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

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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

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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

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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

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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