{"id":3577,"date":"2011-04-12T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=3577"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:08:54","slug":"hands-on-civil-war-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2011\/04\/12\/hands-on-civil-war-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands on Civil War History"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We’re in the Scranton Times-Tribune<\/a> today!\u00a0 Many thanks to reporter Josh McAuliffe and photographer Michael Mullen for sharing the story of our exciting Civil War project.\u00a0 Here’s what it’s all about:<\/p>\n

This semester, students from Dr. Kathryn Shively Meier<\/strong>‘s Civil War and Reconstruction class (HIST314) partnered up with the Weinberg Memorial Library, the Lackawanna Historical Society<\/a>, and the Everhart Museum<\/a> to get a hands-on feel for local Civil War history.\u00a0 Dr. Meier designed the class project in collaboration with Digital Services Librarian Kristen Yarmey<\/strong> to give the students a taste of what life as a historian, curator, or archivist is like while they simultaneously learned about the experience of the common man during the Civil War.<\/p>\n

The class project kicked off with a visit to the Everhart’s exhibit<\/a> “With bullets singing all around me”: Regional Stories of the Civil War<\/em>, where the students got to chat with curator Nezka Pfeifer<\/strong> about how the exhibit came together.\u00a0 The class of 33 students, most of whom are history majors, then split up into five groups, each with a specific task.\u00a0 The first group worked at the Historical Society with executive director Mary Ann Moran-Savakinus<\/strong> and Pennsylvania Conservation Corps member Sara Strain<\/strong>, going through genealogical files to search for original, Civil-War era correspondence.\u00a0 A second group of students focused on preserving those found letters in appropriate archival storage and prepared them to be lent to the Weinberg Library.<\/p>\n

A third group of students spent time here at the Weinberg, digitizing the found letters and describing them.\u00a0 The fourth group of students got a primer in 19th century handwriting from Dr. Meier and is currently working on transcribing the documents.\u00a0 A final, fifth group of students will design a web page layout to interpret the digitized letters for the public.<\/p>\n

The end result of the project will be a set of fully searchable, digitized, Scranton-related Civil War documents.\u00a0 These documents will all be made freely available to the public as part of a local collaborative digital history collection called “Out of the Wilderness,” hosted by the Albright Memorial Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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