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Mobile Historical
We are excited to announce that Spokane Historical, Baltimore Historical, and New Orleans Historical will be up and running as beta proof of concepts in the next six weeks. Mobile Historical is a mobile app platform for iOS & Android, designed to “curate the city” through the use of geo-located historical texts, archival film and… Read the Rest »
When Does Content Cross the Line?
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 »
Update: Cleveland Historical to Mobile Historical
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
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
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. National Council on Public History: Outstanding Public… Read the Rest »
CCC Gala Event feat. Nancy Proctor on “Museums & Learning in the Mobile Age”
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. The featured speaker will be Nancy Proctor, Ph.D., Director of Mobile at the Smithsonian Institution, and founder of… Read the Rest »
On Danny Greene and “Kill the Irishman”
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 »
Cleveland Historical App Now Available for Download
We are pleased to announce the official release of the Cleveland Historical mobile app, which is now available for download in the iTunes App Store. While we are extremely excited about this project, we are not content to rest on our laurels. In the coming weeks, we will be refining the content, adding new sites… Read the Rest »
Lecture: The Burning River, Carl Stokes, and the First Earth Day
Prof. David Stradling of the University of Cincinnati will be delivering a public lecture entitled “The Burning River, Carl Stokes, and the First Earth Day” on October 20th, 2010 at the Western Reserve Historical Society. The reception begins at 5:30 PM in the Rotunda, followed by the lecture and Q&A session from 6 PM until… Read the Rest »
Come See the Cleveland History iPhone App at Ingenuity Fest!
This weekend at Ingenuity Fest in Cleveland, we will be unveiling our latest project, Cleveland Historical, a mobile application debuting for iPhone this Fall. Below we’ve included some teaser images to whet your appetite, but be sure to drop by our booth at Ingenuity for some hands-on mobile history. These screenshots are from the beta… Read the Rest »
Horizon Report: Museums & Mobile
The Horizon Report on Museums, from the New Media Consortium, identifies a number of emerging and present technologies that promise to reshape, and are reshaping the landscape of museums. This is important reading at a Center for PUBLIC History and DIGITAL Humanities. It is provocative and insightful, and also gratifying that our work is following… Read the Rest »
The Re-Imagining Cleveland Project
Beginning this past Spring, the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities has been working on a collaborative project with Neighborhood Progress, Inc. entitled Re-Imagining A More Sustainable Cleveland. Aside from building a participatory website for project communication and documentation, the Center, through the hard work of undergraduate students in the CSU History Department, has… Read the Rest »
Mark Tebeau interviewed at US Embassy in Prague
Dr. Mark Tebeau, Co-Director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, was interviewed by the U.S. Embassy in Prague during his research trip across Europe this summer. Watch the video below.
Video: More from the Sounds of American History Gala
After three years of successful instruction and collaboration, the Sounds of American History program is coming to an end. Even though programming continues this summer, the official closing of Sounds was marked with a Gala Event at Cleveland State University on May 6th, 2010. Our partners at the Educational Service Center of Cuyahoga County have… Read the Rest »
Summer 2010 TAH Workshops
This week marks the beginning of our Summer Institutes for two ongoing TAH grants. Constructing, Consuming, and Conserving America, managed by Dr. Mark Tebeau and Nadine Grimm runs from Monday, June 14th 2010 until Wednesday, June 23rd 2010, with final presentations on July 29th and August 5th. Sounds of American History, managed by Dr. Mark… Read the Rest »
198 String Band to Perform at Sounds Gala, May 6th at CSU
On May 6th, we will be closing out the Sounds of American History TAH project with an exciting gala event. In addition to presentations by master teachers and roundups by the project staff, we are pleased to be joined by The 198 String Band, who will be performing a multimedia show entitled, …Whose Names Are… Read the Rest »
Omeka, Collecting, & Crowdsourcing
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… Read the Rest »
Collaboration with Ohio Historical Society leads to Ohio Civil War 150
Anticipating renewed public interest in the U.S. Civil War as it approaches its sesquicentennial, the Center for Public History and Digital Humanities partnered with the Ohio Historical Society to create an online resource that would explore Ohio’s role in that war. The result of this collaborative effort is Ohio Civil War 150 (www.ohiocivilwar150.org). Overview With… Read the Rest »
Announcing Cleveland History Blogs
Blogging has emerged in recent years as an important venue for academic writing, and blogs have sprung up around the country as an alternative space for online course management and other educational and academic purposes. Unlike many institutionally-maintained repositories and Learning Management Systems, blogs offer a higher level of flexibility and autonomy, allow for a… Read the Rest »
Holden Caufield traverses New York
I have been thinking about maps, landscapes, and storytelling on the web. Mostly, as I noted at THATCamp Columbus maps don’t seem to be moving our storytelling forward. I love maps, and even think they might become the basis for Web 3.0, but how do they help us understand the past, how do they do… Read the Rest »
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