2024 by Month
This digital exhibit is based on work done by students at USC Upstate in Professor Tammy Pike's course HIST 325 - Women in the United States Since 1865. The work was done in collaboration with the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society as a service learning project, transcribing letters found in the Margaret Payne Collection. The time periods covered in the course include the Gilded Age (1877 - 1900) and the Progressive Era (1900 -1940). The letters selected for inclusion in this Digital Exhibit represent communications between Blanche Peden Payne and various friends and relatives from 1905 - 1937, but do not constitute the entirety of Blanche's correspondence found in the Margaret Payne Collection. The Margaret Payne Collection is housed at the Piedmont Historical Preservation Society, located in Piedmont, South Carolina.
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During the spring 2024 semester, the Archives once again led students in professor Tammy Pike's HIST 324 course through a semester-long digital humanities project. Each student chose one remarkable woman from their personal life such as campus professors, mentors, or family members, or someone from their professional life to interview for an oral history. The archivist worked closely with students to provide them with the introductory skills they would need to plan, record, and transcribe an oral history. The students completed an introductory interview with their narrator, researched and wrote a biographical / historical note to help add context to their subject, recorded the oral history, transcribed the audio file to include names and timestamps, and provided one or more photos of their narrator to include with the finished interview. Click on the image below to link out to the digital exhibit.
