Bibliography of Cleveland

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The following is a bibliography of Cleveland, Ohio . It includes selected publications specifically about the city, Cuyahoga County, and the Greater Cleveland Metropolitan Area.

Contents

Nonfiction

History

List of works, arranged chronologically

Published in the 19th century
  • Directory Cleveland and Ohio City for the years 1837-38, Cleveland: Sanford & Lott, 1837, OCLC   889007, OL   24143535M
  • Whittlesey, Charles (1867). Early History of Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co.
  • J.J. Clark (1872), Cleveland city guide, Cleveland: Clark & Lawler, OL   23288908M
  • "Cleveland", Appleton's Illustrated Hand-Book of American Cities, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1876
  • Kennedy, James Harrison (1896). History of the City of Cleveland. Cleveland: Imperial Press.
  • Urann, Clara A. (1896). Centennial history of Cleveland. Cleveland: J.B. Savage.
Published in the 20th century
Published in the 21st century
  • Grabowski, John J.; Grabowski, Diane Ewart (2000). Cleveland: A History in Motion. Carlsbad, CA: Heritage Media. ISBN   1-886483-38-8.
  • Jenkins, William D. "Before Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, and Urban Renewal, 1949-1958." Journal of Urban History 27.4 (2001): 471–496.
  • Tuennerman-Kaplan, Laura. Helping others, helping ourselves: Power, giving, and community identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930 (Kent State University Press, 2001).
  • Morton, Marian J. (2002). Cleveland Heights: The Making of An Urban Suburb. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   0738523844.
  • Gallo Becker, Thea (2003). Lakewood. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   073852333X.
  • Gallo Becker, Thea (2004). Cleveland, 1796–1929. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   0738532673.
  • Gallo Becker, Thea (2005). Cleveland, 1930–2000. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   0738533769.
  • Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. "Financing invention during the second industrial revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920." (No. w10923. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004). online
  • Pfingsten, Ralph A. (2004). From Rockport to West Park. Cleveland: John Marshall High School Alumni Association. ISBN   0-9759618-0-2.
  • Spangler, James R.; Toman, James A. (2005). Cleveland and Its Streetcars. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   978-0738539676.
  • Keating, Dennis, Norman Krumholz, and Ann Marie Wieland. "Cleveland's Lakefront: Its Development and Planning." Journal of Planning History 4#2 (2005): 129–154.
  • Condon, George E. (2006). West of the Cuyahoga. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN   0-87338-854-2.
  • Gregor, Sharon E. (2010). Rockefeller's Cleveland. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing.
  • Cetina, Judith G. (2011). Cuyahoga County: The First 200 Years. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN   978-0738583464.
  • Ruminski, Dan; Dutka, Alan F. (2012). Cleveland in the Gilded Age: A Stroll Down Millionaires' Row. Charleston: The History Press. ISBN   978-1609498788.
  • Albrecht, Brian; Banks, James (2015). Cleveland in World War II. Charleston: The History Press. ISBN   978-1626198821.
  • Grabowski, John J. (2019). Cleveland A to Z: An Essential Compendium for Visitors and Residents Alike. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. ISBN   978-1606353905.
  • Crissman, Dan; Tachovsky, Evan; Wilson, David (2019). Cleveland in 50 Maps. Cleveland: Belt Publishing. ISBN   978-1948742559.

Landmarks

Culture

Ethnicity

Politics

Mayor Tom Johnson

  • Bremner, Robert H. "The Civic Revival in Ohio: Reformed Businessman: Tom L. Johnson." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 8.3 (1949): 299-309.
  • DeMatteo, Arthur E. "The Downfall of a Progressive: Mayor Tom L. Johnson and the Cleveland Streetcar Strike of 1908." Ohio History 104 (1995): 24-41.
  • Johnson, Tom L.. My Story. B. W. Huebsch, 1911; reprint Kent State University Press 1993. Text also online at the Cleveland Memory Project.
  • Lough, Alexandra W. "Tom L. Johnson and Cleveland Traction Wars, 1901–1909." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 75.1 (2016): 149-192.
  • Megery, Michael. "Ideological Origins of a Radical Democrat: The Early Political Thought of Tom L. Johnson, 1888–1895." Middle West Review 6.1 (2019): 37-61.
  • Murdock, Eugene C. Tom Johnson of Cleveland (Wright State University Press, 1994), a standard scholarly biography.
  • Suit, William Wilson. "Tom Loftin Johnson, businessman reformer' (PhD dissertation, Kent State University ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  1988. 8827177).
  • Warner, Hoyt Landon. Progressivism in Ohio, 1897-1917 (Ohio State University Press, 1964).
  • Whitehair, Andrew L., "Tom L. Johnson’s Tax School: the Fight For Democracy And Control of Cleveland’s Tax Machinery" (2020). (ETD Archive. 1190. online

Fiction

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