Jan. 26: Special Collections

As a reminder, on Thursday we meet in Special Collections in the Library rather than in our classroom. This is a very important introduction to a key resource to your project. In fact, the more I mull the issue of voluminous returns on Plain Dealer index searches, the more I see the value in first examining sources like the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History and Special Collections’ own Cleveland Press Collection clipping file. Doing so will acquaint you with your topic, if only hitting some high points, which in turn will enable you to be more pointed in your searches of the P.D. index.

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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.
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