This case study features the work of two students completed in an English class at Goucher College.  The course, called “The Archeology of Text,” offers students an understanding of the social and historical frameworks for the production and consumption of text—beginning with the digital age and moving backwards in time.  Students are also trained in bibliographic research skills which they apply to objects in Goucher’s Special Collections library. These objects then become the subjects of the research paper that serves as the final course project.