A map of the campus
This map, prepared for the Commission on Campus Unrest, shows "the Commons" area on the Kent State Campus, the movement of the National Guardsmen, and the locations...
A mayor's urgent request
On May 2, 1970, the mayor of Kent, Ohio, LeRoy M. Satrom, asked the commander of the Ohio National Guard to provide troops to restore order in the wake of large...
Cutting up
This photograph of a hospital operating room in Van Wert, Ohio was taken in 1924. It is part of a series of photographs taken by an agricultural agency to show life...
Peace Petition
A year after the Mexican War began, debate over the war continued; these citizens of Trumbull County, Ohio, wrote to Congress and asked them to end the war.
Signatures and pictographs
Representatives of the Ottawa, Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Wyandot tribes signed this treaty with the United States on November 17, 1807, ceding millions of acres in...
Toward securing women’s right to vote
This 1884 petition signed by 139 residents of Jefferson Township, Richland County, Ohio, requests that Ohio Congressman G.W. Geddes endorse—and influence fellow...
“I, Donald Mackenzie . . .”
The Commission on Campus Unrest traveled to Ohio and took testimony from those who witnessed the shooting, including this statement by Donald Mackenzie, one of the...