“Making History: Kansas City and the Rise of Gay Rights”
This is the digital version of a traveling exhibit from 2017; the exhibit, which explores Kansas-City based activism on the part of gay and lesbian citizens, was co-created by History faculty and students in a Public History course.
Social Justice and the Politics of Information: A Digital Resource
Part of the Engaged Humanities Initiative at University of Illinois at Chicago, this is a co-created resource comprising articles by UIC undergraduates on the role of information and misinformation in public health, criminal justice, technology, and other areas.
Life in the Iron Mills: Historical Background
This is a student project from English 303: American literature to 1900 from Fall 2022. For this final project assignment, students were encouraged to choose different formats than the traditional literary research essay to show their learning. This project uses Microsoft Sway to present images and text about the historical context of a text from the course. See the assignment prompt here.
Stepping into Portland Stories: Exploring the Histories of Black Displacement in Portland
A StoryMap developed as a Public Research Fellows project in 2021 by Molly Hiro and students Grace Fortson and Vy-An Nguyen. The site tells stories of historic Black displacement in the city by way of snippets from five coming of age narratives by Black Portlanders and various maps that show the locations of these stories.
This project, created by the English 356 class of Dr. Jen McDaneld of University of Portland, asked students to work in groups to create a website introducing a popular audience to themes and contexts of American modernism. See the assignment prompt here.