Campus Histories
Each semester, a new cohort of students researches and writes the history of a UNM building, adding another layer to a growing public record of the campus.
- Multi-semester project — each cohort builds on what previous students made
- UNM site styling baked in via Xanthan
- Card-based navigation through individual building histories
Metahistory
Students in UNM's historiography courses each write an essay on a period or historian, growing a shared encyclopedia of the history of history from antiquity to the present.
- Spans multiple courses and years of student contributions
- Permanent left sidebar with auto-generated table of contents
- New pages picked up automatically as students add them
The Silk Road
Students researched individual objects and wrote thematic essays tracing how materials, ideas, and people moved along the Silk Road, tied together with an interactive map.
- Object pages with images, metadata, and interpretive essays
- Thematic essays connecting multiple objects and historical patterns
- Map-based view of places and materials connected through exchange
Farming the Middle Rio Grande
Students conducted and recorded oral history interviews with Rio Grande farmers, then wrote profiles pairing those interviews with research on local food systems.
- Farmer profiles combining oral history interviews and student-written web pages
- Cross-course collaboration between qualitative methods and local food systems courses
- Recordings archived in the UNM Digital Repository
Medieval Elite Marriages
Each student chose a single historical artifact and built a page arguing what it reveals about medieval elite marriage.
- Each page centers on a single historical artifact
- Shows how material objects can anchor historical argument
Santa Fe Trail Sites
Students researched historic Santa Fe Trail locations and built a map-first site for navigating them geographically — still running, untouched, nearly a decade later.
- Map integration with linked individual location pages
- Geographic navigation as the primary entry point
- Still running without maintenance after nearly a decade
Histories of the Future
Proceedings from a 2015 Princeton workshop on history and science fiction, preserved as a permanent public site instead of disappearing after the event.
- Workshop proceedings preserved as a permanent public site
- Shows how event output can have lasting web presence
