In my research and teaching, I draw on techniques from what might be broadly categorized as digital history to make my work as accessible as possible to those within and outside of college and university campuses. By providing some of the resources I’ve created on this website, I hope they may be useful for anyone interested in pursuing historical projects or serve as templates for others in the history classroom.
Public Digitized Archives
The following are publically available, free digitized archives that I collaborated with other historians to compile. The sources in the following collections are largely English language-based.
The following instructions are for a curation that draws on themes we’ve covered throughout the term. Students could either work individually or in groups. See Human Rights Curations for an example of their final exhibits.
As their capstone for the first part of the Human Rights in World Civilization sequence, students curated a mini-exhibit about a sub-topic that we covered during the term.
The following op-eds represent those that students chose to revise from the term into 750-word and 1200-word pieces. The pieces are from students who consented to share their work after the term. The op-eds drew on the themes we covered in the class and elaborated on an ongoing historical problem or how some of the ideas we analyzed can better help us understand a present-day issue. I have divided the op-eds into five general categories: International Governance, US Foreign Policy, Human Rights in the US and the World, Human Rights and Migration, and Human Rights for Whom.
Legal Borderlands Lesson Plans
Nyah DeValle, Legal Borderlands
(Winter 2023)
Nyah DeValle compiled the following lesson plans as her final project for Legal Borderlands in Winter 2023. Her aim was to create curricular support for topics we covered during the term that are often left out of high school level courses. She notes that while “these resources can be used in many different social science contexts, but they are specifically focused on history.” Nyah organized the plans around “four areas in which the United States’ legal system has superseded sovereignty. These places include China, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guantanamo Bay.”
Savitri Maya Kunze 