Listed below are resources available from the Akron-Summit County Public Library that support many activities and exercises related to the Social Studies Skills and Methods lesson plan, My Community Then and Now, from the Ohio History Teachers site.   There are also resources listed here appropriate for more advanced study of history using recorded oral histories or other primary source documents.

Maps and Images

• The Online Maproom from Summit Memory contains historical maps of Akron and Summit County.  Many atlases contain statistical summaries of population and industries as well as rivers, canals and railroad lines.
• Images of Summit County Communities:  Barberton, Cuyahoga Falls, Hudson, Kenmore,  Munroe Falls, Peninsula, and Tallmadge
• Historic Images of Summit County Schools in Summit Memory.

Online Books

• Online Book of the Settlement and Progress of Tallmadge 
• Online Books related to Akron’s Jewish Community: A Century of Adjustment and an issue of the Jewish Criterion. 
• Online Books related to Akron’s African American Community: Contributions of Blacks in Akron, 1825-1975 and the Akron Negro Directory, 1940.
• The online book, Report of the Akron Commission on Civil Disorders about the economic and social causes of the 1968 Akron Riot.  (Use with the Written Document Analysis worksheet from the National Archives)

Archival Collections

• The Memories of Downtown Collection contains audio recordings and transcriptions of oral history interviews conducted in 1997.  The interviews focused how downtown Akron was remembered by area residents.  (Use with the Audio Analysis worksheet from the National Archives)
• The Times They Were A’Changing Collection contains recorded oral history interviews and photographs online in Summit Memory related to the 1968 Akron Riots. (Use with the Audio Analysis worksheet  and the Photograph Analysis worksheet from the National Archives)

See Also: Akron’s Neighborhoods & Ethnic Groups