History’s John Grabowski provides background on Cuyahoga River fire of 1969

The myth of the Cuyahoga River fire

Distillations: John Grabowski, the Krieger-Mueller Joint Professor in History, gave context to the Cuyahoga River Fire of 1969, which is credited with helping drive the environmental movement after Time published a photo of what was believed to be from the event, but was actually from a different fire in 1952.