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Not Your Model Minority: An Archival Collection of Asian American/Pacific Islander Organizations in Athens
Alexis Karolin is the spring 2022 Mahn Center intern. She graduates with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the Honors Tutorial College along with a certificate in Asian Studies and a certificate in Law, Justice, and Culture this spring. Here she reflects on her experiences learning about archives, how the internship took two years…
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A Look at the 1561 Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer
By Hunter Humphreys, English Pre-Law, 2023, Written as part of English 4940: Research Apprenticeship, Spring 2023 Having the opportunity to study in the Libraries’ Mahn Center has been a dream come true, and certainly a memorable experience during my career as an undergraduate student. For about a semester and a half, I was given the…
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How Music Reinforces Gender/Race Stereotypes Through Language
By Tess Murphy, Marketing ’25, for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria Lapoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass…
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Art & the Alphabet, Spring 2024
By Miriam Intrator, Special Collections Librarian Colorful and whimsical, realistic and fantastical, serious and playful. These are just some of the themes depicted in the creative and inspiring alphabets designed by students in ART 2520 Typography, taught by Sarah McDowell, during the spring 2024 semester. Inspired in part by a visit to view typographical specimen…
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Alphabets @ Alden, Spring 2025
By Sarah McDowell, Typography Instructor & Art Director at Ohio University Alphabets@Alden is a poster series of personal alphabets created by ART 2520 typography students and instructed by Tabitha Asiedu-Gyamfi and Sarah McDowell over the course of 9 weeks during the spring 2025 semester. Inspired in part by a hands-on engagement session with historic and…
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Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps: Geo-locating Athens, Ohio
By Adelle “Del” Stratton, History ’25 with a minor in Computer Science and certificate in Italian Studies, Digital Initiatives Assistant The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, a collection of maps published by the Sanborn Map Company, were made in response to fires during the 19th and 20th centuries. These maps of over 12,000 towns and cities within…
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Immigrant Stories Told Through Photographic Panels
By Emma Snyder-Lovera, BSJ, BSC ’26, for JOUR 4310 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025 During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and…
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Southern Justice Revisited: Lynn Johnson and Racial Violence in the Media
By Dylan Thatcher, Journalism ‘25 and Tyler Lacey, Media Arts Production ‘25 for JOUR 4310 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. CONTENT WARNING: Racial violence. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La…
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An Exploration of Women’s Role in Corporate America through Dory Yochum and the Lynn Johnson Collection
By Erin Brogan, Journalism 27’, and Abbey Menza, Journalism 26’ for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Spring 2025. During the spring 2025 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and…
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The Scandalous Rise and Fall of the Green Goat
By Jaida Carroll, Journalism ’25, and Audrey Eary, Journalism ‘26 for JOUR 4130 Gender, Race, and Class in Journalism and Mass Media with Victoria LaPoe, Fall 2024 During the fall 2024 semester, the staff of the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections worked intensively with Victoria La Poe’s JOUR 4130 class, Gender, Race, and…