This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Paula Haines, the CEO of Freedom a la Cart.
When researching and writing the traveling and digital exhibit Ohio Women Vote: 100 Years of Change to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, our curators extensively utilized the holdings of the Ohio History Connection Archives & Library. Join Curator Lisa Wood to learn more about what collections OHC holds- and then maybe do some of your own research!
This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Christina Yetzer Drain, a historian, genealogist and preservationist in Shelby, Richland County, Ohio.
Curator Matt Benz recently discovered the story of Mansfield local, Phoebe Wise while reading a new book about Louis Bromfield.
This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University.
Frances Benjamin Johnston took a photograph of the last speech President William McKinley would deliver before we was assassinated.
This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from April Young Bennett, author of Ask a Suffragist: Stories and Wisdom from America's First Feminists.
Natalie Clifford Barney was an out lesbian when she said, “being other than normal [was] a perilous advantage.”
This month's post in our suffrage anniversary blog series comes from Carol Lasser, an Emerita Professor of History at Oberlin College.
These three women told their stories over the summer of 2019. Now the three will be coming to the Ohio History Connection, in a panel discussion of women's activism.