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Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Antioch College to examine history of Ohio Republican Party
Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft will be one of the featured panelists April 3 at an Antioch College event to examine the history of the Republican Party in Ohio.
“The History of the Republican Party in Ohio: From Yellow Springs to Taft” is the fourth in a series of symposiums hosted by Antioch College’s Morgan Fellows that focus on issues in higher education and society.
Many Ohioans might be surprised to discover that Yellow Springs played an important role in the birth of the Republican Party in the state. Historical accounts relate that the party was largely created at a meeting in 1854 at Whitehall Farm in Yellow Springs, hosted by Aaron Harlan. Harlan later served briefly on the Antioch College board of trustees with Horace Mann, the college’s first president.
The symposium promises to generate a “lively conversation about the birth and original ideology of the party in Ohio, as well as its subsequent history and further transformations that formed the party as we know it today,” according to college officials.
The event will focus on the Republican Party from its early years in the mid-19th century, and during the contentious post-Civil War era, as a party of business, the middle class and newly enfranchised African-Americans.
Taft currently is distinguished research associate at the University of Dayton. The panelists also include Nikki Taylor, associate professor of history at the University of Cincinnati; John M. Elliott, professor of political science at Kenyon College; and Scott Warren, Arthur E. Morgan Fellow and former associate professor of philosophy and politics at Antioch College.
The event will take place from 2-4 p.m. in the Herndon Gallery in South Hall at Antioch College, One Morgan Place, Yellow Springs. It is free and open to the public.
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