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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.