by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Dec 17, 2015 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, Women's Rights
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent, researcher and trustee Frances (“Fanny”) Jackson came to Oberlin in 1860 with a dream – a dream “to get an education and to teach my people”, she said. “This idea was deep in...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Sep 24, 2014 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent 150 years ago this week, an important, but often overlooked, battle was fought in the American Civil War. It was the Battle of New Market Heights, fought September 29, 1864, on the outskirts of the Confederate...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Nov 22, 2013 | Abolition, Oberlin and the Civil War, Reconstruction Era
by Ron Gorman, Oberlin Heritage Center volunteer docent It’s no secret that one of the primary goals of Oberlin College in its first decades of existence was to train Americans to become missionaries who would go out into the world and crusade against slavery...
