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Think about this image, painted by Diego Rivera in 1951 , Palacio Nacional in Ciudad de México. What is the story in this image? Who are its central actors? How accurate is the depiction? What might the biases be? How do you feel about this image as a primary source? Is it a primary source? [...]

Really. Today, we are going to create a timeline of American history to 1877. Together, we are going to get acquainted with the text; we are going to create a “master narrative” for our course. What are the key moments? What drives change? How would you organize change? Where does our story begin and end?

History 111, U.S. History Survey, to 1877, is now underway. Part of the Cleveland History Blogs , a wordpress multi-user site developed by the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities devoted to teaching and learning in Cleveland, this is your basic course blog. Professor Mark Tebeau (@urbanhumanist on twitter) is the course instructor and your host. Tebeau blogs as [...]

This Semester we will use the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a case study for History 390. Exploring how to best teach history, through becoming students study the region’s history, interpreting it, and transforming it into analytic history for public and scholarly audiences. As a starting point, please go to the special issue of the History Department’s [...]

Welcome to the Introduction to Social Studies, taught by Professor Mark Tebeau, at Cleveland State University.

Follow the history of Presidential advertising: http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/.

At CPHDH, we use Omeka, and here are two projects that make use of Omeka, both with nice (though largely out of the box) designs that demonstrate how Omeka can be useful in collaboratively identifying and mapping a city (Sao Tome) and collecting (Bracero): Sao Tome Map Project ; Bracero History Archive . Both are engaging projects that depend [...]

As the war wound down, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. From Democracy Now, on the 60th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki . National Public Radio on the changing role of the Atomic Bomb in American life . The Controversy over the Enola Gay . Art by survivors of the blasts . Original Child Bomb and archival footage, contained [...]

April 1: Read Michney on Hough Rebellions and Moore, on Segregation in Cleveland’s schools ; also Chudacoff & Johns (both previously assigned). Follow the links above for the readings in PDF format. April 6: Read Cohen, from Consumers’ Republic and Isenberg on Downtown America (remainder of book) April 8: Discuss Isenberg and work on posters (training session); BIBLIOGRAPHIC [...]

Rosie the Riveter became an American icon. See the Rosie the Riveter exhibition from the National Park Service or the exhibit from the National Archives or materials from the Miller Center on women and African Americans contributions to the war effort. As a way of preparing for class, listen to Rosie the Riveter from the History Guys and explore [...]

Look at the images above and ask yourself what it means to be an American? What are the excesses of Democracy? Can we tolerate those excesses, even in time of war? How can a nation fight against the expansion of facism, against naked aggression, and subject long-time citizens to imprisonment simply because of their ancestry? [...]

Roosevelt delivered his “four freedoms” speech in January 1941 when speaking about the State of the Union . For some context on this matter, see this brief description from the Roosevelt Library .  Not quite a year later, he would request a declaration of war from Congress . Both of these speeches frame the beginnings of the war, as well as [...]

Today we talked about the origins of welfare capitalism and the ongoing debate in the United States about the boundaries of freedom and liberty as well as broader societal rights and responsibilities. Franklin Roosevelt argued that liberty meant security; it meant freedom from fear, as he would articulate again during World War II as an [...]

Listening to Franklin Roosevelt, I am impressed with his perspective at the height of the Great Depression. What are the key images, elements, and ideas of his inaugural address? Read the text and listen to (at least some of) the audio. Use the comments to record your impressions. Also, listen to the music of the 198 String [...]

mtebeau wrote a new blog post: March 11: Research Checklist

Research Checklist to be handed in with your change essay.

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