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Origins of the 50th Earth Day – Part II

Origins of the 50th Earth Day

Preserving Your Family Tree Like an Archivist

As Ohioans begin to face at least a few more weeks under a stay-at-home order, many of us are looking for new hobbies or distractions.

Punch Drunk History

As we spend more time at home these days, there seems to have been a surge in folks getting creative in the kitchen. May we make a suggestion? Historic cocktails!

Springtime Snake ID: Part II

By Erin Cashion This is Part II of a two-part blog series! Be sure to check out Part I to learn about Ohio's most common snake species and snake identification myths.   Snake Bite Statistics Before I cover Ohio's three venomous snake species, I want to take some time to discuss the danger of snakebite […]

Springtime Snake ID

By Erin Cashion After the stay-at-home order was enacted to slow the Covid-19 pandemic in Ohio and other US states, many of us are finding more time on our hands, and are choosing to spend it outside as the weather warms and spring returns. People are walking in their neighborhoods, sitting on front or back […]

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.

B is for Bomb

2020 State Historic Preservation Office Awards

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.