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Yearly Archives: 2008


Featured Audio: My Home Town

Today, we bring you our first featured audio clip, from Cleveland artist Michelangelo Lovelace.  Lovelace is a lifelong Clevelander who grew up on the city’s east side.  He attended the Cleveland Institute of Art for a period of time and was mentored by the late artist, Reverend Albert Wagner.  Michelangelo’s art reflects on poverty and [...]

Student Exhibit: County Archives Collection

As they carry out original research throughout the region, students routinely uncover useful and previously hidden historical materials. We have begun to collect some of these materials using the Omeka publishing tool developed by the Center for History and New Media. Our first collection, derived from the Cuyahoga County Archives, deals primarily with transportation and [...]

Shaker Lakes Oral Histories Online

The interviews we conducted for the Shaker Lakes Nature Center are now online at OhioLink’s Digital Resource Commons developer site.  It is the first complete series we have published from the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection, and our first foray into OhioLink’s latest digital repository for higher education institutions.  Although the the layout is not [...]

RRR Photos on Flickr

Much of the Rivers Roads and Rails workshop this summer was held along the historic Ohio & Erie Canalway. If you couldn’t make it, or would just like to reminisce, visit the RRR Flickr page to take in some of the breathtaking scenery.

CCC Team Planning Session

The Team Planning Session for the Constructing, Consuming, & Conserving America workshop is scheduled for Thursday, December 11th at Western Reserve Historical Society.  For more information visit the CCC Blog.

Euclid Corridor is Live!

The Euclid Corridor kiosk is now live! To view it online, visit: http://academic.csuohio.edu/euclidcorridor. The corridor has been divided into seven zones: Lower Euclid, Playhouse Square, CSU/Quadrangle, Midtown, Fairfax, University Circle, and East Cleveland.  In each zone you will find information about historic sites and themes in the form of textual descriptions, archival images, and oral [...]