Freshmen gain perspective on changes at Madison

Lynn Eaton, Special Collections Librarian at JMU, shows students in Dr. Vanessa Rouillon's GWRTC 103 class an original text from an early literary society at Madison

Freshmen in Dr. Vanessa Rouillon's GWRTC 103 class are examining student life and culture at Madison over the years and making connections across generations using Special Collections at Carrier Library.

For their required semester research project, Rouillon's students visit the university archives, where they discover a treasure trove of old photographs, yearbooks, newspaper articles, course catalogs, student handbooks, correspondence, records of social events, and other historical items dating back to the founding of the school in 1908. In addition to writing a research paper on a topic of their choice, the students must produce a short video based on their findings. 

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