3290 Glencairn Road
Shaker Heights, OH 44122-3408
A History Consulting Company
Virginia P. Dawson, President
For more than two decades, History Enterprises, Inc. has provided historical services to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. The company is headed by Virginia P. Dawson, an independent scholar and Adjunct Associate Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, where she received a Ph.D. in History of Science and Technology. She has written books, articles, and directed media projects for many clients, including NASA, the Cleveland Clinic, the Association of American Medical Colleges, Lincoln Electric, the Payne Fund, and Cleveland Cliffs.
She is currently working on a history of Shaker Heights, a planned suburb, located on Cleveland’s East Side. Once the site of a Shaker village, Shaker Heights is of current interest because it is one of the few racially integrated suburbs in the United States. A recent article, “Protection from Undesirable Neighbors: The Use of Deed Restrictions in Shaker Heights, Ohio,” was published in the May 2019 issue of Journal of Planning History.
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