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Projects

Examples of past projects

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History Mystery Box

 

This project for the National Canal Museum focuses on teaching middle school aged children how to use and read primary sources. "Junior Detectives" are tasked with finding out more about the photograph found at an antique shop. Using Google Forms, students are guided through the process of historical research answering questions about each set of documents they find. Historic primary sources are used throughout. Many of the documents are copies of originals, while others are slightly modified to fit the narrative. The History Mystery Box is designed to be compleated is a class period.

"There was quite a few, but I can't remember their names" StoryMap

 

This project was an end product of research done for the National Canal Museum's National Endowment for the Humanities grant to research Black canallers in Anthracite region. This interactive map has every name that was found during the project marked with the canallers' location. It allows people to explore the regional canals showing where the canallers lived. Each point on the map has an image of the historic document the person's name was found. It is on display in the museum on a touch screen and on the National Canal Museum's website. View the map by clicking here.

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Pendarvis Interpretive Plan

 

The interpretive plan that I created contains goals, objectives, interpretive and docent resources for the museum. It also explained what choices were made and why.

 

It was created with the long-term needs of the site in mind. I collaborated with the Site Manager, Southwest Sites Regional Manager, experts from the Wisconsin Historical Society, and subject experts to create this plan.

Curriculum Packet

 

This curriculum packet was created for the Frances Willard House Museum in Evanston, IL. It has six lessons that cover Illinois learning standards 1, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 17, and 18.  They can be done independently, or as a series.  The packet also contians a CD containing: high resolution images used in the activities, digital copies of the lesson activities and a Word document with internet links.

 

Titles of the activities in alphabetical order:

  • A Wheel Within a Wheel – Bicycles and Women’s Suffrage

  • Calculating Perimeter and Area using Architectural Drawings of Rest Cottage

  • “Do Everything” and Child Labor

  • Evanston Maps – Then and Now

  • Historical Markers – Writing About History Using Houses

  • Two Wheels for Change – Bicycle Technology and Changing America 

Leather Care Website

 

This website was created for a preservation project at Middle Tennessee State University. It is intended to help readers care for, store, and display leather goods and books. It has sections on what leather is, display and storage, deterioration and care, leather bound books, red rot, and further resources. 

 

To visit the website click here. 

Grant

 

This grant was written on behalf of the National Museum of African American Music, Nashville, Tennessee. It is an IMLS grant and is seeking funding to help the new museum create internship and residency programs in collaboration with Middle Tennessee State University. 

 

Collections Management Plan
 

I wrote a collections management plan for the NMAAM to facilitate a smooth beginning to collection. 

 

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Walking Tour

 

I researched and designed a walking tour of Evanston, Illinois, titled,  “Evanston’s ‘Pub Crawl’: An Historic Tour of Alcohol in Evanston.” The ten stops on the tour trace the story of the city from dry to wet over 117 years. The first legal drink was sold within the city limits in 1972. To this day, Evanston uses its ordinances regarding alcohol to create the type of environment valued by its citizens.
 
Key to understanding the story is the role played by Northwestern University, by Frances E. Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, and by business interests.

 

National Register Nomination

 

I researched and wrote a National Register of Historic Places nomination for the Adolf Schmidt house on Loyola University's campus in Chicago.  The Adolf Schmidt house was designed for the printing executive by George Washington Maher and represents Maher’s late work in the Prairie School of architecture, as well as his adaptation of its principles to an urban setting. I argued that Maher was a master architect. The Adolf Schmidt house is not only a fine representation of Maher’s Prairie School design work, but is also an excellent example of his motif rhythm theory. 

 

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