Essays on Cleveland and East Cleveland history, oral history, and the everyday practice of public history, from Mays HisToracle Consulting.
The East Cleveland Oral History Project offers 25 free interviews on East Cleveland history, from Shaw High School to faith, migration and ownership.
Read the essay : The East Cleveland Oral History Project: 25 Interviews on Resilience and PrideA guide to researching Cleveland history: which archives, libraries, newspapers and oral history collections to use, and how to get access to each one.
The East Cleveland Public Library is a Carnegie library on Euclid Avenue, opened in 1916 with a $35,000 grant and expanded in 2005 for its community.
The best Black History Month ideas start in the fall, follow the ASALH theme, honor Carter G. Woodson’s legacy and put local history at the center.
The Hough uprising, often called the Hough riots, was a week of unrest in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood that began July 18, 1966, and left four people dead.
Hire a heritage consultant when a project needs historical evidence researched and interpreted to professional standards; here is what to ask first.
Nela Park is the lighting research campus in East Cleveland, begun in 1911 and long home to GE Lighting, known for Georgian buildings and holiday lights.
Nonprofit storytelling grounded in organizational history gives donors, boards and communities evidence to trust; here is how to research and tell it well.
Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967, and his brother Louis served 30 years in Congress as Ohio’s first African American representative.
To find the history of my house in Cuyahoga County, start with the county’s online deed search, then use Sanborn maps, city directories and census records.
Millionaires’ Row was the stretch of Euclid Avenue in Cleveland lined with the mansions of the city’s wealthiest families in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
A church history book needs a year of lead time, a history committee, the church’s own records, elders’ oral histories and photo permissions; here is how.
Karamu House began in 1915 as a Cleveland settlement house founded by Russell and Rowena Jelliffe and grew into a nationally known home for Black theater.
A community oral history project needs a clear focus, trained interviewers, signed release forms and an archive chosen early; here is how to plan one.
The Great Migration brought Black Southerners to Cleveland from the 1910s to the 1970s, and its Black population grew from 8,448 in 1910 to 287,841 in 1970.
The best questions to ask grandparents are open-ended ones about home, work, family and faith; here is how to record family stories so they last for good.
East Cleveland, Ohio, became a village in 1895 and a city in 1911; this short history traces its growth, its change after 1950 and what residents built.
Public history is history put to work in the world; here is what public history is, what a public historian does, and where public historians work.
Garrett Morgan was a Cleveland inventor who patented a smoke breathing device in 1914 and an improved three-position traffic signal in 1923.
Oral history is the planned, recorded and archived interview of people about their own past; here is what oral history is, with real oral history examples.
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