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 the Rest »
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Yearly Archives: 2011
Update: Cleveland Historical to Mobile Historical
Mark Tebeau | July 25, 2011 – 9:57 pm
Sorry for the long update, but over the summer, we’ve had numerous questions about Cleveland Historical, its features, how it developed, and where we’re going with our mobile projects. Earlier in the summer, we outlined some of those ideas in the Urban History Association Newsletter, linked here, but I thought I’d take another stab at where… Read the Rest »
Museum Education Position Available
Mark Souther | June 24, 2011 – 2:05 pm
The International Women’s Air & Space Museum seeks a self-motivated individual who can work well with children of varying ages. The Education Assistant monitors the Joan L. Hrubec Aviation Education Center on Saturdays, 10am-4pm, and assists the Education Manager with Saturday classes. In down time the Education Assistant may be asked to do other museum… Read the Rest »
Cleveland Historical takes home two awards in busy Spring 2011
Erin Bell | June 21, 2011 – 10:55 am
The Cleveland Historical mobile app is off to a great start, earning two awards in the last few months, adding support for Android devices, releasing a significant update in version 2.0, adding dozens of new sites/topics, and gaining around 5,000 users since launching the first version in November.
CCC Gala Event feat. Nancy Proctor on “Museums & Learning in the Mobile Age”
Erin Bell | May 23, 2011 – 3:09 pm
This Thursday, May 26th, at 4pm, Cleveland State University and the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County are pleased to present the culminating gala event for our 3-year Teaching American History project, Constructing, Consuming and Conserving America
On Danny Greene and “Kill the Irishman”
jdubelko | March 30, 2011 – 1:12 pm
The life and times of reputed Cleveland mobster Daniel J. (“Danny”) Greene have been recovered by Hollywood in the film “Kill the Irishman,” which was released the week before St. Patrick’s Day. The film shows the mob violence which played out in Cleveland in the 1960s and 1970s as different ethnic mobster groups vied for… Read the Rest »
© 2011 Dr. Mark Tebeau, Department of History, Cleveland State University.
