"Our Deepest Sympathy Mr. President," 1941, courtesy of http://jmpolitoons.umwhistory.org/items/show/100
A group of UMW students in a spring 2012 digital history course created an online gallery of political cartoons for the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. Students Andrew Becken, Rachel Icard, Rachel Luehrs and Heather Thompson archived the museum’s collection of 114 political cartoons dating from the 1890s to 1960s.
The students worked with James Monroe Museum staff, the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and faculty members in the Department of History and American Studies, including Claudine Ferrell, Porter Blakemore and Jeff McClurken. James Monroe Museum Director Scott Harris originally brought the project idea to Professor McClurken and the students worked extensively with James Monroe Museum Curator Jarod Kearney throughout the project.
The archive is available online at http://jmpolitoons.umwhistory.org/.
The digital history course also included projects on James Farmer lectures, UMW buildings and Southeast Virginia historical markers.
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