 One of the digital projects that we have at the Center for Digital History is the television news of the civil rights era 1950 to 1970 and essentially this was a a warehouse of 8 millimeter 60 millimeter film discovered by two television stations national TV Affiliates in the Roanoke area About six or seven years ago and they came across what I imagine to be this huge store where full of you know Old yellowed boxes with the narrator's notes on it and the grease marks and what our folks did was go through and section out particular clips that had anything to do with civil rights in a local or a statewide regional emphasis and So you can imagine now this digital archive of hundreds of video clips digitized video clips that That are provocative and ask a ton of it brings a ton of questions to mind, but there's no historical context to it There's no interpretation. There's no Annotation there's no footnotes. It's just raw material for all primary source material So the Roanoke TH grant was structured and framed around the idea that a cohort of teachers would work with a University of Virginia historian to better understand civil rights in Virginia history then develop their own Very intentional first-person research questions on that digital archive and then spend a year investigating their answers Doing research primary research doing secondary research Essentially creating a multimedia Research product that answers their question and has then folded back both into their classroom and into the community To better educate the Roanoke area about their legacy of civil rights based on this original footage. So We saw that go through a full Probably 14 month process and the teachers who participated were drastically affected But even more importantly they created material that was historically valid that was That was You know meaningful in terms of the historical dialogue, but also could be used in their classroom for Teaching and applications. So, you know to do something like that was incredibly immersive for the teachers and heartbreakingly painfully Difficult because as soon as you add that first-person element It was actually the teachers who extended it to the point where it was almost too much, but isn't that what learning is? It's when I can't stop because it's so important And then we asked them to sort of unpeel what they did and think about how they might do similar things with their own classes and students so so that's sort of the You know sort of the the the bellwether of that immersion