Carol Lasser

Kiley Kinnard

Carol Lasser, Executive Director of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society, is Emerita Professor of History at Oberlin College. She speaks and writes on Oberlin’s rich history, and on women, gender and race in American history. Her books include:  Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio (with Gary Kornblith, 2018), Antebellum American Women (with Stacey Robertson, 2010), Friends … Read More

Zeb Larson

Kiley Kinnard

Zeb Larson is a writer, historian, and software developer in Columbus. He graduated from The Ohio State University with a PhD in History in 2019. His research focused on the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and the passage of sanctions against South Africa. He writes about 20th-century U.S. history, food history, and politics The United States and African Liberation … Read More

Brandon Downing

Jim Calder

Brandon Downing

Brandon C. Downing is an Assistant Professor of History at Marietta College. He teaches early American history classes in Native and Colonial America, the American Revolutionary War, and in Public History. His primary interests are Native-White interactions in the Ohio Valley, the War of 1812, and the history of Marietta, OH. He is currently working on a project titled, “Performative … Read More

David Hassler

Jim Calder

David Hassler is the Director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and is the author of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community. May 4th Voices: Speaking through the Wound of 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 … Read More

Bradley Lepper

Jim Calder

Brad Lepper is the Senior Archaeologist for the Ohio History Connection’s World Heritage Program. In addition, he has occasionally been a Visiting Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Denison University. His primary areas of interest include North America’s Ice Age peoples, Ohio’s magnificent mounds and earthworks, and the history of Archaeology. Noteworthy research includes excavation of the Burning Tree mastodon … Read More

Mindy McGinnis

Kiley Kinnard

Mindy McGinnis

Mindy McGinnis is a YA author who has worked in a high school library for thirteen years. Her debut, Not A Drop to Drink, a post-apocalyptic survival story set in a world with very little freshwater, has been optioned for film by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films. The companion novel, In A Handful of Dust was released in 2014. Her Gothic historical thriller, A … Read More

Tom O’Grady

Kiley Kinnard

Tom O’Grady sailed as a deck worker on an ore carrier on the Great Lakes aboard a sister-ship of the fated Edmund Fitzgerald, surveyed for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, launched the first comprehensive curbside recycling program in the state of Ohio and has been promoting waste reduction and sustainable economy for thirty years. O’Grady has also been an … Read More

Barbara Palmer

Kiley Kinnard

Barbara Palmer, Baldwin Wallace Professor

Barbara Palmer is Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University and is the Creator and Executive Director of the Center for Women and Politics of Ohio (CWPO).  The CWPO engages students, scholars, media and the public in the sharing of over 100 years of Ohio history and the remarkable stories of women who have run for public office.  Professor … Read More

Julie Rubini

Jim Calder

Julie K. Rubini is a children’s book author and founder of Claire’s Day, Ohio’s largest children’s book festival. She is the recipient of a Toledo Area Jefferson Award, YWCA Milestones Award and University of Toledo Distinguished Alumni award. Julie’s first book, Hidden Ohio, was featured as the Ohio Arts Council Governor’s Awards book. Three of Julie’s works have been published by … Read More

Ric Sheffield

Kiley Kinnard

Ric Sheffield is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College. In addition to having served as Associate Provost of the College, he is the Director of Kenyon’s Law & Society Program and the John Adams Summer Scholars Program in Socio-legal Studies.  His research has focused upon the relationship between law and issues of gender, race, and ethnicity.  … Read More