Western Reserve Studies Symposium: A symposium on regional history and culture. Advancing the exploration of the distinctive aspects of Ohio's Western Reserve. For additional information regarding the Western Reserve Studies Symposium, please call (216) 368-8961 or email: gladys.haddad@case.edu.
Submissions from 2002
A View from the Dinner Table, Parker Bosley
American Farmland Trust, Jill K.B Clark
Introduction, Gladys Haddad and Mary Holmes
Foods in Their Seasons: A Look at 1848 with Mrs. Jacob Meredith, Amy Halsey
Cooking by the Book: From Flour Scoops to Water Pitchers, N. Sue Hanson
Reversing the Trends: Creative Ideas for Reconnecting Farmers and Consumers in the Western Reserve, Mary Holmes
The Market As Community, Mary Jane Holmes
Maple Ridge Vineyards, Iubelt James and Iubelt Patricia
The West Side Market: A Kaleidoscope of Cleveland's Cultural History, Joanne M. Lewis
The Public Market as an Engine for Economic Revival, John A. Rasmussen
Buckeyes, Corncrackers, and Suckers: Culinary Episodes in Ohio History, Alan J. Rocke
Submissions from 2001
A Journey of Discovery Readings and Ruminations, Catherine L. Albers
In the Site of the Unseen: The Place of African-American Culture within Film, Austin Allen
The Art and Science of Medicine: A Humanities Approach, David R. Anderson
Finding the Farmers, Donita Anderson
Healing Others: Healing Ourselves': A Videohistory of the African American Nurse, James Banks
The Challenges of Change and the Response of the University, Charles P. Bolton
Voices and Visions for our healing, Christine Branche
Breaking the Cycle of Health Care Disparities, Rachel R. Chapman
The Girls in Blue': The Visiting Nurse Association of Cleveland, Virginia Dawson
Approaching Health Care Issues through Drama, Carol Donley
If Archivists Could Tell..., James M. Edmonson
The Making of a Modern Hospital in Cleveland: Planning and Construction of Lakeside Hospital 1895-1905, James M. Edmonson
Smallpox, The Chamber of Commerce, and the Reshaping of the City's Public Health Department in the Early 20th Century, Patsy Gerstner
The Free Clinic of Greater Cleveland Since 1970 where Health Care is a Right... Not a Privilege, W. Martin Hiller
Postcards...to your Health!, Walter Leedy
The Development of American Medical Education From the Turn of the Century to the Era of Managed Care, Kenneth M. Ludmerer
Medical Milestones of the 20th Century Cleveland, Mary Denis Maher
Fewer and Better Babies: The Maternal Health Association of Cleveland, Ohio, Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer
Women Health Care Providers and Practitioners, Marion Morton
The Women's and Children's Free Medical and Surgical Dispensary (1878) Forerunner of Woman's General Hospital, Jennifer Nieves
Considering Systemic Approaches to Improving Community Health and Medical Care, Wornie Reed
Shaping a Future for Medicine and Health Care in Cleveland and Beyond, Peter J. Whitehouse and Atwood T. Gaines
Submissions from 2000
The Nature of Writing: From Landscape to Poetry, David R. Anderson
Cinema X, Robert C. Banks, Jr.
Stories of Place, Thomas G. Bishop
The Ideal Tarnished: From 'The Happy Valley' to Sulphurous Mines and Shipwrecked Souls, Patti Capel Swartz
The Windings and Turnings of Fictitious Pathology: Reading 'Jupiter Lights' as a Proto-Lesbian Novel, Kristin M. Comment
The Cleveland Connection: The Tao of Goodman : Filmmaking Sisters Cope with Highs, Lows of Success, Joanna Connors
The Rise of Professional Authorship, or Don't Give up Your Day Job, Michael J. Davey
Back to the Future: Constance Woolson's 'The Old Stone House', Sharon L. Dean
Firestone Park and Goosetown: A Memoir of South Akron, Joyce Dyer
The Happy Valley: Constance F. Woolson's View of Zoar, Kathleen M. Fernandez
The Work of Mourning in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Fiction: A Kleinian Approach, Caroline Gebhard
The Intrusive Landscape Designer: Recreating 'The Front Yard' in Assisi, Edoarda Grego
East Angels: Woolson's Revision of James's 'The Portrait of a Lady', Georgia Kreiger
Nightowl Productions, Alison Kennedy Maier
Epic Appetites: Images of Food in Ancient Greece and Rome, Jenifer Neils
Opposition vs. Opportunity: The African American Literacy Experience in America, Nathan T. Oliver
I am an American...': Whenever I open a book and see 'Hoot, mon,' I always close it immediately': Constance Fenimore Woolson and Regional Humor, Cheryl B. Torsney
Constance Fenimore Woolson and John Hay: Reconstruction through Poetry, Carolyn VanBergen
Constance Fenimore Woolson: The Lake Country: Woolson as Precursor: Jewett and Wilkins Freeman Talk Back to 'Ballast Island', Joanna Weimer
From Text to Technology: Hypertext and 'Wilhelmina', Barbara K. Youel
Submissions from 1999
A Promising Boy: Intimations of Greatness in James A. Garfield, David R. Anderson
Hiram in the Civil war, David R. Anderson and Joanne M. Sawyer
George Washington's Mount Vernon: Constructing Independence in Revolutionary America, Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Dalzell
The Created Landscape, Beth DiNatale Johnson
Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio & Erie Canal from George Washington to Alfred Kelley, a Multi-Media Presentation, Jeanne Figueria Grossetti, Jonathan Hodges, Sherry Maruna, and William C. Barrow
Warren's Garden, Kethley House, Benjamin Rose Place, Alice Kethley
George Washington and the West, George W. Knepper
Garden Sculptures, Charlotte Lees
Hopewell Inn, Gary Long
Landscape Design, Mary Jane Lovering
Sanctuaries for Healing, Mary Denis Maher
Sensory Garden : Lake Hospital System, Mentor Medical Campus, Cynthia Moore-Hardy, James F. Pelowski, and David Weir
Lawnfield: "A new sweet tie", John Shaw
Greetings, Carl Ubbelohde
Lawnfield: Cottage to Mansion, Dean M. Zimmerman
Submissions from 1998
Politics and Urban Reform: Introduction, Kathleen L. Barber
Politics and Student Activism: Introduction, Nancy Birk
Communism and Congressman Frances Payne Bolton, 1939-1968, Mark D. Bowles and Virginia P. Dawson
Confessions of an Ex-Legislator, Arthur V.N. Brooks
Politics and the Natural Environment: Introduction, Arthur V.N. Brooks
A Citizen's Voice, Sandy Buchanan
Mobile Monuments: The Art and Politics of Placing Pedestals, William Busta
Opinion Polling and the Environment, Robert Dykes
In Tom's Shadow: Cleveland's Forgotten Progressives, Paul Hillmer
The Politics of the Bench and Bar in the Western Reserve, Stanley B. Kent
Western Reserve Politics: An Historical Overview, George W. Knepper
Proportional Representation and Cold War Politics in the Western Reserve, Robert J. Kolesar
Ohio Politics and Politicans: A Roundtable, Alexander Lamis
The May 4th Task Force: A Mandate, Michael Lee
Women and Politics: Introduction, Marian Morton
The Political Tradition Out of Which She Comes, Mary Rose Oakar
A Spinster, a Protestant, and a Democrat: Florence Allen, Cleveland's First Female Judge, Joan Organ
Not Destined to Be Here: Excerpted from the Congressional Record, Louis Stokes
Assignment: Politics, Evelyn Theiss
The Sixties in Northeast Ohio, Abe Zaidan
Submissions from 1997
Trails of the Western Reserve, Jay Abercrombie
Thunder in the Heartland: A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio, Thomas Appelhans Schmidlin and Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin
Getting Here was Half the Fun: Hale Farm (Summit County), Melisa Arnold
Scoping out the territory: Traversing the Uncharted Wilderness, William Barrow
Oberlin (Lorain County), Roland Baumann
Water, Jim Borchert
Urban Sprawl: The Controversy: Examining the Social Justice Implications, Lauren Bowen
Digger Gallagher, The Canaler Program, Foster Brown
LAND, Judith G. Cetina
A Real Estate Developer's Perspective, Lee A. Chilcote
Air, Virginia Dawson
Dressed for Transport: Men and Women on the Move, Jean L. Druesedow