In October 1892, a young law graduate, John Heisman, assumed the unpaid position as coach of Oberlin College's football squad. This bespectacled, stoop-shouldered young man led ...

Six years before the onset of the Civil War, two courageous figures - one a free white man and one an enslaved black woman - risked personal liberty to ensure each other's ...

Discusss the rescue of a kidnapped slave in 1858 by the residents of Oberlin, Ohio, and the repercussions.

Brandt's gripping narrative brings to light a penetrating and sincere study of the "Oberlin Band" of Protestant missionaries and captures the essence of their daily life ...

An intimate portrait of the Civil War through letters, written by Union soldiers, to Mr. Charles Tubbs.