August 22 (Wednesday, 7:15 p.m.) Oberlin and the Quest for Emancipation. This talk by the Oberlin Heritage Center's AmeriCorps/Ohio Civil War 150 member Richard Donegan will explore how Oberlin's ardent abolitionists insisted from the very beginning of the Civil War that emancipation was the ultimate aim. Location: Kendal at Oberlin's Heiser Auditorium.