Center for Great Lakes Culture
Ohio

Collections

Alliance of Ohio Community Arts Agencies - An association for arts councils, centers, and commissions with the goal to build better communities through the arts. Includes a directory of arts resources in Ohio.
Ohio Arts Council
Ohio Historical Society
African-American Experience in Ohio: 1850-1920 - This sample of digitized primary materials illuminates specific moments in Ohio's history and provides an overview of the experiences of African Americans in Ohio. This project was made possible by the generous support of the Library of Congress and Ameritech. It will be completed in early 1999.
Minorities Genealogy in Logan County, Ohio
African American Museum
Ohio Historic Preservation Office
Ohio Humanities Council
OhioLINK Central Catalog
Research Databases via OhioLINK Central
National Register of Historic Places,Ohio Listings
State Library of Ohio
Statewide Arts Service Organizations of Ohio - A consortium of service organizations in a variety of disciplines. Site includes contact information, web site and email links (where available). Organizations include Alliance of Ohio Community Arts Agencies, Ohio Alliance for Arts Education, Ohio Arts Presenters Network, Ohio Citizens for the Arts, Ohio Community Theatre Association, OhioDance, Ohio Designer Craftsmen, Ohio Museums Association, Ohio Theatre Alliance, Very Special Arts Ohio and Vocal Arts Resource Network.
Ohio History of Flight Museum - Links to a virtual tour of flight Museum.
Ohio History is Alive
Archives/Library is, by law, the archives for the State of Ohio. As such, we collect, preserve, and make available to the public, documents pertaining to the operation of state and local governments.
Military Rosters - Search the full text of the Roster of Ohio Soldiers in the War of 1812 from the Adjutant General records. Ohio furnished 1759 officers and 24,521 enlisted men.
Newspaper Index - Search by title, city, or county, to find microfilmed Ohio newspaper titles(not the content) held by the Archives/Library, the largest collection of Ohio's newspapers in existence. Microfilmed newspapers are available for use at the A/L Reading Room or through interlibrary loan. Some are available for purchase by the roll.
Discover Ohio
The Evolution of Ohio

Scholarly Work

Ohio Historical Society State Archives
Online Collection Catalog (OCC) - The Ohio Historical Society's Online Collection Catalog allows you to search the records of more than 230,000 items in the Society's library, newspaper, manuscript, audiovisual, state archives, history, natural history, and archaeology collections.
Political Memorabilia - Sponsored by the Ohio Historical Society, this site features collections of various types of political memorabilia from presidential campaigns including pins, medalets, post cards and sheet music, among other artifacts.
Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame - Established in 1978 in the Women's Division at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, The Ohio Women's Hall of Fame provides public recognition of the contributions Ohio women have made to the growth and progress of our state, our nation and our world.
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections in the Center for Archival Collections: Bibliography - [Bowling Green State University Library] mphasis on Ohio history
State of Ohio Archives - The Ohio Historical Society
Travel Photographs from the Collections of the Ohio Historical Society - The Ohio Historical Society's online photograph collections span the history of photography, from the early 1840s through the present day, as it relates to Ohio and Ohioans. The diversity of the collections is extensive. As would be expected, the photographs illustrate the state and its history, but they also go beyond the borders of the state.
Fundamental Documents - Search the full text of the early Ohio Constitutions, the Ordinance of the Northwest Territory, Executive Journal of the Northwest Territory, War of 1812 in the Northwest documents, biographical sketches of Ohio governors (1803-1971), Early Ohio Political Leaders finding aid.
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park - Between about 200 BC and AD 500, many Native American communities all across eastern North America--each with their own distinctive ways of life--shared in a common set of beliefs and practices that has come to be known as "Hopewell Culture".
National Register of Historic Places, Listings in Ohio - Search by architectural style, city, or county for the Ohio.
Ohio Dry Campaign of 1918 - Includes collection of broadsides in the state's newspapers regarding prohibition. Many of them contain patriotic references to the mobilization for the First World War. Although nationally political sentiment had clearly developed in support of a prohibition amendment to the federal constitution before the United States declared war in 1917, the Ohio Dry Federation propagandists were looking for every advantage to win over a majority of the state's voters.
Anti-Saloon League 1893-1933 - Includes a wide array of resources related to prohibition in Ohio and nationally including information on History, Leaders, Printed Material, Related Organizations, Classroom Activities and a digital archive of the AntiSaloon league Museum.
Buckeye Chronicles - Presented by The Lakewood Historical Society, the Buckeye Chronicles explore the regional cultural landscape with vignettes of Ohio history--its people and places.
Center for Archival Collections
Civil War Documents - Search Adjutant General documents, including abstracts of almost 4000 letters from Series 147, Correspondence to the Governor and Adjutant General, 1861-1866; Index to [Ohio] Prisoners at Andersonville and Salisbury Prisons, 1864-1865; and also from the Civil War Guide Project, Guide to Primary Resource Collections at OHS.
Ohio Biography - Online resource for information on accomplishments of Ohians.
Edison Birthplace Museum - Site includes virtual tour of Thomas Edison’s home and historical information regarding the inventor’s life and inventions.
Ohio Presidents - This site offers a challenging game about Ohio’s presidents, biographies, reading lists, and links to other presidential Internet sites.

Public Programs

Beck Center for the Arts - a non-profit, comprehensive cultural and performing arts center. Patrons can enjoy spectacular musicals, hilarious comedies, and challenging, cutting-edge dramas in Beck Center's two theaters, a 488-seat Main Stage Theater and an 83-seat intimate Studio Theater. Younger thespians can enroll in Children's and Teen Theater, study acting, and perform a complete play on stage in front of their peers and families.
Bad Epitaph Theater Company
The Ohio Bicentennial - 1803-2003

Education