From the Collections Blog Archives - Page 25 of 110

April 14, 2020

Frances Benjamin Johnston and the Last Photographs of President McKinley

Frances Benjamin Johnston took a photograph of the last speech President William McKinley would deliver before we was assassinated.

April 9, 2020

B is for Bomb

April 8, 2020

2020 State Historic Preservation Office Awards

April 6, 2020

Educated, Activist Women Who Opened College Doors for the Rest of Us

This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from April Young Bennett, author of Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists.

April 4, 2020

Victory Gardens in the United States

Victory Gardens, originally called war gardens, got started during WWI and WWII. The Victory Garden movement has revived in 2020, in efforts to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 1, 2020

Family History with the U.S. Census

March 26, 2020

Amazon, Empress, and Friend: The Life of Natalie Clifford Barney

Natalie Clifford Barney was an out lesbian when she said, “being other than normal [was] a perilous advantage.”

March 19, 2020

The Spanish Influenza Comes to Ohio

So what exactly was the Spanish Flu? How did it affect the world and more specifically what happened in Ohio?

March 12, 2020

Celebrating Lethia Cousins Fleming

This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Carol Lasser, an Emerita Professor of History at Oberlin College.

March 8, 2020

Following Ohio Women Vote: Stopping at the Stark County Law Library

As part of our commemoration of this Suffrage Centennial, the Ohio History Connection has created an exhibit that will travel the state in 2020 to...