Tag: local history
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Community Video: The Shamokin Fire History Museum Experience
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Carl Milofsky and Brianna Derr (Bucknell University) In community video academics engage members of a community using ethnographic research methods and then develop projects jointly that address a community need and also express meaningful aspects of the local community’s culture using the medium of video. A partnership has been developed between Bucknell University and the…
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Small Places Contain Worlds of Their Own: Transforming Local History into Public Scholarship
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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…
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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…