Course: History 106.3S: Digital Durham and The New South
Instructor: Trudi Abel, Ph.D.
website: http://digitaldurham.duke.edu
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course description |
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Instructor: Trudi Abel, Ph.D.
website: http://digitaldurham.duke.edu
more info: course description | syllabus | contact
With its tobacco and textile industries, black businesses, and
brand-new Trinity College (later Duke University), late
19th-century Durham, North Carolina, was, in the words of one
historian, “a hub of enterprise and hope.”
The Digital Durham website <http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/> provides students and scholars sources with which they can study the cultural, social, political and economic history of post-Civil War Durham. The collection of digitized sources include a database of census records, maps, photographs, public records, business records and other manuscript materials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Students in this seminar will use primary documents to understand the impact of emancipation, immigration, segregation, and industrialization in Durham and the New South. In addition, Duke students will mentor eighth graders from a public magnet school in the using of digital technologies and primary sources to understand local history.
Duke students will also use iPods to create historical podcasts based on their research findings. These will be published on the Digital Durham Web site and offered to a broader community through the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
Trudi Abel directs the Digital Durham Project and is a scholar-in-residence in the Department of History. Her innovative use of primary documents with digital technology provides undergraduates an authentic research experience.
Related Links:
"Census Data Takes Class Back to 1880s", Duke News
"The Power and Poverty of Written Records" by Trudi Abel,
(click on Contents, click on title of article)
"New Database, Old Durham", The News & Observer, May 9, 2001 (pdf)
The Digital Durham website <http://digitaldurham.duke.edu/> provides students and scholars sources with which they can study the cultural, social, political and economic history of post-Civil War Durham. The collection of digitized sources include a database of census records, maps, photographs, public records, business records and other manuscript materials from the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Students in this seminar will use primary documents to understand the impact of emancipation, immigration, segregation, and industrialization in Durham and the New South. In addition, Duke students will mentor eighth graders from a public magnet school in the using of digital technologies and primary sources to understand local history.
Duke students will also use iPods to create historical podcasts based on their research findings. These will be published on the Digital Durham Web site and offered to a broader community through the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources.
Trudi Abel directs the Digital Durham Project and is a scholar-in-residence in the Department of History. Her innovative use of primary documents with digital technology provides undergraduates an authentic research experience.
Related Links:
"Census Data Takes Class Back to 1880s", Duke News
"The Power and Poverty of Written Records" by Trudi Abel,
(click on Contents, click on title of article)
"New Database, Old Durham", The News & Observer, May 9, 2001 (pdf)