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Cleveland History Self Study: A 5 Week Syllabus of Recommended Essays

Cleveland Stories: An Informal Look at the City’s Past

A 5 Week essay-based syllabus suggested by Dr. Marian Morton, professor emerita at John Carroll University with expertise in Cleveland area history.

Overview: A discussion of some of Cleveland’s most interesting and important people, places, and events
Objective: To link the city’s past with its present policies, politics, and practices

Week 1. Introduction. Read Teaching Cleveland Stories (TCS): John J. Grabowski, “Cleveland: Economics, Images, and Expectations”

Week 2. TCS: Mike Roberts and Margaret Gulley, “The Man Who Saved Cleveland.” Elizabeth Sullivan, “Immigration”  John Vacha, “The Heart of Amasa Stone”; Joe Frolik, “Mark Hanna: The Clevelander Who Made a President”

Supplemental: TeachingCleveland.org:
Connecticut Western Reserve Aggregation
Lorenzo Carter Aggregation
Moses Cleaveland Aggregation
Battle of Lake Erie/War of 1812 Aggregation
The Erie and Ohio Canals Aggregation
Amasa Stone Aggregation
Building the Railroads
Charles F. Brush Aggregation
Flora Stone Mather Aggregation
Henry Flagler Aggregation
Immigration Aggregation
James A. Garfield Aggregation
John D. Rockefeller Aggregation
Manufacturing in Cleveland Aggregation
Mark Hanna Aggregation
Philanthropy in Cleveland Aggregation
Samuel Mather Aggregation
Social Settlement Movement Aggregation
Steel Industry in Cleveland Aggregation
Transportation in Cleveland Aggregation
Timeline of Cleveland/NE Ohio;

Week 3. TCS: John J. Grabowski, “Cleveland 1912 – Civitas Triumphant”; Joe Frolik, “Regional Government versus Home Rule”  John Vacha, “When Cleveland Saw Red”  Margaret Bernstein, ‘’Inventor Garrett Morgan, Cleveland’s Fierce Bootstrapper”  Marian Morton, “How Cleveland Women Got the Vote and What They Did With It”

Supplemental: TeachingCleveland.org:

Tom L. Johnson Aggregation
Newton D. Baker Aggregation
Frederick Howe Aggregation
Maurice Maschke Aggregation
Ohio Constitution Aggregation
Regional Government vs. Home Rule in Northeast Ohio
Collinwood School Fire Aggregation
The Group Plan Aggregation
Eliot Ness Aggregation
The Van Sweringen Aggregation
Highway System Creation in Northeast Ohio
Black Political Power in Cleveland: Pre World War II
Public Housing/Ernest Bohn Aggregation
WPA in Cleveland Aggregation
Great Lakes Exposition Aggregation
John O. Holly Aggregation
Cleveland Orchestra Aggregation
Garrett A. Morgan Aggregation
The Metroparks Aggregation
Cleveland Clinic Origins Aggregation
Fred Kohler Aggregation

Week 4. TCS: Thomas Suddes, “The Adult Education Tradition in Greater Cleveland”  Bill Lubinger, “Bill Veeck: The Man Who Conquered Cleveland and Changed Baseball Forever”  Jay Miller, “Cyrus Eaton: Khruschev’s Favorite Capitalist” Roldo Bartimole, “One Man Can Make a Difference”  Mike Roberts, “Cleveland in the 1960s” and “Cleveland in the 1970s”

Supplemental: TeachingCleveland.org:
Carl Stokes Era as Mayor Aggregation
Cleveland Aggregation
Cuyahoga River Fire Aggregation
Cyrus Eaton Aggregation
Frank Lausche Aggregation
Dennis Kucinich as Mayor Aggregation
Glenville Riots Aggregation
Hough Riots Aggregation
Kent State Shootings Aggregation
Lake Erie Aggregation
Martin Luther King in Cleveland Aggregation
Water Aggregation

Week 5. TCS: Mike Roberts, “Cleveland in the 1980s” and “Cleveland in the 1990s” Supplemental: TeachingCleveland.org:
“10 Greatest Clevelanders”;
“12 Most Significant Events”;
Cleveland Politician Interview Series (George Forbes, Jim Rokakis, Louis Stokes, George Voinovich, Michael R. White); Mike Roberts,
“Cleveland in the 2000s“
George Forbes Aggregation
George Voinovich Era as Mayor Aggregation
Louis Stokes Aggregation
Mike White Era as Mayor Aggregation
Playhouse Square Aggregation

General questions: what is the main point of each article? Did you agree or disagree? What did you find most interesting? What would you add? Or subtract? 

 

The Reverse Demolition of the Guardians of Traffic, by Pamela Dorazio Dean

IMAGE CREDIT
Western Reserve Historical Society of Cleveland

The Reverse Demolition of the Guardians of Traffic
by Pamela Dorazio Dean, Director, Italian American Museum of Cleveland
The 43-foot-tall statues, masterfully carved by Italian immigrants and now the namesake of Cleveland’s MLB team, once faced demolition — but the official behind the plan met his downfall instead.
The link is here
https://orderisda.org/culture/old-school/the-reverse-demolition-of-the-guardians-of-traffic/

Miriam Kerruish Stage Memorial in Shakerite 2029

Early Shakerite archive is now on line thanks to Liam MacGilvray, a Shaker student. The article on the project is here and the archive is here
Great work! -the editor
Cover of November 11, 1929 edition of The Shakerite.

Dr. Miriam Kerruish Stage died in the Cleveland Clinic fire of 1929.

This memorial was in the Shakerite, November 11, 1929. Dr. Kerruish’s bio is here

She was a physician, activist, a mother active in education and greatly revered in the community

Cleveland Main Library and Linda Anne Eastman: A rare library and librarian by Grant Segall May 8, 2025

 

Innovators William Brett and Linda Eastman made the Cleveland Public Library influential worldwide. [Photo by Grant Segall]
Cleveland Main Library and Linda Anne Eastman: A rare library and librarian
by Grant Segall May 8, 2025
One hundred years ago, a pioneering librarian opened a new flagship for the pioneering Cleveland Public Library.
The link is here

Cleveland’s role in Earth Day? Bigger than you’d think – Signal, April 18, 2025

Cleveland State University students march to the Cuyahoga River on the nation’s first Earth Day in 1970. Credit: Photo courtesy of Cleveland State University, Michael Schwartz Library, Special Collections

Cleveland’s role in Earth Day? Bigger than you’d think
by Celia Hack, Signal, April 18, 2025

Cleveland students marched in support of the nation’s first Earth Day in 1970, and journalists and politicians advocated for funding and policy change.

Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, who advocated tirelessly for civil and human rights, dies at 93 – Plain Dealer April 15, 2025

 

Joan Brown Campbell, who advocated tirelessly for civil and human rights, dies at 93
– By Nora Tree Newhouse, Plain Dealer April 15, 2025
The link is here

Naso/NY Daily News Archive, via Getty Images

Joan Brown Campbell Dies at 93; Led Largest Ecumenical Body in U.S.
-New York Times obit

When Joan Campbell invited the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at her all-white church in the Cleveland suburbs in 1965, she had no idea of the furor it would cause.

Bomb threats were made to her family’s spacious home in Shaker Heights, where Ms. Campbell was a full-time wife and mother. Some members of Heights Christian Church, where she worshiped, refused to let Dr. King cross its threshold.
Read more

Joan Campbell, former activist who led U.S. church council, dies at 93
-Washington Post obit

“During a visit by King to Cleveland, he met briefly with Rev. Campbell and mentioned offhand that he had never been invited to speak at a mostly White church in the area. She suggested he come to the Heights Christian Church, where she was part of the congregation.”

Read more

HUNTING FOR GROWTH IN A SHRINKING CITY by Richey Piiparinen (2012)

 

HUNTING FOR GROWTH IN A SHRINKING CITY
Chapter written by Richey Piiparinen from
Rust Belt Chic,
by Anne Trubek (Editor), Richey Piiparinen (Editor)

The link to chapter is here

The full book is available on Ebay and other retail outlets

Richey Piiparinen passed away in early 2025. This bio is from his obit:
Richey was an accomplished Author, writer and urban affairs researcher. He worked at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University as the Director of Center of Population Dynamics., part of the Levine College of Urban Affairs. Richey recently published a book titles “Octopus Hunting” a book of essays linking the author’s fight for life and a city’s fight for life.

Richey appeared in “The Daily Beast, The Plain Dealer and Huffington Post. His research has been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, NPR’s Morning Edition to name a few.

Finding Sustainability: Cleveland (part 1)—from a Forest to a Fire to a Flight – by Richey Piiparinen (2012)

Finding Sustainability: Cleveland (part 1)—from a Forest to a Fire to a Flight
By Richey Piiparinen for Teaching Cleveland (2012)
A pdf version is here

Richey Piiparinen passed away in early 2025. This bio is from his obit:
Richey was an accomplished Author, writer and urban affairs researcher. He worked at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University as the Director of Center of Population Dynamics., part of the Levine College of Urban Affairs. Richey recently published a book titles “Octopus Hunting” a book of essays linking the author’s fight for life and a city’s fight for life.

Richey appeared in “The Daily Beast, The Plain Dealer and Huffington Post. His research has been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, NPR’s Morning Edition to name a few.

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