Lycoming College Student Jacob Quasius researches families with Klan connections

2017 Oct 10

Sarah Silkey has taken advantage of this project to engage in undergraduate-faculty research with Jacob Quasius, from Stanhope, N.J.. Since 2016, the team has captured more than 30,000 digital images of family correspondence, diaries and legal documents spanning from 1830-1920, and constructed a topic-indexed correspondence database to organize and quickly access sources reviewed and annotated by team members. By participating in the project, senior history major Quasius and de Melo, a junior history and psychology double major, have already gained valuable research and analysis experience as undergraduates, and were able to make intellectual contributions to the project.