XV.c.104.1 .2, Letter from Joseph Swearingen to John Hoge, June 19, 1795, Courtesy and Copyright The Learned T. Bulman '48 Historic Archives & Museum, Washington & Jefferson College.
This guide will introduce you to library resources you can use when studying Professor Julia Bernier's HIS 370-01 Archiving Dispossession class.
It will give you a resources on archive history, theory and practice. How to read and access archives and provides tools by which to examine difficult histories prevalent in archives of early American History collections.
This course in in collaboration with The John Hoge Preservation and Digitization Project will make accessible, a subset of the John Hoge Collection which documents Early American, African American and Native American History through land documents, maps, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers, and other ephemera from western Pennsylvania in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is the first step to making the W&J archive more accessible and to bring awareness of the complex history of the formation of Pennsylvania. This Foundations award focuses on exploring the untold stories of American Indians and is part of the NEH’s American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future to help advance equity for all.