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A collection of photographs of Oberlinians who served in the military during the first World War

This student project explores letters by Evelina Belden Paulson, a 1909 Oberlin College graduate who pursued a career in social work. These letters were written while Paulson was working for the Red Cross in Poland, providing humanitarian relief in…

This tour includes an introduction to Oberlin’s historic cemetery, local reactions to the nation’s involvement in various wars and conflicts dating back to the Civil War, and stories of Oberlinians who served in the military and war relief efforts.

Erected in 1943 in the midst of World War II, the Oberlin War Memorial incorporated the marble tablets removed from an early war memorial that had been dismantled in 1934 in response to strong pacifist sentiment. Tablets on the monument's brick wall…