Shankleville Community Oral History Collection (Primary Sources)

Shankleville Community Oral History Collection (Primary Sources)

The Shankleville Community Oral History Collection contains photographs, documentation, select interview transcriptions, and 11 oral history interviews conducted by Lareatha H. Clay, founding member of the Shankleville Historical Society, and Dan K. Utley. Shankleville, Texas, is an historic freedom colony located in northcentral Newton County in east Texas.

Variation between Mixtec languages (Assignment)

Variation between Mixtec languages (Assignment)

These assignments provide opportunities for students to learn and explore a few key concepts central to language documentation and description with real primary language documentation data from a 1977-1984 project studying lexical and morphosyntactic variation across the many Indigenous Mixtec (Otomanguean; Mexico) languages.

Creating a Map-Based StoryMapJS (Platform Tutorial)

Creating a Map-Based StoryMapJS (Platform Tutorial)

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a map-based project in StoryMapJS, a free Google Drive-based tool that helps you present spatial-temporal research, using posters created by solidarity groups throughout the world advocating for human rights in El Salvador’s civil war (1980-1992). The posters are from the Armed Conflict Collection at the Museum of the Word and the Image (MUPI), San Salvador, El Salvador.

Presenting Temporal Research with TimelineJS (Platform Tutorial)

Presenting Temporal Research with TimelineJS (Platform Tutorial)

This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to create a project in TimelineJS, a free Google Sheet-based tool that helps you present temporal research, using historical events from the Wars of Independence in Mexico and archival materials preserved at the Benson Latin American Collection.