The Committee of Five: Drafting the Declaration of Independence
In a blog post this past March, we shared with you The Genuine Principles of the Ancient Saxon, or English Constitution, which …
Doomed but Daring: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
156 years ago on October 16, 1859, abolitionist and Ohio native John Brown raided Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a …
“The Arch Raider Visited Our People With His Fellow Thieves”
152 years ago, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops began a 13-day raid of Ohio. Their plundering of hundreds of …
May Day, May Day!
May 1 – May Day – might have more observances attached to it than any other date on the calendar. There is …
Coming Home
Occasionally, institutions like the ones who bring you Ohio Memory will find items in their collections that just don’t quite fit. They’re …
Life on the Farm
If you go back far enough in your family tree – for some of us, that’s a mere generation or two – …
Letters from a Founding Father
In terms of flowery language or fancy writing, the letters aren’t noteworthy: one requests information on the quartering of soldiers, the second …
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home
In 1869, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans Home opened in Xenia, Ohio, after much lobbying from the Grand Army of the Republic, …
