In spring 2015, Dickinson students in History 118 (US Since 1877) conducted oral histories and produced essays with multi-media appendixes (such as podcasts or videos). Several of these extraordinary projects have been featured in this Storify essay summarizing their work.…
Category: Vietnam Era
PODCAST –MLK Riots in Washington DC
In spring 2015, Dickinson student Caly McCarthy interviewed her father Joseph McCarthy about his recollections of the city of Washington DC in the aftermath of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination in 1968. The gripping interview also formed the basis…
ESSAY –Oral History About Kent State
In spring 2015, Dickinson student Matt Pasquali conducted an oral history with Patricia Mackey on the 1970s shootings at Kent State. Mackey was not a student in the Ohio university, but she remembers vividly how the tragedy affected her campus…
ESSAY –Remembering the Sixties From Mankato
In Spring 2015, Dalton Maltz (Class of 2016) conducted an oral history with Prof. Todd Wronski who recalled hearing about the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, and other experiences from that turbulent era. In some way, Wronski was far…