Digital Collections
“Chick” It Out!
Big news out of the Ohio Historical Society and Ohio Village this summer, as we invite you to come in and visit our new flock of chickens! The village chickens… Read more »
Shades of Green from the Federal Land Office in Cincinnati
Any genealogist knows, vital records are what draw the outline of a family tree. It’s the “other stuff” – family bibles, yearbooks, employment records – that paint the leaves… Read more »
Siege of Fort Meigs
Since last year, Ohio has been celebrating the bicentennial of the War of 1812 and our state’s role in this important historical event. Early May is a notable time in… Read more »
“A Book for Skeptics” and the Spirit Room
In the mid-1800s, a new spiritualist movement swept America, and people everywhere began conducting séances in an attempt to communicate with otherworldly bodies. In Athens, Ohio, Jonathan Koons, an enthusiastic… Read more »
Preservation Week 2013
This year, April 21st through April 27th has been designated as the American Library Association’s Preservation Week! The purpose of this annual event, according to ALA, is for libraries… Read more »
Ayduth Lachayim, Witness to Life
During the Holocaust, Sonja Marsh, a Polish Jew, lived by “staying one step ahead of the Nazis” and carrying false papers. By 1980, however, she was a smiling grandmother… Read more »
The Madness Ends (For Now…)
Thank you to everyone who voted in the inaugural season of Ohio Memory Madness! This year’s tournament has now concluded, and our winner—in a come-from-behind, last minute surge of voting—was… Read more »
The Other Sherman
Ohioan John Sherman (1823-1900) may be less well-known to modern-day Americans than his brother, William T. Sherman, but this nineteenth-century lawyer and politician was extremely prominent in his own… Read more »
“The Catastrophe on the Mississippi”
Early in the morning on April 27, 1865, the worst maritime disaster in American history occurred when the S.S. Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River just north of Memphis, Tennessee…. Read more »
Ohio Memory Madness!
In the spirit and fun of college basketball’s March Madness, the Ohio Historical Society invites you to participate in the first annual Ohio Memory Madness – a bracket of sixty-four… Read more »
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