Projects

Classes

Examples from Oral History and Memory Class:

• Queens Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed (2019)
• The Brooklyn Oral History Project
• The Revolution Park Oral History Project

Examples from 2014 Digital Age class:

• Faces of the Corridor

• Wake Up Uptown!

• Alexander Family History

• Matthews Heritage Museum

Examples from 2012 Digital Age class:

• Hefner’s Philosophy: Playboy and Revolution
• From Miracle Mile to Plaza-Midwood Neighborhood
• Musical Venues of the Queen City
• Charlotte Woman of the Year
• Building my Charlotte: The Queen City and its Architects

Examples from History in the Digital Age:

• Brooklyn to Biddleville
• Life in a New South City, Charlotte, NC 1865-1929

Selected Student and Faculty Projects

• Julie Hawks’ Undoing History: The Politics of Memory
• Ian Pasquini’s Tate Steet: That Great Street
• Layne Carpenter’s Live by the Spirit: Institutional Discipine for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County 1767-1839
• Allyson Miller’s The Chronicle Mill
• Kristen Foster’s blog on 19th century Mecklenburg women’s contributions to health and hygiene for her internship at Atkin’s Library’s Special Collections.
• Mary Dominick’s online exhibit for her public history thesis on the architecture of Charlotte College.
• Public Art: A Piedmont Case Study, Dr. Dan Morrill
• U.S. Forest Service Oral History Project, Aaron Shapiro
• Auburn University War Memorial, Aaron Shapiro