Abstract
The Benson Latin American Collection holds the memoirs of Mexican politician Antonio López de Santa Anna. It also holds abundant primary sources that add voices to his account of Mexico's history. I curated a digital collection of 40 documents related to the era of Santa Anna's revolutions, and generated their item-level metadata in MODS. With this dataset I designed a viewer-centered Spotlight exhibit aimed at high school students, presenting archives as a springboard for understanding Mexico's first independent decades. Using ArcGIS and MapWarper, I georeferenced archival maps, photographs, and manuscripts to build an interactive exhibit component that invites temporal-geospatial analysis.
First Name
Vanessa
Last Name
Hutchins
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Date
Fall 2020
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