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Oberlin College is one of 62 organizations nationwide selected to receive a 2022-2023 NEA Big Read grant. A grant of $9,400 will support a community reading program focusing on Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.

Oberlin exhibition honoring bassist Milt Hinton visits historically black institutions across the U.S.

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.

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.

A love of the sciences, paired with a stint at the Oberlin College Library, led Dyani Sabin to a career in science journalism.

The main library in Mudd Center will be named in honor of 1884 graduate Mary Church Terrell, an educator, feminist, civil rights activist, and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and the NAACP.

Associate Professor of Anthropology Amy Margaris ’96 along with other faculty and staff members on campus are working to digitize the college’s many “dangling collections”—objects and specimens spread across various campus buildings that at one time had a home in the college’s natural history museum.

Oberlin Director of Libraries Alexia Hudson-Ward likes to humblebrag about her namesake and endowed title, Azariah Smith Root, because anyone in the world of librarianship knows about his legendary career.

Students experience the time-honored craft of letterpress printing in this intensive, hands-on winter term project.

She's held court in Oberlin’s libraries since 1885, and she wears a size 6 shoe.