Blog@Case Topics: history

Blog@Case Topics: historyhttp://blog.case.edu/topics/historyJeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssBrian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceTiffeni Fontnotiffeni.fontno@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceCatherine Wellscatherine.wells@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceJeffrey Quickjeffrey.quick@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick2007-12-17T03:28:54ZConversations in Tremont continuedhttp://blog.case.edu/wrss/2008/05/16/tremont_two2008-05-16T14:30:27Z2008-05-16T15:58:33Z

Join our moderator, Gladys Haddad, as she continues to speak with residents, business owners, and community experts in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. Held at the Pilgrim Congregational Church on West 14th Street, this session brings together the following speakers to discuss the how neighborhoods are vital to the livable city. Chris Garland, Executive Director, Tremont West Development Corporation Mitchell Schneider, President, First Interstate Properties Ltd. Christine Murdoch, Owner of the Banyan Tree Walter Wright, Senior Program Officer, Neighborhood Progress Inc. Listen to Tremont Part Two

Photos courtesy of Tremont West Development Corporation

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssNeighborhood Progress, Inchttp://blog.case.edu/wrss/2008/05/09/neighborhood_progress_inc2008-05-09T19:22:59Z2008-05-09T20:13:04Z

As referenced in our first dialogue of Regionally Speaking 2008, Neighborhood Progress, Inc is strategically investing in six historic neighborhoods of Cleveland. Watch their introduction video to provide a visual connection with the next six weeks of community conversations that will highlight the livable city and its neighborhoods. Neighborhood Progress Introduction Video

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssRegionally Speaking 2008http://blog.case.edu/wrss/2008/05/01/2008_introduction2008-05-01T23:30:05Z2008-05-02T19:11:14Z

Welcome to the opening conversation of Regionally Speaking 2008. Over the next six weeks this program will explore the work being done to restore prominence to Cleveland's great neighborhoods. Following the Strategic Investment Initiative of Neighborhood Progress Inc, community experts will discuss the issues and opportunities that face our communities, our city, and our region. This first session brings together some of the major funders and visionaries behind the Strategic Investment Initiative to explain the program. Listen to the dialogue led by our host, Gladys Haddad, and with Ronn Richard, President and CEO of the Cleveland Foundation, Chris Warren, Director of Economic Development, City of Cleveland, and Bobbi Reichtell, Senior Vice President for Programs, Neighborhood Progress Inc. Listen here

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssHistorical Statistics of the United Stateshttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2007/12/16/historical_statistics_of_the_united_states2007-12-17T03:24:29Z2007-12-17T03:28:54Z

All OhioLINK libraries now have access to the Historical Statistics of the United States.

Historical Statistics of the United States is the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. HSUS provides data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

The Case community can also find it listed in the Research Databases list.

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceeHistory at OSUhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2007/12/07/ehistory_at_osu2007-12-07T20:16:41Z2007-12-07T20:17:06Z

Since 1995, eHistory has been maintained by The Ohio State University Department of History. The online collection includes primary sources, multimedia, book reviews, timelines, and many other sources of historical importance. Want an example of the breadth of this collection. Here is one of the primary sources that was highlighted when I visited the site.

No serious study of the American Civil War is complete without consulting the Official Records. Affectionately known as the "OR", the 128 volumes of the Official Records provide the most comprehensive, authoritative, and voluminous reference on Civil War operations.

[VIA: The Scout Report, August 31, 2007]

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceNot quite getting the Herrenvolk thinghttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2007/10/11/not_quite_getting_the_herrenvolk_thing2007-10-11T13:33:39Z2007-10-11T13:45:55Z

" But we like you...you wouldn't hurt us, would you?"

"After the first days of jubilation were over, we were aghast to learn that while I am eligible to vote, my wife, being stigmatized and inferior because of her Jewish heritage, must stand aside," wrote Franz Ippich of Salzburg. "So I decided ... to ask you: Please erase the dishonorable, Jewish heritage of my wife, which is not her own fault ... (by doing so) my wife's and my offspring will become your loyal and enthusiastic followers who will bless you for all your life." The letter went unanswered, and Ippich fled with his wife for South America.

From a recently-published collection of letters to Hitler.

Jeffrey Quickjeffrey.quick@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quickYou think Arafat was a bad choice for the Nobel Peace Prize?http://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2007/09/22/you_think_arafat_was_a_bad_choice_for_the_nobel_peace_prize2007-09-22T15:52:37Z2007-09-22T15:55:30Z

Wrap your mind around this phrase: "Nobel Peace Prize nominee Adolf Hitler..."

Jeffrey Quickjeffrey.quick@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quickJeffrey T. Verespej continuedhttp://blog.case.edu/wrss/2007/05/29/verespejtwo2007-05-29T21:16:22Z2007-05-30T18:28:00Z

The second part of the conversation with Jeffrey T. Verespej focuses on the future issues of regional cooperation and the promise of the Western Reserve. Part two

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssArchaeology Magazinehttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2007/05/10/archaeology_magazine2007-05-10T15:36:06Z2007-05-10T15:37:11Z

The Archaeological Institute of America publishes the Archaeology Magazine. Its online website is a treasure chest of resources and articles, such as "How to Build a Pyramid" or interactive digs of various sites with amazing photography and commentary. [VIA: The Scout Report, March 10, 2006, Volume 12, Number 10]

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceTalking with Richard Baznikhttp://blog.case.edu/wrss/2007/05/09/baznikone2007-05-09T16:15:00Z2007-07-30T18:25:45Z

The conversation with Richard Baznik, Case Western Reserve University Historian and Director of the Institute for the Study of the University addresses the history of University Circle as a place and concept. Join the discussion about the issues of our region. Part one

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssRichard Baznik continuedhttp://blog.case.edu/wrss/2007/05/09/bazniktwo2007-05-09T16:00:00Z2007-05-09T16:18:59Z

The second part of the conversation with Richard Baznik focuses on the historical problems with the development of University Circle and how the University Circle Development Foundation (later University Circle Inc) was created to fix those problems. Part two

Jeffrey Verespejjeffrey.verespej@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/wrssNot just Japanese soldiers...http://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2007/04/26/not_just_japanese_soldiers2007-04-26T18:31:35Z2007-04-26T18:39:38Z

... were served by Japanese "comfort women":

"Sadly, we police had to set up sexual comfort stations for the occupation troops," recounts the official history of the Ibaraki Prefectural Police Department, whose jurisdiction is just northeast of Tokyo. "The strategy was, through the special work of experienced women, to create a breakwater to protect regular women and girls."

No problem with that, except that apparently some women were coerced or defrauded into going into that work. Apparently (unlike during the war) no foreign nationals were conscripted. Price was 15 yen, cost of half a pack of cigarettes. MacArthur closed 'em down, because it wouldn't play well back home, and because a quarter of his troops had VD.

Jeffrey Quickjeffrey.quick@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quickI am so disillusioned...http://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quick/2007/04/25/i_am_so_disillusioned2007-04-25T12:01:20Z2007-04-25T12:24:53Z

The Roman Catholic statesman Noah, Chief Seattle, made a speech in 1854. That speech was transcribed and embellished from incomplete notes 33 years later, and further added to (the parts that everyone quotes) in the 60s, culminating in the "canonical version" in the eco-propaganda film Home in 1971. And thus the Chief has become posthumously a great philosopher, while the thrust of his original speech is, "Guys, they're offering us money for our land...which is pretty generous, because they can just take it anyway...so lets go along to get along." Funny how this never gets quoted though: "But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they." The source of my disillusionment, linked by Bidinotto.

Jeffrey Quickjeffrey.quick@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/jeffrey.quickPhoto Blog from 100 Yearshttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2007/04/02/photo_blog_from_100_years2007-04-02T05:02:42Z2007-04-02T05:05:25Z

Shorpy.com is a 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors into today's spotlight. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century. They started with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee. [VIA: MAKE: Blog, Mar 21, 2007]

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceHistoric Collections Onlinehttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2007/01/15/historic_collections_online2007-01-15T14:51:18Z2007-01-15T15:00:07Z

The Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University has digitized and made available a number of historic collections. These include scanned pages of original writings and texts, photographs and images of articfacts. This Duke University Digitized Collection inludes the following: Medicine and Madison Avenue Emergence of Advertsing in America William Gedney Photographs and Writings Ad"Access Historic American Sheet Music Emma Spaulding Brtant Letters Urban Landscape Digital Image Access Project Documents From the Women's Liberation Movement George Percival Scriven: An American in Bohol, the Phillipines 1899-1901 African American Women Civil War Women Duke Papyrus

Catherine Wellscatherine.wells@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceMaps In Our Liveshttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2006/08/19/maps_in_our_lives2006-08-19T18:42:14Z2006-08-19T18:42:18Z

Celebrating a thirty-year partnership between the Library of Congress and the American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM), the Maps in Our Lives exhibition explores surveying, cartography, geodesy, and geographic information systems--and draws on both the Library's historic map collections and the ACSM collection in the Library of Congress. Here is an example what can be found:

George Washington, the first president of the United States, was trained as a surveyor and practiced in western Virginia in the early years of his career. In 1760 and 1766, he prepared two manuscript plats of land he had recently purchased, later known as the River Farm, adjacent to his ancestral home of Mount Vernon. These two maps are examples of colonial-era plantation maps.

(VIA: The Scout Report, June 23, 2006)

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceAustralian Newspapershttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2006/06/22/australian_newspapers2006-06-22T14:42:49Z2006-06-22T16:13:39Z

An online index to The Argus newspaper for the decade 1870-1879 has been published on the Library website. The Argus, the major Australian metropolitan daily of its time, was published in Melbourne from 1846 to 1957. It is the primary resource for data on 19th century Australia, widely recognised as the general Australian newspaper of record for the era. The 1870-1879 index is part of La Trobe University's Argus Index Project and the first available in this form. However, others will go online as they are completed. The entire Ned Kelly story is contained in this index."

Catherine Wellscatherine.wells@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceNews from Cleveland Memory Newsletter Being Replaced by Bloghttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2006/06/19/news_from_cleveland_memory_newsletter_being_replaced_by_blog2006-06-19T13:34:44Z2006-06-19T13:34:34Z

Bill Barrow (Special Collections Librarian at Cleveland State) has announced the News from Cleveland Memory newsletter has been shut down in favor of the Cleveland History Blog. Cleveland History Blog:

News, commentary, information and musings on the history of greater Cleveland and the Western Reserve region of Northestern Ohio, particularly its bridges, railroads, maps and historic landmarks and events. Using new web-based technologies, such as GIS, to improve libraries' ability to increase access to local history.

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceRAND Corporation: Voices of Jihad Databasehttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2006/06/05/rand_corporation_voices_of_jihad_database2006-06-05T13:28:28Z2006-06-06T14:25:34Z

Voices of Jihad Database is a compilation of speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathizers. Nearly all content is in English translation, and has been collected from publicly-accessible websites. Original links are provided, along with excerpts and full-text content when available. The RAND Corporation is a venerable "think tank" that has been focused on national security problems for roughly 60 years. It began studying terrorism after the murder of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich back in 1972. Its online Research Area in Terrorism and Homeland Security is content-rich, offering news, commentary and analysis, research reports and more.

Tiffeni Fontnotiffeni.fontno@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/referenceImages Canadahttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference/2006/04/26/images_canada2006-04-26T13:00:00Z2006-04-26T13:00:03Z

Are you in the need of an image that relates to Canadian culture? Check out Images Canada to search the collections of participating archives, libraries, museums and universities from across Canada. [ About Images Canada]

Images Canada provides central search access to the thousands of images held on the websites of participating Canadian cultural institutions. Through Images Canada, you can find images of the Canadian events, people, places and things that make up our collective heritage. Read more...

Brian Graybrian.c.gray@case.eduhttp://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/reference