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Archives

California State Archives - Sacramento, California

Maryland State Archives - Annapolis, Maryland

Michigan History Center - Lansing, Michigan

National Archives - Washington, D.C.

Ohio Archives - Columbus, Ohio

Ohio University Archives & Special Collections  - Athens, Ohio

University of Arizona Special Collections - Tucson, Arizona

West Virginia State Archives  and History- Charleston, West Virginia

Libraries 

Birchard Public Library - Fremont, Ohio

Copley Library - University of San Diego - San Diego, California

Cleveland Public Library - Cleveland, Ohio

Detroit Public Library - Detroit, Michigan

Elk Valley Branch Library - Elkview, West Virginia

Enoch Pratt Free Library - Baltimore, Maryland

Library of Congress  - Washington, D.C.

Logan-Hocking County District Library - Logan, Ohio

Monroeville Public Library - Monroeville, Pennsylvania

Ohio University Libraries - Athens, Ohio

Rossford Public Library  - Rossford, Ohio

Syracuse University Libraries - Syracuse, New York

Toledo Public Library - Toledo, Ohio

Williams County Public Library - Bryan, Ohio

Wood County District Public Library - Bowling Green, Ohio

Museums

Alabama Contemporary Art Center - Mobile, Alabama

Chicago History Museum - Chicago, Illinois

Cincinnati Museum of Art - Cincinnati, Ohio

Maumee Valley Historical Society and Walcott Heritage Center- Maumee, Ohio

National Museum of the Great Lakes - Toledo, Ohio

Toledo's Attic - Toledo, Ohio

Toledo Museum of Art - Toledo, Ohio

Wood County Museum - Bowling Green, Ohio

Interesting Reads

• To Understand America (and Americans) - Verbatim: The Language Quarterly - May 1977 - p. 5

• DHS Icon Mouser hanging it up - Defiance Crescent News - December 17, 2024

  • Thankful for Obie Mouser - December 19, 2024

• Can't afford a smartphone?  That's going to cost you. - Washington Post - December 5, 2024

• Sign Me Up for Cursive Classes - Defiance Crescent News - December 5, 2024

• Camp memories stick with us forever - Baltimore Sun - August 11, 2024

• Wisdom, advice for sending kids off - Baltimore Sun - July 21, 2024

• A few topics to avoid in social conversation - Chicago Tribune - August 11, 2021

• Save democracy, remember lessons of civics class - Baltimore Sun - June 12, 2024

• Here's how religions have viewed eclipses - Baltimore Sun - April 7, 2024

• Are you a supercommunicator? - Baltimore Sun - March 10, 2024

• Enlighten your life by letting go of pet peeves - Baltimore Sun - March 10, 2024

• Easy ways to keep your baseboards clean - Baltimore Sun - March 10, 2024

• Ronstadt's just deserts - Baltimore Sun - March 10, 2024

• Two Hundred Years of Native Relations - National Archives Newsletter

• Retro Baltimore: When Yankee manager Billy Martin brawled at the Cross Keys Inn

• 6 techniques to try to overcome procrastination - Baltimore Sun - February 25, 2024

• Make your gut instinct your superpower - Baltimore Sun - February 25, 2024

• Tied up for a few meaningful minutes on a downtown Baltimore Street - February 25, 2024

• A layperson's guide to generative AI - Baltimore Sun - January 17, 2024

• Northwest Ohio Athletes Playing Pro Basketball All Across the Globe - Northwest Ohio Sports Weekly - December 24, 2023

• Always on the move - Baltimore Sun - December 18, 2023

• Where only gulls crowd you - Baltimore Sun - October 8, 20023

• Everything you need to know about the playoffs - Baltimore Sun, October 3, 2023

• Brooks Robinson is Baltimore - Baltimore Sun, October 3, 2o23

• Memory lane - Here are the top postseason moments, from the '66 World Series to the '14 playoff run - September 22, 2023

• Club Medicare - Baltimore Sun -  August 13, 2023

• Athletes Share Ways to Boost Mental Resilience - Baltimore Sun - August 13, 2023

• Extreme Declutter Challenge - Feb. 2023

• A Good Crab night is messy, all about the people you're with - Baltimore Sun - June 3, 2023

• Where Did The Potato Chip Come From? - How Stuff Works Podcast

• Billy Hahn Obituary - Baltimore Sun - April 10, 2o23

• The Cleveland Morning Leader - July 7, 1864

• The Battle of Cherbourg - When Union and Confederate Warships Clashed off the Coast of France - Sept. 22, 2022

• C.S.S. Alabama: An Illustrated History by Jack L. Dickinson - Marshall Digital Scholar; Fall 10-11-2017

• The Leadership of John A. Winslow and Raphael Semmes: A Comparative Case Study - June 15, 2018

• Lakota Lullaby - Les Itinerantes

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Recent  Book Reads

1. Generation Z: What It's Like to Grow Up in the Age of Likes, LOLs, and Longing - August 2024

2. Justice in Indian Country  - July 2024

3. The Original Watergate Stories - June 2024

4. The Hidden White House: Harry Truman and the Reconstruction of America's Most Famous Residence - May 2024

5. The Shortstop - September 2023

6. The Clock Strikes 13 - September 2023

7. The Lineup: Ten Books That Changed Baseball - August 2023

8. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - July 2023

9. The Impact of Identity: The Power of Knowing Who You Are - June 2023

10. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 - (June 2023)

11. The Defence and Fall of Greece: 1940-41 - (May 2023)

12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder - (April 2023)

13. Abandoned Ohio:  Ghost Towns, Cemetaries, Schools, and More - (April 2023)

14. Solito: A Memoir - (March 2023)

15. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - (March 2023)

16. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - (February 2023)

17. Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects - (January 2023)

18. Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones - (January 2023)

19. Unsung: The Ray Ewry Story - (December 2022)

20. Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes: Tragedies and Legacies from the Inland Seas - (November 2022)

21. The Sandman: His Farm Stories - (October 2022)

22. Meditations - Marcus Aurelius - (October 2022)

23. Sherman: A Soldier's Passion For Order - (September 2022)

24. Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life - (September 2022)

25. Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life - (August 2022)

26. A Game Plan for Life: The Power of Mentoring - (July 2022)

27. Albert Speer - His Battle with Truth  - (June 2022)

28. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - (June 2022)

29. Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay - (July 2021)

30. The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit - (July 2021)

31. History of Mexico - (July 2021)

32. Grant - (June 2021)

33. The Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town - (June 2021)

34. The Hopsital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town - (June 2021)

35. The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived - (April 2021)

36. How to Listen with Intention: The True Foundation of Connection, Communication, and Relationships - (December 2020)

37. Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days that Changed the World  - (June 2020)

38. The Warmth of Other Suns - (May 2020)

39. Three Years in the Klondike - (April 2020)

40. Imperfect Union: How Jesse and John Fremont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War - (March 2020)

41. It's Not About You: A Brief Guide to a Meaningful Life - (February 2020)

42. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West - (July 2019)

43. American Canopy: Trees, Forests and the Making of a Nation - (June 2019)

44. Orphan Trains - (July 2018)

45. Winter King: Henry VII and the Dawn of Tudor England - (June 2018)

46. Signing Their Rights Away: Fame and Fortune of the Men Who Signed the United States Constitution - (Dec. 2017)

47. Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom - (Dec. 2017)

48. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest - (June 2017)

49. Lincoln's Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days That Changed A Presidency - (Oct. 2016)

50. D-Day Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6, 1944 - (June 2016)

51. 1491: New Revelations of America Before Columbus - (April 2016)

52. The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley - (January 2016)

53. Germany - (November 2015)

54. How Schools Are Handling An 'Overparenting' Crisis - (August 2015)

55. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - (June 2015)

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The Sandman, his farm stories (book)

The Sandman, his farm stories (audio)

Aesop's Fables - The bat and the weasels (audio)

Sports

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