by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Aug 3, 2022 | History Highlights
By Emily Winnicki, 2022 Summer OHC Intern DISCLAIMER: The Oberlin Heritage Center does not recommend the use of any products not currently approved by the FDA. Figure 1. Advertisement for “Flash” (Oberlin Alumni Magazine, July 1921) History of...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Feb 25, 2016 | Civil Rights in the 20th Century
By Mary Manning, Ph.D., 2015-16 Local History Corps AmeriCorps Member Examining the history of Oberlin’s barber shops means addressing a situation in which overt discrimination was standard practice, far into the twentieth century and throughout the United States. In...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jan 8, 2014 | Abolition
By David Fiske, Co-author of Solomon Northup: The Complete Story of the Author of Twelve Years a Slave, Praeger, 2013. Though Louisiana is the primary setting for the film 12 Years a Slave, there is a connection between Oberlin and one of the characters featured in...
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jul 17, 2013 | History Highlights
by Michelle Myers, Leadership Lorain County Intern Upon leaving my summer internship at the Oberlin Heritage Center and graduating from Swarthmore College in two years, I plan on going to nursing school and becoming a midwife. I have taken an interest in Dr. A.C....
by communications@oberlinheritage.org | Jun 29, 2011 | Oberlin and the Civil War
Henry Whipple Chester was born on December 25, 1840 in Bainbridge, Ohio. His father was a farmer, innkeeper, and a postmaster, and an ardent abolitionist. Henry assumed many of his father’s traits and was himself a multi-tasking abolitionist. He entered the...
