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 1997
The Youngstown-Warren regional airport: Plans and Prospects, Reid Dulberger
The Railroad Experience in the Western Reserve, H. Roger Grant
The Winton Centennial and the Ride of a Century, David Holcombe
Philanthropy and the Sixties: A Voice from the Sixties, Donald G. Jacobs
Not Carriages, but the Parts Thereof: Cleveland and the Making of the Horse-Drawn Vechile Accessory Industry, Thomas A. Kinney
Dressed for Transport: Men and Women on the Move, Constance Korosec
Cleveland's 'Terminal Tower': The Forest City Acquires a Metropolitan Image, Walter Leedy
Competing Visions of the Lakefront, Marjorie L. Moore
The Bridges of the Western Reserve, Randall S. Over
Come Emigrate With Me: Vision and Reality on the Western Reserve Frontier, Bari Oyler Stith
How Cleveland Invented the Modern Airport, Edward J. Pershey and Christopher J. Dawson
The Moral Challenge of Regional Sprawl, Anthony M. Pilla
Newest Gem in the Emerald Necklace, Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation, Edward Povraznik and Richard T. Huff Jr.
Outmigration and the First Suburbs Coalition, Judith H. Rawson
The Auto and the Environment: Approaching a Turning Point, Norman Robbins
Brownfield (Geauga County), Judith Sheridan
Moving Beyond the Limits of Environmental Politics, Kevin Snape
Public Transportation in Cleveland: The Golden Era (1859-1963), James A. Toman
Transporting People Beyond the Atmosphere, Craig H. Williams
Submissions from 1996
A Sort of Connecting Link: Andrew Squire, James Garfield, and the Village of Hiram, David R. Anderson
Post Glacial Evolution of the Northeast Ohio Landscape, James Aronson
Natural History Walking Tour of Squire Valleevue Farm, Philip Banks and Ana Locci
Thinking Bioregionally in the Western Reserve, David Beach
Creating 20th Century Warren, 1905-1925, Alexander T. Bobersky
A Tale of Two Cities, Mary O. Boyle
Untapped Resources: County Records as a Lens into the Past, Judith Cetina
Establishing Linkages Between the Park and the National Heritage Corridor, Tim Donovan
Harriet Taylor Upton, Lana Eisenbraun
Dawn Powell in Her Own Words: A Reader's Theatre, Marnie Ellis
A Remarkable Mirror: The Ups and Downs of Regional Theater in Cleveland, Marianne Evett
The Underground Railroad in the Western Reserve, Byron Fruehling
Father and Son: The Cleveland Years, Sharon Gregor
Family and Place- A Memoir, Mary Grimm
The 500 Million Year Old Foundation, Joseph Hannibal
Where People Worked: Made in Germany: Brewing in Cleveland, 1857-1907, Scott N. Hendrix
Cleveland Metroparks- Historic Anomaly or an Idea Whose Time Had Come?, Robert D. Hinkle
John D Rockefeller, Jr's Design Sensitivity: Something Money Cannot Buy, Cathryn Kapp
Medina: A Case Study, Susan M. McKiernan and Joann King
Regional Reflections, Ray McNiece
The City Beautiful Movement: Weeks/Gates Mills and the Rural Response, Steven McQuillin
Early Patterns of Survey and Settlement, Lawrence McWilliams
The Centennial of Dawn Powell: Dawn Powell at 100, Tim Page
History of Squire Valleevue Farm- Then and Now, Harry W. Palmer
Dawn Powell Returns to Lake Erie College, William Peterson
Planning the Role of the Park with the Cuyahoga Valley Communities Council, Barbara Pollarine
Workers' Neighborhoods and Housing in Ohio's Industrial Northeast, Barbara Powers
Heavenly Aspirations and Earthly Realities: Urban Utopias in the Western Reserve, Elwin C. Robison
Northeastern Ohio Country Estates and the Nursery Trade, Rebecca M. Rogers
Amazing Grace: Mahoning Valley's German Brethren (the "Dunkers") and the Greek Revival Style, Thelma S. Rohrer
The Sublime Estate: Landscape Restoration at Stan Hywet, Carl Ruprecht
How Cleveland Won the Rock Hall, Robert Santelli
A Manifest Destiny: The Common School, Rita Saslaw
Out the back, Jack: Early Years of the Garfield Marriage, John Shaw
The Cuyahoga Valley: A Past, Present and Future Regional Attraction: The Valley As An Industrial Magnet, Ricard J. Sicha
An Early Surveying History of the City of Cleveland, Thomas M. Snezek
The Ohio-Pennsylvania Retracement Survey, Franklin D. Snyder
The Mentor Marsh, 1901-1903: A Standoff! Peter M. Hitchcock vs. United States Steel, Sam Tamburro
Glaciers and Landscape Evolution of the Western Reserve, Michael Tevesz
The Manor House at Squire Valleevue Farm: A Tour, Betsey Tracy
Recreational Development of the Valley, Jeffrey R. Winstel
Submissions from 1995
Philanthropy and the Musical Life of Cleveland, J. Heywood Alexander
University Circle, William Barrow, Diane Schwartz, and Elizabeth E. Horrigan
Health Care Institutions and Gender: Three Case Studies, Nancy C. Erdey, Beth Johnson, and Jimmy Meyer
The Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland: A Response to a Community Need, Gordon S. Friedman
Samuel and Flora Stone Mather : Partners in Philanthropy, Gladys Haddad
What Do We Mean by Philanthropy?, David C. Hammack
Philanthropy and Cleveland's African-American Community, Adrienne Lash Jones
Politics and the Payne Fund, Garth S. Jowett
Diverse Expressions of Philanthropy: Changes in Jewish Philanthropy, Aileen Kassen
For Love and Money: A Comparison of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Steven Litt
Foundations and Advocacy for Women, Mary Denis Maher, Jana V. Stone, and Jane Petroff
The Mathers: The Role of Competitive Partnership in the Evolution of the Puritan Ethic, S. Sterling McMillan III
A Community Civic Catalyst for the Ages, Steven A. Minter
A Philanthropic Approach for the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, August A. Napoli Jr.
Philanthropic Motives and Models, Yolita E. Rausche, Molly M. Offutt, and Rebecca Rogers
Philanthropy and Civil Rights at the Local Level: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio in the 1960s, Kenneth W. Rose
Why Chicago and Not Cleveland? The Religious Imperative behind John D. Rockefeller's Early Philanthropy, 1855-1900, Kenneth W. Rose
Philanthropy Today: An Imperative, Ben Shouse
Religion, Reform, Race (and Rockefeller): Cleveland History Viewed Through the Lens of Philanthropy, Darwin H. Stapleton
Submissions from 1994
Pre-1850 Western Reserve Greek Revival Churches, David R. Anderson
Father Finney and Oberlin's First Church, Geoffrey Blodgett
Major World Religions: A Regional Presence, Booker T. Brown, Gurbakash Singh, Bhushan Wadwha, Azzam N. Ahmed, William E. Deal, Mary Susan Gast, Mary Ann Flannery, Sarah Sager, and Kimberly Phillips
Whence came all these Roman Catholics?, Nelson Callahan
Mapping the Imagined: Ideology, Cartography and the Mission to the Western Reserve, Amy DeRogatis
Pioneer Episcopalians and Their Clergy, Roderic B. Dibbert
Cleveland Churches in Action in the Twentieth Century, David C. Hammack
Faith and Education: Asking the Questions, Claudia Highbaugh
Egalitarian Transformations: The Religious Culture of the Western Reserve, 1800-1830, Traci Hodgson
Chagrin Falls, Luther Lee, D.D., and the Defense of John Brown; The North Union Shakers in The Valley of God's Pleasure, Paul L. Kaufman
Sacred Architecture of the Western Reserve, 1820-1920, Richard Klein
"Hail, Holy Light": The Amasa Stone Memorial Chapel, Walter Leedy
Black Religions: Many Faiths and Many Forms, Marvin McMickle
Looking forward from 'A Measure of Success': Protestants, Entrepreneurs, and Patriots at the Cleveland Centenntial, Marian Morton
Cleveland Quakers from 1892-1907: Evangelism, Gender and the Poor, John Oliver
M'Dor L'Dor- From Generation to Generation: The Jewish Legacy in Cleveland, Leatrice B. Rabinsky
Early Mormon Culture: The First Temple in Kirtland, Ohio, Elwin Robison
The Polish Churches: A Schism- St. Stanislaus and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Glenn Sobola
Turn of the Century Irish Catholics in St. Malachi's Parish, Kathleen L. Sull
Trinity Cathedral: The Burnham Stained Glass Windows, Michael Tevesz, Michael Wells, and James Whitney
Old Stone Church: Faith and Continuity, Jeanette Tuve