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The Ohio History Connection has one of the largest collections of Native American human remains. The nonprofit is working with tribal leaders to comply with the federal law NAGPRA and repatriate them.

Dr. Nathan S. French A school field trip to Washington, D.C. is a formative rite of passage shared by many U.S. school students across the nation. Often, these are framed as “field trips.” Students may visit the White House, the U.S. Capitol Building, the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress, Declaration of Independence (housed in the National Archive), the National Museum of the American Indian, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Jefferson Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, or the Smithsonian Museum – among others. For many students, this is the first time they will connect the histories of their textbooks to items, artifacts, and buildings that they can see and feel. For those arriving to Washington, D.C. by airplane or bus, the field trip might also seem like a road trip. Road trips, often involving movement across the U.S. from city-to-city and state-to-state are often framed as quintessential American experiences. Americans have taken road trips to follow their favorite bands, to move to universities and new jobs, to visit the hall of fame of their favorite professional or collegiate sport, or sites of family history. As Dr. Andrew Offenberger observes in our interview, road trips have helped American authors, like Kiowa poet N. Scott Momaday, make sense of their identities as Americans. What if, however, these field trips to Washington, D.C. and road trips across the country might amount to something else? What if we considered them to be pilgrimages? Would that change our understanding of them? For many Americans, the first word that comes to mind when they hear the word, “pilgrimage,” involves the pilgrims of Plymouth, a community of English Puritans who colonized territory in Massachusetts, at first through a treaty with the Wampanoag peoples, but eventually through their dispossession. For many American communities, the nature of pilgrimage remains a reminder of forced displacement, dispossession, and a loss of home and homeland. Pilgrimage, as a term, might also suggest a religious experience. There are multiple podcasts, blogs, and videos discussing the Camino de Santiago, a number of pilgrimage paths through northern Spain. Others might think of making a pilgrimage to the Christian, Jewish, or Muslim sacred spaces in Israel and Palestine often referred to as the “Holy Land” collectively – including the Temple Mount, the Dome of the Rock, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (among others). Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad, is a classic example of this experience. Some make pilgrimage to Salem, Massachusetts each October. Others even debate whether the Crusades were a holy war or pilgrimage. American experiences of pilgrimage have led to substantial transformations in our national history and to our constitutional rights. Pilgrimage, as a movement across state, national, or cultural boundaries, has often been used by Americans to help them make sense of who they are, where they came from, and what it means, to them, to be “an American.” The word, “pilgrimage,” traces its etymology from the French, pèlerinage and from the Latin, pelegrines, with a general meaning of going through the fields or across lands as a foreigner. As a category used by anthropologists and sociologists in the study of religion, “pilgrimage” is often used as a much broader term, studying anything ranging from visits to Japanese Shinto shrines, the Islamic pilgrimage of Hajj, “birthright” trips to Israel by American Jewish youth, and, yes, even trips to Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee – the home of Elvis Presley. Arnold van Gennep (1873-1957) defined pilgrimage as one of a number of rites of passage (i.e., a rite du passage) that involves pilgrims separating themselves from broader society, moving themselves into a place of transition, and then re-incorporating their transformed bodies and minds back into their home societies. That moment of transition, which van Gennep called “liminality,” was the moment when one would become something new – perhaps through initiation, ritual observation, or by pushing one's personal boundaries outside of one's ordinary experience. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006), a contemporary of Turner, argued that a pilgrimage helps us to provide a story within which we are able to orient ourselves in the world. Consider, for example, the role that a trip to Arlington National Cemetery or the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier plays in a visit by a high school class to Washington, D.C. If framed and studied as a pilgrimage, Geertz's theory would suggest that a visit to these sites can be formative to an American's understanding of national history and, perhaps just as importantly, the visit will reinforce for Americans the importance of national service and remembrance of those who died in service to the defense of the United States. When we return from those school field trips to Washington, D.C., then, we do so with a new sense of who we are and where we fit into our shared American history. Among the many examples that we could cite from American history, two pilgrimages in particular – those of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X – provide instructive examples. Held three years after the unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the 1957 “Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom,” led by Dr. King brought together thousands in order to, as he described it, “call upon all who love justice and dignity and liberty, who love their country, and who love mankind …. [to] renew our strength, communicate our unity, and rededicate our efforts, firmly but peaceably, to the attainment of freedom.” Posters for the event promised that it would “arouse the conscience of the nation.” Drawing upon themes from the Christian New Testament, including those related to agape – a love of one's friends and enemies – King's speech at the “Prayer Pilgrimage” brought national attention to his civil rights movement and established an essential foundation for his return to Washington, D.C. and his “I Have a Dream Speech,” six years later. In April 1964, Malcolm X departed to observe the Muslim pilgrimage ritual of Hajj in the city of Mecca in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hajj is an obligation upon all Muslims, across the globe, and involves rituals meant to remind them of their responsibilities to God, to their fellow Muslims, and of their relationship to Ibrahim and Ismail (i.e., Abraham and Ishamel) as found in the Qur'an. Before his trip, Malcolm X had expressed skepticism about building broader ties to American civil rights groups. His experience on Hajj, he wrote, was transformational. "The holy city of Mecca had been the first time I had ever stood before the creator of all and felt like a complete human being,” he wrote, “People were hugging, they were embracing, they were of all complexions …. The feeling hit me that there really wasn't what he called a color problem, a conflict between racial identities here." His experience on Hajj was transformative. The result? Upon return to the United States, Malcolm X pledged to work with anyone – regardless of faith and race – who would work to change civil rights in the United States. His experiences continue to resonate with Americans. These are but two stories that contribute to American pilgrimage experiences. Today, Americans go on pilgrimages to the Ganges in India, to Masada in Israel, to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and to Bethlehem in Palestine, and to cities along the Trail of Tears and along the migration of the Latter-Day Saints church westward. Yet, they also go on pilgrimages and road trips to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, to the baseball hall of fame in Cooperstown, to the national parks, and to sites of family and community importance. In these travels, they step outside of the ordinary and, in encountering the diversities of the U.S., sometimes experience the extraordinary changing themselves, and the country, in the process. * * * Questions for Class Discussion What is a “pilgrimage”? What is a road trip? Are they similar? Different? Why? Must a pilgrimage only be religious or spiritual? Why or why not? How has movement – from city to city, or place to place, or around the world – changed U.S. history and the self-understanding of Americans? What if those movements had never occurred? How would the U.S. be different? Have you been on a pilgrimage? Have members of your family? How has it changed your sense of self? How did it change that of your family members? If you were to design a pilgrimage, what would it be? Where would it take place? Would it involve special rituals or types of dress? Why? What would the purpose of your pilgrimage be? How do other communities understand their pilgrimages? Do other cultures have “road trips” like the United States? Additional Sources: Ohio History and Pilgrimage Fort Ancient Earthworks & Nature Preserve, Ohio History Connection (link). National Geographic Society, “Intriguing Interactions [Hopewell],” Grades 9-12 (link) Documentary Podcasts & Films “In the Light of Reverence,” 2001 (link) An examination of Lakota, Hopi, and Wintu ties to and continued usages of their homelands and a question of how movement through land may be considered sacred by some and profane by others. Melvin Bragg, “Medieval Pilgrimage,” BBC: In our Time, February 2021 (link) Bruce Feiler: Sacred Journeys (Pilgrimage). PBS Films (link) along with educator resources (link). The American Pilgrimage Project. Berkley Center, Georgetown University (link). Arranged by StoryCorps, a collection of video and audio interviews with Americans of diverse backgrounds discussing their religious and spiritual identities and their intersections with American life. Dave Whitson, “The Camino Podcast,” (link) on Spotify (link), Apple (link) A collection of interviews with those of varying faiths and spiritualities discussing pilgrimage experiences. Popular Media & Websites “Dreamland: American Travelers to the Holy Land in the 19th Century,” Shapell (link) A curated digital museum gallery cataloguing American experiences of pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Israel, and Palestine. LaPier, Rosalyn R. “How Standing Rock Became a Site of Pilgrimage.” The Conversation, December 7, 2016 (link). Talamo, Lex. Pilgrimage for the Soul. South Dakota Magazine, May/June 2019. (link). Books Grades K-6 Murdoch, Catherine Gilbert. The Book of Boy. New York: Harper Collins, 2020 (link). Wolk, Lauren. Beyond the Bright Sea. New York: Puffin Books, 2018 (link). Grades 7-12 Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Penguin Books, 2003 (link). Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. New York: Ballantine Books, 1992 (link). Melville, Herman. Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. New York: Library of America, n.d. (link). Murray, Pauli. Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage. New York: Liveright, 1987 (link). Reader, Ian. Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 (link). Twain, Mark. The Innocents Abroad. New York: Modern Library, 2003 (link). Scholarship Bell, Catherine. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Bloechl, Jeffrey, and André Brouillette, eds. Pilgrimage as Spiritual Practice: A Handbook for Teachers, Wayfarers, and Guides. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2022. Frey, Nancy Louise Louise. Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. First Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Lévi-Strauss, Claude Patterson, Sara M., “Traveling Zions: Pilgrimage in Modern Mormonism,” in Pioneers in the Attic: Place and Memory along the Mormon Trail. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 (link). Pazos, Antón. Redefining Pilgrimage: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Pilgrimages. London: Routledge, 2014 (link). Reader, Ian. Pilgrimage: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015 (link). Van Gennep, Arnold. The Rites of Passage. Translated by Monika B. Vizedom and Gabrielle L. Caffee. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960 (link)

Part two of Natalie Clifford Barney week covers her life as a wealthy adult. She moved to France permanently, and established the salon which ran for 50 years and has become one of her most well-known efforts. Research: Barney, Natalie Clifford. “POEMS & POÈMES: autres alliances.” Paris and New York. 1920. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49942/49942-h/49942-h.htm Conliffe, Ciaran. “Natalie Clifford Barney, Queen Of The Paris Lesbians.” HeadStuff. 9/25/2017. https://headstuff.org/culture/history/natalie-clifford-barney-queen-of-the-paris-lesbians/ Craddock, James. “Barney, Natalie.” Encyclopedia of World Biography (Vol. 33. 2nd ed.). 2013. Engelking, Tama Lea. “The Literary Friendships of Natalie Clifford Barney: The Case of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus.” Women in French Studies, Volume 7, 1999, pp. 100-116. https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.1999.0007 “Natalie Clifford Barney.” Encyclopedia of World Biography Online. 2023. Goodman, Lanie. “Wealthy, Scandalous and Powerful.” France Today. February/March 2020. O'Neil, Shannon Leigh. “A Steamy Novel From ‘the Amazon.'” The Gay & Lesbian Review. March-April 2017. Rapazzini, Francesco. “Elisabeth de Gramont, Natalie Barney's ‘Eternal Mate.'” South Central Review , Fall, 2005, Vol. 22, No. 3, Natalie Barney and Her Circle (Fall, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40039992 Ray, Chelsea. “Natalie Barney (1876-1972): Writer, salon hostess, and eternal friend. Interview with Jean Chalon.” Women in French Studies, Volume 30, 2022, pp. 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0012 Robertson, Kieran. “Amazon, Empress, and Friend: The Life of Natalie Clifford Barney.” Ohio History Connection. https://www.ohiohistory.org/amazon-empress-and-friend-the-life-of-natalie-clifford-barney/ Rodriguez, Suzanne. “Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris.” Harper Collins. 2003. Washington Post. “This Was Love Indeed!” 5/7/1911. https://www.newspapers.com/image/19409771/ Wickes, George. “A Natalie Barney Garland.” The Paris Review. Issue 61, Spring 1975. https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/3870/a-natalie-barney-garland-george-wickes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Natalie Clifford Barney was an incredibly privileged woman who hobnobbed with many notable intellectual and artistic figures in history. Part one covers her upbringing, her young adult life in Paris, and her massive inheritance. Research: Barney, Natalie Clifford. “POEMS & POÈMES: autres alliances.” Paris and New York. 1920. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49942/49942-h/49942-h.htm Conliffe, Ciaran. “Natalie Clifford Barney, Queen Of The Paris Lesbians.” HeadStuff. 9/25/2017. https://headstuff.org/culture/history/natalie-clifford-barney-queen-of-the-paris-lesbians/ Craddock, James. “Barney, Natalie.” Encyclopedia of World Biography (Vol. 33. 2nd ed.). 2013. Engelking, Tama Lea. “The Literary Friendships of Natalie Clifford Barney: The Case of Lucie Delarue-Mardrus.” Women in French Studies, Volume 7, 1999, pp. 100-116. https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.1999.0007 “Natalie Clifford Barney.” Encyclopedia of World Biography Online. 2023. Goodman, Lanie. “Wealthy, Scandalous and Powerful.” France Today. February/March 2020. O'Neil, Shannon Leigh. “A Steamy Novel From ‘the Amazon.'” The Gay & Lesbian Review. March-April 2017. Rapazzini, Francesco. “Elisabeth de Gramont, Natalie Barney's ‘Eternal Mate.'” South Central Review , Fall, 2005, Vol. 22, No. 3, Natalie Barney and Her Circle (Fall, 2005). https://www.jstor.org/stable/40039992 Ray, Chelsea. “Natalie Barney (1876-1972): Writer, salon hostess, and eternal friend. Interview with Jean Chalon.” Women in French Studies, Volume 30, 2022, pp. 154-169. https://doi.org/10.1353/wfs.2022.0012 Robertson, Kieran. “Amazon, Empress, and Friend: The Life of Natalie Clifford Barney.” Ohio History Connection. https://www.ohiohistory.org/amazon-empress-and-friend-the-life-of-natalie-clifford-barney/ Rodriguez, Suzanne. “Wild Heart: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris.” Harper Collins. 2003. Washington Post. “This Was Love Indeed!” 5/7/1911. https://www.newspapers.com/image/19409771/ Wickes, George. “A Natalie Barney Garland.” The Paris Review. Issue 61, Spring 1975. https://www.theparisreview.org/letters-essays/3870/a-natalie-barney-garland-george-wickes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Get ready to explore Columbus' must-see holiday events this season. Go behind the scenes of the Ohio History Connection's Dickens of a Christmas and German Village's iconic Streizelmarkt with history, fun facts and all the details on what it takes to execute these classic experiences.

The nonprofit isn't alone: corporations, hospitals, schools and even governments have been targets.

The nonprofit isn't alone: corporations, hospitals, schools and even governments have been targets.

Located in the US State of Ohio, the Great Serpent Mound is an iconic monument of Ancient America. Nearly 1,400 feet long, and 3 feet high - it's hard to miss. But what do we actually know about this prehistoric colossus, and why was it constructed?In this episode, Tristan is joined by Dr Brad Lepper, Curator of Archaeology at the Ohio History Connection. A leading expert on ancient earthworks, Brad reveals what the archaeology tells us about the Great Serpent Mound. Looking at the site's history and uses - what can we learn about prehistoric America and the people who lived there?For more Ancients content, subscribe to our Ancients newsletter here. If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three Euclid brothers accused of stealing millions in Covid relief money from the government; Ohio Supreme Court sides with Ohio History Connection over Newark Earth Works case; US Senate passes Big Cat Public Safety Act to prevent incidents like 2011 Zanesville exotic animal release; Buckeyes have their eyes on national championship.

Megan Wood knows her Ohio history. She's been with Ohio History Connection for years, working in a variety of positions across the organization.  This summer, she ascended to the top job at the nonprofit becoming the first female CEO in its history. She's overseeing the organization as it kicks off construction of a long awaited $17 million Collection Care Cear near the Ohio History Centers's fairgrounds-area home, and as it watches economic conditions ahead of a potential recession. Megan joined women of influence just a few weeks into her tenure but already with plenty of ideas in mind for how she wants to shepherd the history-focused organization into its future.

Madison veteran starts breath coaching business to help relieve anxiety: https://www.richlandsource.com/life_and_culture/madison-veteran-starts-breath-coaching-business-to-help-relieve-anxiety/article_c331e926-3f22-11ed-a88f-f394b080e02c.html?block_id=1098581 'Next to Normal' at Theatre 166 explores peaks & valleys of human experience: https://www.richlandsource.com/life_and_culture/next-to-normal-at-theatre-166-explores-peaks-valleys-of-human-experience/article_02b29a08-44d4-11ed-90af-93c74ca5b9fd.html?block_id=1098581 Significant Grant family photographs part of Ohio History Connection collections: https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/significant-grant-family-photographs-part-of-ohio-history-connection-collections/article_f5d774be-d8ab-11ec-8f0c-b70f0c0de6cd.html Today - One Madison veteran has started a breath coaching business to help himself and others relieve anxiety.Support the show: https://www.sourcemembers.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Chances are, heritage tourism is again bringing travel dollars to your part of Ohio. The National Trust for Historic Preservation defines cultural heritage tourism as “traveling to experience the places, artifacts, and activities that authentically represent the stories and people of the past and present.” Places like these abound in the Buckeye State, with more than 58 historic sites and museums supported by the Columbus-based Ohio History Connection. There's more than just preserving the past at stake: a past study by the Travel Industry Association shows that heritage travelers stay longer at their destinations and spend more money there than other types of travelers.   This CMC forum digs into the impact of heritage tourism in Ohio. The panelists are:  Megan Wood, Executive Director and CEO, The Ohio History Connection  Napoleon Bell, Co-Founder, The Heritage Tours   The host is Tracy Townsend, News Anchor, WBNS-10TV    The forum partner was WBNS-10TV.   This forum was recorded live at The Boat House in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.  

Ohio marks its 219th year of statehood today (3/1). Historical advocates and local officials will gather for an event in Columbus to celebrate and promote the preservation of the Buckeye State's history. Comments from Todd Kleismit, director, government and community relations, Ohio History Connection. — Ways you can help support the show Chase Bank – where you can get a $200 bonus by opening an account and doing a direct deposit. Open an account today at https://accounts.chase.com/consumer/raf/online/rafoffers?key=1934238931&src=N. Ashley Furniture – Save money on your furniture with this coupon. https://www.ashleyfurniture.com/?extole_share_channel=SHARE_LINK&extole_shareable_code=viewfromthepugh5&extole_zone_name=friend_landing_experience Donate to the show – Through CashApp at $ChrisPugh3. Enter our featured contests – $1,000 Target giveaway (through Feb. 27), Win a $500 WalMart gift card (through Feb. 28), Win a $1,000 Best Buy gift card (through March 4) and Win a $1,000 Amazon gift card (through May 22) Sign up for CashApp – Using the code ZFZWZGF. We will both get $5. https://cash.app/app/ZFZWZGF Get your next project done for $5 through Fiverr – https://fiverraffiliates.com/affiliatev2/#:~:text=https%3A//fvrr.co/3K9Ugiq Follow our podcast hosts on Twitter – Chris Pugh, Craig Shoup, Paul Yanchek, Joe Frost and also follow co-hosts George Thomas and Bob Garver. Read Chris and Craig's professional work – Read Chris Pugh's work for the Columbus Dispatch and Cincinnati Enquirer and Craig's work at Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle Share us with your friends --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/theohioan/message

Throughout 2021, the Ohio History Connection has offered up a series of workshops called Where My Single Folk? that are all about finding those family members who never married or passed away unmarried, including those who might have been LGBTQ.

The Japanese American incarceration during World War II is a policy decision that will live in infamy. Alex analyzes why did FDR and the American government forcible remove 120,000 Japanese Americans to 10 camps across the American West? We speak with three experts about this complicated and fateful decision that remains a stain on US history. We sit down with Shirley Ann Higuchi, the Chair of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. Heart Mountain was one of the 10 camps and where we spend the majority of our time in this episode. You can visit them online at www.heartmountain.org. Shirley's family was confined to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during the War and she tells the story in her excellent new book, Setsuko's Secret: Heart Mountain and the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration (2020). You can buy the book here. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5799.htm Author and journalist Bradford Pearson joins the show to discuss why this decision was made, what were the consequences for the incarcerees and the legacy of Japanese American incarceration. Brad's hit new book from Simon & Schuster, The Eagles of Heart Mountain: A True Story of Football, Incarceration and Resistance in World War II America (2021). We discuss the war time hysteria that gripped the nation following the Pearl Harbor attack, Executive Order 9066 and the resistance to this treatment by Japanese Americans. And how does football play such a big role in the Heart Mountain story? Buy Brad's great book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Eagles-of-Heart-Mountain/Bradford-Pearson/9781982107031 We check in with Karen Robertson of the Ohio History Connection about the connection to the Buckeye State in this episode. She tells us the tragic story of Mae and Kingo Takasugi, a young married couple in Alliance, Ohio that is wrongly incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp in California. Karen is the author of the fun book, Little Ohio, about 100 small towns in Ohio. Check it out here. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Ohio-Nostalgic-Buckeye-Smallest/dp/159193849X Don't forget to visit Ohio v. the World at evergreenpodcasts.com. For all of our past episodes and other great history podcasts from our friends at the Evergreen Podcast Network. Please rate/review the show and you can reach out to us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  Megan Wood, Director of Cultural Resources, Ohio History Connection Erin Shannon, Fourth generation family member and Corporate Relations Manager, White Castle Lisa Ingram, CEO, White Castle   About A Century of Sliders: Celebrating White Castle’s 100th Birthday: Join Ohio History Connection on May 28 at 6 p.m. as it celebrates White Castle’s 100th birthday. Hear stories from White Castle founding-family members Maryann Kelley and Erin Shannon as they share the fun and groundbreaking history of the first fast-food restaurant in American history. See vintage items from the Ohio History Connection's White Castle collection and learn how White Castle revolutionized the fast-food industry.    

The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (NAAMCC) presents its seventh annual juried art show "Art of Soul!" Artists from across the United States have been selected for the national juried art exhibition in response to the theme of Impact. The artwork accepted for the show reflects themes and perspectives related to the African diaspora and African American culture, history, or experience. Rosa Rojas, the Lead Curator of the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center talks with two of the show's jurors, Ed Dixon and Michael Reese. Ed Dixon is the owner of Edward A. Dixon Gallery (eadgallery.com, Instagram: @eadgallery, Facebook: Edward A. Dixon Gallery, and Twitter: @eadgallery). Michael Reese is the co-owner of Reese Brothers Productions and founder of ARTWAY, inc. (www.reesebrothersproductions.com, Instagram: @reesebrospro and Facebook: Reese Brothers) The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is part of the Ohio History Connection and is located at 1350 Brush Row Rd, Wilberforce, OH (https://www.ohiohistory.org/participate/event-calendar/national-afro/art-of-soul, Instagram: @naamcc and Facebook: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center) Also watch on YouTube. Reese Brothers Productions and Nicolettecinemagraphics bring you Art Tells a Story, Let it Tell Yours, a live show featuring artist interviews from arts groups around Columbus. Look for previous interviews by: Columbus College of Art & Design Columbus Moving Image Art Review Columbus Museum of Art Donte Woods-Spikes Goodwill Art Studio & Gallery Greater Columbus Arts Council Hammond Harkins Galleries Not Sheep Gallery Ohio Arts Council Ohio Art League Ohio History Connection Sharon Weiss Gallery Wild Goose Creative

On the season premiere of Prologued, we confront the myth of the women's voting bloc in the aftermath of the 2016 election and during the 2020 election cycle. Then, to truly understand the truth of the women's bloc, we take you back--all the way back to the American Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united. Today's esteemed guests: Dr. Joan Flores-Villalobos, the University of Southern California (formerly of The Ohio State University) Dr. Daniel Rivers, The Ohio State University Dr. Lilia Fernandez, Rutgers University Background Reading & Digging Deeper (citations also available at origins.osu.edu) Here is the New York Times article Sarah references in the beginning! Find digital copies Abigail and John Adams correspondence, including the Remember the Ladies letter, at the Massachusetts Historical Society's webpage! Read more on Sojourner Truth and the Ain't I a Woman speech on the Sojourner Truth Memorial's webpage! For more on the split over "universal suffrage," check our Ellen Carol Dubois, Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999. For more on the temperance movement in Ohio, check out the Ohio History Connection! Connect with us! Twitter: @ProloguedPod & @OriginsOSU Instagram: @OriginsOSU Facebook: @OriginsOSU Website: Origins.Osu.edu Email: Origins@osu.edu

Episode 7: Ohio v. the Contenders. Alex catches “presidential fever” with 4 Ohioans who attempted to capture the highest office in the land. We sit down with the co-creators of “1865”, Steven Walters and Erik Archilla, to discuss the presidency and impeachment of Andrew Johnson. We discuss their 1865 Podcast, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson and the near presidency of Ohioan Benjamin Wade. Listen to 1865 here, my favorite podcast from 2019. https://wondery.com/shows/1865/ Erik and Steven discuss their excellent show and answer the question: why is Andrew Johnson our worst President ever? Bruce Carlson from the excellent “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” podcast rejoins the show to discuss Senator Ben Wade. We discuss how close Sen. Wade came to becoming the 18th President of the United States. Alex also revisits the story of the first woman to run for President, Victoria Woodhull. Woodhull, from Homer, Ohio, is what Alex calls “the most interesting woman in the world.” We follow Woodhull’s brief time in the woman’s suffrage movement, her run as the presidential candidate of the Equal Rights Party in the 1872 Election and her arrest just days before that election. We replay our interview with Lisa Wood from the Ohio History Connection. Alex also discusses two more modern contenders: John Glenn in 1984 and John Kasich in 2016. Bruce rejoins us to discuss Glenn’s failed run at the Democratic nomination and the similarities between the crowded ’84 field and the two dozen Democratic candidates in 2020. Political analyst Kyle Kondik joins the show again to discuss the failed presidential campaign of Ohio Governor John Kasich in 2016. We look at the crazy 2016 Republican primary campaign and Kasich’s attempted run as the moderate Republican candidate vs. Donald Trump. Stop what you’re doing and go listen to the 1865 Podcast from our guests Steven Walter and Erik Archilla. https://wondery.com/shows/1865/ It’s my favorite history podcast from 2019 hands down. Also check out their great new show, American Election: Wicked Game. They breakdown the drama and the politics surrounding every US presidential election. https://wondery.com/shows/american-elections-wicked-game/

The year is 1945. The U.S. has just won World War II and soldiers are returning home. They’re expecting a fresh start – the opportunity to reunite with their stateside lovers, find a job and begin a family. Only, there’s one problem: the U.S. is experiencing a housing crisis. With the influx of home-bound soldiers, the demand for housing quickly outpaced the supply. So, what was the U.S. to do? Luckily, a Swedish-born engineer by the name of Carl Strandlund had an idea. What if we manufactured quick-to-build, relatively inexpensive, all-metal houses, funded through government loans, which could be distributed across the country? It was a grand idea, this factory-built house, and Strandlund ran with it. He established the Lustron Corporation, headquartered in Columbus, and his concept blossomed. Backed by government support, the Lustron Corporation distributed over 2,000 homes across America from 1947-1950. It helped patch the nation’s housing crisis, as young families were able to begin new lives in the trendy, brightly colored bungalows. Over time, Lustron’s success faded. Various factors led to the company’s demise. But even after Lustron Corporation folded, the homes remained, scattered among neighborhoods across the country, a metallic emblem of post-war ambition. Over the years, many of these properties have been sold, or demolished, or taken to the scrap yard. In Ohio, the Lustron Corporation’s home state, only 200 or so remain, according to the Ohio History Connection. There used to be several in Knox County – now, there is only one. This week, we spoke with the man most involved with preserving this local historic relic. His name is Jeff Gottke, board president for the Knox County Landmarks Foundation, which currently owns the property. What’s the history behind Mount Vernon’s last remaining Lustron Home? What kind of condition is it in now? And what are the Landmarks Foundation’s plans for it? We answer those questions and more on this edition of Stories from the heart of Ohio. For more information on Carl Strandlund and the Lustron Corporation, visit the Ohio History Connection's website: https://www.ohiohistory.org/visit/exhibits/ohio-history-center-exhibits/1950s-building-the-american-dream/lustron-about/help-for-lustrons/meet-the-lustrons/meet-history

On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, granting American women the right to vote. As our nation celebrates 100 years of women's suffrage, we look back at the push for women – including minority segments of African American and Native American women – to not only have their voices heard and counted among the public, but also among our country's leadership. While 50.8 percent of the U.S. population is female, only 23.2 percent of the House of Representatives and 26 percent of the Senate is female. At the state level in Ohio, only 28.9 percent of legislators and 29.3 percent of elected officials are female. And to this day, our country has yet to elect a woman to the Oval Office. It was once said by Madeleine Albright that women in power “can be counted on to raise issues that others overlook, to support ideas that others oppose, and to seek an end to abuses that others accept.” In this forum, our panelists will look at the women's suffrage movement in the context of the political landscape we see today and explore why women do not have more of a presence in today's politics. Featuring Megan Wood, Director, Cultural Resources Division, Ohio History Connection, Jen Miller, Executive Director, League of Women Voters of Ohio, and Treva Lindsey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University. Hosted by Ann Fisher, host of All Sides with Ann Fisher at WOSU Public Media.

Episode 15: “Ohio v. The Wild West” (George Custer/Annie Oakley). Alex travels back to the Wild West in the Season 3 Finale. We talk about the controversial “Boy General” George Armstrong Custer from New Rumley, Ohio and “Little Miss Sure Shot” Annie Oakley of Darke County, Ohio. Two of the biggest celebrities of the 19th Century. Attorney Jason Lucas comes on to talk about Custer’s youth in New Rumley, Ohio and his sterling Civil War record as a cavalry commander. History Professor and Podcast Host, Brady Crytzer comes on to breakdown Custer’s career in the West as an Indian fighter. We analyze what mistakes were made that led to the crushing and complete defeat of Custer and the 7th Cavalry at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Editor-in-Chief of Echoes Magazine, Bill Eichenberger joins the show to talk about the famous female sharpshooter and celebrity, Annie Oakley. We’re also joined by Jerry DePizzo (our only 3-time guest) of the rock band OAR to discuss their new beer, Little Mighty Lager from the fine folks at Great Lakes Brewing Company https://www.liveoar.com/themightylager and a little history about my hometown of Grandview Heights, Ohio. Also, Erin Wingfield, of the Ohio History Connection comes out to discuss all the different membership options and perks with the Ohio History Connection. http://www.ohiohistory.org/join Check out Brady’s newest podcast “Dispatches” in conjunction with the Journal Of American Revolution. http://www.allthingsliberty.com or find it on iTunes. Check out Jerry Depizzo and his great Ohio band, OAR, this summer on their tour. https://www.liveoar.com/tour Thanks to all the support this season from GoBus! Check out the cheap routes and rates all over the Buckeye State on your next trip. http://www.ridegobus.com Thanks for listening to Season 3! Email us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com with show ideas this summer and we’ll see you in August for Season 4.

Episode 14: “Ohio v. Suffrage” (19th Amendment) We celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage in Ohio, with three amazing women: Lisa Wood, Emily Krichbaum and Megan Wood. Alex tells the entire history of suffrage in Ohio and America as we follow the journey to the eventual adoption of the 19th Amendment in 1919. Lisa and Alex discuss the life of Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio’s most famous suffragette and the ups and downs of the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Association. Emily tells the story of the national struggle for suffrage with appearances by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul. The more conservative Taylor and the more radical Paul work in concert to deliver female suffrage after decades of failure. We’re also joined by Megan Wood of the Ohio History Connection to discuss the creation of the Ohio Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission (32:00). The Commission which was approved last week and led by the Secretary of State’s office, will hold events and raise awareness about the importance and historical significance of the 19th Amendment. https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190226/ohio-getting-ready-to-celebrate-100-years-of-women-voting Don’t forget to subscribe to Emily Krichbaum’s awesome newsletter Remember the Ladies. Remember The Ladies is an organization dedicated to the teaching of American women’s history and breaks down women’s history and politics every week. Click here to subscribe and get the newsletter direct to your email inbox. https://www.remembertheladieshistory.com/subscribe Only ONE episode left in Season 3! Thanks to our supporters at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for more info on the intracity bus service in Ohio. Rate or review the show on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ohio-v-the-world/id1210853919?mt=2 Email Alex with show ideas and comments at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com

“Old Man's Cave is part of the Hocking Hills State Park near Logan, Ohio...According to legend, Richard Rowe lived at least briefly in the cave beginning in 1796...He eventually settled in the Hocking Hills, and he is purportedly buried in the cave. As a result of Rowe's occupancy of the cave, locals named the structure ‘Old Man's Cave.' “ - Ohio History Connection, ohiohistorycentral.org ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ All over the world, there are stories associated with mountains, hills, lakes, rock formations, rivers, caves, etc. For example, there are basalt columns in Northern Ireland known as The Giant's Causeway. Folk traditions and stories are associated with these formations. In Ireland, place names, stories of place, and lore associated with specific features of the local landscapes are known as Dindsenchas. These mythic and folkloric elements of the land are mirrored in our personal histories of place and story. When we return to the neighborhoods that we once knew, memories unwittingly arise. There are now four-way stops at almost every intersection in the town where I grew up, Struthers, Ohio. As you drive, you must stop, go, and stop again. On each corner, in every block, everywhere, I find memory, story. “That's where Joey lived. I remember what he told me that night after I dropped the rest of the guys off. Joe was the quiet one. He never said anything when we all got into those deep, philosophical discussions. That night, as he stepped out of the car, he looked at me - one seventeen-year-old to another - and said, ‘When I talk, I talk to God'... And how many years ago is it now since Joey has died?” In my hometown, memories constantly fly towards me. Places exude story. Sometimes the memories are general: “We played a lot of kickball and kick-the-can there in the Greco's backyard.” Sometimes the general leads to the specific: “That place was a candy shop. It was called Dee's Market. We walked down there all the time. Once, Mitch, Dan and I were walking home when, all of a sudden, there was this big lightning storm and ...” Sometimes the memories are recent: “That's the hill where the kids and I went sledding last winter. All three of them loved it, so did I. We made a chain with the sleds. I laid on my stomach, then...” Through these little tales, our children have learned that places contain stories. As we revisit familiar family spots on trips and outings, it is lovely to now listen as our children share their memories that the land evokes from them, “Hey, Dad, remember the last time we were here and...” I lived in Boston when I was in my 20s. When we visit New England, forgotten memories come unbidden. I tell stories. There are so many stories that are a part of us, and a part of the land. ∞∞∞∞∞∞∞∞ Why not ask a friend, a loved one, an elder to show you around the neighborhood where they once lived? Why not listen to their stories of the land, to their stories of the neighborhood? Why not invite a family member or friend to one of the places that hold your stories? Why not walk with them and show them where some of your stories reside? Dindsenchas: Sacred stories of the land ...and neighborhood. And a blessing wish: In the days and months and years ahead, may you soak the land with many worthy stories. (Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, "Sacred Earth." )

Episode 13: “Ohio v. Conspiracy” (Roswell, the WaterCar, JFK) We sit down 3 guests and discuss three of Ohio’s most fascinating conspiracy cases. First we meet with author Ray Szymanski and we talk about the connection between the Roswell UFO incident in 1947 and Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Ray, who worked at Wright Patt for 38 years, has traveled the world investigating the alien phenomenon and talks to us about Ohio’s connection to extraterrestrials. (4:30) Check out Ray’s book ‘Fifty Shades of Greys: Evidence of Extraterrestrial Visitation to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Beyond.” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523383178/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 Columbus Dispatch reporter, Dean Narciso, joins the show to discuss the little known story of Stanley Allen Meyer and his water car. Alex and Dean look at the life and invention of Stan Meyer that could have changed the world until his untimely and suspect death in 1998 in Grove City, Ohio. (23:00) Lastly, we tackled the biggest conspiracy of them all: the JFK Assassination (47:30). JFK scholar, Lane Marcus, joins the show to examine the life and death of Cleveland, Ohio’s, David Ferrie. We analysis the connection between David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald and the killing of our 35th President in Dallas, TX in 1963. Mr. Marcus describes a complex plot involving the Mafia, elements of the CIA and even LBJ himself that contributed to the death of President Kennedy. Special thanks to our guest and Chief Marketing Officer of the Ohio History Connection, Jamison Pack. (41:00) Jamison and I discuss the changing of the name to the OHC from the original name the Ohio Historical Society back in 2014 and the challenges of marketing in the history world. Go see the new Ohio: Champion of Sports exhibit at the Ohio History Center in 2019. Thanks to the support from our friends at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for more info on the intracity bus service in Ohio.

Episode 11: “Ohio v. Wealth” (John D. Rockefeller). We travel to Cleveland to tell the story of the richest man in the world, John D. Rockefeller and the infamous Standard Oil. Alex meets with Kevin Callahan of the Western Reserve Historical Society to discuss Rockefeller’s youth and building of the oil empire, Stndard Oil on the shores of Lake Erie. We also sit down with Cleveland attorney, Ben Wiborg, to discuss Rockefeller’s taking control of the oil industry and the muckraking journalist, Ida Tarbell, and her crusade to take down Rockefeller. As Rockefeller’s bank account grows so does the country’s hatred towards him and his Standard Oil monopoly. The Roosevelt and Taft Administrations and the Justice Dept. take Standard and Rockefeller to the Supreme Court. We chat with Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Professor, Christopher Sagers, about the US. v. Standard Oil case and the era of trustbusting. We analyze how Tarbell and the government’s takedown of Standard Oil makes John D. Rockefeller the richest man in the world. We are excited to talk with Jamison Pack, Chief Marketing Officer from the Ohio History Connection, about the new exhibit Ohio: Champion of Sports opening on March 16, 2019 at the Ohio History Center. (23:00) We talk about the future of the OHC and the future Museum of Ohio. https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/ohio-champion-of-sports Ohio v. The World is supported by our friends at GoBus! Go to www.ridegobus.com for a list of cheap rates and routes around the Buckeye State.

Episode 10: “Ohio v. Murder 3.0” (Eliot Ness/Cleveland Torso Murders). It’s our annual true crime episode…Alex travels to Cleveland to meet with author Dr. James Badal and historian Becky McFarland about the career of famous Cleveland lawman Eliot Ness and the notorious Cleveland Torso Murders in the 1930s. Alex and Becky discuss Ness, the leader of the Untouchables, and his years in CLE as the Public Safety Director. We talk about Ness cleaning up Cleveland, then known as the most dangerous city in the country. Dr. Badal tells the parallel story of the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury and the trail of partial bodies left across Cleveland. At least a dozen Clevelanders are murdered in gruesome fashion by an unknown serial killer. We discuss Ness’ investigation and Badal’s 2014 book In the Wake of the Butcher (https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Butcher-Clevelands-Torso-Murders/dp/160635213X/ref=pd_cp_14_1?pd_rd_w=cGkGY&pf_rd_p=ef4dc990-a9ca-4945-ae0b-f8d549198ed6&pf_rd_r=412P8G52AKXJ1V6PAET2&pd_rd_r=25ca1906-3268-11e9-ade1-d126a5984129&pd_rd_wg=2aInh&pd_rd_i=160635213X&psc=1&refRID=412P8G52AKXJ1V6PAET2) Our guests discuss Cleveland during the Great Depression and the possible suspects of the officially unsolved murders. We learn of Ness’ secret suspect and the investigation by Eliot and his team. Did Eliot Ness solve the biggest mystery in 1930s Cleveland: who is the Cleveland Torso Murderer? You be the judge in Season 3’s true crime episode. We also sit down the Stacey Halfmoon, the Director of American Indian Relations at the Ohio History Connection, to discuss the annual Tribal Nations Conference. Stacey discusses the important outreach efforts in this episode’s Ohio History Connection Minute (https://www.ohiohistory.org/learn/american-indian-relations).

Episode 6: Ohio v. the Patriarchy (Madeline Pollard) Alex sits down with author Patricia Miller to discuss her hit new book, Bringing Down the Colonel. Miller’s novel tells the story of a sex scandal involving a young Cincinnati college student, Madeline Pollard, and a powerful Congressman, William Breckinridge that would grip the nation’s attention in the spring of 1894. The landmark case of Pollard v. Breckinridge is analyzed for its groundbreaking verdict and how this story still resonates today in the midst of the #MeToo Movement. We strongly encourage you to purchase Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington. (https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-Colonel-Powerless-Washington/dp/0374252661) We also finish our chat with the Ohio History Connection’s Megan Wood. Megan shares how the OHC and its extensive archives can assist in any persons’ genealogy research for free. It’s our last show of 2018 and Patti Miller helps us go out with a bang. Check out her book Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age and the Powerless Woman Who Took on Washington. (https://www.amazon.com/Bringing-Down-Colonel-Powerless-Washington/dp/0374252661). Rate and review the show and SUBSCRIBE already! Send us show ideas or buy an Ohio v the World t-shirt by emailing the show at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com.

Emmy Beach of the Ohio History Connection talks about "Dickens of a Christmas" at Ohio Village and how it reflects holiday traditions from the Victorian era.

Episode 5: “Ohio v. the Cold War” (Curtis Lemay) Alex welcomes back Bruce Carlson, podcast host of “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” (https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/). Alex and Bruce travel through the first 25 years of the Cold War by chronicling the life of General Curtis E. Lemay from Columbus, Ohio. Lemay’s career was in the front row for Pearl Harbor, WWII in Europe, the firebombing of Tokyo, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, the Berlin Airlift, the formation of the Air Force and Strategic Air Command, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the infamous U.S. election of 1968. We look at why “Bombs Away” Lemay’s celebrated life of service and militarism was overshadowed by the unforgivable decision to be the VP candidate for Gov. George Wallace’s ’68 presidential run. Alex sits down with Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services at the Ohio History Connection, to discuss the unveiling of the original Ohio Constitution at the Ohio Statehouse this week. (36:20) http://www.dispatch.com/news/20181128/history-lesson-ohio-constitution-now-on-display-at-statehouse?rssfeed=true Subscribe to the show on iTunes and Stitcher, etc. and go listen to Bruce Carlson’s show “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” it’s one of our absolute favorites. https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/

:17 - The Ohio State Buckeyes sit at six in the AP Top 25, which makes them on the outside looking in for the college football playoff. Ray thinks the Bucks have a case for the playoff, while Tony believes their loss to Purdue and narrow win over Maryland may have cost them 10:49 - We’re a year and a half from the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings, and the folks there want to preserve the memory. Dr. Mindy Farmer from Kent State talked about the Ohio History Connection award the school won in commemoration of the event. 15:31 - My, how things have changed in high school athletics. An offseason once meant an off season, but there are no off days in this world. Dr. Joe Congeni from Akron Children’s Hospital discussed the weight training schools are doing throughout the winter to prepare for sports like track, baseball, and even football. 21:07 - Could the Indians part ways with Trevor Bauer? How about Corey Kluber or Carlos Carrasco? While the window is still open, they may need to, as mentioned here by Ray and Tony. 28:05 - At 10 AM on Saturday, the Joe Siegferth Basketball Classic is happening over at Firestone CLC. Ron Linger, Akron Public Schools’ assistant athletic director, went over the bulk of the games.

Episode 4: Ohio v. Civil War (Edwin Stanton). Alex speaks with author Walter Stahr (www.walterstahr.com) about his acclaimed 2017 book Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary and the life of Stubenville, Ohio’s Edwin Stanton. Stanton, was the Secretary of War during the U.S. Civil War and a member of President Abraham Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals.” Stahr walks us through Stanton’s rise from a poor teen in Eastern Ohio to the savior of the Union Army. We look at his rapid rise as a lawyer in the Buckeye State to become Attorney General of the US under President Buchanan. Cliff Eckle from the Ohio History Connection joins us to talk about the extensive collections at the Ohio History Center and Stanton’s transformative years at the War Department. (28:00) Don’t forget to donate to the Ohio History Connection on Giving Tuesday, November 27th, click on www.ohiohistory.org to give! Join us as we see the Civil War through the eyes of the workaholic Stanton and we’re bedside for the tragic death of President Lincoln. Walter Stahr guides us through the famous manhunt for Lincoln’s killer and his co-conspirators and why Secretary Stanton was the cause of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Buy Walter Stahr’s book for the holidays (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQFGW3M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ). Rate/Review the show, email us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com

For the past 10 years or so, the new player on the scene is the podcast. Online, on demand and as specialized as you could want. Alex Hastie is an attorney and the managing partner of Hastie Legal. He’s active in numerous community organizations and projects. And he’s a historian. Alex is on the Board of Trustees with the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society). His popular Ohio history podcast is “Ohio v. the World.” Today, we talk podcasting, on the radio, on Town Hall Ohio.

Highlights Food Will Win The War - an overview | @01:55 History through the lens of Food - Dr. Libby O’Connell  | @05:40 War in the sky | @10:30 America Emerges - Dr. Edward Lengel | @11:45 Great War Project - Mike Shuster | @17:25 Great War Channel on Youtube - Indy Neidell & Flo Wittig | @21:05 Family’s History - Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun | @29:25 Remembering Veterans - Dr. Richard Slotkin | @34:30 A Century in the Making - Maquette on Fox and Friends | @42:45 Speaking WWI - Hooverized Recipes | @44:45 States - Ohio web site - Amy Rohmiller | @46:10 The Buzz - Katherine Akey | @52:25 and more....----more---- Opening Welcome to World War 1 centennial News - episode #58 - It’s about WW1 THEN - what was happening 100 years ago this week  - and it’s about WW1 NOW - news and updates about the centennial and the commemoration.   Today is February 9th, 2018 and our guests for this week include: Dr. Libby O’Connell, talking to us about the food administration’s rationing directives 100 years ago this month Dr. Edward Lengel, with a story about an interesting military demonstration by the doughboys at New York’s Hippodrome Mike Shuster, from the great war project blog with the AEF’s first military engagements of 1918 Indy Neidell and Florian Wittig from the Great War Channel on YouTube talking with us about producing this long running video series Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun telling us about her family’s connection to WW1 Dr. Richard Slotkin who examines the shifting ethnic and cultural landscape in America during WW1 Amy Rohmiller introducing the Ohio WW1 centennial effort and their new website Katherine Akey, with some selections from the centennial of WWI in social media   All that and more --- this week -- on WW1 Centennial News -- a weekly podcast brought to you by the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission, the Pritzker Military Museum and Library and the Starr foundation. I’m Theo Mayer - the Chief Technologist for the Commission and your host. Welcome to the show. [MUSIC] Preface Food will win the war! That was the rallying cry for Herbert Hoover… A mining engineer by training, an entrepreneur by character and a public servant by circumstance.   Herbert Hoover was in Europe in 1914 when it all hit the fan. He stepped up and helped organize the return of around 120,000 Americans who got stranded. He led 500 volunteers in distributing food, clothing, steamship tickets and cash to get the Americans home. Hoover, who would become the 31st President of the United States remarked: QUOTE: I did not realize it at the moment, but on August 3, 1914, my career was over forever. I was on the slippery road of public life."     And so It is no surprize that President Woodrow Wilson tapped the young Hoover to run his wartime food administration…   And what a challenge food production and management had become. The men who farmed put on uniforms. Armies of them needed to be fed, shiploads of food needed to be transported and in europe after 3 ½ years of devastation and fighting the populations were starving. [MUSIC] With that as an overview, let’s jump into our wayback machine and go back 100 years to the war that changed the world! World War One THEN 100 Year Ago This Week [MUSIC SOUND EFFECT TRANSITION] It’s late January 1918 - President Wilson issues a proclamation in the "Official Bulletin" - the government’s war gazette published by George Creel’s Committee on Public Information for the administration. [Sound effect] DATELINE: January 28, 1918 HEADLINE: President’s Proclamation Calls Upon People of Nation to Reduce Consumption of Wheat and Meat Products in Order to Feed America's Associates in the War Wilson’s proclamation opens with: "MANY causes have contributed to create the necessity for a more intensive effort on the part of our people to save food in order that we may supply our associates in the war with the sustenance vitally necessary to them in these days of privation and stress. The reduced productivity of Europe because of the large diversion of manpower to the war, the partial failure of harvests, and the elimination of the more distant markets for foodstuffs through the destruction of shipping places…  the burden of their subsistence very largely rests upon our shoulders. The Food Administration has formulated suggestions which, if followed, will enable us to meet this great responsibility, without any real inconvenience on our part." The proclamation goes on to explain the details and concludes with - "I, therefore, in the national interest, take the liberty of calling upon every loyal American to take fully to heart the suggestions which are being circulated by the Food Administration and of begging that they be followed. I am confident that the great body of our women' who have labored so loyally in cooperation with the Food Administration for the success of food conservation, will strengthen their efforts and will take it as a part of their burden in this period of national service to see that the above suggestions are observed throughout the land." President Woodrow Wilson Libby O’connell interview With us again today is Food historian, author and WWI Centennial Commissioner,  Dr. Libby O’Connell [Libby - thank you for taking the time to join us again --- as our go to expert on WWI and food!] [So Libby - The cry was “Food Will Win The War” and this particular program came to be known as Meatless Monday / Wheatless Wednesday - Can you give us some perspective? Was it effective?]   [Libby]   [Thank you once again for your wonderful insights - ] [So long] Dr. Libby O’Connell is former Chief Historian for the History Channel, author, food historian and US WW1 Centennial Commissioner - Follow the link in the podcast notes to learn more about Dr. O’Connell and how “Food Will Win The War!" Link: http://uvamagazine.org/articles/the_peoples_historian http://exhibits.mannlib.cornell.edu/meatlesswheatless/meatless-wheatless.php https://www.history.com/news/hungry-history/author/libby https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/02/08/102666398.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/02/07/102665809.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/02/04/102664455.pdf https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/01/28/102662003.pdf War in the Sky 100 years ago this week in the War in The Sky there are two events worth noting. First: The Lafayette Escadrille - the famed squadron of American Flier who flew for the french before America entered the war are officially transferred from the French Army to the US Army and re-designated the 103rd Aero Squadron. Also the US replaces the insignia on all US planes with what is called the roundel  - an outer red ring, then a blue ring, and a white center. The Allies had requested the change out of a fear that the white star in the center of the old design might be mistaken for a German cross in the fog of battle. The roundel remains in use until the US reverts to its former markings in August of 1919.   Fine tuning the army air service 100 years ago this week for the War in the Sky. Follow the war in the sky with our comprehensive nearly day-by-day timeline curated by RG head - you’ll find it at at ww1cc.org/warinthesky - one word - all lower case - or follow the links in the podcast notes. Link: www.ww1cc.org/warinthesky America Emerges: Military Stories from WW1 This week for: America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI… Dr. Edward lengel is going to tell us about a very interesting military demonstration by US forces at New York’s Hippodrome. Let me set this up: Large numbers of troops are wrapping up their stateside training and preparing to ship out. The pace is accelerating and multiple divisions are shipping out simultaneously - most of them from the greater New York City area - logistics for  juggling railways, encampments, embarkation and debarkation facilities, ships, food, fuel and weapons is ever more challenging. But the Doughboys are pumped and gripped with excitement as they prepare to “take it to the Kaiser”. Their adventure is about to begin. This is where Ed picks up the story in New York... [ED LENGEL] Thank you Ed. Next week, Dr. Edward Lengel will tell us about the 32nd Red Arrow Division, made from the Michigan and Wisconsin National Guard. Some of the division’s first contingent drowns in the sinking of the Tuscania on February 5, but most of the Red Arrow Doughboys travel on the massive ship - the USS Leviathan, which used to be the German Ship ---Die Vaterland (the fatherland) - but as we declare war - we confiscate her in NY harbor and turned her into a massive troop ship to send doughboys to fight it’s original namesake. Kinda ironic. Dr. Edward Lengel is an American military historian, author, and our segment host for America Emerges: Military Stories from WWI. There are links in the podcast notes to Ed’s post and his website as an author. Links:http://www.edwardlengel.com/doughboys-action-new-york-citys-hippodrome-100-years-ago/ https://www.facebook.com/EdwardLengelAuthor/ http://www.edwardlengel.com/about/   [SOUND EFFECT] Great War Project Now on to the Great War project with Mike Shuster - former NPR correspondent and curator for the Great War project Blog…. Mike: Your post this week is titled - The Americans are in it! And by that you mean the trenches and the fighting. I don’t think your story this week needs more introduction than that, Mike! [MIKE POST] Mike Shuster from the Great War Project blog. LINK: http://greatwarproject.org/2018/02/04/the-americans-are-in-it/ [SOUND EFFECT] The Great War Channel Every week we tell you about these wonderful videos on Youtube from The Great War Channel -- The channel has some pretty impressive stats - it launched in May of 2014, has published over 515 episodes, has over 800 thousand subscribers on youtube and has earned over 120 million video views. Earlier this week I called Indy Neidell, the show’s host and Florian Wittig the series producer at their studio in Berlin to learn a little more about their experience in producing the Great War Channel. Indy - Flo welcome! Gentlemen - I wanted to bring you on the show - not to talk about WWI but to talk about ----  telling the story of WWI! [Indy - this project came together in the spring of 2014 - can you tell us with who and how that happened? [Flo - how did you get involved in the project?]   [So gentlemen - for us this is podcast episode #58 - and you are somewhere near episode 520! That leaves me in awe - but also with a question for you Indy: WWI is such an incredibly... insanely…  bizarrely… surreal…  story - How do you think that immersing yourself in it so deeply and for so long -- has affected your worldview?] [Flo - you and I have been chatting every month for a few years now - and I have really enjoyed watching you guide the project to where it is today - One thing that struck me is how incredibly dedicated to your audience you are  - Tell us about them] Last question - really to both of you --- Starting this month the US troops start to actually engage in the fighting and their involvement accelerates rapidly - Do you have any special plans for how to cover this part of the story?Gentlemen - Thanks for spending a little time with our listeners. You have created a really important body of work with your series and as always we encourage our listeners to search for The Great War on youtube or follow the link in our podcast notes. Thanks gents.... [Say goodbye] Indy Neidell, the host, and Florian Wittig, the producer of the Great War Channel on Youtube. Link:https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar World War One NOW It is time to fast forward into the present with WW1 Centennial News NOW - [SOUND EFFECT] this section is not about history, but rather - it explores what is happening NOW to commemorate the centennial of the War that changed the world! Commission News Interview with Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun   It is a privilege to joined today by a genuine social pioneer… An amazing person of many honors, distinctions and firsts - To start with Carol Moseley Braun was one of the first black women to graduate from the law school at the University of Chicago; She was an Assistant United States Attorney; an illinois state legislator; a US State Senator; an ambassador; and my favorite - she was adopted as a member of a maori tribe; She’s also an entrepreneur - and on the Diplomatic Advisory board to the US WWI centennial commission, Welcome Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun. [greetings] [Ambassador Braun, I want to ask you about your Grandfather - Thomas Davie and his cousin both of whom served in WWI. Could you tell us about them? ] [Did Thomas Davie talk about his experience when he came home?] [Ambassador Braun - why do you think America needs a WWI memorial in the nation’s capital?] [I have to ask - Who inspired you to become the accomplished and amazing person you are?] [Ambassador - Thank you for sharing your family’s story with us.] [thank you/goodbyes] Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun is a pioneering politician, former US Senator from Illinois, she was the Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa-- and she also serves on the Diplomatic Advisory Board of the WW1 Centennial Commission. Read more about her at the links in the podcast notes. link:http://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/about/the-commission/advisory-boards/diplomatic-advisory-board.html http://history.house.gov/People/Detail?id=18611 https://www.militarytimes.com/military-honor/black-military-history/2017/02/15/african-american-heroes-are-a-part-of-a-vanishing-world-war-i-legacy/   Remembering Veterans Interview with Dr. Richard Slotkin We will start this week in our Remembering Veterans section with Dr. Richard Slotkin, historian, professor emeritus of English and American studies at Wesleyan University and author of the book Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality Welcome, [Dr. Slotkin] [greetings] [Dr. Slotkin, your book looks at the changing American cultural identity as experienced by two different units-- the 369th, a black regiment, and the 77th, the “melting pot” division. Why did you choose these two units for your book?]   [How did the experience of these two units differ, in terms of being marginalized ethnically? ]   [In your opinion, why should American students be taught about the exploits of these soldiers? ]   [goodbyes]   Dr. Richard Slotkin is a historian, professor emeritus and author. Follow the links in the podcast notes to learn more about him and his books. Link:https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Battalions-Crisis-American-Nationality/dp/0805081380 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/richard-slotkin/lost-battalions/ A Century in the Making Now for: A century in the making - the story of America’s WW1 Memorial in Washington DC.   In this segment we take you on an insider’s journey that explores this grand undertaking, and the people behind it. In the summer of 2017, the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts and National Capital Planning Commission unanimously approved the conceptual design for the memorial, centered on a monumental work of bronze sculpture. Sculptor Sabin Howard then embarked on an eight-month effort to bring the memorial to life. And as we’ve heard from Sabin himself in our podcast episodes #54 and #55 --- the sculpture has evolved from his original sketches and drawings into 3D images and 3D models. Sabin’s efforts at the Weta Workshop in New Zealand culminated in late January, with creation of a sculptural maquette of the proposed design - essentially that is the sculpture at 1:6 scale. Last week you heard an audio documentary on this show as this striking model, which is around 10 and a half feet long by around 1 foot high, arrived in Washington DC last week. The maquette serves as the “first draft” of the Memorial’s sculptural design and development and is scheduled to be presented to the Commission of Fine Arts on Thursday February 15th for their review and feedback. On Friday February 16th, the maquette will be unveiled to the public for the first time on the Fox and Friends television show. Pending all regulatory agency approvals anticipated by summer 2018, the design and development of the sculpture will enter its final production phase, including casting. We actually built two of the maquettes to accommodate both public and private displays over the coming months!   Watch the unveiling on Fox and Friends next Fr iday or come to our website that weekend at ww1cc.org/memorial for a first look yourself. Follow the link in the podcast notes to learn more.   Link: www.ww1cc.org/memorial   [SOUND EFFECT] Speaking WW1 And now for our feature “Speaking World War 1” - Where we explore the words & phrases that are rooted in the war  --- As we talked about at the top of the show, rationing and ingredient substitution became necessary in World War One America. Special recipes were developed to keep food tasty but also within the rules laid out in the Food Administration’s guidelines. These new wheatless, meatless and sugarless recipes that strove to keep familiar food on tables of America,  earned their own nickname - which is our Speaking WWI phrase for this week. These wartime foods and recipes were deemed to have been “Hooverized” in honor of the Food Administration's chief, Herbert Hoover. There was cake made with potato flour instead of wheat - candies made with molasses or honey instead of refined sugar, and bread using a mixture of potato, rye and corn flour. Actually Hooverized Foods sound like a very contemporary, trendy, gluten free, health food, paleo, vegan-esque diet. But I think  “Hooverized Recipes” doesn’t sound like a trendy, hip, slick, hook --- even if it IS this week’s phrase for Speaking WWI - See the podcast notes to learn more! link: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t9t156s17 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-meatless-wheatless-meals-of-world-war-i-america [SOUND EFFECT] Updates from the States Ohio Website Launch For updates from the states -- we’re very pleased to announce that Ohio has launched a new centennial website at ww1cc.org/ohio - all lower case!   With us is Amy Rohmiller, World War I Coordinator at the Ohio History Connection, to tell us more about the site and the WWI Centennial commemoration efforts in Ohio. Welcome, Amy! [greetings] Amy, tell us about the Ohio WWI centennial organization -  how is it structured, and what kind of projects are you working on currently? What was the experience of Ohioans like during the War? What kind of information should people expect to find on your new Ohio website at ww1cc.org/ohio ? [goodbye/thanks] Amy Rohmiller is the World War I Coordinator at the Ohio History Connection. Visit the Ohio WWI Centennial website at ww1cc.org/ohio or by following the link in the podcast notes. Link: www.ww1cc.org/ohio [SOUND EFFECT] The Buzz - WW1 in Social Media Posts And that brings us to the buzz - the centennial of WW1 this week in social media with Katherine Akey - Katherine, what do you have for us this week? Hi Theo! Coloring Book Popular posts on our facebook page this week are all about color! The National World War One Museum and Memorial in Kansas City has started a new project, Color Our Collections. You can follow the link in the podcast notes to download a coloring book drawn from the museum’s collections, including several of Captain Bruce Bairnsfather’s illustrations.   link:http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/national-wwi-museum-memorial-coloring-book/?platform=hootsuite http://library.nyam.org/colorourcollections/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/02/NationalWWIMuseum_ColorOurCollections_2018.pdf Color Images from the War Lastly for the week, another collection of color photographs from WW1 is making the rounds online, but these are not black and white images that have since had color added: they’re original color images from 100 years ago. The color process used to create them is called Autochrome, and it used dyed pieces of potato starch to turn a normal black and white negative into the beautiful, velvety color photos you can see at the Slate article in the podcast links. That’s it this week for the Buzz!   link:http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2014/08/12/fernand_cuville_s_autochrome_photos_show_world_war_i_in_color.html   Thank you Katherine - Outro Thank you everyone for listening to another episode of WW1 Centennial News. We want to thank our guests... Dr. Libby O’Connell, author, historian and World War One Centennial Commissioner Dr. Edward Lengel, Military historian and author Mike Shuster, Curator of the great war project blog Indy Neidell and Florian Wittig from The Great War channel on Youtube Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun, pioneering politician and Diplomatic Advisor to the Commission Dr. Richard Slotkin, historian, author and professor emeritus Amy Rohmiller, the World War I Coordinator at the Ohio History Connection Katherine Akey, the commission’s social media director and line producer for the podcast   And I am Theo Mayer - your host. The US World War One Centennial Commission was created by Congress to honor, commemorate and educate about WW1. Our programs are to-- inspire a national conversation and awareness about WW1; this podcast is a part of that…. Thank you! We are bringing the lessons of the 100 years ago into today's classrooms; We are helping to restore WW1 memorials in communities of all sizes across our country; and of course we are building America’s National WW1 Memorial in Washington DC. We want to thank commission’s founding sponsor the Pritzker Military Museum and Library as well as the Starr foundation for their support. The podcast can be found on our website at ww1cc.org/cn   on  iTunes and google play at ww1 Centennial News, and on Amazon Echo or other Alexa enabled devices. Just say: Alexa: Play W W One Centennial News Podcast. Our twitter and instagram handles are both @ww1cc and we are on facebook @ww1centennial. Thank you for joining us. And don’t forget to share the stories you are hearing here today about the war that changed the world! [music]   Jeez I need to decide…. The Low FODMAP gluten free diet The gut health diet The matcha turmeric, macca diet The Mediterranean makeover Vegan 2.0 Forget it - I’m just gonna Hooverize my recipes! So long!  

On this edition of the Seven Ages audio journal, we discuss Ohio's ancient history and archaeology with Dr. Brad Lepper of the Ohio History Connection. The post Seven Ages Audio Journal 004: Ancient Ohio in Focus appeared first on Seven Ages.

Episode 10: "Ohio v the Victorian Age". Alex interviews Lisa Wood, of the Ohio History Connection, about the "Most Interesting Woman in the World", Victoria C. Woodhull. We look at the nine lives of Victoria: child preacher, spiritualist, actress, Wall St. broker, suffragist, presidential candidate, mother, inmate and classy English landowner. We look at the Victoria's extraordinary life in 19th Century America as she takes on the social and political norms of the Victorian Age. Email us at ohiovtheworld@gmail.com with questions and comments. RATE and REVIEW the show on iTunes!!

2016 AASLH/MMA Annual Meeting Session Recording Recorded in Detroit, MI September 17, 2016 Life After Rebranding: Twenty Insights, Lessons, and Best Practices Many history organizations make the bold move to rebrand with the goal of attracting a broader audience. While much energy is often focused on the brand launch, this session addresses life after the launch date: how to manage your brand, how it evolves, and how you evolve. Chair: Shannon Thomas, Director of Marketing and Communications, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

The digital revolution is allowing local and state historical organizations to place more primary sources online. But digitization is labor-intensive. Learn more about the successes and failures of four unique projects that are using crowdsourcing to mitigate the labor demands of digitization while providing educational opportunities for their constituents. Chair: David McKenzie, Digital Projects Manager, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, DC; Jason Crabill, Manager, Curatorial Services, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH; Catherine Keene Fields, Executive Director, Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield, CT; Lorraine McConaghy, Ph.D., Museum of History and Industry, Seattle, WA. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/building-digital-archives-lessons-learned-from-four-crowdsourced-online-projects/

Teaching American History (TAH) grants are extinct. The innovative and entrepreneurial spirit that was the hallmark of successful TAH programs must now be the foundation for new educational programming. Learn how the Ohio History Connection has made the transition and share new ideas and approaches for success. Chair: Stacia Kuceyski, Outreach Director, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/after-teaching-american-history-grants-have-ended-imagine-the-possibilities/

Historical organizations must develop and demonstrate relevance to remain successful. In this highly-participatory session, attendees work in small groups and then in the large group to identify means to develop and demonstrate relevance. Following the session, the facilitators will compile and distribute the group’s findings to all participants. Chair: Mark Sundlov, Manager, Local History Office, Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH. Download at: http://resource.aaslh.org/view/field-services-alliance-tips-demonstrating-relevance/