This resource looks at the Darktown series—a group of racist lithographic prints produced by the nineteenth-century firm Currier & Ives. Utilizing primary source materials from the Library of Congress, the study discusses these images in relation to the Gilded Age, specifically, how they…
“In war, the body is a richly communicative means for making out winners and losers” (Achter, 48). War creates “bodies that are unruly and at odds with common sense notions of proper, whole bodies, conceived psychologically, physically, and otherwise” (Achter, 49). During World War II, concentration…
This digital exhibit examines bodily rhetoric and the complexity of femininity during World War II. In the United States, those in power used femininity as a recruitment tool for the United States armed forces while simultaneously using it as a tool for restraint. In Nazi Germany, the SSweaponized…
Officially, American women began an organized fight for the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention convened by abolitionists Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. While the movement experienced ebbs and flows, fractious in-fighting, and splintered competing organizations,…
This exhibit on the "Francophone Mediterranean" will introduce you to several facets of the French-speaking, Western part of the Mediterranean world, connecting France and the Maghreb, in particular, Algeria. The first "wing" of this virtual museum represents Mediterranean and southern French…
It's no secret that Ohio has a rich history of comics and cartoons. The most popular and successful of these creations is certainly Superman, created by high school classmates Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel in Glenville (Cleveland) in 1933 (first comics appearance in 1938). Superman was the first,…
Mary Leslie Newton, born in 1874 and raised in Xenia, Ohio, was a prolific writer throughout her life. This exhibit focuses on one particular genre and period: letters written during her teenage years. As Jane Greer observes inGirls and Literacy in America, scholars in rhetoric and writing have…