According to historyharvest.net, History Harvest is: “a collaborative, community based digital project and learning initiative that aims to democratize history. … Students digitally captured each artifact and shared them in a web-based archive providing publicly available material for historical study, k-12 instruction, and life-long learning” (http://historyharvest.net/). Scott French, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Public History Center at UCF, has prepared this helpful History Harvest bibliography below to introduce newcomers to the methodology.
The History Harvest – A Select Bibliography
by Scot French
Websites/Resources – University of Nebraska at Lincoln
History Harvest Website
http://historyharvest.unl.edu/
The History Harvest Community
History Harvests as Digital Public History
William G. Thomas, Patrick D. Jones, and Andrew Witmer, “History Harvest: What Happens When Students Collect and Digitize the People’s History?” AHA Perspectives on History, January 2013.
Sara Georgini, “Spring at the History Harvest,” The Junto: A Group Blog on Early American History, March 6, 2013.
https://earlyamericanists.com/2013/03/06/spring-at-the-history-harvest/
Meghan Vance, “Engaging Communities to Preserve: The History Harvest as a Collaboration Model for Digital Preservation,” The Signal – Digital Preservation,” Sept. 4, 2013.
History Harvests at DH 2016
http://dh2016.adho.org/abstracts/130
News coverage of UCF- Hosted History Harvests
Tiffany Rivera, “UCF Students Help Preserve Oviedo’s Past at History Harvest,” UCF Today, April 24, 2015.
http://today.ucf.edu/ucf-history-students-help-preserve-oviedos-past-history-harvest/
Ludmilla Lelis, “UCF Helps Preserve Sanford’s Treasures; ‘Each Item Tells a Human Story,’ UCF Prof Says at History Harvest,” Orlando Sentinel, March 2, 2013
Kelli Ordonia, “UCF’s Public History Center Gathers Artifacts at History Harvest,” UCF Today, March 8. 2013.
http://today.ucf.edu/ucfs-public-history-center-gathers-artifacts-at-history-harvest/
NEH Grant Proposal – Confederated History Harvests
Uniting Invisible Histories – Proposal Summary
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UKakQZqFIUYllJTVJjWG9nZDg/view?usp=sharing
Web Resources and Sample Collections
History Harvest Website – University of Nebraska at Lincoln
http://historyharvest.unl.edu/
University of Central Florida’s RICHES Mosaic Interface – History Harvest Collection
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/historyharvest
Sample RICHES Podcast – History of Oviedo, Florida