Last Wednesday I got to be in the room as the students in “West Side Stories,” a BreakingGround-funded public history class, presented their final projects. The videos were impressive and interesting, giving the story of everything from vaudeville at the Hippodrome to body-snatching at ... (continue reading)
My Social Work 200 class—Social Issues/Social Action, funded by BreakingGround—focuses on civic engagement in Baltimore City and the surrounding counties in the practice of social work. For this post I asked my student Danielle Bouchard '15, social work, to speak about her work with the Office of Forensic Services... (continue reading)
]]>Since I am an archivist, many people would assume that my job is almost entirely focused on the past: what UMBC was like in the distant past, and how the place looked, and what people said. But some days I work with materials that show how people from the past speculated about UMBC's future--sometimes in ways that proved to be wildly inaccurate ... (continue reading)