Introduction to Social Studies
Summer 2007
HIS 390
M/W/F 8:30-9:35
BU102

Dr. Mark Tebeau
Associate Professor
Department of History

Rhodes Tower 1908
m.tebeau@csuohio.edu
Phone: 216-687-3937

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Writing and researching for history undergraduates
See the excellent website created by Patrick Rael of Bowdoin College:
http://academic.bowdoin.edu/WritingGuides/
Another site, created by Todd Carney of Southern Oregon University, can also serve as a useful guide: http://www.sosc.edu/history/carney/writing.htm

Proper Citation Format
On proper footnoting, see the Chicago manual of style, but for quick online reference check the following:
http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocChicago.html
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c10_s2.html

The Oberlin College Archives has the best example that I have found of how to cite primary source archival material; also from Oberlin College is history professor Steve Volk's guide to citation.
http://www.oberlin.edu/archive/using/citations.html
http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/citation.htm

Demographic Data
The Historical United States, Census Data Browser
The United States Census Bureau, "Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-born Population of the United States: 1850-1990"

The United States Census Bureau, Selected Historical Decennial Census Population and Housing Counts
CANDO Database CASE Mandel School: NEO CANDO
Northern Ohio Data & Information Service, CSU: NODIS
Cuyahoga County--Neighborhood Facts Sheets (from CANDO)
Cleveland City Planning Commission--GIS & Census (GREAT MAPS!)
CSU, Library, Virtual Reference--Statistics

Maps and Building Surveys
The Library of Congress houses Panoramic Maps many of which are available online.

Now part of the National Park Service, the Historic American Building Survey and Historic Engineering Record have documented a significant amount of the American built landscape; many of their reports are available at the Library of Congress and many are also online in the American Memory Collection of the LOC.

See, also, the Cleveland City Planning Commission maps listed above at the GIS Home of the Cleveland City Planning Commission.

To find Sanborn Maps in the Ohiolink, do a KEYWORD search on SCHOLAR, using the term: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Click the link, it will take you to the maps on OHIOLINK. Or, try clicking here and then CONNECT. For an overview of the Fire insurance maps and their use, read Walter Ristrow's Introduction to the Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.

Oral History
The Southern Oral History Project at the University of North Carolina
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress
American Folklife Center, Guide to Fieldwork

Historic Preservation
National Register of Historic Places (National Trust for Historic Preservation)
Ohio Historic Preservation Office

Cleveland Landmarks Commission (City of Cleveland)
Cleveland Restoration Society
American Institute of Architects, Cleveland Chapter

Cleveland Regional Sources
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History

The Northern Ohio Data and Information Service
Regional Art in Cleveland: an Electronic Guide

Inventory of Outdoor Sculpture in Ohio--The Sculpture Center

Euclid Corridor Project
Cleveland Public Art
Greater Cleveland Regional Transportation Authority
Euclid Corridor Transportation Project, Silver Line
Public Art Master Plan (pdf)
Ideastream--WCPN & WVIZ

Cleveland Cultural Gardens Materials
Crooked River: Issue 4, Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Clare Lederer, Their Paths Are Peace (1954)



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