DIGITAL HISTORY
SECRET CITY DISPLACEMENT: WHEAT, TENNESSEE
The Secret City Displacement: Wheat, Tennessee project was produced in the spring of 2018 by Colbi Layne W. Hogan, Jessica Smyth, and Rachel J. Lambert, graduate students in the Public History Program at Middle Tennessee State University. As part of a graduate course entitled, “Digital Tools for Historians" taught by Dr. Molly Taylor-Poleskey, our goal was to humanize the issue of displacement in modern-day Oak Ridge, Tennessee. By connecting geographical data with individual land owners and families, we hoped to tell a more complete story of the effort to end World War II by presenting information that has often been overlooked in historical studies of the region.
HIDDEN TOWN IN 3D: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
"The project “Hidden Town in 3D” is a partnership between MTSU’s digital history program, the Animation Department, and Old Salem Museums and Gardens to recover and represent the stories of the African Americans who lived in the Moravian town of Salem, North Carolina in the 19th and early 20th centuries. None of their houses still stand, so the museum has been gathering archival evidence (in historic maps and registers) and archeological evidence of their remains. Eight Public History Ph.D. students traveled to Old Salem in May 2018 to do terrestrial photogrammtery models of the museum and research new interpretive labels for the Hidden Town in 3D virtual tour of Old Salem."