Ohio history

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.

The Fort Gower Resolves, signed by soldiers in November 250 years ago, was one of the first documents to express support for American independence.

William DeHart Hubbard long-jumped more than 24 feet at the 1924 Paris Olympics, becoming the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual Olympic event.

The podcast explores hundreds of years of history of the Shawnee tribes of Ohio and how they're reconnecting to the land today.