{"id":2848,"date":"2026-03-04T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:53:51","slug":"vogel-lecture-march-31-7pm-benes-room-hwcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/vogel-lecture-march-31-7pm-benes-room-hwcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Vogel Lecture, March 31, 7pm, Benes Room, HWCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History would like to invite you to this year&#8217;s Joseph &amp; Edith Vogel Lecture on Tuesday, March 31st, 2026, at 7 pm in the Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave, Delaware, Ohio 43015.\u00a0 This lecture is free and open to the public. Ric S. Sheffield, J.D., author and professor emeritus of Legal Studies and Sociology at Kenyon College, will present \u201cWhistling Dixie: Ohio\u2019s History of Resistance to the Black Vote\u201d at 7 p.m., March 31, at Ohio Wesleyan University. He will speak in the Benes Rooms of OWU\u2019s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware.\u00a0\u00a0Ohio Wesleyan\u2019s annual Joseph and Edith Vogel Lecture is sponsored by the OWU Department of History. The Vogel Lecture is made possible by an endowment from their son, Ezra F. Vogel, Ph.D., who is now deceased. Ezra Vogel was a 1950 Ohio Wesleyan graduate, retired professor of East Asian Studies at Harvard University, and author of the critically acclaimed book, \u201cDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China.\u201d Learn more about the lecture series and the OWU Department of History at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.owu.edu\/history&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1772731946714000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1wt184ZtxZQjHiC4gITmiB\">www.owu.edu\/history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office:<\/strong> Sponsored by History Department, supported by the Joseph &amp; Edith Vogel Lecture Endowed Fund<br \/>\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0Deb Lovell at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:history@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of History would like to invite you to this year&#8217;s Joseph &amp; Edith Vogel Lecture on Tuesday, March 31st, 2026, at 7 pm in the Benes Room, Hamilton Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave, Delaware, Ohio 43015.\u00a0 This lecture is free and open to the public. Ric S. Sheffield, J.D., author and professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[515,687,530],"class_list":["post-2848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-life-academics","tag-history","tag-ohio-history","tag-vogel-lecture"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2849,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2848\/revisions\/2849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/newsforowufamilies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}