The Oral History Digital Collection at Youngstown State University was named a finalist for a 2002 Award of Achievement by\u00a0Northern Ohio Live!<\/em>\u00a0magazine in the IT\/Internet Resource category. The Oral History Program at YSU began in 1974 by Professor Hugh G. Earnhart. In its 28 year existence, the program has collected over 2000 interviews with northeastern Ohioans on topics ranging from education to the steel industry to politics. In 2001, the staff of YSU’s Maag Library digitized the transcripts and placed them on-line, making them available on the internet.<\/p>\n Anyone wishing to examine these materials can access the collection at\u00a0http:\/\/www.maag.ysu.edu\/oralhistory\/oral_hist.html<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ohio and the World Lecture Series To commemorate the Ohio Bicentennial, The Ohio State University will sponsor an Ohio Bicentennial Distinguished Lecture Series entitled\u00a0\u00a0“Ohio and the World” featuring distinguished scholars and thinkers, both from around the nation and from within Ohio, who will present their lectures in the spring of 2003.\u00a0The series begins with Ohio before statehood, followed by seven lectures that highlight the major themes that substantially define the State’s history at different dates: Ohio and the world circa 1753, circa 1803, circa 1853, circa 1903, circa 1953, circa 2003, and circa 2053.\u00a0It concludes with a “retrospective” lecture looking at Ohio’s future in the light of its past, with a special focus upon education generally and higher education in particular. The lectures will be made available to Ohio and the world by simulcast on the web; all but the first and last lecture will be presented twice, once in Columbus and once in an appropriate venue elsewhere in Ohio.<\/p>\n Inaugural Lecture: R. W. Apple, Associate Editor, The New York Times Circa 1753: R. David Edmunds, Watson Professor of American History University of Texas – Dallas Circa 1803: James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History, The George Washington University Circa 1853: Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Circa 1903: Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, SUNY Binghamton Circa 1953: James T. Patterson, Ford Foundation Professor of History Brown University Circa 2003: Herbert B. Asher, Professor of Political Science Emeritus The Ohio State University Circa 2053: William E. Kirwan, Chancellor, University System of Maryland For more information, please visit the following websites: W.E.B. Du Bois Traveling Exhibit Award-Winning Historical Collection Now Available Online The Oral History Digital Collection at Youngstown State University was named a finalist for a 2002 Award of Achievement by\u00a0Northern Ohio Live!\u00a0magazine in the IT\/Internet Resource category. The Oral History Program at YSU began in 1974 by Professor Hugh G. Earnhart. In its 28 year existence, the program has … Continue reading Current History: Spring 2003<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39854],"tags":[43962,43966,42130],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1-issue-2-spring-2003","tag-1-2","tag-current-history","tag-ohio-bicentennial"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1590,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/1590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/nojh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Upcoming Events<\/h4>\n
\nMarch 20-June 12, 2003, Ohio State University<\/b><\/p>\n
\nTitle: Views and Themes from Ohio’s Past
\nVenue: The Atrium, The Statehouse
\nDate: March 20, 2003, 3:30 PM<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Native Ohioans and European Conflict: Society and Culture Before European Settlement
\nVenue: Sullivant Hall Theater, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: April 2, 2003, 7:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: April 3, Newark, OSU-Newark<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Statehood and After: Settlement, Culture, and Social Change
\nVenue: Schoenbaum Hall Auditorium, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: April 9, 2003, 7:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: April 10, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Museum Center\/University of\u00a0Cincinnati<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Prologue to War: Slavery, Social Conflict, and the Civil War
\nVenue:\u00a0\u00a0Sullivant Hall, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: April 14, 2003, 3:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: April 13, Toledo University<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Ohio, The Heartland of Progressive Reform
\nVenue: Sullivant Hall Theater, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: May 7, 2003, 7:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: May 8, Dayton, Sinclair Community College<\/p>\n
\nTitle: Beyond Main Street: The Passing of Agrarian Society, War, and Civil Rights
\nVenue: Sullivant Hall Theater, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: May 14, 2003, 7:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: May 15, Cleveland, Case Western Reserve\/Western Reserve Historical Society<\/p>\n
\nTitle: A Changing Society: The New World Economy, Energy, Globalization, and the Environment
\nVenue: Sullivant Hall Theater, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: May 21, 2003, 7:30 PM
\nSecond Venue: May 22, Athens, Ohio University<\/p>\n
\nTitle: A Retrospective on Ohio’s Quality of Life: A Consideration of “Roads Taken and Roads not Taken” for the 21st<\/sup>\u00a0Century
\nVenue: Sullivant Hall Theater, The Ohio State University, Columbus
\nDate: June 12, 2003, 3:30 PM<\/p>\n
\nThe Ohio Bicentennial Commission<\/a>
\nThe Ohio Humanities Council<\/a><\/p>\n
\nApril 28-May 11, 2003, African American Museum, Cleveland<\/b>
\nThe African American Museum, Cleveland is featuring a W.E.B. Du Bois Traveling Exhibit, which has been provided by the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.\u00a0 The Exhibit is part of Cleveland State University’s “The Soul of W.E.B. Du Bois: Celebrating the Genius of An American Scholar” that runs from February to May 2003.\u00a0 The exhibit is free with museum admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"