Exhibits for discussion:

• Mill Girl Culture in Mill Girls in Nineteenth Century Print
• Space and Segregation in “A Dangerous Experiment:” Women at the University of Michigan
• Lincoln Park and the OKC Zoo in Making Modern America: Discovering the Great Depression and New Deal
• To Stay or To Go?: The National Emigration Convention of 1854 in Colored Conventions: Bringing 19th Century Black Organizing to Digital Life
• Transportation History in Cleveland Historical
• The Astrodome at 50: Plans and Architecture in Astrodome Memories
• Queer Uncle Sam: The Politics of the Ballot Box and the Bedroom in Wearing Gay History

Group Discussion Questions:

Use a google doc to collaboratively answer these questions with your group. Post your answers to your blog for participation credit.

• What makes this a good exhibit?
• What works and what doesn’t?
• How is it organized?
• How do they use the exhibit to contextualize the sources in their archive?
• How does the exhibit fit into the larger site narrative?
• What are the advantages of Omeka and Exhibit builder for doing history online? What is gained? What is lost?