Local History Topics: Communication in History History of the Abolition Movement History of Transportation

• – • Completion of the Miami and Erie Abolitionist and author of Uncle Canal (1845) Tom’s Cabin • Completion of the St. Lawrence • Joshua R. Giddings – Abolitionist, Seaway one of the founders and member • Construction of the National Road of the Republican Party. Violated in (1825-1838) Gag rule on discussing Slavery History of • Lane Seminary Debates • The Nasby Letters- Satirical letters • Paul Christian Lauterbur – Chemist written by Ohio newspaper editor whose research led to the creation David Ross Lock that garnered of the MRI support for Abolition and the • Thomas Alva Edison – Inventor of Union. the phonograph, motion picture • Ohio in the camera, and the first long-lasting o John P. Parker light bulb o John Rankin • The SETI Program o • Granville Woods- African American Civil Rights History inventor who had many patents including a combination of the • Harry C. Smith – Journalist & telegraph and telephone. Legislator who championed Civil Rights in Ohio Labor History • United Movement • Baldemar Velasquez – American labor union activist and co-founder Cultural History of Farm Labor Organizing • Natalie Clifford Barney – American Committee, AFL-CIO. playwright, poet and novelist • Strike at General Motors • The Great Lakes Exposition – Formation of the United Auto • Alan Freed-Radio DJ who helped Workers promote and popularize Rock and • Youngstown “Little Steel” Strike – Roll Led to the formation of the United • James Thurber- Writer, cartoonists, Steels Workers Union and humorists. Constitutional and Legal History • Paul Laurence Dunbar– African American Poet and activist • Ohio Un-American Activities • Birdtown- Lakewood Committee neighborhood historically occupied Military History by Eastern European Immigrants. • The Toledo War

Local History Topics: Communication in History

• Censorship of German language Journalism publications during WWI. • William O. Walker- Publisher and • Civil War correspondence. editor of the Cleveland Call and History of Space & Aviation Post, one of the most influential African American Newspapers • John Glen- First American to orbit the Earth Education • Niels Armstrong- First person to • William Holmes McGuffey- Writer walk on the moon of the McGuffey Reader, the mostly • Judith Arlene Resnik – Second widely used textbook in the 19th American women in space and century NASA astronaut • Ohio School for the Blind- First Sports History school for the blind in the U.S. • Ohio School for the Deaf. • Jesse Owens – 1936 Berlin Olympics

Women’s History

• – Prominent educator, activist & suffragist • – Famed women’s advocate • – Abolitionist & Suffragist • – First women to be nominated for president in 1872 and member of the suffrage movement • Ohio Women’s Convention at Salem

Prohibition

• Prohibition Publishing Houses • Women’s Crusades Politics

• Front Porch Campaigns of James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, and Warren G. Harding.