By now you should have received an email notification that you have been added to Cleveland History Blogs and, specifically, U.S. Tourism as a user. If you have not, it is probably because you are not forwarding CSU emails to your preferred email account. You will need to log in later in the semester to post your work.
On Tuesday we’ll discuss how/when to do each step of the course project. In preparation, please read the Cleveland Historical Content Creation Guide. I will also demonstrate the use of the Plain Dealer Historical Index. If you do not already have a Cleveland Public Library card, you should get one fairly soon (though not necessarily by Tuesday). This will give you access to the index.
About Mark Souther
I am an associate professor of history at Cleveland State University and public history director of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities. I'm the author of New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City, editor of American Tourism: Constructing a National Tradition (forthcoming), and am researching a new book on perceptions of decline in postwar Cleveland. Apart from my involvement in CPHDH, I authored a recent successful National Register of Historic Places nomination and serve on the Cleveland Heights Landmark Commission. My history interests include urban and suburban history, 20th-century U.S. political and cultural history, leisure and tourism, and architecture and historic preservation, not to mention that I'm a self-indulgent hunter-gatherer of antiques and ephemera.
