From the Ohio History Connection

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on May 17, 2017. It is being republished here via a collaborative agreement. “Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming. “We’re finally on our own. “This summer I hear the drumming. “Four dead in Ohio.” Inspired by the events that unfolded on the campus of Kent […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. During the late 19th century, John Sherman was a prominent United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury from Ohio. Sherman was born on May 10, 1823, in Lancaster. He was William T. Sherman’s […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. During the American Civil War, fifteen members of the McCook family from Ohio fought for the Union, earning them the nickname, “The Fighting McCooks.” Although scholars disagree on the exact number of McCooks who […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. Abolitionists established the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in Zanesville at a meeting held in April 1835. Among the organization’s founders were prominent abolitionists like Asa Mahan, John Rankin, Theodore Dwight Weld, and Charles Finney. Many […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. John Rankin was a Presbyterian minister and a prominent member of the Underground Railroad network that assisted fugitives from slavery in the years before the American Civil War. Rankin was born on Feb. 4, […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. John Parker was an active participant in the Underground Railroad in Ohio and helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom in the years before the American Civil War. John Parker was born on Feb. 2, […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. Before the American Civil War, a large number of fugitives from slavery passed through Ohio. One of the major reasons fugitives from slavery came to Ohio was the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on July 17, 2012. It’s being republished here as part of a collaborative agreement. Perhaps you’ve heard of the story re-energized more than a decade ago about a former slave named Jordan Anderson. Anderson was a on a Tennessee plantation before he was freed […]

Editor’s Note This story was originally published by the Ohio History Connection on Jan. 21, 2015. It is being republished here via a collaborative agreement. Even if you haven’t been to the Orton Geological Museum in Columbus (and shame on you for that!) it might still look familiar to some of you. This specimen was […]