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. Evyatar 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 … Read More
Author Talk with Pam Jenoff
The Cleveland Jewish Book Festival is back for its 25th year! Join Pam Jenoff to discuss her book, Last Twilight in Paris. In Last Twilight in Paris, Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife in 1953 London, when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of … Read More
How Did We Get Here? (Re)Building Community
Come visit the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Main Branch to explore how race and racism have shaped Ohio over time with Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries as part of the Library’s Authors at the Library series! Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, professor of history at The Ohio State University, will discuss how race and racism have shaped Ohio over time, influencing both its … Read More
Vietnam 101: Performed by the Children’s Theatre Workshop of Toledo
Come visit the Children’s Theatre Workshop in Toledo (CTW) to see students perform the play Vietnam 101! Vietnam 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 … Read More
In These Hills
The Over-the-Rhine Museum is excited to display its latest project: “In These Hills.” Come check it out March through June 2025! “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 … Read More
The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund: DACO Curator Series and Author Event with Caitlin McGurk
Join Curator Caitlin McGurk at the Bexley Public Library for a talk about the art and life of trailblazing feminist cartoonist Barbara Shermund, who is featured in the exhibition and McGurk’s new book Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund, on display at the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio September 21-December 29, … Read More
Unsettling Museums and Re-Story-ing Indigeneities
Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Dr. Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez! Dr. Montgomery Ramírez is a Monimboseño person from what is currently Nicaragua, raised in diaspora in the United States. He is a decolonial heritage specialist and Indigenous public archaeologist, with a PhD in Archaeology … Read More
Transcending NAGPRA: Indigenizing Collections Care and Repatriation
Join the Institute for Human Science and Culture for their speaker series on reducing harms in museums for a talk with Courtney Little Axe! The University of Montana Anthropological Curation Facility (UMACF) has been working in collaboration with the Tribal Historic Preservation Officers from each Montana tribe to formulate policies and procedures in accordance with cultural protocols for repatriation. The … Read More
“A Death in the City” Film Screening and Community Conversation
Teaching Cleveland, in association with playwright Faye Sholiton and filmmaker Marquette Williams, with generous support from America250 and the Ohio Humanities Council, is offering facilitated community conversations to accompany the viewing of “A Death in the City: In the Wake of Segregation” as a part of the project called “On Our Watch” focused on using history to empower individuals to create … Read More
Jefferson’s America: Divided but ONE | Interview with Jefferson for Adult Audiences
Thomas Jefferson makes his debut in Cleveland, OH to discuss his life’s purpose as founding father, profound thinker, inquisitive innovator, and author of freedom. Northeast Ohio will learn how one man’s intellectual ambition shaped a nation in the midst of strong national division. This event is a Living History program for the general public, college students, high school students, and … Read More