Mount St. Joseph University at “100”: Celebrating our Founders and Legacy
In September 1920, the College of Mount St. Joseph received its first group of students. The establishment of the College had long …
Celebrating the “International City”: The Lorain International Festival
If you really want to understand Lorain, you must attend the Lorain International Festival. Not only does the festival mark the symbolic …
Let Ohio Women Vote! The Suffrage Centennial on Ohio Memory
This past Tuesday, June 4th, marks the 100th anniversary of the day that the 19th Amendment was passed by Congress and sent …
100 Years Later: Remembering Ohio’s World War I Contributions
In 2017, the Ohio History Connection embarked on a two-year digitization project titled Little Stories of the Great War: Ohioans in World …
“A Delightful Place”: The United States Centennial and the Ohio Building’s Registers
For six months in 1876, millions of people from all over the world traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the hundredth birthday …
Newspapers: A (19th) Century of Change
The Lebanon Western Star, occasionally renamed to the Weekly Western Star or the Western Star and Lebanon Gazette, was a weekly newspaper mainly …
Help Uncover the “Little Stories” of World War I!
In keeping with the blog post theme of recent weeks, today’s post is in recognition of the date’s important role in World …
“Children begin their day right when they read The Junior”
Recently, a special piece of Ohio’s newspaper history was rediscovered. Four and a half issues of the State Journal Junior, thought to …
St. John’s Hospital and the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati
This past summer, the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati archives was able to digitize excerpts of a Civil War-era patient ledger thanks …
Dalton Smith Hayes’ World War I Service
When the United States officially entered World War I, young men all over the country responded by enlisting in the armed forces. …
