Serpent Mound in Adams County is one of the largest and most spectacular earthen sculptures in the world. The age of the serpent is a subject of current debate with some archaeologists arguing that it was built by the Adena culture at around 300 B.C.E. and others favoring the Fort Ancient culture at around 1100 C.E. Although much about Serpent ... Read More

Come see Tom O'Grady, a member of Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau, give a talk on the legacy of barn architecture at Trinity Lutheran Church in Delta, Ohio! Culture groups migrating from New England, Middle Atlantic states and from the South settled in various regions of Ohio, and their distinct farms and barns can be observed when travelling throughout the state. ... Read More

Attend the "Letters from Home: Ohioans & Their Wartime Correspondence" program at the Local History Center on Monday, May 15th at 5pm. Speaker Kelly D. Mezurek will talk on how letters served as the main source of communications between soldiers, nurses, and other military support personnel and their communities during the American wars of the 18th through mid-20th centuries. This ... Read More

Come visit the Rowfant Club for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Brad Lepper! The Newark Earthworks are the largest set of geometric enclosures and mounds in the world. The work of the Hopewell people who lived in Ohio circa A.D. 1-  400, these geometric earthworks covered nearly five square miles, using more than seven million cubic feet of ... Read More

The 1989 discovery of this giant, ancient elephant-like creature opened an unprecedented window onto Ohio’s Ice Age. Archaeologists, biologists, and geologists studied the mastodon’s nearly complete remains (including its last meal) and other Ice Age animals and plants. This presentation will describe their findings and address the question of whether ancient human hunters or environmental changes drove mastodons into extinction. ... Read More

A light-hearted talk about the travel narratives of John May's journey to the Ohio Country. In comparing the modern-day luxuries of travel to the difficulties of nineteenth-century travel, this talk provides perspective on what settlers had to overcome in order to make it to their destination. Listeners will receive insight about what it was like to meet new people in ... Read More

Come visit the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers' Bureau event with Tom O'Grady! Culture groups migrating from New England, Middle Atlantic states and from the South settled in various regions of Ohio, and their distinct farms and barns can be observed when travelling throughout the state. The barn builders have left an architectural legacy throughout rural ... Read More

Come visit the Dayton Metro Library's Doren Branch for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Carol Lasser! In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place in a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance.  Yet in Ohio, the ... Read More

Come visit the Dayton Metro Library's Brookville Branch for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers Bureau event with Carol Lasser! In the final years of the suffrage struggle, Ohio women’s efforts to gain the vote took place in a national movement that accepted the regional disenfranchisement of African Americans as part of a bargain to overcome Southern resistance.  Yet in Ohio, the ... Read More

Come visit the Spring Hill Historic Home for an Ohio Humanities' Speakers' Bureau event with Kelly Mezurek! Dr. Mezurek will be discussing her book, For their Own Cause: The 27th United States Colored Troops (The Kent State University Press, 2016), which explores the story of the 27th USCT in the Civil War. From the inside cover: "The men faced daily battles ... Read More