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A short overview of the history of Oberlin High School by Bob Oliphant, an alumni from the class of 1960.

A photo of an 1855 class from the Preparatory Department of Oberlin College. The college offered pre-college education in the Preparatory Department in the 19th and early 20th centuries. One of the students in the class (upper right) was Anthony…

Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is a scholar who has done work in the fields of education, anthropology, museum studies, and Black, feminist studies. She graduated from Oberlin in 1957 with a degree in sociology and from Northwestern University in 1967…

Born into slavery in 1837, Fanny Jackson Coppin would graduate from Oberlin College in 1865, the third black woman to do so, and would serve as an African American Advocate and Educator. This serves as an analysis of both the poetry Coppin wrote…

Ruth Anna Fisher graduated from Oberlin College in 1906 with a degree in English and Latin at the age of 19. She had a career as a historian working for the Carnegie Institution and, eventually, the National Archives. This student curated exhibit…

In the spring of 2019, students in Oberlin College History 214 inaugurated an ongoing research project focused on the life and milieu of Betty Glenn Thomas. Elizabeth (Betty) Glenn Thomas was born at 195 North Professor Street on July 2, 1913, and…

Learn about the history of public education in Oberlin, visit locations of where former schools were located, hear oral history recollections from students of the twentieth century, and explore how the school system and buildings evolved into the…