Truman students learn how to combine knowledge from multiple areas and seek ways to connect their studies to the world. Here’s a sampling of some of our history student projects.

• El Chapo: Judgment Day (Fall 2019), a dramatic (short film) retelling of the demise of the infamous El Chapo
• McDonald Territory: Seeking Recognition in Twentieth Century Missouri (Spring 2017)
  For this class project, students created a website dedicated to understanding an obscure event in Missouri history and the place of secession in American society.
• Public and Digital History (Spring 2016)
  • Harry Laughlin House
  • Kirksville Traditions
    
  • Evolution of US Political Parties
• Digitizing the journal Abya Yala News as part of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America (Spring 2016)
• Harry Laughlin and Eugenics
  For this class project, students collected and researched some of the major topics of eugenics as told through the archives of the Harry H. Laughlin Collection in Truman State University’s Special Collections.
• No Man’s Land: Digitizing Local Letters from the Great War (Spring 2014)
• Student projects from Dr Marc Becker’s classes on his website
• Senior Seminar Projects
  • Spring 2022
  • Fall 2021
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  • Fall 2020
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  • Fall 2019
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  • Fall 2018
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  • Fall 2017
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  • Fall 2016
  • Spring 2016