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Introduction
Contributors
1. Engaging with Nineteenth-Century Literary Periodicals
Maggie Gallup Kopp
2. A Very Brief Introduction to Finding Aids
Melissa Chim
3. Dear Diary: Discovering the Potential in the Personal
Emily Beran
4. Primary Sources in Jewish History Research
Hallel Yadin
5. Exploring Historic Photographs in an Academic Setting: A Framework
Elizabeth Rivera and Sylvia Hernandez
6. Dictionaries for Archives and Primary Sources
Sara K. Kearns
7. Teaching with Zines for Engaged Learning
Allison Chomet and Danielle Nista
8. Reading Textiles: A Primer on Parsing Stories from Fabrics
Megan O'Connor
9. Imagined Libraries and Immersive Special Collections Instruction: A Visit to Enlightenment Britain
Laura Michelson and Allison Haack
10. Accessible Archival Instruction for Neurodivergent Students
Colleen Hoelscher
11. A Participatory and Multi-Format Approach to Introducing Undergraduates to Archival Research
Lindsey Loeper and Susan Graham
12. Location, Location, Location: Maximizing a Community's Shared Place to Enhance Instructional Engagement
Ashley Todd-Diaz and Felicity Knox
13. Analyzing Prison Newspapers: No More Cages
Blake Spitz
14. The Special Collections World Tour: Incorporating Historical Maps in Class Instruction
Evan Spencer
15. Analyzing Houston Hip Hop: A Lesson Plan
Julie Grob
16. Safeguarding the Stacks: A Preservation Lesson Plan for Those Working with Physical Archival Materials
Patti Gibbons
17. Finding Trouble in the Archives: Writing and Rhetorical Analysis of Primary Sources in the General Education Classroom and Beyond
Jay-Marie Bravent and Rebecca Wiltberger Wiggins
18. How to Know If They’re Getting It: Designing and Assessing Primary Source Analysis Exercises
Samantha Crisp
19. Worksheets and Assessment: Matching Learning Objectives to Learning Outcomes
Alison Reynolds and Chloe Gerson
20. Online and Interactive: Bringing a Digitized Manuscript to (Virtual) Life
Miriam Intrator
21. Connecting Primary and Secondary Sources with Annotation and Historical Narrative Introduction
22. Pivoting from Teaching an Introduction to Archives Class In-Person to Online: Teaching Primary Sources in Both Environments to Undergraduates
Julia Stringfellow
23. Using An Archival Collection in a Student Research and Creative Activity Fair: The Lourdes Gouveia Papers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Claire Du Laney
24. Translating Archives
Kathleen Antonioli
25. Teaching and Learning with Archival Materials through the Development of Interactive Computational Notebooks
Philip Piety, Mark Conrad, Richard Marciano, Isaiah Cornfield, Elissa Boland, Rosemarie Fettig, Eden Hansen, Henry Kemp, Tahura Turabi
26. Primary Source Access and Instruction Online: The Virtual Reading Room at the University of Washington
Allee Monheim
27. One Step Ahead: Asynchronous Tools to Prepare Students for Instruction
Jaycie Vos
Lesson plans and assignments that can be used as written or adapted.
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