In Progress
Rhodes, Eric Michael. “The Rust Belt of the Sunbelt: Rubber, Petrochemicals, and the Political Economic Geography of Toxic Waste in Southeast Texas and Northeast Ohio, 1940–1990.” Texas Gulf Historical & Biographical Record. (In Progress)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Review of The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States, by Walter Johnson. The Metropole, March 2021. (In Progress)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Review of Boomtown Columbus: Ohio’s Sunbelt City and How Developers Got Their Way, by Kevin R. Cox, The Cleveland Review of Books, Winter 2021. (In Progress)
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Academic Book Chapters
Rhodes, Eric Michael and Jacob Bruggeman (Johns Hopkins). “From Crass Materialists to Missionaries of Culture: A Regional History of Cultural Ascendance and Economic Decline through the Cleveland Orchestra,” in Where East Meets (Mid)West: Exploring a Regional Divide, edited by Jon Lauck and Gleaves Whitney. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. (Forthcoming)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Midwestern 'Mobocracy': The Emergence of Labor Politics and Racial Exclusion in Cincinnati and the Lower Old Northwest, 1829–1836” in The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787 to 1900, edited by Jon Lauck. Hastings, NE: Hastings College Press, May 2020.
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Trade Book Chapters
Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Ohio Has Always Had Confederate Apologists” in Dispatches from the Rust Belt Volume III: The Best of Belt Magazine 2020, edited by Ryan Schnurr. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, November 2021. (Forthcoming)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Who Killed John Crawford?” in The Dayton Anthology, edited by Shannon Shelton Miller. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, December 2020.
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Journal Articles
Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Opening the Suburbs after 'Open Communities': The Origins of the 'Fair-Share' Era
of Fair Housing and the Suburban 'Race for Profit,' 1971–1982.” (Submitted to Journal of Urban History
for initial review in June 2020)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael and Guy Weston (Rutgers). “Regional Variations in Manumission of Slaves in New Jersey, 1790 to 1860.” New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4, no. 2 (2018): ​329–331.
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Book Reviews
Rhodes, Eric Michael. Review of Dayton: The Rise, Decline, and Transition of an Industrial City, by Adam Millsap. The Middle West Review, Spring 2021. (Forthcoming)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael.​ Review of Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest, by Jon C. Teaford. The Cleveland Review of Books, Fall 2020. (Forthcoming)
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Review of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The Metropole, March 31, 2020.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Book Review: Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies.” Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon. Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. August 2019.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael.​ Review of Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, by Daniel Immerwahr. Tropics of Meta, December 11, 2018.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael.​ Review of Planning Future Cities, by Walter Greason and Anthony Pratcher II. Tropics of Meta, November 13, 2018.
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Rhodes​, Eric Michael. “Book Review: The One Way Street of Integration.” Review of The One-Way Street of Integration: Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities, by Edward G. Goetz. The Metropole, October 8, 2018.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Rhodes on Reichard, 'Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968.” Review of Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics since 1968, by Gary W. Reichard. H-FedHist, December 2017.
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Public History
Radio Interview: “Confederate Flag Debate at Northeast Ohio County Fairs.” WCPN Ideastream Cleveland, July 29, 2020.
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Radio Interview: “Confederate Symbolism and Apologists in Southwest Ohio.” WYSO Dayton, July 21, 2020.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Ohio Has Always Had Confederate Apologists.” Belt Magazine, July 6, 2020.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “March Is The Metropole’s Month Of Books.” The Metropole. March 2020.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “A Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective. January 2019.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “Top Ten Monument Takedowns.” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, October 2017.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “The Indian New Deal.” Pieces of History, November 30, 2015.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. “The Plot to Kill President Truman.” Pieces of History, November 1, 2015.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. The National Archives Oral History Toolkit. Washington: The National Archives & Records
Administration, 2015.
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Digital History & Oral History
Rhodes, Eric Michael. Coloring the Gem City: The Legacy of Housing Policy in Dayton, Ohio, oral history collection. Oral History in the Liberal Arts, 2016. Supervised by Brooke Bryan and funded by Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Oral History Interview with Bruce Bustard. For National Archives History Office Oral History, December 11, 2015.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Oral History Interview with Benjamin Guterman. For National Archives History Office Oral History, December 11, 2015.
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Rhodes, Eric Michael. Interactive Map of Sites of Disinvestment in West Dayton. In "​In West Dayton, Empty Homes Still Haunt Neighborhood Hopes" by Lewis Wallace, WYSO, November 9, 2015.