"As history majors, the research project is extremely valuable for us because it enables
us to utilize skills we have learned in class, but on a greater level. For most of us, research for our classes stops at the
library, online databases, and Inter Library Loan. Researching in an actual archive is a useful technique and skill that
gives us a greater understanding of what it means to be a historian."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Chris Basso
“Researching specifically in our archives provides a view in the history of the college and I think it’s
important for us as Geneseo students to know the history of the college that we are attending. Also, researching in
the archives brings our history major into a new dimension, because we are actually doing original research in
primary documents, instead of just reading what another historian wrote. We get to see what being a historian is
all about!”
---_________________________________________-Claire Ruswick
“An important reason for my involvement is to see the connections between the information
I am learning in classes and actual events in the community of which I am a part of at Geneseo. Another reason is
to gain a more personal understanding of race relations, a subject which I have very little background in after
growing up in a predominantly white town and school district.” _____________________________________________ Dan Gaffney |
