I am currently teaching History 111, Introduction to United States History, to 1877 and History 390, Introduction to Social Studies.
In past semesters, I have taught History 304, United States Urban History; History 400, the Local History Seminar; and History 112, Introduction to United States History, 1877 to the Present.
In my courses, I use the regional urban environment as a research laboratory in my courses. Recently, in conjunction with undergraduates and regional teachers, and colleagues, I developed a website devoted to the history Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Students in my courses helped build the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project in collaboration with Cleveland Public Art, ideastream and the Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority. We have crafted a parallel oral history project. To date, we have collected over 450 oral histories. Current student work is building a regional archive, Teaching & Learning Cleveland, built in the open-source Omeka software from the Center for History & New Media. Teaching & Learning Cleveland is the backbone for the Center for Public History & Digital Humanities’ next major community history project.
