What's that from?
"Americans have been reenacting the Revolution since before the war was over."
What is Into the Breeches by Caity Weaver?
An interdisciplinary field that explores histories, communities, and cultural practices in the United States.
What is Comparative American Studies at Oberlin?
Around 1790, Benjamin Banneker helped survey the land that became this city.
What is Washington, DC?
1833
What year was Oberlin College (then called Oberlin Collegiate Institute) founded?
"The ignore the fact that one of the oldest Republics in the world was erected on a foundation of white supremacy, to pretend that the problems of a dual society are the same as the problems of unregulated capitalism, is to cover the sin of national plunder with the sin of national lying."
What is "The Case for Reparations" by Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Author/editor of three books, most recently Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence.
Who is Professor KJ Cerankowski?
The first Republican president
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
For more than 100 years, this Oberlin institution has conserved, celebrated, and shared more than 15,000 works spanning over six millennia—and it is free for everyone to visit.
What is the Allen Memorial Art Museum?
"History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots."
What is Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot?
CAST 100
What is the best CAS intro class taught in spring 2026?
1773 marked the publication of this writer's book of poetry, the first in the US by an African American.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
A sunny day gathering spot on campus, for a time the site of intense protests, in memory of Oberlin affiliates killed during the Boxer Rebellion.
What is the Memorial Arch?
"Americanness is perhaps not so much the product of a collision of European as it is a particular working out of a desire to preserve stability and truth while enjoying absolute, anarchic freedom."
What is Playing Indian by Phil Deloria?
2003
What year was Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College founded?
To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974, from January to October.
What is Daylight Savings Time?
More than 240
What is the number of Steinway pianos in the Oberlin Conservatory?
"American studies as a field of inquiry is grounded in a long and honorable history of examining and evaluating the specificities of historical times and places, especially the complex and contradictory history of democracy's bright promises and its bitter betrayals."
What is "American Studies as Accompaniment" by George Lipsitz and Barbara Tomlinson?
Windows
What does Professor Aoyama's office lack?
This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and British armies during the Revolutionary War.
Who is Benedict Arnold?
A key event in the history of abolition in the US, this daring effort helped John Price reach freedom in Canada.