Students learn firsthand about the life of James Monroe through an innovative history class.
Bringing History to Life
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Professor Jeffrey McClurken shows students how to blend the traditional and the digital.
Jeff McClurken Featured on Ars Technica Website
Jeff McClurken, associate professor of history, discusses technology trends and higher education in the Sunday, June 10 article “Future U: Fear and Loathing in Academia” on the Ars Technica website.
UMW Students Create Online Gallery for James Monroe Museum
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.
James Farmer Lectures Available Online
Civil Rights leader and former Mary Washington professor James Farmer’s reflection lectures are now available online as part of a digital archive. Four students constructed the archive as part of Associate Professor of History Jeff McClurken’s “Adventures in Digital History 2012” seminar.
Seniors Laura Donahue, Michelle Martz and Caitlin Murphy and junior Kelsey Matthews worked with McClurken and members of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies team to archive 13 of Farmer’s lectures from 1983. Farmer taught civil rights history at Mary Washington and was Commonwealth Professor of History at the time of the reflection lecture series.
To learn more about the project or to view the lectures, visit http://jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org/.
