Ohio history

‘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.

The Women Religious Archive Collaborative is focusing on documenting the contributions of Catholic sisters across the country.

Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new initiative in southern Ohio is playing a key role in adding even more.

A group of Hillsboro mothers and their children marched for two years to desegregate their community’s schools.

Community members in Braceville opened a new museum to document the rural area’s rich Black history.

A new book is celebrating the life of one of Ohio’s earliest and most active conductors along the Underground Railroad: Reverend John Rankin.

In most parts of the world, Hanukkah is a relatively minor Jewish holiday. The celebration’s grander roots in the United States trace back to a pair of rabbis from Cincinnati.