Black Belt 100 Lenses
Digital Archive Black Belt 100 Lenses creates opportunities for high school students from Alabama’s Black Belt to comment on the region’s unique histories and cultures through photography.
Art of the American South
A series of online exhibitions about various historical southern art topics. Each project on the site was researched, written, and curated by a student. This digital resource documents a wide variety of subjects in the history of southern art will grow, becoming a valuable point of reference for students and scholars in the field working nationally and internationally, as well as the general public.
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
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.
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.