Cleveland History Blogs

A previous post on this site talked about the fully searchable Cleveland-area newspaper archives that have recently been digitized and made available for free to the public. Chronicling America, from the Library […]

A recent trend in the study of American history has been to place the nation’s history within a broader global context.  American history, it has been said, does not stop at America’s borders, and topics such as […]

The Center for Public History + Digital Humanities (creator of this site) at Cleveland State University has created a number of digital history projects focusing on northeast Ohio.  Cleveland Historical, a mobile […]

Summit Memory, created by the Akron-Summit County Public Library, contains tens of thousands of images and historical documents pertaining to the history of Summit County, Ohio.  Browse through the dozens of <a […]

The Ohio Historical Society (OHS) has created a number of web sites that are excellent resources for learning about the history of Ohio.  First, there is the online encyclopedia Ohio History Central, an exhaustive […]

Once upon a time, the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History (ECH) only existed in print form.  That changed in 1998, when the ECH was first published on the internet.  Recently updated with a new look, the online […]

Since the mid-1990s, the Library of Congress has spent millions of dollars digitizing their collections. Today, over five million items — including images, videos, songs, maps, letters, newspapers, pamphlets, and […]

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University created Teaching History to “help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.” The […]

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a non-profit organization dedicated to “supporting the study and love of American history.”  The institute’s website contains a wealth of resources for American […]

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has funded many of the sites featured on this blog.  Not surprisingly, their own site is itself a great resource for primary documents, lesson plans, and links to […]

Historical Thinking Matters, a website created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the Department of Education at Stanford University, “is designed to teach […]

Docs Teach, a website created by the National Archives, is a great resource for using primary documents in the classroom.  Not only does the site offer thousands of documents, sorted by historical era, from the […]

No more need to mess around with the microfilm machine — historic newspapers are now just a few clicks away.  Via the Cleveland Public Library’s Research Databases page, one can access fully searchable […]

The Cleveland Memory Project, created by the Special Collections Department at Cleveland State University’s Michael Schwartz Library, contains tens of thousands of images relating to the history of Northeast Ohio. […]

American RadioWorks is the place to find radio documentaries produced by American Public Media, the company responsible for many of the programs appearing on public radio.  Search the archive to find links to all […]

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center is an excellent resource for information on every American President.  Not only does the site provide extensive biographies and image galleries for each President, but it […]

Densho is a website dedicated to telling the story of the Japanese Americans interned throughout the US during World War II.  Their archive contains over 500 videotaped interviews with the people who lived […]

While compiling content for Cleveland Historical’s   app site on the Tower Press building, an old textile factory near the campus of Cleveland State University, a CPHDH staff member selected to include an image that raised a number of questions.  The photograph, taken in 1935 in an unknown location during a textile strike, shows a topless female…[Read more]