by Adam Schmidt | Oct 15, 2026 | History Highlights
An article of mine in the July 1971 The Journal of Negro History titled “Oberlin College and the Negro Student, 1865-1940” concluded during the tenure of President Ernest Hatch Wilkins who served the college from 1927 to 1946. Professor Wilkins, a native of...
by Adam Schmidt | Oct 15, 2026 | History Highlights
Location: Westwood Cemetery, Section E, Lot 124 Built: 1893 Description of the Monument Located in Section E, Lot 124 of Westwood Cemetery stands a marble statue depicting a woman leaning on a cross atop a six-foot granite base. This statue, the only...
by Adam Schmidt | Oct 13, 2026 | History Highlights
President Ernest Hatch Wilkins was a president tasked with guiding a college through one of the darkest periods of human history. This contemplative and intensely passionate man was at the helm of Oberlin College from the start of the Great Depression to the end of...
by Adam Schmidt | Oct 8, 2026 | History Highlights
Location: Martin Luther King Junior Park, adjacent to the bridge connecting the park with City Hall Artist: Athena Tacha (1936- ) Installed: 1976 “Created as a tangible link to the invisible cosmos, Tacha’s public art provides intuitive access to the larger physical...
by Adam Schmidt | Oct 6, 2026 | History Highlights
Oberlin has produced two well-known inventors, both of whom invented items still commonly in use today: Elisha Gray and Charles Martin Hall. Elisha Gray attended Oberlin College for two years, but did not officially graduate, although he did receive an honorary degree...
by Naiya Patel-Kapka | Apr 16, 2026 | History Highlights, Women's Rights
Oberlin Women in Medicine During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discrimination against women attempting to pursue most career paths was an unfortunate reality, and the medical field was no exception. Despite these barriers, women of the Oberlin and Cleveland...
