How did the Buckeyes get to be scarlet and gray? What are the origins of Script Ohio? What is the story behind Ohio State’s “land-grant” founding? A new online history course, that is free and open to the public, answers those questions and more as it takes users through Ohio State’s rich 150-year history. You may never learn how to properly pronounce “sesquicentennial,” the word for 150th anniversary, which Ohio State University is celebrating this school year. But you can learn about the years of history that led to it — thanks to a new, free online course from Ohio State. The online Buckeye Biography course is non-credit bearing and is open to the public, with rolling registration throughout the 2019-’20 school year. The course includes nine topic areas or modules. For each, Ohio State history professor David Staley and university archivist Tamar Chute tried to consider assumptions made about the university that might…
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