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Syllabus for “Oberlin History as American History, Spring, 2012
2/21/2012 History 268 Oberlin History as American History Spring 2012 Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00-10:50 King 343 Professor Carol Lasser Office: Rice 317 Carol.lasser@oberlin.edu X56712 Office Hours: Thursdays 3-4:45 and by appointment
Here are the title page, table of contents, and introduction from Past or Portal? Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Special Collections and Archives: Past or portal title page Past or portal table of contents Past or portal intro Here’s further information about the book: http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/5310 Workshop participants are eligible for a 15% discount on the print […] HISTORY 213 – First Wave American Feminism Fall 2010
Production date: September 12, 2010 Adelaide Johnson (left), Dora Lewis, and Jane Addams at the dedication of Johnson’s suffrage sculpture Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony in the U.S. Capitol. National Photo Co. February […] “Abundant Life To All: The YWCA of the USA” “Global Valley” is an American Studies introductory course that teaches American Studies methodologies through a study of the local—the valley in question is the Connecticut River Valley—so the assignments are all quite different, material culture analysis of an object, a close reading of a Dickinson poem, digging into census data, contemporary oral history exercises etc…. […] The core of the historical essays hosted on the Archives’ site were researched and written by Williams students. Some of these were the result of a Winter Study course titled Building Histories which was essentially a research methods class in disguise. Letters Home was an ambitious project that involved students researching different periods in the institution’s history, creating letters (or other communications) to their ‘families’ in the correct style/format/syntax/etc., and videotaping their performance as the period student. The project has recently been split into sections for ease of viewing. After opening a chapter, scroll down through […] A Ford Foundation grant allowed the Sophia Smith Collection to conduct oral histories with 60+ grassroots activists, organizers, and cultural workers in an effort to expand our holdings on 20th century women’s activism. The collection is important to historians of the feminism as well as students at Smith who use the collection regularly. The project […] In a seminar I teach called “Documenting Lesbian Lives,” the students conduct, transcribe, and edit a full-length oral history. The materials are then deposited at the SSC for future researchers. You can access the project description and transcripts online here: http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/lives/lives-intro.html A Student’s Exhibit of Scrapbooks from the Archives |