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The First World War (A Database Review), Patti Mccall-Wright Jun 2018

The First World War (A Database Review), Patti Mccall-Wright

Faculty Publications

The First World War offers primary and secondary digitized content spread over four modules. The first module, Personal Experiences, focuses on the daily lives of men and women during wartime and addresses issues such as trench warfare, battle, training, death, and daily life in the military. The materials found in this module include diaries, letters, oral histories, cartoons, trench maps, and even sheet music. Propaganda and Recruitment addresses morale, censorship, recruitment, dissension, and propaganda development and includes posters, recruitment materials, tribunal case files, and papers from the UK Ministry of Information and the Kriegspresseamt in Berlin. Visual Perspectives and Narratives …


Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft Apr 2014

Community Leaders Negotiate A Framework For Their Archival Collection, Diane Duesterhoeft

Faculty Publications

This presentation describes the path an established community organization traveled toward getting their historicalmaterials into a local archive.


Fatal Wave, Geoffrey D. Reynolds Mar 2014

Fatal Wave, Geoffrey D. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

Fatal Wave is an article concerning the July 1938 seiche that happend in Holland, Michigan and north to Muskegon, Michigan along the Lake Michigan eastern shoreline, taking several lives in its wake.


Oral History Project Handbook, Evergreen Education Foundation, Faith Chao, Lauren Kata, Nancy Mackay, Jo Whitlatch, Zhang Yu Jan 2014

Oral History Project Handbook, Evergreen Education Foundation, Faith Chao, Lauren Kata, Nancy Mackay, Jo Whitlatch, Zhang Yu

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This handbook was developed by the EEF Oral History Team to introduce conference participants to oral history best practices. The handbook is part of an ongoing documentation effort by EEF, which includes forms, assessment tools, training curricula, and outside resources. Documentation in English and Chinese is continually updated at the EEF wiki, http://evergreeneducation.org/wikipub/tiki-index.php


"Oral History Core": An Idea For A Metadata Scheme, Nancy Mackay Jan 2012

"Oral History Core": An Idea For A Metadata Scheme, Nancy Mackay

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The best way gain a handle on the vast amount of information within oral histories is to develop standards for collecting and organizing this information that institutions of all kinds and sizes can easily adapt. This report presents an idea for such a solution: a metadata scheme for oral histories with the working title Oral History Core.