History Blog

Robert Duncanson: From Fame to Obscurity to Fame Once More

“I Found a Photograph Marked Baker Art Gallery”

The Kahiki Supper Club

Some Problems Solved for Housewives: Cooking, Cleaning, Dressing and Entertaining in Historic Newspapers

Whos Who of the Ohio Penitentiary (pre-1923 edition)

What are Manumission Registers?

What are Manumission Registers? And more importantly, how do you find them?

Capturing a Moment: The Ohio Society of Professional Engineers Time Capsule

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Emerson Burkhart and the Works Progress Administration

A real artist is one who knows that culture is a way of living, the sum total of what goes on around you during your life is the warehouse of your art. Your feelings of love and hate about this life is what gives your art its vitality. -Emerson Burkhart, Ohio Historical Society Collections, MSS […]

Killed by Pitched Ball: Finding Ray Chapman on Chronicling America