One of the most compelling means of making history meaningful for undergraduates is having them make history themselves. At Concordia College - Moorhead, a historian, an archivist, and a librarian collaborate to provide hands-on primary research projects meant for a public audience. Students process and create artifacts for a digital archive, contextualize and interpret their contributions using secondary research, and communicate their findings via online exhibitions. A traditional research and writing-intensive assignment is transformed into an opportunity to make history for the future, using active-learning, a growing knowledge of information structures, and digital tools.
I’m currently professor and chair of the history department at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. I frequently incorporate student research, collaborative research, and digital history projects in my teaching and enjoy partnering with my colleagues in the library and college... Read More →
Archivist & Digital Collections Librarian, Concordia College
Lisa Sjoberg is the College Archivist and Digital Collections Librarian at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She earned a Master of Arts in speech communication at North Dakota State University and a Master of Library and Information Science, concentrating in archives and... Read More →