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Erin Bell

Erin Bell is Project Coordinator and Technology Director at the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University.

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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.

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

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.

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 »