Eric Rhodes (History, Class of 2016, Antioch College) “In 1988, Douglas Massey found the housing patterns in Dayton and its suburbs to be the third most racially segregated among the fifty largest metropolitain areas in the United States. According to Massey, the metropolitan areas with higher levels of racial segregation than Dayton were Cleveland, Ohio, […]
Community Video: The Shamokin Fire History Museum Experience
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 […]
The History Harvest: Undergraduate Engagement with Local Community Histories
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. […]
Improving Digital and Multi-Modal Literacies of Museum Professionals-in-Training
Juilee Decker (Rochester Institute of Technology) Since Fall 2014, students enrolled in three undergraduate museum studies courses at Rochester Institute of Technology have collaborated on multiple museum studies/public history projects that have been designed to improve digital and multi-modal literacies. In each learning environment, students have participated in experiences extending beyond the classroom that have […]
From Historic Buildings to Murder and Mayhem: The Evolution of Wooster Digital History
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 […]