Not sure what public, digital, and oral history projects look like? Browse the following selection for ideas on the range of work and what's possible--for your individual class, for a senior thesis student, or for a bigger university or regional project.
Questions for Reflection:
Which of these projects appeals to you most? Why?
Which of these projects seems to match the scope of your pedagogical goals? Why?
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Black at Bryn Mawr is a digital history project seeking to build institutional memory of the college's engagement with race and racism, started as a Praxis III independent study. |
Beyond Penn's Treaty is a Haverford College-based resource for primary-source material, maps, and more on Quaker and American Indian relations. |
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History Harvest is an open, digital archive of historical artifacts gathered from communities across the United States, based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. |
The Southern Oral History Program has collected over 5,000 interviews, and is based at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The "Undergraduate Involvement" section may be of particular interest. |
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American University's showcase of student public history projects, many of which use local archives. |
The "Runaway Connecticut" project, from a digital humanities class at Wesleyan College, combines a database of slave ads, scholarly content, and interactive mapping. |
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South Lake Union Stories, from the University of Washington, displays local urban history using Omeka, a popular tool. |
Wheaton College's Digital History Project describes using TEI over several courses to teach historical methods. |
