Welcome to the Voices of Industrial America digital projects site!
Discover the digital projects created by students during the spring 2016 COPLAC Digital Liberal Arts seminar - Voices of Industrial America: The Community and Individual Experience of American Industrialization in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries. This co-taught, multi-campus distance learning experience challenged students from different Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC)institutions to research the stories of their communities during the second industrial revolution (circa 1870-1914) and create digital projects exhibiting their research. Applying the methodologies and tools of digital historical scholarship, students performed archival research, digitized primary source materials, created metadata, wrote narratives, and designed a digital site in Omeka to showcase their efforts. This course was made possible through support from the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges and the Teagle Foundation. Explore the student exhibits below.
The Making of Tunnel City: North Adams and the Industrial Revolution |
The Revolution that Never Was: The Industrial History of St. Mary's County, Maryland |
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Postcard of Hoosac Tunnel's West Portal
This postcard depicts the West Portal of the Hoosac Tunnel in North Adams, and bears a label which reads "Hoosac Tunnel, No. Adams, Mass".
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Infrastructure Minutes
Several pages from the Tampa City Council minutes on the subject of civil infrastructure development.
St. Mary's Beacon from October 7, 1852
This scanned image features the "St. Mary's Beacon" from October 7, 1852. The Beacon is a local newspaper of St. Mary's County and is based in…