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Section Headers

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Headers will automatically show up in your Table of Contents, too, another navigational accessibility plus.

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Video Block

Video embed from Youtube (could also be uploaded as a file)

Block Quote

Block quotes can highlight specific quotes from your sources, or your own text.1

Timeline Blocks

1846

Foundation of Bucknell University

1852

Opening Bucknell Female Institute

1864

Graduation first international student from Bucknell

1875

Graduation first African-American Student from Bucknell

Bucknell University: History and Traditions

Map (Location) Block

[You can include map images, but also link to a specific location.

There’s a way to edit the Google Maps location, but Kate has to look it up.]

Images

There are different ways to format images and text together.

A goat peers curiously over a chain-link fence.

Further Reading/Learn More

  • [These can link to other other blog posts in the same series] Part 2: Across the Sea.
  • [Or titles (and links–Google Books/Scholar or WorldCat are good options) to academic books or articles that might interest your readers (these can come from your bibliography or not) such as] Fanny Bessard, Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950).
  • [Or partner sites like the] Africa and Byzantium Exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum.
  • [Like an annotated bibliography, they can include a description of the book or its connection to your post explaining why readers might be interested] Africa and Byzantium Exhibition Catalog
    • Includes high-resolution images of artworks included in the exhibition, with discussion by leading scholars.
  • [Four or five is enough, unless you break the list into topic or genre sections]

Bibliography/Works Cited

Discuss with your professor how formal and “academic” your blog post should be.2 Do you need footnotes and page numbers, or just a list of cited works at the end?3

  1. [Should you use Chicago-style citations, or abbreviate to just the Author, “Title of Work,” (maybe page number)?] ↩︎
  2.  Charles Sprague Sargent, D. Willis James, and Edward Shepard, “The Forestry Commission’s Report,” Assem. Doc. No. 36. of the New York State Legislature, as requested by Chapter 551 of the laws of 1884 (Albany, New York: New York State Comptroller’s Office, January 23, 1885), 21, https://adirondack.pastperfectonline.com/library/F789B001-143E-421D-A93F-366167541520.
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About the Author

This four-part series by Sam Lasher (History and Political Science, ’25) is based on research from the summer of 2023 funded by the Program for Undergraduate Research. Sam spent time both at Bucknell and in the Adirondacks with the guidance of Professor Claire Campbell. Special thanks to the Adirondack Experience for assistance and archival material.

A goat peers curiously over a chain-link fence.

Sam Lasher

History and Political Science, ’25

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