| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan. Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880–1930. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2001. Pp. ix, 222. $23.95.

Laura Tuennerman-Kaplan has written a self-described "cautionary tale for modern policy-makers" (p. vii) that explores the importance of charitable giving to community identity in turn-of-the-century Cleveland, Ohio, when an influx of immigrants transformed the city into one of the "most foreign" municipalities in the country. 1

Not all newcomers made a transoceanic migration. Cleveland's miniscule pre-Civil War African-American community grew, by 1930, to constitute almost eight percent of the northern Ohio city's total population, while Italians and Italian Americans—absent before the 1860s—were five percent of the municipality's residents by the onset of the Depression. In a relatively slim volume, richly reliant on primary source materials, particularly local organizational papers and oral histories, Tuennerman-Kaplan closely examines charitable activities within these two groups of recent arrivals. The paired case studies document her thesis that Progressive-era philanthropy was a phenomenon that crossed all class, ethnic, and racial lines, involved large numbers of ordinary, even impoverished individuals, and served to tie people to their communities while meeting specific material needs. . . .

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