Research Guide to Archives and Special Collections

Students in professor Amy Woodson-Boulton’s spring 2021 (online) course "History 3910: Museums & Society" selected, researched, and arranged stereographs and postcards from the vast Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection for this digital exhibit. The exhibit investigates visual representation and communication in topics, including Yosemite National Park, ethnography, courtship and gender roles, patent medicine, courtship and memes, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and stereographs.

This digital exhibit explores the lesser-known stories of the Owens Valley water controversy in the personal archives of J. D. Black. It was co-curated with students in professor Laura Poladian's Rhetorical Arts course in fall 2020.

This Rhetorical Arts student-curated digital exhibit tells the transnational stories of the Venegas Family, which immigrated from Mexico to Los Angeles in 1927. It was co-curated with students in professor Laura Poladian's Rhetorical Arts course in fall 2020.

This is a companion website for the exhibition curated by the students in professor Elizabeth Drummond’s HIST 2910 "Telling History in Public" course, a historical methods course taught through the lens of public history, in the Department of History at Loyola Marymount University during the fall 2019 semester.