Ohio history

The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots who helped desegregate the U.S. military, were stationed in Columbus following World War II.

James Floyd Smith and Leslie Irvin tested the first free-fall parachute at McCook Field in Dayton.

In an environmental memoir, Ohio native Patrick Wensink traces northwest Ohio’s toxic algal bloom problems back to its swampy roots.

Ida Holdgreve and Katharine Wright helped sustain the Wright brothers’ invention of flight.

Toledo residents continue to honor the lives of the men lost in the shipwreck made famous by Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ballad.

The Hubbard House in northeast Ohio’s Ashtabula County was an important stop on the Underground Railroad. After surviving a demolition threat, it has a unique strategy to ensure its future.

‘Big Muskie’, once the world’s largest walking dragline excavator, is being honored with a new historical marker.

County engineers in north central Ohio are re-surveying the line created by the Treaty of Greenville. It divided what’s now the state of Ohio in two: claiming the south for westward-bound American settlers and the north for a dozen indigenous nations.

The Ohio History Connection is mapping patriots’ gravesites, in hope of better preserving them across the state.

The Urbana Black Heritage Festival will give west-central Ohioans the chance to celebrate the powerful legacy and lasting contributions of past Black residents.