The Clio Society

The Clio Society

Welcome to the Clio Society!

We are friends of the History Department at The Ohio State University. Some of us are current and former students of the university; some of us earned degrees in history; others are current and former faculty members of the department; some of us have an interest in the History Department and its continued growth in excellence; and all of us love to read and talk about history. We range in ages from 18 to 88 and from history specialists to business people, lawyers, and other professionals who never lost their interest in history.

If you liked history before, then you are going to love it now.

Upcoming Events:
 

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"Early Encounters with Penguins"

featuring Ellen Arnold
Environmental Historian & Senior Lecturer
Department of History at The Ohio State University

 

Monday, March 24

Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Live Streamed via Zoom  

Registration


 
Who doesn’t love penguins? Join Ellen Arnold to learn about the many different roles that penguins took on as Europeans first began to encounter them in the mid-1500s, from quirky oddity to salvation for the starving. Over the course of the following centuries, Europeans had many different interactions with penguins, and these shaped how they understood what the birds were. Sailors and scientists alike brought back accounts of the strange birds, which were only slowly understood to be unique to the South.

Nicholas Breyfogle, Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, The Ohio State University will moderate the session. 
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"Ohio Rivers: Stories of Empire and Industry"

 

featuring David Stradling
Zane L. Miller Professor of History
University of Cincinnati

 

Thursday, March 27

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Registration

Location: Arthur C. Johnson Auditorium
Ohio History Connection
800 E. 17th Ave, Columbus, OH

 

A reception will begin at 6:00 p.m., followed by the presentation from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.

Famous for fields and factories, Ohio is also a land of rivers. Using a series of historical maps and images, this talk will describe how Ohio rivers inspired imperial imaginations and built industrial wealth. The story bends through the twentieth century, as intense exploitation of waterways threatened the renewability of the state’s river resources, and then it bends again as popular outrage forced policy changes that have revived visions of a future nourished by healthy rivers.    

David Stradling is the Zane L. Miller Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. He has authored several books, including The Nature of New York: An Environmental History of the Empire State (2010), Making Mountains: New York City and the Catskills (2007), Smokestacks and Progressives: Environmentalists, Engineers and Air Quality in America, 1881-1951 (1999), and, with Richard Stradling, Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland (2015). He is currently traveling the world to research the global history of dredging.

 

 

 

 
 

Clio

In Greek mythology, Clio (Greek: Κλειώ, English: /ˈklaɪ.oʊ/) or Kleio, was the muse of history. Her name is related to the Greek word for "fame" or "renown" (kleos), since she oversaw the recording of the illustrious deeds of the past. Like all the muses, she was a goddess, a daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne. According to different traditions, she was mother to Hyacintha, Hymenaeus, and Ialemus.