 455 Hebron Road, Heath, Ohio

Come visit the Newark Earthworks to celebrate its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site! During the Newark Earthworks Open House, visitors are invited to explore and experience fully all three segments of these ancient, expansive earthworks built masterfully by American Indians.  The site will be open daylight to dusk, with staff on site to answer questions from Noon–4 p.m. ... 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

America 250 Grants Webinar I

Virtual

Join Ohio Humanities and Ohio's America 250 commission for a webinar about the grant opportunities available to support projects building towards America's sesquicentennial anniversary! The America 250-Ohio Commission, Ohio’s official state commission charged with creating the celebration of the country’s semiquincentennial, announced it will offer grants up to $50,000 to nonprofit, education, and local government organizations, as well as independent ... Read More

Lunch on Fridays: Sina Grace in conversation with Zachary Savich

Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio

Spend your lunch hour hearing from Sina Grace, writer and illustrator of the forthcoming book Superman: The Harvests of Youth, during Lunch on Fridays at 12:15pm Friday, October 20 in CIA's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Superman: The Harvests of Youth (Penguin Random House) is a grounded and heartbreakingly human story about the legendary Superman as a teenager finding his place in a world ... Read More

America 250 Grants Webinar II

Virtual

Join Ohio Humanities and Ohio's America 250 commission for a webinar about the grant opportunities available to support projects building towards America's sesquicentennial anniversary! The America 250-Ohio Commission, Ohio’s official state commission charged with creating the celebration of the country’s semiquincentennial, announced it will offer grants up to $50,000 to nonprofit, education, and local government organizations, as well as independent ... Read More

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