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LOCAL HISTORY PROJECTS

  • Making Connections: Columbus and the American Experience - Highlights the local Columbus connections to broader national themes and patterns in American history
  • Historic Sites Archive - Learn more about landmarks, historic homes, buildings, maps, and markers throughout the city of Columbus and surrounding central Ohio communities
  • WOSU Columbus Neighborhoods in Classroom - Features instructional resources culled from the documentaries, including short video segments and supporting lesson plans
  • Columbus: A Closer Look at Our City! - A video presentation providing an in-depth look at the demographics of Columbus based on the most recent data from the 2010 census
  • A History of Columbus Schools: 1812-1912 - An article outlining the first century of public education in Columbus, Ohio
  • Shaping the Promised Land: The Great Migration Comes to Columbus, Ohio - An article on the causes of the Great Migration nationally, and its local impact on the city of Columbus


PRIMARY SOURCE COLLECTIONS

  • 1908 Columbus Plan - The 1908 Columbus Plan is a strong example of City Beautiful era urban plans that were created throughout the country. 
  • Gilded Age and Progressive Era News and Cartoons - This collection highlight the concerns of Gilded Age Columbus and the Progressive efforts to remake the social and political order of the city.


CITY QUESTS: EXPLORING HISTORY THROUGH LOCAL SITES

  • Green Lawn: American History in a Cemetery - Biographies and teaching tools for using Green Lawn Cemetery as a lens for the study of American History
  • American History in the Short North and Discovery District - Primary sources, maps and historic markers present the American history through two Columbus neighborhoods
  • Westerville Reform Movements through Historic Markers: An Amazing Race - Explore the abolitionist movement and temperance movement through local sites in Westerville, Ohio


COLUMBUS HISTORY ON THE WWW  (EXTERNAL SITES)

  • As It Were - Written by Columbus historian Ed Lentz, "As It Were" is a local history column in This Week newspapers  
  • Dispatch 200 Columbus - Articles from the 200 Columbus special edition and Columbus Milestones column from 2012
  • Ohio History Central - An article on the history of Columbus from Ohio History Central, an online encyclopedia maintained by the Ohio Historical Society


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