Learning Digital Skills Through History: Exploring Harrisburg with Mira Lloyd Dock

By Phoebe Lemin During the Fall semester of 2024 I was able to learn valuable and applicable skills through the Digital History course offered at Messiah University. During the course I learned the behind the scenes of website building, databases, and public outreach. The course involved practical assignments such as simple website reviews that helped … Continue reading Learning Digital Skills Through History: Exploring Harrisburg with Mira Lloyd Dock

Processing Paper Into The Digital: The Life of Genevieve Blatt

Technology can be difficult to use, but it can also be a tool that can help us create something beautiful. The process of digitization is no different. The use of technology among historians has grown a lot during the past several decades and has allowed for a new advances and discoveries to be made. For … Continue reading Processing Paper Into The Digital: The Life of Genevieve Blatt

The Newest Contributions to the Women’s History Garden

At the beginning of the semester, we chose three women to commemorate in the Civic Club’s Women’s History Garden. My partner, Kyle, and I completed extensive research on these women. We analyzed a variety of primary and secondary sources to inform our knowledge of these women and then created 1-page biographies on each woman. After … Continue reading The Newest Contributions to the Women’s History Garden

The Expansion of the Women’s History Garden

My name is Tyler Caruso and I am a Junior at Messiah University studying film and media production. During this semester as part of the Humanities Projects course at Messiah, I am working on the Women's History Garden at the Civic Club of Harrisburg. Last semester, Messiah University’s Center for Public Humanities partnered with the … Continue reading The Expansion of the Women’s History Garden