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This student curatedfocuses on Susan Rowena Bird, an 1890 graduate of Oberlin who became a part of a group of missionaries in Shanxi known as the Oberlin Band. Bird was killed in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. The project includes letters Bird wrote to…

This student project explores the ideas of female missionaries and includes correspondence by Luella Minor, an 1884 graduate of Oberlin who went on to serve as a missionary in China, and her Chinese student Lan Hua Liu Yui, who came to study at…

Lucy Stanton Day, a free-born African American woman, graduated from the Oberlin College Ladies’ Department in 1850, giving the commencement address “A Plea to the Oppressed.” This student project focuses on her struggle to convince the American…

The Memorial Arch, erected in Oberlin's Tappan Square in 1903, is the only monument to the United States that relates to the history of the Boxer Rebellion, an anti-imperialist uprising in China. In 1900, thirteen American missionaries and five of…

A picture of Oberlin's Memorial Arch from September 27, 2004. The arch, erected in memory of American missionaries killed in the 1899 Boxer Rebellion in China, was built in Oberlin because most of those killed were Oberlin alumni or their families.…