Cleveland & the World: Relatable World History

Part 3 of this open educational resource is the digital companion to the graduate level seminar “Cleveland and the World: Relatable World History” at Cleveland State University. This course is being offered in Spring 2025 and this section is under construction. Please send feedback to Shelley Rose at shelley.rose@csuohio.edu.

HIS 693 Course Description

Developed for history graduate students and social studies educators looking for additional content courses or graduate credit, this remote graduate history course focuses on place-based learning, connecting Cleveland history to world history in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries. Drawing on historian Tiffany Trimmer’s concept of  relatable world history , this course will focus on historical events, individuals, and networks that connect local history to broader world history narratives. Examples include, the  Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition in 1936 & 1937  as a lens into the international world’s fairs of the 19 th  and 20 th  centuries; Cleveland philanthropist Cyrus Eaton, a Rockefeller protégée who inserted himself into conversations about the dangers of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Inspired by the 1955 Russell-Einstein Manifesto, Eaton founded the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs that still exist today; and the  Cleveland Latin American Mission team  who found themselves caught up in the Cold War and the Civil War in El Salvador in the 1980s.

Learning Outcomes 

Students will

  • Demonstrate the application of historical thinking skills.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in primary source analysis.
  • Engage in weekly discussions of historical content and be able to provide examples of connecting Cleveland history to world narratives.
  • Demonstrate effective means of sharing historical content with broad audiences, including PK-12 students, culminating in the semester project
  • Explore the digital tools available for curating historical content and use at least one tool to create content for the semester project.
  • Design and complete a semester-long project that demonstrates their understanding of relatable world history; connecting Cleveland history to world history

 

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Global Interconnections: Modern World History 1300-present by Shelley E. Rose is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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