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FEATURED COLUMBUS HISTORY PROJECTS
Black History Month Columbus
Learn about the first African-American in Franklinton, the Underground Railroad in Columbus, a former slave to an American President who became the first custodian at Ohio State, the Great Migration, racial segregation in the Jim Crow North, Hanford Village, the desegregation of Columbus schools, and more! Click here to read. |
Bicentennial Columbus History & Architecture Activity Book
Developed by the Neighborhood Design Center, this book highlights local landmarks throughout the city. Classroom sets of the book are available free of free of charge to every third grade teacher in Columbus City Schools. Click here for a classroom discussion guide and answer key. |
Making Connections: Columbus and the American Experience
This project highlights the local Columbus connections to broader national themes and patterns in American history, from colonization to present. The project is organized according to the historical topics outlined by Ohio's New Learning Standards in Social Studies for Grades 4, 8, and High School American History. Click here to read. |
WOSU Columbus Neighborhoods in the Classroom
The WOSU Columbus Neighborhoods Series includes documentaries on the history of seven Columbus neighborhoods. This project features instructional resources culled from the documentaries, including short video segments and supporting lesson plans—annotated and ready for easy retrieval. Click here for the resources. |
Green Lawn: American History in a Cemetery
As one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Ohio, Green Lawn serves as the resting place for well known and influential individuals who made significant contributions to Columbus, the state of Ohio and the United States. Click here for biographies and teaching tools for using Green Lawn as a lens for the study of American History. |
Columbus in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Drawn primarily from the archives of the Columbus Dispatch and the Columbus Citizen, the news articles and political cartoons in this collection highlight the concerns of Gilded Age Columbus and the Progressive efforts to remake the social and political order of the city. Click here to view the collection. |
Columbus: A Closer Look at Our City!
Michael Wilkos of the Columbus Foundation provides an in-depth look at the demographics of Columbus based on the most recent data from the 2010 census. This presentation was delivered in October 2011 to an audience of Columbus teachers involved in the Serving Columbus project. Click here to view the video presentation. |
A History of Columbus Schools: 1812-1912
Education in the Columbus area began in 1806 when Lucas Sullivant built a school north of West Broad at Washington (later Sandusky) Street. By 1912, there were over fifty public schools in the city. Doreen Uhas Sauer, lead historian at Teaching Columbus, traces the first century of public education in Columbus. Click here to read the article. |
FEATURED HISTORIC SITES ARCHIVE COLLECTIONS
Historic Maps
Godman Guild Settlement House
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Underground Railroad
Hanford Village
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Civil War Era Columbus
Lustron Homes
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