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SUMMARY:Advocating for the Humanities: State & Federal Funding Updates
DESCRIPTION:Join the Ohio Humanities team for a webinar on Thursday\, August 7\, 2025 at 11:00am to learn more about our plans for the future\, including potential carve-outs for cultural facilities in the state budget\, developments at the NEH and in Congress\, and examples of how other sectors have united to increase funding —even in challenging political climates. \n\n\n\nThis virtual event is open to the public\, but registration is required.
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/advocating-for-the-humanities-state-federal-funding-updates/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250602T180000
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SUMMARY:The History of Travel in America
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the history of travel! \n\n\n\nNot so long ago few people traveled far from home. Vacations and travel for leisure were either unaffordable or impractical. The industrial age\, new technologies and shifting perspectives on work and leisure changed all of that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We’ll explore those changes and the impact a traveling population on or economy and culture. \n\n\n\nMark Holbrook is currently the executive director for the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that\, Mark served as the marketing manager at the Ohio History Connection for nine years and has been a consultant for tourism and history-based organizations for 12 years. He is a native Ohioan\, graduate of The Ohio State University (BA in Communications) and an avid student of history. \n\n\n\nMark is the editor of the The Buckeye Vanguard about the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mark recently retired from a 20-year career as a Civil War reenactor\, serving as a Union officer throughout the country at such places as Gettysburg\, Chattanooga\, Richmond and Shiloh. Mark also served as military coordinator for the film Light of Freedom released in the fall of 2013 and had a supporting role in the 2015 film Wings of the Wind. Mark served on the Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for the state of Ohio and has appeared in several television history-themed television programs. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-history-of-travel-in-america-2/
LOCATION:Marvin Memorial Library\, 29 W Whitney Ave.\, Shelby\, Ohio\, 44875\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! \n\n\n\nBy now most Americans likely know something about Amish life—that the Amish depend on horse and buggy for transportation\, that they do not plug into the electrical grid\, that their cuisine is delicious\, and that they live according to a much slower pace of life than most Americans do. What many people do not know is that Amish life is changing in some very significant ways due economic pressures that have pushed them off the farm. In the course of this presentation\, we will look at what Amish life has been like for the better part of a century in the US and how it is changing now as a result of what has been called “the Amish industrial revolution.” We will explore these changes and ask the question—can the Amish remain Amish? \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/moving-off-the-farm-and-trying-to-stay-amish-2/
LOCATION:Marvin Memorial Library\, 29 W Whitney Ave.\, Shelby\, Ohio\, 44875\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T190000
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SUMMARY:Aldus Society Speaker Series: Kari Gunter-Seymore
DESCRIPTION:Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Kari Gunter-Seymore! \n\n\n\nOhio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour will discuss literature derived from the 32 Ohio counties “nestled within the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.” \n\n\n\nThe Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our members are serious book collectors\, some of us are merely lovers of the printed word in all its forms. \n\n\n\nThis event series was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/aldus-society-speaker-series-kari-gunter-seymore/
LOCATION:Thurber Center\, 91 Jefferson Avenue\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43215\, United States
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SUMMARY:May 4th Voices: Speaking Through the Wound of the Kent State Shootings
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Tremont Road Branch of the Upper Arlington Public Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with David Hassler about the Kent State Shootings. \n\n\n\nOn May 4\, 1970\, four students were killed and nine injured on the campus of Kent State University by Ohio National Guard during a Vietnam War protest. Nearly forty years later\, David scripted a play\, May 4th Voices\, based on the ongoing Kent State Shootings Oral History Project. This talk includes readings of excerpts from the play and discussion about the process of writing and staging; as well as  the power of testimony in the oral history archives\, which includes over 110 interviews that document first-person narratives and personal reactions to the events of May 4\, 1970. \n\n\n\nKent State carries the symbolic wound of the Vietnam War and the protest movement in this country\, along with the tragedy ten days later at Jackson State in which two African American students were killed and twelve others wounded in a similar anti-war protest. Engaging any community in the healing process of creating art and providing venues for the public to witness has the power to heal. If\, as the 14th century Persian poet Rumi says\, “the medicine is in the wound\,” then May 4th Voices is an attempt to speak directly through the wound of Kent State and this cultural period\, to move beyond a polarizing silence\, and to create a space – like the ritual space of theatre – in which we might listen and respond to each other. \n\n\n\nDavid Hassler is the Director of the Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and is the author of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community. \n\n\n\nPlease register ahead of time for the event here. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/may-4th-voices-speaking-through-the-wound-of-the-kent-state-shootings/
LOCATION:Tremont Branch of the Upper Arlington Library\, 2800 Tremont Rd\, Upper Arlington\, Ohio\, 43221\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Learning from Dr. Joe Stahlman
DESCRIPTION:Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Dr. Joe Stahlman! \n\n\n\nDr. Joe Stahlman (Tuscarora/Pennsylvania Dutch) is an anthropologist\, historian\, scholar\, and researcher. He has over 30 years of research experience working with First Peoples and allies. His research focuses on culture and history\, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native communities. He takes an active role in addressing the spaces Native peoples occupy in North American museums\, arts\, archaeology\, cultural resource management\, and scholarship. Regularly\, Joe talks on the need to promote equity\, equality\, and justice among all peoples in North American society through a number of reconciliatory processes which are inclusive for all and empowers people to express agency through creative and intellectual endeavors. \n\n\n\nThe event is free but please register ahead of time here! \n\n\n\nThis speaker series was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/learning-from-dr-joe-stahlman/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T200000
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SUMMARY:Statues\, Flags\, and the Ongoing Battle over the Meaning of the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Cleo Redd Fisher Museum for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with William Trollinger about how statues are used to interpret the history of the Civil War! \n\n\n\nThe 2015 mass shooting in Charleston and now the recent events in Charlottesville have added fuel to the intense and sometimes heated debate in contemporary America about Confederate monuments and flags. What sometimes gets lost in this debate is that monuments and flags are not history themselves\, but are commemorations of a particular interpretation of history. This is particularly true in this case. Most Confederate monuments were not constructed in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War\, but\, instead\, were put up as part of the effort to create a “Jim Crow” South that rendered African Americans politically invisible and powerless. And the revival of Confederate flags was part and parcel of the mid-twentieth-century white resistance to the Civil Rights movement. In effect\, the Confederate monuments and flags – and the fierce defense of both – are manifestations of the fact that the South lost the Civil War but won the writing of history. And the current opposition to Confederate monuments and flags grows out of a very deep desire to tell a new and more accurate story about our past. \n\n\n\nWilliam Trollinger is professor of history in the History and Religious Studies Departments at the University of Dayton. He is also director of UD’s Core Integrated Studies Program\, which features an innovative\, five-semester interdisciplinary curriculum. He earned his B.A. in English and History from Bethel College (MN) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has focused on 20th/21st-century American Protestantism\, particularly fundamentalism\, creationism\, and Protestant print culture. His publications include God’s Empire: William Bell Riley and Midwestern Fundamentalism (University of Wisconsin Press\, 1990) and Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016)\, the latter which he co-authored with his wife\, Susan Trollinger. He has also done a good deal of research on the Ku Klux Klan in Ohio in the 1920s; one result of this work is “Hearing the Silence: The University of Dayton\, the Ku Klux Klan\, and Catholic Universities and Colleges” (American Catholic Studies\, Spring 2013)\, for which he won the 2014 Catholic Press Award for Best Essay in a Scholarly Magazine. He enjoys speaking on the 1920s Ohio Ku Klux Klan. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/statues-flags-and-the-ongoing-battle-over-the-meaning-of-the-civil-war-2/
LOCATION:Cleo Redd Fisher Museum\, 203 E Main St\, Loudonville\, Ohio\, 44842\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250410T190000
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SUMMARY:Aldus Society Speaker Series: Rhiannon Knol
DESCRIPTION:Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Rhiannon Knol! \n\n\n\nRhiannon Knol will speak about the role wrong ideas have played in Renaissance and early modern science\, focusing on the writings of Aristotle\, Christopher Columbus\, and Athanasius Kircher—and reactions by their readers\, from Galileo and Harvey to Sor Juana de la Cruz—and on the ongoing negotiation of authority\, empiricism\, and imagination in scientific and philosophical discourse. \n\n\n\nThe Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our members are serious book collectors\, some of us are merely lovers of the printed word in all its forms. \n\n\n\nThis event series was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/aldus-society-speaker-series-rhiannon-knol/
LOCATION:Thurber Center\, 91 Jefferson Avenue\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43215\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250405T140000
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SUMMARY:Free Beer Tomorrow: Rough Cut
DESCRIPTION:Three years after work began to obtain a historical marker for legendary lesbian bar\, Jack’s/Summit Station\, the team behind Free Beer Tomorrow is excited to host a rough cut screening of the film as part of Lesbian Visibility Month. Join us for our first public screening of the work in progress (essentially you will be seeing a rough draft\, so please keep that in mind when join us-we still have a lot of work to do).  All proceeds from the event will go to cover completion of the film.  \n\n\n\nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with members of the Free Beer Tomorrow team. \n\n\n\nThis event is dedicated to the memory of Columbus Pacesetter Chi Chi Walker and is co-hosted by Lesbians Benefiting the Arts and grant support the Greater Columbus Arts Council and Ohio Humanities.  We miss Chi Chi dearly and are grateful to our co-hosts and grant partners. \n\n\n\nThe event is currently sold out\, but feel free to add yourself to the waitlist or purchase a virtual ticket here!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/free-beer-tomorrow-rough-cut/
LOCATION:Gateway Film Center\, 1550 N High St\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43201\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T093000
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SUMMARY:Vietnam 101: Performed by the Children's Theatre Workshop of Toledo
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Children’s Theatre Workshop in Toledo (CTW) to see students perform the play Vietnam 101! \n\n\n\nVietnam 101 is a historically based play by Rich Orloff. This play is a documentary theatre piece about the events of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the students at the Oberlin College campus\, and was written with the help of firsthand account oral histories. CTW will partner with local schools to provide a deeper dive into the history of the Vietnam War and its impact here at home\, making connections to current events and asking audiences to reflect on their own experiences. \n\n\n\nCheck back for ticket information! \n\n\n\nThis performance was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/vietnam-101-performed-by-the-childrens-theatre-workshop-of-toledo/
LOCATION:Children’s Theatre Workshop\, 2417 Collingwood Blvd\, Toledo\, Ohio\, 43620\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250329T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250329T150000
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SUMMARY:The Woman Detective in Pop Culture
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Stark County Main Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski about women detectives! \n\n\n\nGenerations of readers have enjoyed Nancy Drew\, Miss Marple\, and legions of spunky amateur female sleuths who picked up a flashlight to creep through the attic. But the 1980s brought a new heroine to the best seller list: the professional woman detective who gets her man with an arrest warrant or a bullet to the heart.  This talk explores this new woman detective character and her bumpy transition to the box office and network television\, where grit has often been traded for glamour.  Topics include best selling writers Sue Grafton and Patricia Cornwell\, television series from Charlie’s Angels to Cold Case\, and films such as The Silence of the Lambs. \n\n\n\nLinda Mizejewski is a Distinguished Professor of Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University. She has published six books on women in popular culture\, including a book about the romantic comedy It Happened One Night. In her 2002 book Hardboiled and High Heeled: the Woman Detective in Popular Culture\,she analyzes the female investigator character in cinema\, television\, and best-selling novels.  Her most recent two books are Hysterical! Women in American Comedy (2017) and Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics (2014).  Linda has been a Fulbright Lecturer in Slovakia and Romania\, and her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. In 2004 she was a winner of Ohio State University’s Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. \n\n\n\nRegistration is required. Please check Stark County Library’s event page for more information! \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-woman-detective-in-pop-culture/
LOCATION:Stark Library Main Branch\, 715 Market Ave. N\, Canton\, Ohio\, 44702\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T110000
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SUMMARY:Rebels in Corsets: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Northwest Territory Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about the Women’s Suffrage Movement! \n\n\n\nThe story of the women’s suffrage movement is often told (even by US historians) as a peaceful transition by which white male politicians happily gave women the right to vote. This could not be further from the truth. The movement for women’s suffrage was a 72-year struggle that demanded a great deal from women emotionally\, politically\, and physically. This lecture looks at what it was like to be a woman in the 19th century with little power to change her circumstances because she did not have access to the ballot box\, how it was that women became convinced in the 1840s that it was time to take on that struggle\, and how they finally won it through rhetorical strategies that might not look radical to us now but then appeared so radical as to have been called “disgusting.” \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/rebels-in-corsets-the-embodied-rhetoric-of-the-womens-suffrage-movement-2/
LOCATION:Campus Martius Museum\, 601 Second Street\, Marietta\, Ohio\, 45750\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T080000
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SUMMARY:Crawford County Auctionfest
DESCRIPTION:The Crawford County History Alliance is hosting an Auctionfest online! \n\n\n\nJoin them online to be a part of Auctionfest 2025. 202 choice items are ready for bidding. Follow the link below to get registered and start bidding. Thank you in advance for your support! \n\n\n\nBucyrus Rotary Auction Site. \n\n\n\nIn addition to some items\, this year you can bid on various experiences too! \n\n\n\nHistorical Societies:  Private Events & Tours \n\n\n\n\nHarvey One-Room Schoolhouse:  Picnic lunch and private tour. \n\n\n\nBucyrus Historical Society: Curator for a Day\n\n\n\nBucyrus Copper Kettle Works:  Private Tour for Two & Copper Roses AND a Private Tour for Six\n\n\n\n\nDistillery Tours \n\n\n\n\nTours & tastings at Second Sight Spirits and Indian Creek Distillery\n\n\n\nJourneyman Distillery (located in both Indiana and Michigan)\n\n\n\nIron Vault Tour & Tasting (Galion\, OH)\n\n\n\n\nOvernight Stays \n\n\n\n\nFrontier Log Cabins (in Hocking Hills)\n\n\n\nOvernight stay in Hotel Elkhart (a Hilton “Tapestry” hotel) in Indiana\n\n\n\nSpread Eagle Tavern (Beautiful historic hotel in Hanoverton\, OH)\n\n\n\nBluebird Inn (Crestline\, OH)\n\n\n\n\nAdrenaline Experiences \n\n\n\n\nHot Air Balloon Ride over Crawford County\n\n\n\nPrivate Plane Ride (Two options:  Lake Erie area or Wapakonenta)
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/crawford-county-auctionfest/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Modern Art and Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:Come visit Earnest Brew Works for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about modern art and pop culture! \n\n\n\nThis presentation examines the way in which popular culture has been used in the world of visual arts. This tradition goes back to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque during the cubist era\, to the pop art movement of the 1960s to today’s contemporary art scene in the so called “outsider art” movement. This presentation highlights the ways in which and examples of popular culture crossing over into the arts. \n\n\n\nDr. Matthew Donahue is a Teaching Professor at the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University\, specializing in topics related to popular culture\, popular music\, film\, media and culture and popular culture and the arts.  He has lectured on such topics regionally\, nationally and internationally and has served as an authority on popular culture topics for national and international publications.   In addition to his academic work\, he is also a musician\, artist\, filmmaker and writer.  As a musician\, he has released sound recordings internationally working within a variety of popular music genres.  As an artist\, he uses popular culture as the basis of his artistic creations working in two and three-dimensional collage/mixed media\, street photography and art cars and has exhibited his work at exhibitions\, galleries\, festivals and museums throughout the United States.  He is an award-winning documentary filmmaker for such films as “The Hines Farm Blues Club”\, “The Amsterdam T-Shirt Project” and “Motorhead Matters”.  Additionally\, he has made documentaries on the history and culture of art cars such as “Taking It to the Streets: An Art Car Experience” and “Car Power: Another Art Car Experience”.  His written work consists of the award winning “I’ll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club” and a collection of photography related to his art cars titled “Taking It to the Streets: An Art Car Experience” as well as writings on popular music and the arts.  His academic and creative efforts can be viewed at www.md1210.com. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/modern-art-and-popular-culture/
LOCATION:Earnest Brew Works\, 4342 S Detroit Ave\, Toledo\, Ohio\, 43614\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T200000
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SUMMARY:Ohio In the Civil War
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Stark County Civil War Roundtable for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook about the Ohio in the Civil War! \n\n\n\nWith troops\, generals\, factories and farms\, Ohio and Ohioans helped to change the outcome of the Civil War. And that war changed Ohio and its people. We’ll explore those changes and take a look at the contributions of Ohio and its people during America’s Civil War. Its citizens\, politicians\, soldiers\, nurses and businessmen. \n\n\n\nMark Holbrook is currently the executive director for the Marion Area Convention and Visitors Bureau. Prior to that\, Mark served as the marketing manager at the Ohio History Connection for nine years and has been a consultant for tourism and history-based organizations for 12 years. He is a native Ohioan\, graduate of The Ohio State University (BA in Communications) and an avid student of history. \n\n\n\nMark is the editor of the The Buckeye Vanguard about the 49th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mark recently retired from a 20-year career as a Civil War reenactor\, serving as a Union officer throughout the country at such places as Gettysburg\, Chattanooga\, Richmond and Shiloh. Mark also served as military coordinator for the film Light of Freedom released in the fall of 2013 and had a supporting role in the 2015 film Wings of the Wind. Mark served on the Civil War Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for the state of Ohio and has appeared in several television history-themed television programs. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/ohio-in-the-civil-war-3/
LOCATION:Stark County Civil War Roundtable\, 1275 E Nimisila Rd\, North Canton\, Ohio\, 44720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250319T203000
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SUMMARY:Closing Night with Rabbi Sharon Brous
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Rabbi Sharon Brous to discuss her book\, The Amen Effect. \n\n\n\nIn a time of loneliness and isolation\, social rupture and alienation\, what will it take to mend our broken hearts and rebuild our society? Brous makes the case that the spiritual work of our time\, as instinctual as it is counter-cultural\, is to find our way to one other in celebration\, in sorrow and in solidarity. The Amen Effect translates foundational ideas into simple practices\, offering a blueprint for a meaningful life and a more connected and caring world. \n\n\n\nSharon Brous is the senior and founding rabbi of IKAR\, a leading-edge Jewish community based in Los Angeles. In 2013\, Brous blessed President Obama and VP Biden at the Inaugural National Prayer Service. She has also blessed President Biden and VP Harris\, and led the White House Passover Seder and the Hanukkah candle lighting. She was named #1 on the Newsweek/The Daily Beast list of most influential Rabbis in America and has been recognized by The Forward and Jerusalem Post as among the most influential Jews alive today. Her work has been featured in The New York Times\, The Los Angeles Times\, and The Washington Post\, and her TED talk\, “Reclaiming Religion\,” has been viewed by more than 1.5 million people. \n\n\n\nSponsor: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/closing-night-with-rabbi-sharon-brous/
LOCATION:Congregation Mishkan Or\, 2600 Shaker Blvd.\, Beachwood\, Ohio\, 44122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Margalit Fox
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Margalit Fox to discuss her book\, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum. \n\n\n\nIn 1850\, Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist. How was she able to ascend from tenement poverty to vast wealth? In the intervening years\, “Marm” Mandelbaum had become the country’s most notorious “fence – a receiver of stolen goods – and a criminal mastermind. Combining deep historical research with a narrative flair\, Fox tells the unforgettable true story of a once-famous heroine whose life exemplifies America’s cherished rags-to-riches narrative while simultaneously upending it entirely. \n\n\n\nMargalit Fox is considered one of the foremost explanatory writers and literary stylists in American journalism. Fox retired in June 2018 from a 24-year-career at the New York Times\, where she was most recently a senior writer. As a member of the newspaper’s celebrated obituary news department\, she has written the Page One sendoffs of some of the best-known cultural figures of our era\, Originally trained as a cellist\, Ms. Fox holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in linguistics from Stony Brook University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is the winner of the William Saroyan Prize for Literature and author of four previous books. \n\n\n\nSponsor: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/author-talk-with-margalit-fox/
LOCATION:Cuyahoga County Public Library South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch\, 1876 South Green Rd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44121\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T203000
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SUMMARY:Aldus Society Speaker Series: Alan Farmer
DESCRIPTION:Join the Aldus Society of Central Ohio at the Thurber Center for a speaker event with Alan Farmer! \n\n\n\nFarmer will discuss recent advances in estimating the numbers of lost books to consider how lost books might reshape our view of the early modern English book trade and the cultural history of England from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century. \n\n\n\nThe Aldus Society brings literary events and programming to book lovers and educational opportunities to members. Some of our members are serious book collectors\, some of us are merely lovers of the printed word in all its forms. \n\n\n\nThis event series was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/aldus-society-speaker-series-alan-farmer/
LOCATION:Thurber Center\, 91 Jefferson Avenue\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43215\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
CREATED:20250113T152210Z
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SUMMARY:YogaProse: Using Your Practice to Write Your Story
DESCRIPTION:Join author and yoga instructor Jennifer Lang for an inspiring experience of play and work! The workshop will incorporate pranayama\, asana\, meditation and writing exercises. You will explore how using the body\, focusing the breath\, emptying the mind and practicing physical poses can help us see clearer and enrich your writing. This program is for all levels of yoga practitioners and open to anyone who journals\, yearns to write or wrestles with writing\, feels blocked or craves inspiration. \n\n\n\nJennifer Lang is the author of Places We Left Behind: A Memoir-in-Miniature and Landed: A Yogi’s Memoir in Pieces & Poses. She is originally from California and lives in Tel Aviv\, where she runs Israel Writers Studio. A Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays nominee\, she holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and serves as Assistant Editor for Brevity Journal. When not at her desk\, she’s often on a yoga mat\, practicing since 1995\, teaching since 2003. \n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/yogaprose-using-your-practice-to-write-your-story/
LOCATION:The Maltz Museum\, 2929 Richmond Road\, Beachwood\, Ohio\, 44122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T140000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! \n\n\n\nBy now most Americans likely know something about Amish life—that the Amish depend on horse and buggy for transportation\, that they do not plug into the electrical grid\, that their cuisine is delicious\, and that they live according to a much slower pace of life than most Americans do. What many people do not know is that Amish life is changing in some very significant ways due economic pressures that have pushed them off the farm. In the course of this presentation\, we will look at what Amish life has been like for the better part of a century in the US and how it is changing now as a result of what has been called “the Amish industrial revolution.” We will explore these changes and ask the question—can the Amish remain Amish? \n\n\n\nSusan Trollinger is professor of English at the University of Dayton where she teaches courses on writing and rhetoric. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her Master’s and PhD in Rhetoric and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh. Her first book\, Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2012)\, explores Amish Country tourism especially in eastern Ohio. In her more than ten years of research for the book\, she learned a great deal about Amish culture and its significance for all who are not Amish\, which she enjoys sharing with others. Her second book\, titled Righting America at the Creation Museum (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2016) and co-authored with her husband\, William Vance Trollinger\, Jr.\, provides a close reading of the arguments and appeals at the Creation Museum in Petersburg\, Kentucky as well as situates those arguments and appeals within the long history of Protestant fundamentalism in the US. She has been interviewed in a number of media outlets including CSpan-2’s BookTV\, RadioWest\, the Washington Post\, and GQ. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/moving-off-the-farm-and-trying-to-stay-amish/
LOCATION:Coshocton County District Library Main Branch\, 655 Main Street\, Coshocton\, Ohio\, 43812\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250305T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Jonathan Sanflofer
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Jonathan Sanflofer to discuss his book\, The Lost Van Gogh. \n\n\n\nFrom celebrated artist\, legal counterfeiter and award-winning Jewish author Jonathan Santlofer comes The Lost Van Gogh\, a spellbinding thriller of masterpieces\, masterminds and the mysterious underbelly of the art world. In this highly-anticipated sequel to The Last Mona Lisa (a People Magazine Best Book of Summer)\, Santlofer turns his attention to one of the most revered artists of all time\, spinning a riveting tale based on rumors that Van Gogh completed a final self-portrait before his death\, one that has since been lost to time – or the black market \n\n\n\nJonathan Santlofer is an artist and USA Today best-selling author. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts grants\, was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome\, serves on the board of Yaddo and founded the Center For Fiction’s Crime Fiction Academy. His art has been exhibited worldwide\, including in New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nPraise for the book: “Ingeniously plotted\, irresistibly readable\, brimming with inside information about the high-stakes art world of theft\, forgery\, and murder…Also included are brilliantly rendered drawings by the author\, who is as accomplished an artist as he is a writer of suspense thrillers.” ―Joyce Carol Oates \n\n\n\nCommunity Partner: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nin conjunction with the exhibit “Degenerate! Hitler’s War on Modern Art” \n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/author-talk-with-jonathan-sanflofer/
LOCATION:The Maltz Museum\, 2929 Richmond Road\, Beachwood\, Ohio\, 44122\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250304T203000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Author Talk with Daniel Schulman
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Daniel Schulman to discuss his book\, The Money Kings. \n\n\n\nThis book tells the incredible saga of the German Jewish immigrants – with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs\, Kuhn and Loeb\, Warburg and Schiff\, Lehman and Seligman – who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance. Schulman unspools a sweeping narrative that traces the interconnected origin stories of these financial dynasties. He chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance\, as they navigated the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age\, and the complexities of the Civil War\, World War I and the Zionist movement that tested both their burgeoning empires and their identities as Americans\, Germans and Jews. \n\n\n\nDaniel Schulman is a best-selling author and journalist whose work has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe Magazine\, Politico\, Vanity Fair\, the Washington Post\, and Mother Jones\, where he is the magazine’s deputy Washington\, DC bureau chief. Schulman’s first book\, Sons of Wichita\, a biography of the Koch brothers\, was a finalist for The Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and sons.  \n\n\n\nPraise for the book: “A must-read for anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of the roots of modern finance and its foundational families. Schulman weaves a masterful tapestry of history\, bringing to life the untold stories of a group of trailblazing pioneers who left an indelible mark on global business and Jewish life. It’s a monumental work.”\n\n\n\n— David de Jong\, author of Nazi Billionaires \n\n\n\nSponsor: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n& The Park Synagogue Robert Leitson Family Lecture Fund \n\n\n\nCommunity Partner: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/author-talk-with-daniel-schulman/
LOCATION:Park Synagogue\, 27500 Shaker Blvd\, Pepper Pike\, Ohio\, 44124\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Talk with Ilan Evyatar & Yonah Jeremy Bob
DESCRIPTION:The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Ilan Evyatar and Yonah Jeremy Bob as they discuss their book Target Tehran. \n\n\n\nEvyatar and his co-author Yonah Jeremy Bob describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare\, targeted assassinations and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect\, sometimes in cooperation with the United States. Even as it takes lethal action\, Israel has managed to alter the politics of the Middle East\, culminating in the Abraham Accords of 2020. Drawing from interviews with top confidential Israeli and U.S. sources\, including from the Mossad and the CIA\, the authors tell the thrilling inside story of the tumultuous\, and often bloody\, history of how Israel has managed to outmaneuver Iran – so far. \n\n\n\nIlan Evyatar is a former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Report\, and a former news director\, columnist and senior contributor at The Jerusalem Post. He has edited and translated several books and has worked as a speechwriter and ghostwriter. Born in Israel and raised in London\, he has interviewed top intelligence officials\, as well as leading political\, business and cultural personalities \n\n\n\nIf you cannot attend in person to watch on the big screen and would like to view the event from home\, please register. \n\n\n\nA Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year/Politics \n\n\n\nWinner of the Jewish Book Council’s Natan Notable Book Prize \n\n\n\nSponsors: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nand \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Cleveland Jewish Book Festival\, supported in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant! \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/virtual-author-talk-with-ilan-evyatar-amp-yonah-jeremy-bob/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250301T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250630T170000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:In These Hills
DESCRIPTION:The Over-the-Rhine Museum is excited to display its latest project: “In These Hills.” Come check it out March through June 2025! \n\n\n\n“In These Hills” is an examination of the Appalachian families who came to the neighborhood in the 1940s\, 50s\, and 60s in search of work. Dr. Deborah R. Weiner is working with past residents and museum staff to tell the story of these migrants’ transitions from the hills of Appalachia to the hillsides of Cincinnati’s urban basin. \n\n\n\nCheck out OTR’s website here for more up-to-date information! \n\n\n\nThis exhibit was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Spark Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/in-these-hills/
LOCATION:Ohio
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T200000
DTSTAMP:20260414T092308
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SUMMARY:Coded Language of Negro Spirituals during the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:Come visit St. Paul’s United Church of Christ with the Auglaize County Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the spirituals during the Underground Railroad in Ohio! \n\n\n\nNegro Spirituals\, which have since been renamed African American Spirituals\, have been sung by enslaved people and their descendants since as early as the 18th century\, and are still sung today. This talk covers what makes them such a brilliant form of resistance by discussing the hidden messages coded within them. When someone who didn’t need to know\, such as an overseer or master\, heard these songs\, the assumption was often that they sang about heaven\, scripture\, or biblical reference in folklore. They had no clue that these freedom seekers were singing songs of liberation\, escape routes\, planned resistance\, and so much more. \n\n\n\nValerie Boyer is a woman of many callings. She is a vocalist\, musician\, dancer\, poet\, activist\, minister\, historian\, and most of all an educator. In every space\, she breathes knowledge. Born and raised in Galveston\, TX\, Valerie Boyer was groomed in southern hospitality and shares that kindness everywhere she goes. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work reflects the southern colloquialisms of her childhood and the tenacity of her adulthood. As a member of the National Forensics League\, 2012 Miss Juneteenth Ambassador\, Black Historian of the Year in 2019 UpStart Magazine\, Valerie been able to travel the country\, and has been featured at venues such as Ohio History Center\, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe\, Columbus Color of Summer\, Wednesday Night Live Howard University\, Westerville Historical Society\, Columbus City Schools GearUp initiative\, Ohio Black Collective at Walsh University\, NinaImani at Youngstown State university\, SOBO at Ohio Black Expo\, just to name a few.  \n\n\n\nValerie is an active member of Ohio Black Expo\, and Advocates of Diversity for the state of Ohio. Valerie has taught Social Studies for years\, and is currently the School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator at Ohio History Connection. Valerie Boyer is a proud graduate of Howard University\, and resides in Columbus\, Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/coded-language-of-negro-spirituals-during-the-underground-railroad/
LOCATION:St. Paul United Church of Christ\, 101 Perry St\, Wapakoneta\, Ohio\, 45895\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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SUMMARY:Underground Railroad in Ohio
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Garst Museum at Darke County Historical Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Valerie Boyer about the Underground Railroad in Ohio! \n\n\n\nDo we really know the story of Underground Railroad? This talk discusses the food\, the clothes\, the Ohio Black codes\, the technicalities around “freedom”\, and the length of the journey—in all its complexity. The nuance of some of these things is often not taken into consideration when telling this story of heroes. The practices created to navigate this railroad of sorts are cultural customs and norms. This talk will illuminate how we still carry many of them with us today. \n\n\n\nValerie Boyer is a woman of many callings. She is a vocalist\, musician\, dancer\, poet\, activist\, minister\, historian\, and most of all an educator. In every space\, she breathes knowledge. Born and raised in Galveston\, TX\, Valerie Boyer was groomed in southern hospitality and shares that kindness everywhere she goes. \n\n\n\nHer life’s work reflects the southern colloquialisms of her childhood and the tenacity of her adulthood. As a member of the National Forensics League\, 2012 Miss Juneteenth Ambassador\, Black Historian of the Year in 2019 UpStart Magazine\, Valerie been able to travel the country\, and has been featured at venues such as Ohio History Center\, Nandi’s Knowledge Cafe\, Columbus Color of Summer\, Wednesday Night Live Howard University\, Westerville Historical Society\, Columbus City Schools GearUp initiative\, Ohio Black Collective at Walsh University\, NinaImani at Youngstown State university\, SOBO at Ohio Black Expo\, just to name a few.  \n\n\n\nValerie is an active member of Ohio Black Expo\, and Advocates of Diversity for the state of Ohio. Valerie has taught Social Studies for years\, and is currently the School and Inclusive Community Programs Coordinator at Ohio History Connection. Valerie Boyer is a proud graduate of Howard University\, and resides in Columbus\, Ohio. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/underground-railroad-in-ohio-2/
LOCATION:Garst Museum\, 205 North Broadway\, Greenville\, Ohio\, 45331\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers' Bureau
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
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SUMMARY:Why the West Went to War in 1812
DESCRIPTION:Come visit the Bellaire Public Library with the Great Stone Viaduct Historical Education Society for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers’ Bureau event with Brandon Downing about the history of the War of 1812! This talk is part of the Bellaire Library’s Great Stone Viaduct Winter Lecture Series\, come check it out! \n\n\n\nThis talk answers the question: What was the link between western states and territories and the War of 1812? Investigating backcountry culture and its influence on shaping the Northwest Territory’s organization is central to understanding why settlers living in trans-Appalachia adamantly supported war against Great Britain and their Indian allies. Expressions of backcountry culture can be found in the petitions sent during Kentucky’s formative period of development when the qualifications of land ownership were still undecided. There is a common thread in the petitions that will help us to understand what backcountry settlers considered prerequisites for gaining title to their property in the new western lands. Meanwhile\, the frequent and violent encounters with the Ohio Valley Indians justified\, in the minds of the settlers\, their claims to land ownership. \n\n\n\nBrandon C. Downing is an Assistant Professor of History at Marietta College. He teaches early American history classes in Native and Colonial America\, the American Revolutionary War\, and in Public History. His primary interests are Native-White interactions in the Ohio Valley\, the War of 1812\, and the history of Marietta\, OH. He is currently working on a project titled\, “Performative Violence as Political Discourse: Delawares during the Seven Years’ War\, 1755-1758\,” which provides a Native perspective on the Penns Creek and Great Cove Massacres in Pennsylvania. \n\n\n\nCurious about our Speakers Bureau? Check out speakers and topics here. \n\n\n\nWant to see other Ohio Humanities events? Check out our calendar!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/why-the-west-went-to-war-in-1812/
LOCATION:Bellaire Public Library\, 330 32nd St.\, Bellaire\, Ohio\, 43906\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250216T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250216T173000
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SUMMARY:Broadcast Premier of "Capturing Life"
DESCRIPTION:Voyageur Media Group’s “Capturing Life” (1839-1869) will premiere on both CET HD and ThinkTV HD (simulcast) at 4:30 pm on Sunday\, February 16! \n\n\n\nOver the past three decades\, Voyageur’s production team has conducted research at dozens of regional archives in search of photographs to illustrate documentaries about our area’s rich cultural heritage. They have always cherished days spent exploring photographic collections. Over time\, they came to realize that these remarkable photographs are a fascinating story unto themselves. \n\n\n\nThe Big Picture: A History of Photography in Greater Cincinnati presents these fascinating stories in three\, one-hour episodes that cover the century of time from 1839 to 1939. \n\n\n\n“Capturing Life\,” the first episode\, examines how photography emerged as a vital medium during a period when Cincinnati evolved from a modest river town into the sixth-largest city in the United States. We present the work of the region’s first photographers\, entrepreneurs who turned their craft into a business. The first episode also explores the influence of photography during a period of enormous social change\, including westward expansion\, immigration\, slavery\, the abolitionist movement and the Civil War. \n\n\n\nThis project was funded in part by an Ohio Humanities Ignite Grant. \n\n\n\nCurious about other grants? Visit our calendar or browse our list of grantees!
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/broadcast-premier-of-capturing-life/
LOCATION:ThinkTV Public Broadcast
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ORGANIZER;CN="Voyageur Media Group":MAILTO:contactus@voyageurmedia.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T101500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T113000
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SUMMARY:'The Lincoln School Story' Documentary Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join Ohio Humanities Program Officer Dr. Melvin Barnes\, Jr. and The College Club of Canton for a documentary screening and discussion of The Lincoln School Story. \n\n\n\nThe story of the Lincoln School Marchers honors the brave actions of 19 courageous African American mothers in Hillsboro\, Ohio. Follow Brown v. Board of Education in 1954\, these mothers marched with their 37 children every day for two years until the children were finally admitted to school. It took their courage\, determination\, and strength to continue the effort until they secured better educational opportunities for their children. Their march for two years was one of the longest sustained civil rights marches in American history. Dr. Melvin Barnes\, Jr. is a Program Officer at Ohio Humanities and a contributing scholar to The Lincoln School Story. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/the-lincoln-school-story-documentary-screening-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Community Christian Church\, 210 N Main St\, North Canton\, Ohio\, 44720\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250215T140000
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SUMMARY:Shepard History Day
DESCRIPTION:Join Columbus Metro Library’s Shepard Branch to celebrate the history of Shepard and its surrounding neighborhoods! They’ll have activities and programs for all ages\, throughout the day. Take a look at the schedule below: \n\n\n\n9:30-10:30amUnderground Railroad in Central OhioCome see a program showcasing central Ohioans’ role in the Underground Railroad and how to find homes that may have been stops on it. \n\n\n\n10:45-11:45amTeakwood Heights’ Historic Legacy: A ConversationOn November 15\, 2024\, the nearby Teakwood Heights Historic District was placed on the National Historic register. Moderated by preservationist Nancy Recchie\, a panel of local residents\, activists and community leaders will share about the neighborhood’s connection to local Black history\, their memories of the neighborhood past and present\, and how they are preserving and sharing their history.  \n\n\n\n2pmHappy Birthday Aminah!Join the library at 2pm to sing Happy Birthday to longtime Shepard resident and artist Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson (February 18\, 1940-May 22\, 2015) and enjoy a sweet treat! Aminah’s art was often inspired by the African concept of Sankofa\, which means understanding the past in order to go forward. Honor Aminah by creating a work of art that represents your neighborhood and community. \n\n\n\n10am-2pmUnderground Railroad in Central Ohio ExhibitView this exhibit to learn more about Central Ohio’s role in the Underground Railroad and some of the probable Underground Railroad sites in Columbus. \n\n\n\nCreate an Aminah Robinson-inspired work of artThe library will provide supplies to create a work of art representing your neighborhood and/or community\, inspired by Aminah Robinson and her mixed-media RagGonNons. You can take your masterpiece home\, or we’ll have space to display them in the library. \n\n\n\nRecord an Oral HistoryRecord an interview and share your memories with future generations. The Local History & Genealogy team will preserve select interviews on My History\, the library’s digital history collection. \n\n\n\nScan or Donate Historic ItemsThe Local History and Genealogy team will be here to scan photos and documents to be added to our digital collection My History and accept donations for our archives.
URL:https://www.ohiohumanities.org/event/shepard-history-day/
LOCATION:Shepard Branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library\, 850 North Nelson Rd.\, Columbus\, Ohio\, 43219\, United States
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