This website is the end project of HY200 Topics in History: Digital History/Public History Practicum class. Through archival research in the Colorado College Special Collections students in this class created an idea for a research project centered on sense of place at Colorado College. They chose one source to write a paper on and analyzed these sources in depth in conjunction with scholarly sources. These papers helped them build on their ideas for their project and create an argument. These papers were later turned into these digital projects.
Throughout the course students learned the basics of public history and examined databases and books to learn more about the study. They focused their efforts towards understanding which methods of presenting public history were effective and which were less effective for certain types of information. This helped them to choose a digital design that would present their information successfully. The students also read Trouillot’s Silencing the Past in order to understand the biases and silences that already exist in sources, archives, narratives, and history to help them understand gaps in their own topics. These understandings of history theory, digital history, archival work and sense of place all contributed to the final projects presented on this website.
