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Full-Text Articles in History
Unlocking Rosenberger's Research, Victoria N. Ramsay
Unlocking Rosenberger's Research, Victoria N. Ramsay
Student Publications
Homer Rosenberger's unprocessed collection lies in Musselman Library's Special Collections--a multitude of boxes filled with Pennsylvania research and memorabilia. By examining the first box in the collection, it becomes clear that Rosenberger was more than just an avid researcher, but also a man with his own history and reasons for collecting these documents in the first place.
Homer Rosenberger: Learning Beyond The Classroom, Theodore J. Szpakowski
Homer Rosenberger: Learning Beyond The Classroom, Theodore J. Szpakowski
Student Publications
Homer Rosenberger, a Pennsylvania historian, cared deeply about sharing information. He collected books and articles on the history of PA, as well as meeting minutes for the many societies he participated in. All of this material is now stored in boxes available at Musselman Library in Gettysburg, PA. This paper is a combination of research and reflection on the experience of working with the Rosenberger collection, specifically a box that deals primarily with correspondence learning and public history.
Change Happens Here, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College
Change Happens Here, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College
Other Exhibits & Events
The posters in this series focus on parts of the Gettysburg College story that have been minimized or neglected altogether in previous histories – particularly with respect to underrepresented groups, issues, and activisms. Based on sometimes incomplete sources, they represent imperfect knowledge and are not comprehensive. They are a beginning, not an ending.
For that reason, we invite your feedback – corrections, additional information, people and events not pictured. We also invite contributions of relevant documents, photos, etc. to the College Archives, or via our digital repository, “What We Did Here: Activism at Gettysburg College.”
The story of …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2019, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2019, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Dean (Robin Wagner)
Library News
- Cite and Bite Workshops
- Open Access Week (Janelle Wertzberger, Alecea Standlee, Hana Huskic)
- Notes at Noon
- Friends Sponsor Guild Participation (Mary Wootton)
- Stop the Bleed
- The Wall Must Go
- Story Time
- Table to Farm
- Pop-up Library
- Take the Reading Challenge
- 1,000,000
- Grant to Digitize Asian Art
Vietnam Oral Histories (Ron Bailey '67, Sue Hill '67, Michael Birkner, Devin McKinney)
Alexander von Humboldt's Secretary (William Bowman)
Focus on Philanthropy: Walter Miller Trust
A Gift in 3 Dimensions (Richard C. Ryder '70)
Remembering Richard Ryder '70 (Michael Birkner)
New Externship - Careers in Library and …
Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director Of The Civil War Institute, Musselman Library, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director Of The Civil War Institute, Musselman Library, Ashley Whitehead Luskey
Next Page
In this first Next Page column of the new academic year, Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute, shares which weathered volume she reads each October, her favorite book from her 9th grade English class, and explains her long-time fascination with Varina Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
From The Trenches: Cross-Campus Digital History Collaboration, Amy E. Lucadamo, Ian A. Isherwood, R.C. Miessler, Jenna Fleming, Meghan E. O'Donnell
From The Trenches: Cross-Campus Digital History Collaboration, Amy E. Lucadamo, Ian A. Isherwood, R.C. Miessler, Jenna Fleming, Meghan E. O'Donnell
All Musselman Library Staff Works
In September 2015, our team launched The First World War Letters of H.J.C. Peirs (www.jackpeirs.org), a digital history initiative built on collaboration between faculty, students, and library staff. The project is founded on amazing primary source material, but with limited financial support and little dedicated staff time. We leveraged the creativity and hard work of our team members to build a website that is maintained by students and enhanced whenever possible with features and commentary from faculty and staff. Members of #TeamPeirs discussed the evolution of the project, the nature of our collaboration, and the intersection of audiences …
Special Collections And Student Curators: Public History Through Primary Sources, Carolyn Sautter
Special Collections And Student Curators: Public History Through Primary Sources, Carolyn Sautter
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Musselman Library's Special Collections and College Archives at Gettysburg College has worked with over 70 student curators on art gallery exhibitions and public history exhibits. These curatorial experiences provide hands-on interactions with artifacts and artworks and high-impact collaborations among students, interns, archivists, librarians, historians, digital projects specialists, gallery directors, conservators, and preparators. The final result is often breathtaking and always informative. This presentation discusses practical recommendations and workflows for well timed, well researched, and effectively installed student curated exhibits.
Common Cause: An Oral History Of The World War Ii Home Front, Devin Mckinney, Michael J. Birkner
Common Cause: An Oral History Of The World War Ii Home Front, Devin Mckinney, Michael J. Birkner
Gettysburg College Faculty Books
In excerpts drawn from Musselman Library's Oral History Archive, the World War II years are recalled by dozens of the men and women—adults, teenagers, children—who endured them on the home front. The home front experience was by turns exhilarating, fearsome, depressing, and banal. Some civilians had it relatively easy, while others had it hard. Righteous confidence was offset by looming uncertainty, patriotism was often buttressed by bigotry, and the joys of victory and reunion were shadowed by irreplaceable losses. In this volume, the speech of ordinary citizens in extraordinary times is augmented by abundant illustration, much of it in …
Bringing Stories To Life By Sharing Archival Material, Christina M. Noto
Bringing Stories To Life By Sharing Archival Material, Christina M. Noto
Student Publications
Last summer I researched the experiences of women at Gettysburg College during the pivotal decade 1965-1975 with the support of a college grant, the Koble Fellowship, a ten-week humanities based faculty-mentored research project. I tracked women's experiences at the college during this period and designed a digital scholarship project to share their stories. As a history major and as a feminist, a project about the history of women and their activism on campus nicely complemented by interests. (excerpt)
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2017, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2017, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Dean (Robin Wagner)
Library News
- "You do not have a minute to lose!"
- New Homes for Old Books
- Wikipedia Edit-a-thon (Melanie Fernandes '16)
- Share a Table (Sarah Nelson '17)
- A Note of Sadness (Jay P. Brown '51)
- Not Lost in Translation
Half a Million Downloads from The Cupola! (Janelle Wertzberger)
Revisit The Mercury
Mercury Stories of Note (Jerry Spinelli '63)
More Early College Publications Online
The Spectrum of Art
First German Print of the Declaration of Independence (Daniel DeNicola)
Hidden Beneath: Watermarks in the Early American Document Collection (Tyler Black '17)
Archaeological Students Dig Special Collections
Research Reflections …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2016, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2016, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Dean (Robin Wagner)
Library Exhibits
GettDigital: Sports Reels
Research Reflections: The Gettysburg Superstar (Devin McKinney)
Remembering 9/12
Will Power: 400 Years After the Bard
Treasure Island (Robin Wagner)
Margin of Error
A Call to Activism in the Summer of '65 (Richard Hutch '67)
Digital Scholarship: The New Frontier (Julia Wall '19, Lauren White '18, Keira Koch '19)
Scrapbooks and Photo Albums: Snapshots of History (Clara A. Baker '30)
Soldiers' Scrapbooks (Laura Bergin '17)
A Book of Dreams (Alexa Schreier)
Who Do You Think You Are? (Timothy Shannon)
From Professor-Student to Collaborators (Jesse Siegel '16)
The Mysterious Easel Monument …
How To Create An Oral History Program, Devin Mckinney
How To Create An Oral History Program, Devin Mckinney
All Musselman Library Staff Works
The archival literature is full of calls to document under-represented voices, to create participatory archives, and to be an activist archivist. However, when funds and time are limited, these ideals can seem impossible to implement. What's an archivist to do? One easy and affordable option is to create an oral history program. This workshop will give you the skills and the confidence to start an oral history program at your own institution. It will cover the main steps from performing preliminary research and developing questions all the way through thinking about how to promote and use your oral histories once …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2016, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2016, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Dean (Robin Wagner)
Library Receives 9/11 Commission Papers (Fred Fielding '16)
Library News
Digital Scholarship Fellows
From Paupers to Presidents
Fair Use Week
Reading About Race
Student Workers Save the Day (Nadia Romero Nardelli '19)
Life in the Fishbowl (Brittany Barry '17)
In Memory of Douglas R. Price; Former Aide to Eisenhower
Special Purchases
From the Piano Bench (Jay P. Brown ’51, Doug Brouder ’83, Julie Caterson ’84 and Mr. & Mrs. Michael Fiery)
Research Reflections: The Spirit of Gettysburg (Timothy Sestrick)
Gift of Art
Old Gettysburg Back to Thee (Jenna Fleming '16, Avery Fox '16, Melanie Fernandes …
What's New In Preservation At Musselman Library: Student Workers And The Beauty Of The Book, Carolyn Sautter, Mary Wootton
What's New In Preservation At Musselman Library: Student Workers And The Beauty Of The Book, Carolyn Sautter, Mary Wootton
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Musselman Library's Special Collections and College Archives at Gettysburg College involves student workers and interns in our preservation and conservation efforts. The recent addition to the staff of a half-time conservator position has opened up new avenues for training. This has also resulted in additional access points for our students, faculty and other researchers to interact with our collections. This presentation discusses our preservation activities and our new digital collection The Beauty of the Book. It also illustrates how we have engaged student workers in conservation and enhanced cataloging description projects giving them a deeper appreciation for and understanding …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2015, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2015, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Dean (Robin Wagner)
Avian Flew! (Peter Morgan)
First-Year Book Group
Library News
Students Help Make History Public (Steven Semmel '16, Andrew Dalton '19)
Student Exhibit Exemplifies Liberal Arts (Rebecca Duffy '16)
Report Cards Reveal More Than Grades
Interview with Lawrence Taylor: Case Map Collection
Research Reflections: Eisenhower's Correspondence (Michael J. Birkner '72)
Musselman Likes Ike
Eisenhower in Focus
Hammann Honored (Louis Hammann '51)
Rare Document on Holocaust
GettDigital: The Beauty of a Book (Rachel Hammer '15)
Focus on Philanthropy: Kimberly Rae Connor '79
Gifts to Musselman Library
Research Help Desk: Different Name, Same Great Service!
"Let Us Cross Over The River And Rest Under The Shade Of The Trees,": My Final Post For The Summer, Steven J. Semmel
"Let Us Cross Over The River And Rest Under The Shade Of The Trees,": My Final Post For The Summer, Steven J. Semmel
Blogging the Library
As the summer comes to a close, the more I think about my experiences here at Special Collections. This internship was completely different compared to my past internships, going from giving tours to creating finding aids for collections. I lived a Civil War Era Studies student’s dream, being able to handle a wide range of artifacts and documents while helping preserve them at the same time. The Hosford Collection has portions of it digitized on GettDigital and I am currently working on reorganizing and editing the Civil War Vertical File Manuscript. The Hosford Collection helped me establish my understanding of …
Faces Of The Civil War, Steven J. Semmel
Faces Of The Civil War, Steven J. Semmel
Blogging the Library
As the internship enters its final month of the summer, I’ve been processing and looking at various Civil War collections. This era in history is well known for the bloody conflicts that separated the nation. However, not much is known about most individuals that fought in different regiments across the country, or even what they looked like. Special Collections is home to a few faces that at Gettysburg, out West, prisoners at Andersonville, or stationed in places like Florida. The collections I have recently processed included photos of those soldiers at different stages in their life. [excerpt]
Greetings From The Civil War Intern!, Steven J. Semmel
Greetings From The Civil War Intern!, Steven J. Semmel
Blogging the Library
Hello everyone! I would like to welcome you to Musselman Library’s intern blog. I’m Steven Semmel (the big goofy guy at the bottom of the current intern’s section) and I am the Brian C. Pohanka Civil War Institute intern at Special Collections for the summer of 2015. I will primarily be working with anything that deals with the Civil War in Special Collections. This includes diary transcriptions, digitizing, cataloging, creating displays, you name it! I am having a wonderful time so far this summer and currently working on transcribing three years’ worth of diary entries from Hoadley G. Hosford. Hosford …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2015, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2015, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
From the Director: Open Access (Robin Wagner)
Global Perspective: Library Participation in College’s Internationalization Efforts (Lucy Marinova ’12, Munya Choga ’12)
Remembering Gale Baker
Library wins 2014 Best in Show
Summer Reads 2015 Launches
Eisenhower Exhibit
Birds of a Feather: Photography Exhibit (Sandra Blair)
Heads Will Turn: Student Exhibit (Mark Warwick)
Edible Books
Audubon Print - Carolina Parrot (Geoffrey Jackson ’91)
Life in Photos: William H. Tipton exhibit
50th reunion Gift of First Editions (John E. Rogers, Jr. ’65)
Sharing the Past: Alumni Memorabilia (Jessica Casale ’18, Julia Hendon, Clara A. Baker ’30, Gary T. Hawbaker ’66)
19th …
Iran: Beyond The Headlines, Musselman Library
Iran: Beyond The Headlines, Musselman Library
Other Exhibits & Events
Poster with Spring 2015 events for Iran: Beyond the Headlines series.
Iran: Beyond the Headlines is a learning series that includes book discussions, film screenings, and lecture designed to help us move past today's headlines and explore the history, art, culture, and everyday life of Iranians. Series events are scheduled for September 2014 - April 2015. All events are free and open to the public.
Artifacts As Ambassadors: Sharing Special Collections Through Collaboration With Student Curators, Carolyn Sautter
Artifacts As Ambassadors: Sharing Special Collections Through Collaboration With Student Curators, Carolyn Sautter
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Special Collections and College Archives at Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, regularly collaborates with various academic departments to conduct class visits utilizing the primary sources in Special Collections Reading Room. In the last two years, some of these opportunity have grown into semester long student curation experiences both inside Special Collections and in collaboration with Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College.
The exhibits discussed included:
Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era
Slow to Heal: The Evolution of Medicine from the Civil War Era to WWI
Owl & Nightingale Players, 1914-2014: One Hundred Years of Drama
Introducing Fortenbaugh Intern Abby, Abby M. Rolland
Introducing Fortenbaugh Intern Abby, Abby M. Rolland
Blogging the Library
Hi I’m Abby – the last of three Fortenbaugh Interns to post! I am a senior with a History major and Political Science and Anthropology minors and I hail from Kokomo, Indiana. I am so excited to be working in Special Collections – I love working with history first-hand! Here’s a brief write-up of what I have completed so far in my time on the 4th Floor. [excerpt]
Iran: Beyond The Headlines, Musselman Library
Iran: Beyond The Headlines, Musselman Library
Other Exhibits & Events
Poster with Fall 2014 events for Iran: Beyond the Headlines series.
Iran: Beyond the Headlines is a learning series that includes book discussions, film screenings, and lecture designed to help us move past today's headlines and explore the history, art, culture, and everyday life of Iranians. Series events are scheduled for September 2014 - April 2015. All events are free and open to the public.
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2014, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2014, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
Table of Contents: From the Director: Gettysburgreat: The Campaign for Our College (Robin Wagner); Popular Middle East Series Continues; Letter from Edgar Rice Burroughs Explains Origin of Tarzan's Name; Library Celebration Owl & Nightingale's 100th Anniversary (Chelsea Bucklin '10, Chris Kauffman '92, Elyse Bennett '10); Encore! Owl & Nightingale Players Take Center Stage at Homecoming (Paul Di Salvo '13, Chelsea Bucklin '10, Aliena J. (Fischer) Garnard '93, Kelsey Lamagdeleine '09, Sean Valentine '05); Research Reflections: Shakespeare Folio (Chris Kauffman '92); GettDigital- The Story Continues: Professor Visits Italy and Recreates WWII Photos (Alan Perry, Catherine Perry); Don't Be Antisocial; Obama Awards …
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2014, Musselman Library
Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Spring 2014, Musselman Library
Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter
Table of Contents: From the Director: Peer Research Mentors (Robin Wagner); Price of Freedom Diorama (Bill Cleary); Focus on Philanthropy (Jim Vinson ’63 and Susan Vinson); Story Behind Gray’s Anatomy; Phoenix and the Dragon: Embodiments of Yin and Yang Online Exhibit (Megan Blount ‘14); “The Lost Year” - Donation Illustrates the Integration Crisis in Little Rock (John Carland); Interesting Reading at Next Page (John Commito, Erin Duran, Jan Powers, Dave Flesner, Ed Riggs ’77); GettDigital – The World War I Letters of John Alexander Kinnear (Dori Gorczyca ’15); Amputation Saws, Scalpels and Bullet Extractors, Battlefield Medicine Exhibit (Natalie Sherif ’14); …
Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif
Toeing The Line Between Offense And Education, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
Medical history can be gruesome. People shy away from blood and guts and images of death perhaps because it makes us question our own mortality or perhaps because it reminds us a bit too much about the origins of that hamburger we ate for lunch. Whatever the reason, a lot of humans cannot stomach the truly heinous. [excerpt]
Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif
Do You Doodle?, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
If you were, are, or will become a student, then you have probably thought about doodling during class. Fear not! We are not the only generation to draw in the midst of a lecture. Today’s research escapade led me to investigate George Currier’s notes from his time as a student at the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College. [excerpt]
North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner
North And South: Archivists Document Gettysburg’S 150th, Robin Wagner
All Musselman Library Staff Works
Sometimes the best special collections are right in your own backyard. Not the ones that come to you from a retiring professor, local collector, or estate settlement, but the ones that you put together yourself. Rather than sit by and wait for memorabilia related to the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg to come to them, archivists at Gettysburg College took an active role, becoming part of the history they would normally just accept from donors. [excerpt]
A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif
A Hypochondriac Investigates The Evolution Of Medicine, Natalie S. Sherif
Blogging the Library
This exhibit will open to the public in February 2014, but until then I have my work cut out for me. I am currently researching various aspects of medical history spanning from the mid-1800s, through the Civil War, to WWI. Thus far I have read accounts of women volunteers during the American Civil War, important changes that went into effect during WWI, and an overly detailed description on how to perform tooth extractions according to the latest science of the 1860s. [excerpt]
Fun With Civil War Sheet Music, Emily A. Francisco
Fun With Civil War Sheet Music, Emily A. Francisco
Blogging the Library
One project I haven’t blogged too much about yet is the Civil War Sheet Music exhibit for the Main Floor. Initially, Meggan only asked me to come up with a tentative list of pieces to display from the resources available; now, though, I’m finding myself assigned to the task of organizing, mounting, and labeling the exhibit. It’s a cool assignment, because it’s so different from everything else I’ve been working on this summer. [excerpt]