ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: These documents show the Ohio Highway Patrol's activities in determining the chain of events that took place May 1-4, 1970, when four Kent State University students were killed after the Ohio National Guard fired on a crowd of protestors. The Highway Patrol's activities included interrogating Ohio National Guardsmen and other witnesses....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: In most states Immigrants wishing to become United States citizens had to sign a declaration of intent, stating their desire to become a citizen and renouncing allegiance to the government of their homeland. This content resource provides four examples of these declarations....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: These content resources will build on any lesson about the naturalization process to gain national and state citizenship. Provided are five samples of naturalization records....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource, provided by the Ohio Memory collection, shows two posters that reflect activities provided for the workers in the Republic Steel Corporation's Warren Plant during the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike. These posters advertise activities sponsored by the labor unions for the steel strikers to participate in....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource identifies three telegrams that document correspondence sent to workers inside the Republic Steel Corporation's Warren Plant during the 1937 "Little Steel" Strike. These three telegrams were from husband to their wives, encouraging them to stop striking and to return home....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This kit was designed and manufactured by the D.E.S. Corporation of Newark, Ohio....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource recognizes a double-sided sheet advertising a multi-user oxygen unit recommended for use in family fallout shelters. The ad copy states that "Their primary value would be for the inhalation of oxygen during the firestorm that inevitably rages following the blast." This advertising material indicates the numerous business opportunities created by American concerns over...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This 1969 photograph shows soldier Jim Lundgard displaying the Ohio flag that he requested from Governor James Rhodes while serving in the United States Army during the Vietnam War. The digitalized primary document clearly identifies the physical geography of Vietnam....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resources is an eight-page pamphlet titled, "Will Ohio Make Good For Democracy?," and proclaims that "Ohio's Colored Citizens, her Negro Soldiers who fought for Democracy Abroad, are now asking for Democracy and a Square Deal at Home." It encourages readers to support Ohio House Bill No. 139....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: In this resource two photographs of the interior of the Ohio statehouse after the 1957 renovations are provided. These visuals document the staircase to the House of Representatives' chamber and a hallway where legislators' offices are located....