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Digital Humanities Panel: Women & WWII Digital Exhibit - The Margaret Payne Letters
Abstract
Digital Humanities Panel: Women & WWII Digital Exhibit - The Margaret Payne Letters
Digital Humanities projects expand the field of history by providing students the opportunity to present their research in a digital format, allowing access by a significantly broader audience than a physical exhibit. In this digital exhibit “Women & WWII: the Letters of Margaret Payne,” students in Professor Tammy Pike’s HIST 391 course worked with the University Archivist Ann Merryman, and Senior Instructor Librarian Laura Karas using the library’s content management system, LibGuides, to present transcriptions of 67 letters between Margaret Payne and John R. Dolin, an enlisted Army soldier stationed at the Greenville Army Air Field in 1943.
The students are partnering with the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society as part of the service-learning component of the course, and the additional background research each student is doing enriches the digital exhibit, providing context and nuance to the letters. Through the partnership with the university archives, the project connects the students and the university to the broader upstate region community. Two students, Mallory Stoop and Samantha Reinhardt will be presenting their LibGuide.
The expected impact is a link to an online digital project that students will be able to link on their resume and use as a work example in future job searches.
Digital Humanities Panel: Women & WWII Digital Exhibit - The Margaret Payne Letters
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Digital Humanities Panel: Women & WWII Digital Exhibit - The Margaret Payne Letters
Digital Humanities projects expand the field of history by providing students the opportunity to present their research in a digital format, allowing access by a significantly broader audience than a physical exhibit. In this digital exhibit “Women & WWII: the Letters of Margaret Payne,” students in Professor Tammy Pike’s HIST 391 course worked with the University Archivist Ann Merryman, and Senior Instructor Librarian Laura Karas using the library’s content management system, LibGuides, to present transcriptions of 67 letters between Margaret Payne and John R. Dolin, an enlisted Army soldier stationed at the Greenville Army Air Field in 1943.
The students are partnering with the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society as part of the service-learning component of the course, and the additional background research each student is doing enriches the digital exhibit, providing context and nuance to the letters. Through the partnership with the university archives, the project connects the students and the university to the broader upstate region community. Two students, Mallory Stoop and Samantha Reinhardt will be presenting their LibGuide.
The expected impact is a link to an online digital project that students will be able to link on their resume and use as a work example in future job searches.