Student Historians: Past Projects

Previous Student Historians created blog posts and other creative digital humanities projects. All digital humanities projects were designed as public educational resources and grounded in primary sources from the Museum and Library collections. Students drew from academic scholarship, primary sources, and digital humanities techniques developed over the course of the internship.

Summer 2025 Projects

Digital Editions/Teacher Resources

The Chart of American Freedom: Did Slavery End With Bondage?

Thomas Nast: Media Advocacy in an Era of Instability

Wong Chin Foo’s Writings Across Time: Exploring the Chinese American Experience

Podcasts

Emancipatory Education: The Question of Freedom and Public Education in the Reconstruction Era

Rights, Wrongs, & Rhetoric: A Discussion of Francis Ellen Watkins Harper’s Speeches

Academic Year 2024–25 Projects

Blog Posts

Researching U.S. Expansion & The Cherokee Nation

Beyond the Image: Reconstructing Mormon Women and Their Fight for Plural Marriage

Who Are These Speakers? The Process of Research the 11th National Women’s Rights Convention

Finding La Liga in New York: Mapping the Legacy of La Liga de Las Hijas de Cuba

Attempting to Answer the Chinese Question

Digital Edition

Diverging Voices: The Pluralistic Fight For Women’s Rights

Digital History Game

US Expansion & The Cherokee Nation: The Illusion of Choice

Mapping Projects

Mapping the Legacy of La Liga de Las Hijas de Cuba

Podcasts

Hidden Voices: Mormon Women and Plural Marriage

Answering the Chinese Question from a Chinese Standpoint

Summer 2024 Projects

Digital Exhibitions

The Creation Of Chinese America

A Legacy in Pages: The Douglass Family Through Scrapbooks

Digital Editions/Teacher Resources

What Led to “The Chinese Question”? Chinese Immigration and Activism During the Reconstruction Era

Articles of Preservation: The Cherokee Advocate’s Vision for a National Identity in a Changing America

Podcasts

Voices of Liberty: Faith, Freedom, and America’s Religious Evolution

True History: Uncovering La Liga de Las Hijas de Cuba

Academic Year 2023-24 Projects

Blog Posts

The Douglass Family Scrapbooks: Their Creation, Impact, and Importance

Empowerment Through Discourse: An Examination of '"The Chinese Question”

The Colored Conventions Legacy: The Impact of Advocacy in Creating American Democracy

Forging Freedom: The Resilient Role of Cuban Women in New York City’s Political Landscape

“Your humble brother, Wong Chin Foo”: How One Man Unified Chinese Americans Through Ink

The Cherokee Advocate: How the Cherokee Used Journalism to Fight for their Rights During Reconstruction

Mapping Projects

100 Delegates of the 1864 Syracuse Colored Convention

Digital Exhibitions

Voices from Within and Beyond: Dual Narratives of Manhattan's Chinatown

Through the Pages of History: Exploring the Frederick Douglass Family Scrapbooks

The Chinese Question: From a Chinese Standpoint

Podcasts

Keeping Up With the Boudinots

Unheard Voices: Exploring 19th Century Feminism

Summer 2023 Projects

Blog Posts

A Modern Guide to 19th Century Feminism: A Study of Black Suffrage During Reconstruction

La Liga de las Hijas de Cuba: Their Hopeful Message for Cuban Independence, Women’s Activism, and Creating an Interconnected New York

A Resonant Call for Change: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Appeal to America

Resilient Voices: James Obadiah’s Advocacy and the Enduring Legacy of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner: Thomas Nast’s Powerful Exploration of Composite Nationality

Frederick Douglass Family Scrapbooks: The Power of the Narrative

Printing a Legacy: The Impact of Wong Chin Foo’s Revolutionary Newspaper

Mapping Projects

Mapping Suffrage: Visualizing Early Feminist Activity in Reconstruction Era New York

An American Trailblazer: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Interactive Timelines

The Obadiah Letters: Tracing Resilience Across Time

Podcasts

Resilient Voices: Wong Chin Foo’s Legacy

Digital Exhibitions

A Thanksgiving Stuffed with Symbolism

A New Kind of Revolution

Digital Editions/Teacher Resources

Understanding Frederick Douglass: What do the Douglass Family Scrapbooks Show Us?

Academic Year 2022-23 Projects

Mapping Projects

Philadelphia and the Fight for Black Equality

Interactive Timelines

Resilient Roots: Tracing Chinese American Activism

Podcasts

The Intersection of Us

Digital Exhibitions

Who’s at the Table? Investigating America’s Developing Composite Nationality During Reconstruction

Finding Douglass: Uncovering the Life of Frederick Douglass

Blog Posts

The Rise of a New Identity: The Chinese American

The Appeal of the Chinese Equal Rights League: Chinese American Perseverance from the 19th Century to Present Day

Scrapbooking in Reconstruction: How the Douglass Family Used Scrapbooks to Reclaim Their Stories

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: A Trailblazer in Intersectionality

Boom!: La Liga de Las Hijas de Cuba and the Latina Legacy of Intersectional Activism

The Foundations of Emancipation: Education and Colonization in the 19th Century

Public Transit and Black American Persistence

The Two Black Women Who Attended an All Black Men’s Convention

Sarcasm, Equality, and Perseverance: The Importance of the Chinese Question

The Legacy and Impact of Political Cartoons on National Identity

An Appeal to the American People: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Perspective on Reconstruction Through Poetry

Uncovering the Obadiah Letters: How the Eastern Band of Cherokees Advocated for their Rights and Equality

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