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Project Team
Drew VandeCreek, Project Director
Matthew Short, Digital Collections & Metadata Librarian
Jaime Schumacher, Director of Digital Collections & Scholarship
Stacey Erdman, Digital Collections Curator (2008-2016)
Tara Dirst, Technical Coordinator and Curriculum Developer (2005-2007)
Anitha Paruchuri, Web Developer (2005-2011)
Nathan Books, Web Developer (2013-2015)
Charles Larry, Graphic Designer (2005-2011)
Maria Dimanshtein, Graphic Designer (2013)
Jennifer Erbach, Curriculum Designer
Matt Dotson, Recording Engineer
Scholarly Contributors
Drew VandeCreek, Northern llinois University
Edward Ayers
John Mack Faragher
Eric Foner
Michael F. Holt
James Horton
Julie Roy Jeffrey
Michael Johnson
Charles McCurdy
R.D. Monroe
Gerald Prokopowicz
Kathryn Kish Sklar
Musical Performers
Chad Sheridan
Jason Schreiber
Tara Dirst
Dean Potter
Leslie Beukelman
Jean Austin
Kerry Ayres
Joseph Trahey
Project Sponsors
National Endowment for the Humanities
Robert R. McCormick Tribune Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
DeKalb County Community Foundation
Illinois Board of Higher Education
Ruth McCormick Tankersley Charitable Trust
Participating Institutions
Northern Illinois University Library