Beyond the Dog and Pony Show:

Undergraduate Adventures in Archives and Special Collections

Suzy TarabaDirector of Special Collections & Archives

Wesleyan University

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What are we teaching?

And why?

The Artifact:“Speed Dating in Special

Collections”

Julia WalworthMerton College, Oxford University

The Pedagogy:“Teaching Cultural Memory”

Robin M. KatzUniversity of Vermont

The Work:“The American History Textbook

Project”

Christina Connor and Steven P. RiceRamapo College of New Jersey

The Program:

Wesleyan University

The Mystery Book Exercise

The Treasure Hunt

The Book as Artifact

Creative Writing from Archives

Thank you!