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A police car in the rear view: Crown Vics now grace Ohio museums
By: Bill Rinehart | WVXU
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CINCINNATI (WVXU) — At the Greater Cincinnati Police Museum, one of the newest exhibits is a white 2010 Ford Crown Victoria with the word police, in reflective blue and in… Read More
“This happened in our country and we can’t erase it.” A southeast Ohio museum displays soil from lynching sites
By: Kaitlin Thorne | The Ohio Newsroom
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This story contains graphic details of racial violence, including lynching. BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — On a small shelf in an old brick building in Belmont County sit… Read More
The Music of the Carter Family
The Ross County Historical Society invites the public to an evening of music and history on Saturday, July 25 from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. at the Ross County Heritage Center,… Read More
Evening at the Museum
What happens when history comes alive after dark? Families are invited to find out at the Ross County Historical Society’s Evening at the Museum on Thursday, July 23, from 5:00… Read More
Endangered audio is coming home to a historically Black Ohio college’s radio station
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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WILBERFORCE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Last year, a group of archivists took CDs and reel-to-reel tapes out of a dusty closet at Central State University’s radio station in Wilberforce…. Read More
Over 50 years later, a Toledo jazz legend’s lost record is finally being heard
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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FREMONT, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — An unassuming cardboard box, water stained and fraying, sat untouched in a shuttered recording studio for decades. Inside, a stack of records shone beneath… Read More
An Ohio apple grove with rare varieties could soon be uprooted
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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NEWARK, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — More than twenty years ago, an Ohio researcher brought wild apple tree seeds from Central Asia to Central Ohio. Dr. Diane Miller, a fruit… Read More
A monument to women’s work in securing the right to vote is rising at the Ohio Statehouse
By: Karen Kasler | Statehouse News Bureau
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In a few months, Ohio will be home to one of a few public monuments dedicated to the work women did to secure the right… Read More
Pieces of LGBTQ Ohio history were at risk of disappearing. A digitization effort is rescuing them
By: Allie Vugrincic | WOSU
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Statehouse News Bureau) — In a conference room at The Ohio History Connection in Columbus, OHC interpretation and content specialist Wendy Korwin pulls up a clip from a… Read More
Wolfe Plains Mounds Tour
The Wolfe Plains Group is a Late Adena culture group of 30 earthworks including 22 conical mounds and nine circular enclosures, originally known as Wolfe’s Plains, located a few miles… Read More
The first-in-the-nation history of Ohio’s HBCU radio station
By: Olivia K. Green | Will Tchakirides | WYSO
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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio (WYSO) — The HBCU Radio Preservation Project preserves and honors the legacy of Black college radio. The WYSO effort safeguards at-risk historical media and gathering oral histories… Read More
‘The Copperhead Conspiracy’ explores a forgotten Civil War story set in the Midwest
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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The role Ohio played in the Civil War can seem, at first glance, to be simple: the state was part of the Union fighting to abolish slavery. But the situation… Read More
Could artificial intelligence save endangered archives? A Kenyon College cohort aims to find out
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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GAMBIER, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The New Orleans Jazz Museum archives trace the history of the genre all the way back to the first jazz song ever recorded for… Read More
Ohio lands America’s most prestigious coin collection
By: Yaffa Segal | Midstory
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This story was originally published in Midstory, a regional news nonprofit based in Toledo. In 1858, the American Numismatic Society was founded by a 16-year-old coin enthusiast in his family… Read More
How an Ice Age relic was rediscovered in rural Ohio
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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WINAMEG, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — In 1978, residents in the small community of Winameg in rural northwest Ohio discovered several bones of a mammal dating back to the Ice… Read More
Seeing, hearing and touching the past: a new historical marker is an Ohio first
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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TOLEDO, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — As a totally blind person, Dawn Christensen has spent a lifetime navigating spaces that aren’t easily accessible for the visually impaired. For example, a… Read More
Soon no Pearl Harbor survivors will be alive. People turn to other ways to learn about the bombing
By: Audrey McAvoey | AP
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HONOLULU (AP) — Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront. But… Read More
How the Tuskegee Airmen came to be stationed in Ohio
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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CINCINNATI (The Ohio Newsroom) — The Tuskegee Airmen started as an experiment. Before World War II, the U.S. military didn’t permit Black people to pilot planes. “So the NAACP and… Read More
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a free-fall parachute? The lifesaving device has Ohio roots
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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DAYTON, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — At the Aviation Trail Parachute Museum in Dayton, a timeline wraps around the room, detailing the invention of the life-saving contraption. It begins centuries… Read More
An airship fell on Noble County, Ohio. A century later, residents still tell its story
By: Kendall Crawford | The Ohio Newsroom
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AVA, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — Theresa Rayner has lived in Noble County her whole life. She said not much happens in the rural unincorporated community of Ava. But, one… Read More
Local Historian to Present on Early Mapping of Ohio’s Archeological Features at November MCC Meeting
The next meeting of the The Mound City Chapter of the Archaeological Society of Ohio will take place on Tuesday, November 11, 2025, from 6:30PM to 8:15PM at the Ross… Read More
Two years after designation, this UNESCO site sheds its golf course trappings
By: Allie Vugrincic | WOSU
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NEWARK, Ohio (WOSU) — Two years ago, eight earthworks became Ohio’s first UNESCO World Heritage site. At the time, one of those locations, the Octagon Earthworks in Newark, was still… Read More
After 50 years, an Ohio organization still celebrates Appalachian culture in urban areas
By: Myra Morehart | WYSO
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CINCINNATI (WYSO) — After World War II, thousands of people moved north to cities like Cincinnati and Dayton from Appalachia, seeking work and new opportunities. Advocates in Cincinnati formed the… Read More
These Ohio county engineers are retracing history along the Greenville Treaty Line
By: Erin Gottsacker | The Ohio Newsroom
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LOUDONVILLE, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The grassy field beside a two-lane highway near Loudonville in north central Ohio is nothing special. In the distance, an American flag fluttered outside… Read More
A development at The Ridges promises hundreds of new housing units
By: Charlie Ihlenfeld
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – With historic buildings unused and eroded by the elements, The Ridges have been stuck in limbo for Athens and Ohio University. But not for much longer…. Read More
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