Pathfinder #1             Teaching Cleveland History

 

Name:             Jill Cabe

School:           Harry L. Eastman School

Action Plan:   Teaching Cleveland History

Grade Level:  6 – 9

Subject:          Social Studies

Topic:             Cleveland History

 

Content Information:

The materials listed here are for teaching the History of Cleveland, Ohio to middle school students.

 

Dewey:

977.132

 

Subject headings:

Cleveland (Ohio)

Cleveland (Ohio)—Biography

Cleveland (Ohio)—Fiction

Cleveland (Ohio)—Foreign population

Cleveland (Ohio)—History

Cuyahoga River (Ohio)

 

Books: Nonfiction Books

A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland 1870 – 1930, Kenneth Kusmer.

American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar, Harvey Pekar.

Black Americans in Cleveland from George Peak to Carl B. Stokes 1796 – 1969,

Russell H. Davis

Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power, Leonard N. Moore.

Cleveland: A Concise History, Carole Poh Miller.

Cleveland: A Metropolitan Reader, W. Dennis Keating.

Cleveland: A Portrait of the City, Jonathan Wayne.

The Cleveland Browns: The Official Illustrated History, Ron Smith. 

Cleveland Cemeteries: Stone, Symbols and Stories, Vicki Blum Vigil.

Cleveland Food Memories, Gail Ghetia Bellamy.

Cleveland Sports Legends, Bob Dyer.

Cleveland: The Making of a City, William Ganson Rose.

Cleveland Then and Now, John T. Grabowski.

Cleveland, Ohio (Black America), Regina Williams.

Cleveland’s Downtown Architecture, Shawn Patrick Hoefler.

Cleveland’s Transit Vehicles, Jim Toman.

Death Ride at Euclid Beach, John Stark Bellamy II.

The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, David Van Tassel.

Euclid Avenue: Cleveland’s Sophisticated Lady, Richard Karberg.

Finding Fish, Antwone Fisher.

Garrett Morgan: Inventor of the Traffic Light and Gas Mask, Patrick Murphy.

Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor: Unsung Hero: The Story of Robert McNeil,

Harvey Pekar.

The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version, Ida Tarbell.

Indians Memories, Tim Long.

League Park, Peter Jedick.

LeBron James, David Morgan.

The New American City Faces Its Regional Future: A Cleveland Perspective,

David Sweet.

Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland’s FM Air Wars, Michael

Olszewsky.

Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Cleveland Connection, Deanna Adams.

Showplace of America: Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue 1850 – 1910, Jan Cigliano.

Their Paths Are Peace: The Story of Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens, Clara

Lederer.

What’s So Big About Cleveland, Ohio? Sara Holbrook.

Women in Cleveland: An Illustrated History, Marion Morton.

 

Books: Fiction

Crooked River Burning, Mark Winegardner.

Full Cleveland, Les Roberts.

Seedfolks, Paul Fleischman.

Through the Windshield, Michael Decapite.

Torso, Brian Michael Bendis.

 

Selected Websites:

African American Museum

Cleveland Browns - History

Cleveland Digital Library

Cleveland Indians - History

Cleveland Memory Project

Cleveland Museum of Art - History

Cleveland Neighborhoods on the Web

Cleveland Public Library

Cleveland Timeline #1

Cleveland Timeline #2

Cuyahoga County Public Library

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

Euclid Beach Park

Exploring the Cleveland Salt Mine

Greater Cleveland Research – High School Pathfinder

History of the Cleveland Division of Water

Teaching Cleveland: A Bicentennial Education Project

Western Reserve Historical Society

Wikipedia – Cleveland, Ohio

WMV Web News Cleveland

INFOhio Resources:

American National Biography

Britannica Online School Edition

Newsbank: Plain Dealer

Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

 

Videos:

A Christmas Story

Antwone Fisher

Sister Wendy’s American Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art