The Cleveland Memory Project is a searchable collection of digital resources focusing on the history of greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio, created in collaboration with many regional partners.
The eBooks listed here are also available via Cleveland Memory's “virtual reading room.” Many of the original texts for these eBooks may be found in Special Collections at the Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University, while a few exist only in digital format.
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Hart Crane in Akron and Cleveland 1919-1923: Ohio Roads and Bridges to The Bridge
Olivier Alexis
2010"It is the 1920's. A young poet stands on a bridge at midnight. Below him the river slides black and mysterious, beyond him the lights of the city sparkle. He looks up and raises his arms towards the sky... (read more)
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From Across the Pond: A Love Letter to Cleveland: The Memoirs of a Brit Journalist with the Cleveland Press 1970-82
Peter Almond
2022“From Across the Pond ” is the intimate story of Peter Almond, a young British journalist who immigrated to Cleveland in January, 1970, and worked at The Cleveland Press newspaper until its death in June, 1982.
It is a... (read more)
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Romanian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
Theodore Andrica
2020This monograph is conceived as a series of essays relating the history, life style and numerous contributions of Romanian Americans. Original publication date 1977.
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The Euclid Heights Allotment: A Palimpsest of the 19th Century Search for Real Estate Value in Cleveland's East End
William C. Barrow
1997The Euclid Heights Allotment was a late nineteenth predecessor to the Van Sweringen brothers' Shaker Heights development, anticipating many of the themes of its more famous successor. Located on the heights overlooking Case Western Reserve University, Euclid Heights was... (read more)
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Fenn College
William Becker
2005Fenn College was founded in 1923 as part of the Cleveland YMCA’s education program, which for 50 years had helped students finish their high school educations and learn additional business and technical skills.Throughout its history, the fortunes of Fenn... (read more)
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"By the Neck Until Dead": A History of Hangings in Cuyahoga County
John Stark Bellamy II
2010A history of hangings in Cuyahoga County. A Cleveland Memory exclusive! John Stark Bellamy II is familiar to local readers for his previous three books on famous murders. This, his first e-book (and Cleveland Memory's!), will have no corresponding... (read more)
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The Way We Are: 100 Plain Dealer Op-Eds
Thomas Bier
2023The book contains 100 op-ed articles submitted by Thomas Bier to the Plain Dealer and published between 1977 and 2022. Most of the articles concern a current event or issue in the city of Cleveland and/or communities in Northeast... (read more)
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Housing Dynamics in Northeast Ohio: Setting the Stage for Resurgence
Thomas E. Bier
2017The book presents an overview of regional housing dynamics and consequent impacts in Northeast Ohio since the 1940s. Focus is on the city of Cleveland and its host county. Dynamics are examined in terms of supply and demand, population... (read more)
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The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis on the Van Sweringens
Joseph G. Blake
2015The Van Sweringen Developments in Cleveland: A Senior Thesis was submitted by Joseph G. Blake in May 1968 to the History Department of the University of Notre Dame, Indiana in partial fulfillment for a Bachelor of Arts Degree. It... (read more)
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Cleveland : An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites
Daniel M. Bluestone
2010"As part of the Office of Archeology and Historic preservation, Department of Interior, the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documents historic engineering and industrial sites throughout the Nation. This inventory is the first step in the documentation process." --... (read more)
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Polish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
Alice Boberg, John J. Grabowski, Ralph Wroblewski, and Judith Zielinski-Zak
2010"Courageous, proud and daring, the Poles are like the eagle that has served as their national emblem since the twelfth century. They have preserved their culture and national identity against the nearly insurmountable odds of debilitating alien rule, devastating... (read more)
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"Until Victory is Achieved:" The Cleveland May Day Riots of 1919
Emerson Bodde
2022This work recounts and analyses the socio-political conditions leading up to the event known as the 'Cleveland May Day Riots of 1919', as well as the political fallout of the riot. This event is analyzed through four distinct thematic... (read more)
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From Ark to Art : The 20-year Journey of the Civic, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, from Jewish Temple to Multi-purpose Community Facility
John J. Boyle III
2010The Civic is a former Jewish temple located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, an inner-ring suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. The building was close to being abandoned and possibly torn down after its former congregation built a new facility farther out... (read more)
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Lithuanian Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
John F. Cadzow
2020This expresses the awareness, feelings. and notions of Lithuanian Americans about their history, cultural traits and achievements as well as their immigration and contributions to America and specifically to Cleveland. Original publication date 1978.
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Irish Americans and Their Communities of Cleveland
Nelson J. Callahan and William F. Hickey
2010The history of Cleveland is intimately connected with the settlement of the Irish immigrants. Their struggle for survival in the early days, their social, political and economic upward movement as well as their impact on the growth of Cleveland... (read more)
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The History of the Cleveland Nazis: 1933 - 1945
Michael Cikraji
2016During Cleveland’s Great Depression grew the first seeds of American Nazism. The city fostered an explicitly Nazi German-American Bund, a covert Silvershirt Legion detachment and prominent diplomatic agents from the Third Reich. Festooned with photos and meticulously documented, this... (read more)
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Yet Still We Rise: African American Art in Cleveland 1920-1970
Cleveland Artists Foundation
1996This exhibition and catalog, "Yet Still We Rise," is brought to you within the context of the Cleveland Artists Foundation mission: to preserve, research and present the artistic legacy of this region. It is our hope that it will... (read more)
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Cleveland Press Story : The Newspaper That Serves Its Readers
Cleveland Press
1955Promotional piece for the Cleveland Press, Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Gamut Archives
Cleveland State University
1980The Gamut: A Journal of Ideas and Information was published from 1980 to 1992 by Cleveland State University in the fall, winter, and spring/summer of each year. It contains articles and creative works by writers and artists of Northern... (read more)
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Each In Their Own Voice: African-American Artists in Cleveland, 1970-2005
Cleveland State University, Art Gallery
2009This exhibition, "Each in Their Own Voice," presents a survey of the work of 23 prominent African-American artists who were active in Cleveland between 1970 and 2005, a time in the recent past characterized by breathtaking technological, cultural, social,... (read more)
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Origin and History of the Cleveland Viaduct
French Collins
2017"For the satisfaction of such of my friends as are not conversant with the history of the Cleveland Viaduct, and who may entertain a just pride in the success of all laudable undertakings by those for whom they feel... (read more)
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Cleveland : The Best Kept Secret
George E. Condon
2010Former Plain Dealer columnist George Condon coined the phrase "The Best Kept Secret" that has since become synonymous with Cleveland (no longer the Mistake on the Lake!). This book is his masterpiece, a compilation of history, familiar names and... (read more)
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Democratizing Cleveland: The Rise and Fall of Community Organizing in Cleveland, Ohio 1975-1985
Randy Cunningham
2013Democratizing Cleveland is the result of almost fifteen years of research on a topic that has been missing from local works on Cleveland history: the community organizing movement that put neighborhood concerns and neighborhood voices front and center in... (read more)
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The Ginney Block: Reminiscences of an Italian-American Dead-end Street Kid
Edward A. D'Alessandro
2017Long before Progressive Field, the area just south of downtown was the site of the Haymarket district, the Central Market and parts of the Big Italy neighborhood. Edward D'Alessandro lived in "the Ginney Block," an Italian immigrant apartment building,... (read more)
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My Father was a Tailor
Edward A. D'Alessandro
2010The author recounts the life of his father, Rocco D'Alessandro, a master tailor, who immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio from Italy at the turn of the 20th century. Original publication date 1999.
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