Do you want to know what the turkey wishbone really is and what its function is inside the bird? If you’d like to teach about the bird skeleton to your family and friends while car
Or: How a Comment About iNaturalist Led Me Down an AI Rabbithole Rather than an exhaustive report, this blog is intended to give a brief overview of the topic and jumping off points for further investigation. This blog was written without the assistance of AI writing tools. While identifying a butterfly on a social media […]
Author’s Note: Be sure to catch up with A Brief History of the Golden-winged Warbler Part I, here. The Golden-winged Warbler was seemingly never common in Ohio. It had been variously described as a "transitory visitor" by Jared Kirtland in 1838; a "rare summer resident" by John Wheaton in 1879; and "irregular in distribution" by […]
Part 1 of a series that delves into interesting texts found in the Ohio History Connection's Archives & Library
By David A. Simmons Throughout the 19th century, covered bridges existed largely on a practical level. Designed and erected as utilitarian structures in a larger highway system, they had none of the romanticized imagery that have today come to be associated with them. But even with the passage of time, they exist on multiple levels, […]
By Susan Lowery Reference Archivist, Youngstown Historical Center of Industry & Labor Mid-century America was a pivotal moment for civil rights and women’s liberation. Amid these movements, working women felt the strain of being under-appreciated by their employers. After years of unions being formed by men, women were now building their own platforms to advocate […]
By Erin Cashion, Curator of Natural History At first glance, it appears to be only a brownish wad of grapevine bark strips and old beech leaves. Its age alone (and the person who collected it) make it a specimen of high historic and scientific significance. But this plain-seeming clump of old leaves has an even […]
By Erin Cashion and David Dyer On April 7, the story in Time magazine was posted everywhere: we had brought the extinct Ice Age Dire Wolf, Aenocyon dirus, back from the dead. Alongside this unbelievable headline came the video of two adorable white, fluffy canines in the hands of a human caregiver. These two pups […]
The Ohio History Connection is thrilled to have recently obtained a collection of over 60 items of Justice and Brothers clothing ranging from 2008 to 2017.
Learn more about M.C. Lilley and Henry Clay Taylor through a frock coat in the history collections of the Ohio History Connection.
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