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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Geo-locating Athens, Ohio
By Adelle “Del” Stratton, History ’25 with a minor in Computer Science and certificate in Italian Studies, Digital Initiatives Assistant The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, a collection of maps published by the Sanborn Map Company, were made in response to fires during the 19th and 20th centuries. These maps of over 12,000 towns and cities within…
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Summarizing Alan Booth’s Swaziland collection
By June Meehan ’27, History, spring 2025 University Archives intern My name is June Meehan, and I am a second year History major with an interest in archival work and the accessibility of archives. My historical focus includes modern imperial and colonial history. Ohio University Archivist Bill Kimok tasked me with examining and summarizing a…
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Decades of Defiance: LGBTQ+ Activism and Community at Ohio University
By Allie Stevens, Journalism ‘26, Lizzi Montanti, Journalism ‘26, Anna Parasson, Journalism ‘26, Natalie Davet, Journalism ‘26, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La…
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Speaking Out: The Shifting Landscape of Protest and Free Expression at OU
By Darcie Zudell, Journalism: News and Information ‘26, Shyla Algeri, Journalism and Strategic Communications ‘26, Ally Parker, Visual Communications ‘26 and Gigi Twachtman Media Arts Production ‘27, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center…
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Alphabets @ Alden, Spring 2025
By Sarah McDowell, Typography Instructor & Art Director at Ohio University Alphabets@Alden is a poster series of personal alphabets created by ART 2520 typography students and instructed by Tabitha Asiedu-Gyamfi and Sarah McDowell over the course of 9 weeks during the spring 2025 semester. Inspired in part by a hands-on engagement session with historic and…
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Rewriting the Narrative: Vernon Alden, The Post, and the Lack of Black Perspective at OU during the Civil Rights Movement
By Jadyn Carpenter, Communications Studies ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and…