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The idea for this project came about because I'm a board member of the Century of Action, and we wanted to help

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connect the public with some of the very important documents of the successful women's suffrage campaign of 1912.

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A year before the course was offered, Dr. Jensen submitted a proposal along with about 7 or 8 other professors.

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These proposals were considered by the Honors committee, and the Honors committee selected the one that they felt

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was most significant in terms of the students' growth as individuals and scholars.

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The goal of the project was to contribute to an existing website for Century of Action, so that not only the newspaper

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articles as images, but the transcription, the word-for-word names, dates, events could be searchable on a website.

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Earlier this year, we had a launch event at the Capitol.

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Secretary of State Kate Brown sponsored it, former governor Barbara Roberts spoke there,

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and the students shared this great website with the public.

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When the students showed me the website at the State Capitol, I was amazed to see the ways they were able to

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resurrect those old documents from the early 1900s and provide a contemporary audience access to them for all eternity.

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This type of project connects students with the community. Their important work, their research, their time in transcribing

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those articles makes this important history available to the rest of the world. Not just for today or for a term,

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but really for the foreseeable future.