History

A new program at Great Council State Park will give visitors a sweet opportunity to learn about Shawnee peoples’ history and culture. The maple tapping events run through April, 2025.

Eighty years ago, during World War II, the United States operated full-scale military operations worldwide while planning how to wage peace once the guns fell silent.

Follow the HBCU Radio Preservation Project as we rediscover the magic of Black college radio. Through archival recordings, oral histories, and visits to historic campuses, we explore how HBCU radio stations serve as vital communication hubs, launching pads for Black voices, and catalysts for social change. Tune in as we bring these vital histories to life and explore their relevance to today's media landscape.

WYSO explored the history and restoration of a historic Marmon Harrington trolley bus, which found its way back to Dayton and was restored to its former glory.

The professors analyzed 115 archived newspaper articles mentioning Little Turtle to write their piece. Both scholars are enrolled citizens of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma.

Are we taking freedom for granted?

The Indian Removal Act resulted in the relocation of thousands of people. It was chaotic and deadly for tribal nations. Still, those nations maintain their communities today.

The Great Circle Alliance is an arts organization founded in 2021. Most recently, artist residencies have become its primary focus.

Indigenous communities across the world founded the practice of prescribed fires in their respective homelands. And in the Dayton region, the Myaamia tribe was one of those groups.

In our upcoming series, we will provide a perspective on the history of the region we now call Ohio that very few of us learned in school. We'll put the experiences of Miami, Shawnee, Wyandotte, and other American Indian people at the center of a refreshed version of the state’s complicated past and undecided future.

The Ohio Country is a 12-episode podcast from the public media station WYSO about American Indian people reconnecting with their homelands in the Ohio River Valley.

When Ralph Harrell died in 1979, he left behind a funny legacy. Harrell spent most of the 20th century clowning around with the Ringling Brothers and Shrine Circuses. Now, the Miamisburg History Center is celebrating the clown they call “The Original Bozo.”