As we continue our research into the Hungerford Normal and Industrial School in Eatonville FL we have begun to collaborate and form the foundation for the visualizations that students will be tackling further in a semester. The preservation of the school’s history and the breadth and depth of the possibility of projects is increasingly large the further we dive into the ever-growing resource bank that we access each week. This week students were responsible for examining sources provided by Dr. French and using the sources and Anne Burdick’s “A Short Guide to Digital History” to create a project proposal.

As discussed in “A Short Guide…” the concept of digital projects is a two-fold set of meanings. In the case of our Hungerford Projects, the work that our class is producing with our individual projects, along with the larger activist lean of the project which is part of the larger fight to preserve the Hungerford School’s history along with the town of Eatonville itself.

As a team, Devorah, Sarah Boye, Adaeze, and myself worked on examining the Fenske court document collection and following the structure described in the assignment, created the proposal below:

While this is not the project that I hope to complete later in the semester, this was a good exercise in reading through primary sources, drawing out important information, and formulating different ways in which the information could be visualized. I hope to use this research report as a template for the agricultural project I plan on attempting later in the next few weeks.

Bibliography

Burdick, Anne, et al. “A Short Guide to the Digital_Humanities.” In Digital_Humanities. 121-135. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012.