The Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at the Cleveland State University Department of History specializes in the design, execution, and management of oral history, public history, and humanities projects with a web, mobile, or physical component. We have worked with nonprofit organizations, K-12 and post-secondary educational institutions, government agencies, libraries, and museums around the world.


Curatescape

Curatescape

Curatescape is an affordable and user-friendly web and mobile app framework for publishing location-based content using the Omeka content management system, allowing small to mid-sized cultural organizations, preservation groups, and educational institutions to reclaim their interpretive voice and reconnect to their communities and audiences.

placepress

PlacePress

PlacePress is a WordPress plugin designed for public historians, urbanists, and other humanities researchers to document locations such as historic sites and to curate walking tours of neighborhoods, districts, parks, and more.

Cleveland Historical

Cleveland Historical

Curating the city with mobile technology, Cleveland Historical explores the people, places, and moments that have shaped Cleveland’s history through map-based, multimedia presentations and curated historical tours of Northeast Ohio. Cleveland Historical is available for free download on iOS and Google Play.

Cleveland Voices

Cleveland Voices

The Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection consists of audio interviews collected since 2002. Students, educators, and researchers from throughout Northeast Ohio have contributed to the collection, which covers a breadth of topics in Cleveland and regional history, through interviews with activists, entrepreneurs, artists, and more.

Green Book Cleveland

Green Book Cleveland combines Victor H. Green’s famous travel guides, published between 1936 and 1966, with new research that expands our understanding of Black entertainment, leisure, and recreation in Northeast Ohio.

Visual Cleveland

Visual Cleveland

Visual Cleveland is a data visualization project that seeks to curate and document the quantitative history of Greater Cleveland, Ohio. Resources include census data and city directory data for select years.