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Cleveland Oral History

The Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection consists of approximately 500 interviews collected since 2002. Students, faculty, public school teachers and researchers from throughout Northeast Ohio have contributed to the collection, which covers a breadth of topics in Cleveland and regional history.

Notable series in the collection include interviews on the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, the City Club of Cleveland, Midtown Cleveland, University Circle Incorporated, Cleveland Artists Foundation, and Cleveland members of the American Institute of Architects. Additional interviews cover a wide variety of topics in Cleveland history, including neighborhood and institutional history, and political, social, educational and environmental history.

Interviews have been used for a variety of educational purposes, including Teaching American History workshops, and have been excerpted extensively as primary source material for interactive public history kiosks along the Euclid Avenue Healthline rapid transit corridor. The majority of the collection emerged from the Euclid Corridor History Project, a collaborative effort of students and faculty at the Cleveland State University Department of History, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Cleveland Public Art, and Ideastream WCPN/WVIZ.

We are currently in the process of documenting and publishing the entire collection online using current library standards. Our current progress may be viewed at The Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection at the CSU Digital Resource Commons.

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