a shipyard on a river

Bringing the Past to Life: Old Spanish in the Digital Age

Erin O’Rourke’s Spanish 485/585 class analyzed the changes in the Spanish language through recording themselves speaking the old pronunciations and annotating their own pieces to demonstrate where changes occurred.  Project Owner(s): Erin O’Rourke Tools: WordPress Methods: audio recording Topics: Spanish Language View Bringing the Past to Life

a woman holds a flower in front of armed men

Vietnam War Oral History Archive

This oral history archive has been created by students in Dr. Sarah Steinbock-Pratt’s class on the Vietnam War. The course explores the long history of the Vietnam War, beginning with early Vietnamese history and colonization.

Photograph from 1932 depicting a family in the Great Depression

Dirt Poor

Dr. Karen Gardiner’s EN 455 (Advanced Studies in Writing) course has students recovering family stories from the Great Depression, contextualizing the person they study into their historical and cultural context, and then writing essays that convey that information to a wider audience.

John Stuart Mill with the signature of John Stuart Mill overplayed on the right

Digitizing The Marginalia of John Stuart Mill

This project is being conducted in partnership with the Special Collections division of the Library of Somerville College, Oxford, which houses the library of John Stuart Mill and his father, James Mill. We are working together to create a multi-faceted open access digital resource showcasing the manuscript marginalia written in texts by both J. S. …