Brandon Locke (Michigan State University), Jacob Friefeld, and Ashlee Anderson (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) History Harvest (http://historyharvest.unl.edu) is a collaborative, team-oriented, student-centered and community-based project that contributes to the democratization and accessibility of American history by collecting and sharing the experiences and artifacts of everyday people and local historical institutions in an open web archive. […]
Small Places Contain Worlds of Their Own: Transforming Local History into Public Scholarship
Rob Sieczkiewicz, Edward Slavishak, Marie Wagner, Rachel Baer, and Amber Peretin (Susquehanna University) In this work-in-progress session, Susquehanna University faculty, students and staff will explore how a new campus-wide Omeka program transformed a Pennsylvania history course. The faculty member will discuss the origins of the project as an exercise to change students’ perception of local history […]
Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center: An Interactive Site for Research and Teaching
Don Sailer, Katie Clark, Frank Vitale, and Rachel Krutchen (Dickinson College) The Carlisle Indian Industrial School (1879-1918), the first government-run off-reservation boarding school in the U.S., is a major site of memory for many Native peoples, as well as a source of research and study for descendants, students, and scholars in the U.S. and abroad. The […]