Making Progress 1890 - 1929
Making Progress: Living and Working in Ohio's Miami Valley, 1890-1929 is a three year digital exhibit project exploring the region in the Progressive Era.
See our newsreel, visit “The Good Life” gallery and then share your own reflections, stories of the Miami Valley and images through “Your Stories,” our online forum. Come back for new stories and for the new virtual galleries, slated for addition between the fall of 2004 and the winter of 2006:
- “Getting Around” tours the Miami Valley at the turn of the last century
- “Where I Live” visits an activity filled gallery for children and families
- “Grand Plans” will introduce the philanthropists, inventors, reformers and ordinary people who transformed the Miami Valley and the nation
- “Miami Valley Scrapbook” is a gallery designed from contributions to our online forum, oral histories and workshops on local history
Wright State University history students and faculty are developing the project in collaboration with the Montgomery County Historical Society, Wright State University Special Collections and Archives, Central State University Archives, National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, and the Wright State University Center for Teaching and Learning.
This project is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wright State University and the Montgomery County Historical Society.