Tag: digital history
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The History Harvest: Undergraduate Engagement with Local Community Histories
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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.…
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From Historic Buildings to Murder and Mayhem: The Evolution of Wooster Digital History
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Katherine Holt, Anna Claspy, Brandon Bell, and Colleen Gilfether (The College of Wooster) For three summers teams of undergraduates from the College of Wooster have been at work on Wooster Digital History (www.woosterhistory.org), a project that has grown from curated exhibits to more mature collections, mapping exercises, and web-based town tours. The project began as…