Scope and Contents
This collection contains final papers and presentations of students enrolled in HIS193: Tufts in American History. Students in the course used the Digital Collections and Archives as a laboratory for researching and writing on topics related to campus life at Tufts from the 19th to 21st centuries century.
Dates
- Creation: 2017 -- 2023
Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Some material in this collection may be protected by copyright and other rights. Please see “Reproductions and Use” on the Tufts Archival Research Center website for more information about reproductions and permission to publish. Any intellectual property rights that the donor possesses have not been transferred to Tufts University.
Biographical / Historical
This course uses the Digital Collections and Archives as a laboratory for researching and writing on topics related to campus life at Tufts from the 19th to 21st century, including dating, sororities and fraternities, the student movement in the 1960s, the women’s movements, student publications, and sports and Title IX. In this course, students complete individual research projects based on primary sources available in the archives. As of 2021, this course is taught by Virginia Drachman.
Extent
733.7 Megabytes
34 Digital Object(s)
Language of Materials
English
Overview
This collection contains final papers and presentations of students enrolled in HIS193: Tufts in American History. Students in the course used the Digital Collections and Archives as a laboratory for researching and writing on topics related to campus life at Tufts from the 19th to 21st centuries century.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in six series: Fall Semester 2017, Fall Semester 2018, Spring Semester 2020, Spring Semester 2021, Spring Semester, 2022, and Spring Semester, 2023.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred by students to TARC in 2018, accession UA-2018-045; 2019, accession UA-2020-041; 2020, accession UA-2020-070; 2021, accession UA-2022-031; 2022, accessions UA-2023-030 and UA-2023-033; and 2023, accession UA-2023-078.
Processing Information
Processing of Fall 2017 material was completed by Leah Edelman in 2018. Materials were converted to PDF where necessary, bagged using Bagger, and ingested to the Digital Library. An item-level inventory, series-level description, and finding aid were created at the time of processing. Fall 2018, Spring 2020, and Spring 2021 material was processed by Records and Accessioning Archivist Jane Kelly in 2020; and Spring 2022 material by Digital Archivist Sally Benny in 2022. Spring 2023 materials were processed by Kate McNally, Records and Accessioning Archivist in June 2023. Materials were bagged using Bagger and ingested into the Digital Library. The finding aid was updated in June 2020, December 2022, and June 2023.
Repository Details
Part of the Tufts Archival Research Center Repository
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Tufts University
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