June 22 – 26, 2026
Blog Post
Due Friday, June 26:
Create at least one visualization that you might use in your final project, and write a paragraph explaining what you’ve visualized and why. This can be in draft form and does not need to be the finished product. You can embed your visualization in your blog post or post a link to it.
Monday, June 22
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Bertrand Library 026 (Lower Level 1)
- Archives Workshop with Susan Falciani Maldonado and Eir Danielson from Special Collections and University Archives
- Readings
- Archival Silences : Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives Chapter 1: “Theorising the Silences”
- Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
Tuesday, June 23
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Storymaps Working Session-Set up project templates
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
Wednesday, June 24
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Adobe Express workshop with Wes Bernstein (Digital Pedagogy & Scholarship Specialist for Video)
- MEDIALAB+ website
- Adobe Express (sign in with your Bucknell Google account)
- Read for Thursday’s Session with Professor Campbell: Map it! Little Dots, Big Ideas
1:00 PM – 3:30 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
Campus-wide summer research ice cream social! Everyone is welcome for frozen treats, cookies, and candy.
Thursday, June 25
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, HMHC 113
- Faculty Research Talk with Claire Campbell (Professor of History)
- Bucknell History Department website: Horowitz Map Collection
- Google Maps —>(And its limits.)
- Mont Royal on Google and on the ground
- Winthrop Family Papers, Manuscript map of the Ten Hills (Medford, Mass.), October 1637 Massachusetts Historical Society
- Coastal Maps
- Cyprian Southack, “An actual survey of the sea coast from New York to the I. Cape Briton.” (1758), detail. [Harvard Map Collection]
- Robert George Bruce, “PLAN of the HARBOUR and Part of the RIVER S.T JOHNS in the BAY of FUNDY” (1761) [Leventhal Map Center]
- “The Original Plan of Charlottetown” (ca. 1780) [Island Imagined]
- Plan of the City of Halifax (1851) Halifax Regional Municipal Archives
- Frederick William Cowie, Report to the Honourable Frank Cochrane, Minister of Railways and Canals, on Halifax Harbour and the development of a project of modern ocean terminals (Ottawa, 1913) Hathitrust
- City of St. John’s Archives, Goad Insurance Map, 1893; Sheet 9 of Goad Insurance Map, 1946; Sheet 9 of Goad Insurance Map, 1967
- Local Examples
- Nicholas Schull, “To the Honourable Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs., true & absolute proprietaries & Governours of the Province of Pennsylvania …” (1759) LOC
- Melish Whiteside Map, 1817 Pennsylvania State Archives PSA
- The Horowitz Collection
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time
Homework: Get Makerspace access!
Due by Tuesday, June 30
Prepare to go to the Maker-e by completing the online training for Bucknell Makerspaces. If you have recently used a Makerspace, you may already be qualified!
- Read the general Bucknell Makerspace User Agreement and agree to follow the rules outlined in it.
- Complete the Access Training for Bucknell’s Makerspaces with a score of 100%.
Friday, June 26
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Archival Silences : Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives Afterword: “Tales from the Sometimes ‘Silent’ Archives”
- Individual check-ins with Carrie and Ilse
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, HMHC 113
- Independent work time