The mill might make steel, but the people don’t: The path from John Henry to Wilbur Ross
By Michael Broida The trade war has begun: China announced up to $50 billion of tariffs on U.S. products yesterday [...]
Cleveland, Superior Ave. close to Public Square: Gateway to becoming American
By Lucy J. Cox I haven’t lived in Cleveland for decades, only going to visit, but spring training baseball always [...]
America’s History Of Racial Violence Is Not Just A Southern Issue. The Midwest Needs To Come To Terms, Too.
On June 1, 1893, two local white women, a Mrs. Dill and a Mrs. William Vest, had reported that they were raped by an African-American man. Bands of white men roamed through the streets and fields, intending to lynch the perpetrator.
RIP, Unknown Skeletal Remains
Excerpted from The Akron Anthology available from Belt Publishing. By Jennifer Conn The dirt path to the Summit County potter’s field in Tallmadge, [...]
Two Letters: Jackie Kennedy, Ray Bradbury, Suburbia, and Me
By Amy Kenyon This is a memory of two letters written during the last years before home computers and social [...]
The Last, First Miami Speakers
The story of the Miami language over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is one of fracture and dissolution. In this it is not unique among Native languages—or cultures. In fact, it’s difficult to talk about one without the other.
“The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye” Now Available for Pre-Order
The Whiskey Rebellion and the Rebirth of Rye: A Pittsburgh Story By Mark Meyer and Meredith Meyer Grelli November 15, [...]
How to Win Reparations
Somewhere between his 12th and 13th hour inside a Chicago Police interrogation room, Lindsey Smith decided to confess to a murder he didn’t commit. The year was 1972. Multiple officers had pistol-whipped, stomped on and beaten him, again and again.
Beyond ‘White Flight’
What the history of one Cleveland neighborhood can teach us about race and housing inequality.
Lovely Weather We’re Having … Now Who Will Save Us?
On days with significantly bizarre but altogether pleasant weather, Midwestern politeness stifles me from responding to small talk observations of “unseasonably warm weather” with thoughts on climate change.
What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Belt Publishing is thrilled to announce the newest addition to our Notches series: What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia by Elizabeth Catte.
How the Cleveland Browns’ Black Players Changed the NFL
When the All America Football Conference launched in 1945 it sought well-heeled owners to go head-to-head with the more established NFL. Mickey McBride, owner of Cleveland’s AAFC franchise, tabbed Paul Brown to be its head coach.