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Project Details
Cleveland Voices is an oral history discovery site for the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection, an ongoing project of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. The project also includes numerous individual collections of interviews conducted by or with a range of community partners and organizations. Collectively, Cleveland Voices presents a diversity of perspectives that engage questions of place, experience, and identity in the history of the Cleveland metropolitan area.
Subjects or Themes
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area, agriculture, architecture, art, environment, industry, landscape, migration, music, neighborhoods, parks, race and ethnicity, suburbs, women
Project Language(s)
English
Time Period
Geographic Location
Project Categories
Content Type
Oral History
Target Audience(s)
Creators
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities
Year(s)
2014–Present
Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location
Center for Public History + Digital Humanities, Cleveland State University
Software Employed
Labor and Support
Cleveland Voices reflects the labor of hundreds of students, faculty, K-12 teachers, and community partners, as well as the participation of more than one thousand members of the general public.
Project Cost
Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement
Partners have included: AIA–Cleveland Chapter, Antioch Baptist Church. Cleveland Artists Foundation, City of Cleveland Heights, City of Shaker Heights, Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation, Cleveland Metroparks, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Fairfax Renaissance, Famicos, FutureHeights. Ideastream Public Media, Midtown Cleveland, Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, St. Clair-Superior Development Corp., Shaker Historical Society, University Circle Inc. Major support provided by U.S. Department of Education, Cleveland State University, and Charles M. and Helen M. Brown Memorial Foundation.