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Project Details
Cleveland Historical is a mobile app and website that explores the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area’s history through location-based storytelling. Informed by hundreds of oral histories, the project melds interpretive text with curated images, audio, video, and a map location. Cleveland Historical is a project of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University.
Subjects or Themes
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Oral History, Images, Sound, Text, Mapping
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Founding Co-Director: Dr. Mark Tebeau, Arizona State University; Founding Co-Director and Managing Director: Dr. J. Mark Souther, Cleveland State University; Lead Developer: Erin J. Bell, Cleveland State University
Year(s)
2010–Present
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, Cleveland State University
Software Employed
Labor and Support
Cleveland Historical is an ongoing digital storytelling project that reflects the scholarship and conceptual direction of co-founders Mark Tebeau and Mark Souther and web and app development by Erin Bell. Hundreds of Cleveland State University students, faculty, volunteers, K-12 teachers, and community partners have contributed through conducting oral histories and/or researching and curating stories for the project.
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
Major support provided by Cleveland State University, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Education, and Charles M. and Helen M. Brown Memorial Foundation.