LibGuides: History Vault: Case Studies and Resource Guides

Case Studies/Use Studies

NEW! Using ProQuest History Vault in the Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Classroom
Professor Susie Woo finds students in her American Immigrant Cultures class are fascinated by digital archival research
NEW! Using Primary Sources to Reveal Historical Narratives
Professor L. Maria Bo uses primary sources in her Introduction to Asian Literature course to promote critical thinking and challenge assumptions
Using ProQuest History Vault in the Undergraduate Research Seminar
by KENNETH JANKEN, professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
LGBTQ Rights and the U.S. Military
By Morgan Carlton, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
Uncover Diverse Voices for Research and Teaching: Strategies with Primary Source Archives
By Marcia Chatelain, Professor of History and African American Studies, Georgetown University
Heroes, Patriots, and Artemas Ward
By Jolie McCarty, ProQuest Content Editor
Enemy or Citizen: Japanese American Incarceration
By Jolie McCarty, History Vault Content Editor
African American Women and the Women’s Army Corps during World War II
By Morgan Carlton, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Michigan
Eugene V. Debs: “Traitor to his Country” and “Modern Messiah”
By Jolie McCarty, History Vault Content Editor
Representations of Black Women and Motherhood in Primary Sources
By GABRIELLE PETERSON, Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, University of Michigan
A. Philip Randolph and the Writing of Civil Rights and Labor History
by Eric Arnesen, Vice Dean for Faculty and administration at the Columbian College of Arts & Sciences at the George Washington University,
The African American Police League
by ProQuest Staff
Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party Papers
by Mary Walton, and journalist and book author. Walton used the NWPP microfilm, held at Rutger’s University, to write the book A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot.
FBI Files Enable Balanced Research on the Black Panther Party
By Joe Street. University of Northumbria
The Impact and Legacy of Progressive Leader Robert M. La Follette
by Nancy Unger, Professor and Chair of the History Dept at Santa Clara University
The Margaret Sanger Papers Illuminate the Historical Roots of the Birth Control Movement
by Ester Katz, Research Scholar and adjunct Faculty at NYU.
The Rivalry Between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett
by Peter Engleman, an associate editor of the Margaret Sanger Papers.
Slavery and the History of Business
by Caitlin Rosenthal, Assistant Professor of History, UC Berkeley
Unearting the Hidden History of the Voter Education Project (VEP)
by Evan Faulkenbury, Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Cortland
VVAW, The Turning, and the Rewards of Digitized History
by Andrew Hunt, professor of U.S. History at the University of Waterloo
Women in the Revolutionary War and Early America
by Jolie McCarty, ProQuest Content Editor