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The Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series presents Dr. Trevellya Ford-Ahmed and stories about Another Quintessential Coal Miner’s Daughter
The Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series presents Dr. Trevellya Ford-Ahmed and stories about Another Quintessential Coal Miner’s Daughter at noon on Thursday, October 16th at noon. Dr. Tee, Professor… Read More
Behind the Scene: OU and Athens, Spring 1970
The Southeast Ohio History Center presents Behind the Scene: OU and Athens, Spring 1970 with Frank Norton on Tuesday, October 7th at noon. Norton, a Vietnam veteran, found himself immersed… Read More
Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series
The Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series presents a program on Education, Abolition, and Baseball: More History from Southeast Ohio by Peter Cultice on Thursday, September 18th at noon at… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – What makes Passion Works work?
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – What makes Passion Works work? The Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Speaker Series presents What makes Passion Works work with Patty Mitchell, Executive Director of… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – The Atlatl: The World’s Ancient Hunting Tool
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – The Atlatl: The World’s Ancient Hunting Tool The Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Speaker Series presents The Atlatl: The World’s Ancient Hunting Tool by Steve… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series: furnaces of Southeast Ohio
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series Starts back up for 2025 The Southeast Ohio History Center is restarting it Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series for 2025 with a presentation of the iron furnaces… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series – Peter Cultice on ‘The Founding of the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society in April 1835’
The Southeast Ohio History Center is hosting its Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series at noon on Thursday, December 12th. Peter Cultice, President of the Muskingum County History since 2018,… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series: Southeast Ohioan Engaging with American and World Leaders: Dr. Richard Vedder at Large
The Southeast Ohio History Center is hosting its Lyceum Luncheon Brown Bag Speaker Series at noon on Thursday, November 21st. Southeast Ohioan Engaging with American and World Leaders: Dr. Richard… Read More
Conversations From Studio B: Actors Moveable Theater presents two nights of mystery and history
By: Robin Barnes
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) – The Southeast Ohio History Center and Museum has teamed up with the local community theater troupe Actors Moveable Theater for two nights of history and mystery… Read More
Silent Film/Organ Concert – Sherlock Jr. / Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Silent Film/Organ Concert The Southeast Ohio History Center is thrilled to welcome renown organist Dennis James on Saturday, November 2nd and 3rd for this double-feature program. The first performance will… Read More
Silent Film/Organ Concert – Sherlock Jr. / Inner Sanctum Mysteries
Silent Film/Organ Concert The Southeast Ohio History Center is thrilled to welcome renown organist Dennis James on Saturday, November 2nd and 3rd for this double-feature program. The first performance will… Read More
Defining American Liberty: New Perspectives on the Fort Gower Resolves
On November 5, 1774, six months before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord, a group of Virginian officers who had served in Lord… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – Settling Ohio in the Early Republic: A Genealogical Geography
The Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Speaker Series presents a program on the settlement history of early Ohio. Dr. Timothy Anderson, a historical geographer with the Ohio University Department of… Read More
Lyceum Luncheon Speaker Series – Total Eclipse of the Sun
The Southeast Ohio History Center Lyceum Speaker Series presents the program Not Since Tecumseh: Darkness at Midday in the Ohio Country – Total Eclipse of the Sun – April 8,… Read More
Regional cartoon artist Sandy Plunkett to speak on the origins of the comic book Thursday
ATHENS, Ohio – The Southeast Ohio History Center is hosting regional artist Sandy Plunkett with a presentation about the history of the comic book on Thursday, November 9 from 4:30… Read More
Bike and Brew Tour
Join us for a rich experience by connecting to Southeast Ohio while cycling through the old railroad beds of Appalachia, enjoying local food & drinks, stories focusing on the cultural… Read More
Lyceum Lunch: Foraging in Ohio
The Southeast Ohio History Center is excited to present Paul Strauss of Equinox Botanicals and United Plant Savers as its Lyceum Luncheon speaker at 12 pm on Thursday, June 15th…. Read More
Athens art exhibit illustrates the horrors of asylum life for women
By: Payton Szymczak
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ATHENS, Ohio (WOUB) — There was a time when a woman could be committed to an insane asylum simply because her husband thought she was lazy. This is one of… Read More
The Southeast Ohio History Center honored Joe Burrow with an exhibition featuring items on loan from the Burrow family
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Southeast Ohio History Museum honors Joe Burrow Through Friday, March 4, Athens’ Southeast Ohio History Center (24 West State Street) showcased the life and professional trajectory of… Read More
A highly anticipated production of film noire pastiche ‘Song of Singapore’ debuts March 3 at the Southeast Ohio History Center
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · ‘Song of Singapore’ Athens production debuts March 3 In the late ‘80s, Paula Lockheart was one of six New York City co-writers and co-composers whose love of… Read More
Theatre organist Dennis James will bring period accurate music to the Nov. 5 screening of ‘Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors’
By: Emily Votaw
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WOUB Digital · Theatre organist Dennis James brings period accurate music to screening of ‘Nosferatu’ If we were to hop backwards in time by about a century, we would find… Read More
Southeast Ohio History Center and WOUB Partner on COVID-19 History Project
ATHENS, OH – WOUB Public Media is partnering with the Southeast Ohio History Center to capture history in the making. It’s called the COVID-19 History project. “Amid the COVID-19/Coronavirus outbreak,… Read More
Walking Tour of the Historic Athens Asylum with George Eberts
Sunday, August 11, 2019 2:00 to 4:00 PM Walking Tours of the Historic Athens Asylum You can buy tickets and give as gifts for any tours during 2019, just call… Read More
History Behind the Mystery Tour- Part of the Winding Road Initiative
HISTORY EMERGES FROM THE SHADOWS CAST BY EERIE SUPERNATURAL STORIES On lists and locations of haunted and supernatural regions, southeastern Ohio seems to frequently rise to the top. From the… Read More
History on Tap
Tuesday, April 9 5:00 to 7:00 PM Jackie O’s Taproom Who says history only belongs in a museum? Join us for History on Tap for lively discussions and a few… Read More