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  Change Happens Here

  Musselman Library, Gettysburg College

  The posters in this series focus on parts of the Gettysburg College story that have been minimized or neglected altogether in previous histories – particularly with respect to underrepresented groups, issues, and activisms. Based on sometimes incomplete sources, they represent imperfect knowledge and are not comprehensive. They are a beginning, not an ending.

  For that reason, we invite your feedback – corrections, additional information, people and events not pictured. We also invite contributions of relevant documents, photos, etc. to the College Archives, or via our digital repository, “What We Did Here: Activism at Gettysburg College.”

  The story of change at Gettysburg is being written every day. You can help write it!

  Poster 1 - Student Activism: The Students - Many student activists have sought to educate their peers about ideas and issues outside the College bubble. They’ve done this with intercollegiate exchanges, alternative curricula, statements of racial pride, ambitious events like Symposium 70, and shared teachings and learnings like the Student Solidarity Rally.

  Poster 2 - Student Activism: The College - Since the 1960s, a common focus of campus protest has been the campus itself. Students have united to oppose unjust policies, condemn racism within the College, and show support for targeted populations.

  Poster 3 - Student Activism: The Nation and the World - In every era, Gettysburg students have engaged with the largest, most controversial issues nationally and internationally – from the Vietnam War to the Gulf War, LGBTQA rights to gun control, racist violence to climate change.

  Poster 4 - Student Groups - Organizations united by shared identities, experiences, and values have long been a vital part of life at Gettysburg. Through them, students have built communities of their own while keeping the campus alive to issues that impact everyone.

  Poster 5 - Women at Gettysburg - From 1885, when Beulah Tipton became the College’s first female matriculant, to the feminist activists of today, strong women have thrived at Gettysburg.

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  Through Our Eyes: A Photography Project Made by Refugee Children

  Nicoletta Novara, Austin Stiegemeier, Emma K. Lewis, and R.C. Miessler

  Through Our Eyes is an exhibition made up of photographs taken by refugee children who are forced to live in the hotspot of Samos, Greece. It shows us the daily life of refugee people from the inside of the camp. We can see their daily struggles, not like the pictures made by photographers or journalists, but from a different point of view. We can see their daily life through their own eyes. The photos were taken by Mazí students; Mazí is a youth center run by the Still I Rise NGO in Samos.

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  Jesus Christ Superstar

  Devin McKinney

  On March 25, 1971, an illegal performance of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar—the project of a few dozen students, some renegade faculty members, and a young ministry intern from Gettysburg Seminary—was staged in Christ Chapel. Excitement grew as the cast and crew assembled and rights were negotiated. Then the production was preemptively blocked by court order. The Gettysburg company was faced with the choice of giving up, or going on—a legal, ethical, and creative challenge ultimately touching such unlikely points as the regional synod of the Lutheran Church, the superior courts of New York City, and a London address now designated a national landmark. Photographs, interview excerpts, and live recordings will tell the story of the production, the people behind it, the obstacles it faced, and the memories it left.

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  Iran: Beyond the Headlines

  Musselman Library

  Poster with Spring 2015 events for Iran: Beyond the Headlines series.

  Iran: Beyond the Headlines is a learning series that includes book discussions, film screenings, and lecture designed to help us move past today's headlines and explore the history, art, culture, and everyday life of Iranians. Series events are scheduled for September 2014 - April 2015. All events are free and open to the public.

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  Iran: Beyond the Headlines

  Musselman Library

  Poster with Fall 2014 events for Iran: Beyond the Headlines series.

  Iran: Beyond the Headlines is a learning series that includes book discussions, film screenings, and lecture designed to help us move past today's headlines and explore the history, art, culture, and everyday life of Iranians. Series events are scheduled for September 2014 - April 2015. All events are free and open to the public.

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  Voices from D-Day, June 6, 1944

  Musselman Library

  Seventy years on from D-Day, we still marvel at the stoic heroism of the men who contributed to the success of what remains the greatest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare. The Normandy campaign would, in one way or another, prove a pivotal moment in the ongoing world war. A disaster in the campaign to liberate France would set back Allied hopes for crushing Nazism in Western Europe. It would also fray the alliance with the Soviet Union that was essential to defeating Hitler’s forces. By contrast, success would mark not just the end of the beginning of the conflict, but the beginning of the end.

  There are as many Normandy campaign stories, from both sides, as there are participants. But absent some formal way of collecting them, those stories would disappear with the generation that made this history. That is where oral history comes in. Since the early 1990s, Gettysburg College has done its share to create an archive of World War II memories, covering the gamut of life experience of a generation that grew to maturity during the Great Depression and World War II.

  Launched in a Historical Methods course in 1991, and continuing into the present day, the World War II oral history project has collected nearly 700 oral histories from the home and battle fronts and places in between. Recordings and transcriptions of each of these interviews are available in Special Collections at Musselman Library. At some point, if resources are sufficient, they will be digitized and available online. [excerpt]

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  Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era

  Lauren H. Roedner, Angelo Scarlato, Scott Hancock, Jordan G. Cinderich, Tricia M. Runzel, Avery C. Lentz, Brian D. Johnson, Lincoln M. Fitch, and Michele B. Seabrook

  Based on the exhibit Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era, this book provides the full experience of the exhibit, which was on display in Special Collections at Musselman Library November 2012- December 2013. It also includes several student essays based on specific artifacts that were part of the exhibit.

  Table of Contents:

  Introduction Angelo Scarlato, Lauren Roedner ’13 & Scott Hancock

  Slave Collars & Runaways: Punishment for Rebellious Slaves Jordan Cinderich ’14

  Chancery Sale Poster & Auctioneer’s Coin: The Lucrative Business of Slavery Tricia Runzel ’13

  Isaac J. Winters: An African American Soldier from Pennsylvania Who Fought at Petersburg Avery Lentz ’14

  Basil Biggs: A Prominent African American in Gettysburg after the Battle Lauren Roedner ’13

  Linton Ingram: A Former Slave Who Became a Notable African American Educator in Georgia Brian Johnson & Lincoln Fitch ’14

  Uncle Tom’s Cabin Theatre Poster: Racism in Post-Emancipation Entertainment Michelle Seabrook ’13

  Essay Bibliographies

  Grand Army of the Republic

  Exhibit Inventory

  Acknowledgments

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  Collecting: Eccentric Passion, Compulsive Accumulation, or Reasonable Pursuit of Happiness?

  Lawrence Taylor

  Former U.S. Ambassador Lawrence “Larry” Taylor talks about his lifelong passion for collecting, including his Abraham Lincoln bookends, a selection of which were exhibited at Musselman Library in 2012-13.