Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities’ Speakers Bureau event with Mark Holbrook: The History of Travel!
Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
Come visit the Marvin Memorial Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! By 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 … Read More
May 4th Voices: Speaking Through the Wound of the Kent State Shootings
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. On 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 … Read More
Pop Culture and Its Place
Come visit the Clyde Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about pop culture! This presentation focuses on the role that popular culture plays in society and in academia, and ways to interpret popular culture topics through Project M.I.R.S.H., myths, icons, rituals, stereotypes and heroes. Dr. Matthew Donahue is a Teaching Professor at the Department of … Read More
Statues, Flags, and the Ongoing Battle over the Meaning of the Civil War
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! The 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 … Read More
The Woman Detective in Pop Culture
Come visit the Stark County Main Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers Bureau event with Linda Mizejewski about women detectives! Generations 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 … Read More
Rebels in Corsets: The Embodied Rhetoric of the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Come visit the Northwest Territory Museum for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about the Women’s Suffrage Movement! The 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 … Read More
Modern Art and Popular Culture
Come visit Earnest Brew Works for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Matthew Donahue about modern art and pop culture! This 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 … Read More
Ohio In the Civil War
Come learn about Ohio in the Civil War at the Stark County Civil War Roundtable with Mark Holbrook!
Moving Off the Farm and Trying to Stay Amish
Come visit the Coshocton County District Library for an Ohio Humanities Speakers’ Bureau event with Susan Trollinger about Amish culture in Ohio! By 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 … Read More