History
The Prophet and the Future President
Associate Professor James Seelye, Ph.D., shares how the eclipse of 1806 had an important impact in the history of the newly established state of Ohio.
Honors Student Announced as Fulbright Alternate
Moira Armstrong (they/them), an Honors College senior from Warren, Ohio, has been selected as an Alternate for the 2022 Fulbright Scholarship Award. As an alternate, candidates such as Moira may be elevated to finalist status for an award should extra funding become available. Moira’s alternate stat…The 1980s: An Age of Excess
A look back at the fashionable excesses of the 1980s
Flapper Style: 1920s Fashion
A look beyond the quintessential beaded dress to explore the range of influences on fashion of the Jazz Age.
TEXTURES: the history and art of Black hair
TEXTURES synthesizes research in history, fashion, art, and visual culture to reassess the “hair story” of peoples of African descent. Long a fraught topic for African Americans and others in the diaspora, Black hair is here addressed by artists, barbers, and activists in both its historical perceptions and its ramifications for self and society today. The exhibition is organized by the KSU Museum with KSU faculty and co-curators, Dr. Joseph L. Underwood (Art History) and Dr. Tameka N. Ellington.
"Listening to Liberty" Exhibition
This is a brief video 'fly-through' of the "Listening To Liberty" exhibition that was installed in the DI HUB at Kent State University in November of 2020. The exhibition showcased the range of technology innovations that Kent State provided to create deep audience engagement as part of the "Sisters In Liberty" exhibition that was installed in the National Immigration Museum on Ellis Island, NY in 2019/2020. The original exhibition was proposed and conducted in partnership with the Cathedral Santa Croce in Florence, Italy.