You may have heard that January 1, 2019, was a very important day for the public domain, but why exactly?
Recently, I’ve been working with a lot of postcards in the Archives & Library. I’ve come across two particular stories that I enjoyed, and I thought they would be worth sharing.
During the 1890s and early 1900s, Ohioans started filling scrapbooks and photo albums with the many "snapshots" that documented their everyday lives.
Did you know that during the Civil War the state of Ohio commissioned a cavalry company specifically to provide a personal bodyguard for President Abraham Lincoln?
In December 1916, Governor-Elect James M. Cox was forced to rent a room at Columbus's Deshler Hotel when he could not find anywhere to live in the capital city.
Join Manuscripts Intern David McDevitt as he makes an out of this world discovery about an Ohio company and a very familiar princess from a galaxy far, far away.
On April 4, 1968, fifty years ago this Wednesday, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The Lund family lived in Washington County, Ohio, across four generations. Each generation had unique and exciting stories to tell.
Recently, the Ohio History Connection received a collection about the Snyder family of Ohio.
In the fall of 1937, Betty Eicher was enrolled at Ohio State University in a course called English 507. Betty was doing a lot of creative writing. Check out one of her stories!
