Category: #s1c
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A Room of One’s Own: Creating Place for the Queer Studies History at Denison University
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Sheilah Wilson and Shannon Robinson (Denison University) The Queer Studies program at Denison University has a history that includes: inception in 2000, a close call with dissolution in 2009, and the current re-emergence with many highly engaged students and faculty contributing to the thriving program. In 2014, a grant was awarded to create a digital…
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Using Historypin to Engage Students at the Archives
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Donna Baker (Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University) In the 2013 spring semester, the Albert Gore Research Center at Middle Tennessee State University uploaded material to Historypin, a crowdsource platform for historical materials. Instead of populating the center’s profile with collection highlights selected by staff, the students of Dr. Mary Hoffschwelle’s Tennessee…