Digitizing Hand-written Letters: Working with Students to Preserve Women’s History – Tammy Pike
All are welcome to join us for a presentation and workshop on this innovative CLC Ballroom approach to teaching women’s history. Tammy Pike, an instructor of history and women’s and gender studies at USC Upstate, has developed a project that gives students hands-on experience collecting, digitizing, and preserving handwritten letters from the Margaret Payne collection at the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society (dated between 1905-1945). Read more about her work here. In this WHM event, participants will learn about the scope and purpose of this learning activity, as well as the digital exhibit and LibGuide associated with it, and will discover the thrill of transcribing historical letters as a way to interact with women’s history and immerse yourselves in the life of one South Carolina woman—from over a hundred years ago!