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Oberlin Alum Inspires Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical
July 2, 2024
Eloise Rich '26
Suffs, a Broadway musical about the early 20th-century suffragist movement, is a two-time Tony winner as of June 16—one for Best Book and another for Best Score. The musical has deep...
Halls of Game Fame
September 26, 2023
Communications Staff
For generations of students, the big game at Oberlin meant big campus spirit too.
Cat Batch Fever
June 21, 2023
Hanna Raskin ’98
According to the cookie recipe tacked to a wall of the Cat in the Cream , one tablespoon of molasses can be substituted for one cup of sugar. But when Hillel Hinton-Williams is working at Oberlin...
Memory and Memorial
May 4, 2020
Communications Staff
Oberlin Alumni Magazine revisits the events of the Kent State University antiwar protests in an exclusive online feature story.
History Design Lab Institute Advises How to Launch an Oral History Project
January 15, 2020
Hillary Hempstead
The History Design Lab Institute offers an intensive look at how to launch a collaborative oral history project, along with methods of project design and presentation.
Reflections on 50 Years of Africana Studies and its Program House
November 6, 2019
Hillary Hempstead
In November 1968, the General Faculty of Oberlin College approved the establishment of an Afro-American Studies Program for the following academic year.
App-based Tour Illuminates Oberlin’s History
July 15, 2019
Hillary Hempstead
What began as an aspiration to open a history museum in Oberlin morphed into a series of app-based tours that aim to represent the city’s diverse history—including the first 100 years of Oberlin College.
Edmonia Lewis Google Doodle
February 1, 2017
Communications Staff
The February 1, 2017, Google Doodle features Edmonia Lewis, the first woman of black and Native American decent to become an internationally acclaimed sculptor. Lewis was only 15 when she began her studies at Oberlin.
