Chanukah Sameach, or Happy Hanukkah!
The eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah wraps up this Sunday, December 16th, at sundown, with the lighting of the eighth candle on …
Happy Birthday, Mr. Thurber!
Tomorrow, December 8th, is the birthday of one of Columbus’s most famous native sons–humorist, illustrator and author James Thurber. In the preface …
Prison Break 1863
An exciting chapter in Ohio history unfolded almost 150 years ago this past Wednesday when John Hunt Morgan (of Morgan’s Raid fame) …
Happy Thanksgiving!
A slightly-belated Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at Ohio Memory! As many of us spend the day getting in some …
The Father of Commercial Photography
This Sunday, November 18th, is the birthday of Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the eponymous inventor of the daguerreotype method of antique photography. Born just …
Election 2012!
Now that the 2012 election season has wrapped up, we wanted to take a look back at some of the historical campaign …
Who Is Margaret Garner?
The Story of a Fugitive Mother Who Killed to Protect Her Child from Slavery In 1987, Ohio-born writer Toni Morrison published Beloved. …
Happy Halloween!
With Halloween quickly approaching, it’s the perfect time of year to show off some of the great costumes and celebrations of years …
Prehistoric Ohio Memory
While many of the images we highlight on Ohio Memory are from the relatively recent past, we also have a variety of …
Columbus Bicentennial: City of the Future
Fifty years ago–during Columbus’s sesquicentennial–the October 14th issue of Columbus Dispatch Magazine included an interesting feature looking at the “Columbus of …
