[ June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010. ] In commemoration of the approaching 150th anniversary of the Civil War, James A. Garfield NHS will host this special traveling exhibit from the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History showing various depictions of Abraham Lincoln from political cartoons of the day. WARNING: some of these cartoons use racial terms that some may find offensive. However, [...]

[ January 23, 2010; 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Liz Schultz, Museum Education and Tour Coordinator of the Oberlin Heritage Center, will present the illustrated program Freedom’s Friends: The Underground Railroad and Abolitionists in Oberlin.   Kendal resident Paul Arnold, an Oberlin Heritage Center Honorary Trustee, and Oberlin College Emeritus Professor of Art, will also comment on Oberlin’s Martin Luther King, Jr. monument which he [...]

[ October 16, 2009 to February 14, 2010. ] The Akron Art Museum is presenting selections from Jacob Lawrence’s celebrated screen prints in “The Legend of John Brown” until February 14, 2010.

Location: Akron Art Museum, One South High, Akron, OH 44308

This fall marks the 150th anniversaries of John Brown’s anti-slavery raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and his December 2, 1859 execution. To commemorate this [...]

The Compromise of 1850 was one of several attempts by both the North and the South to settle differences over slavery’s expansion.
As a result of the Mexican War, the United States acquired most of the present-day American Southwest. The acquisition of this land immediately increased tensions between the North and the South, as the two [...]

The Philanthropist was an anti-slavery newspaper first published in Mount Pleasant, Ohio, in September 1817. Its first editor was Charles Osborn. He was a member of the Society of Friends who were often called “Quakers.” Osborn called for an immediate end to slavery. He hoped his paper would educate white Northerners about slavery’s injustice.
The paper [...]