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City Founders Expected an Outpost of New England, What They Created Was a Paragon of Immigrant Civic Engagement
The Republicans are convening in Cleveland, and the Cleveland Cavaliers have won the NBA championship after a half-century long drought for Cleveland sports teams, putting intense focus on the city’s past and present. And so I, as a historian, keep getting asked to describe the “essence” of the city in which I live and which I have studied for a number of years.
Most inquiries ask what makes Cleveland special. Too often, the responses that are given to the media …