Learning History Through Use of Audio-Visual Archives

FAIN: EH-10578-74

University of Delaware (Newark, DE 19711-3651)
Willard Allen Fletcher (Project Director: January 1975 to present)

To develop a series of undergraduate seminars that allow students to learn history by using the audio-visual collections at the National Archives. Five history department faculty will teach the seminars in American , European, and Latin American history. Students will received audio-visual production training and then travel to Washington for consultation with Archives staff. Working in project teams and using Archives collections they will produce audio-visual documentaries which will be made available to the public.