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Blog Post #8
Utilizing geospatial visualizations within a historical context helps to frame the discussion around those events in a way that allows both historians and members of the public to view those events within a different context. The concept of space and location are often lacking when one uses the written word to catalogue events of the…
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Blog Post #7
My experience with creating both my timeline and my maps has been fairly pleasant so far. I’m very proud of my timeline in particular, as it stands as a great visualization of the evolution and spread of judicial dueling throughout medieval Europe. I really like knight labs, they make the process of creating a timeline…
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Blog Post #6
So far, my experience with Omeka and creating an exhibit has been so-so. I’ve had a lot of trouble trying to get things to work, and despite following the instructions exactly I still haven’t been able to find success with many facets of the software. I’m not very skilled at web design or coding to…
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Project Outline
Project Outline Research Question: I am studying the judicial duel in medieval Europe, because I want to find out how they were performed and the reasons why they were conducted, in order to understand what a judicial duel looked like in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. Working Thesis: “What was the significance of the…
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Blog Post #5
My trip to the National Portrait Gallery and the “Struggle for Justice” exhibition provided a number of key insights on how to lay an exhibit out and what exactly to feature. Though my exhibit will be entirely different in terms of content, I can use many of the same techniques as the curators at the…
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Museum Assignment
1. For my museum assignment, I chose to visit the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC and toured “The Struggle for Justice” exhibition. “The Struggle for Justice” highlights the many difficulties faced by civil rights leaders who have fought for equality in this country on behalf of those who have been discriminated against and…
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Blog Post #4
The past is owned by two groups of people- contemporary chroniclers who record the past, and historians who interpret those chronicles. To record history is to claim ownership over it, and in interpreting those recordings one claims ownership over them in turn. When we strip away the excess details, the past can really only be…
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Blog Post #3
Both Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum and Evan Donahue make excellent points regarding the utility of coding within the humanities. Both essays are extremely well written, and provide convincing arguments for their given viewpoints. However, Evan Donahue makes a stronger argument by pointing out that the field of computer sciences is vast, and that programming only represents…
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Blog Post #2
The web exhibit titled “Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives” immediately stood out to me as a project I would like to draw inspiration from. The site itself acts both as an archive of primary sources and as an exhibit for the personal experiences of a select few Soviet citizens who were forced to endure the…
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The Veldt
In the science fiction short story The Veldt, Ray Bradbury writes about the dangers of becoming overly reliant on the conveniences of modern technology, as well as the consequences of handing over inherently human responsibilities to machines. The main characters of The Veldt, parents George and Lydia Hadley along with their children, Wendy and Peter…