Baking the Past

Sarah Bousfield

  • Week 3 – First Curriculum Complete

    I’m so excited, the first of my food history curricula has been completed and turned in with its first run scheduled for next month! As I briefly mentioned in last week’s blog, for the past two weeks I’ve been researching… Continue reading

  • Week 2 – First Week Building Curriculum

    Hello all! The first week of my internship was all about figuring out the first few assignments that I was going to be working on and tying together the research I was creating with some upcoming events over at the… Continue reading

  • Week 1- Reintroduction and a New Internship

    Hello everyone! My name is Sarah Bousfield, as those of you who’ve been reading this blog over the past couple of years know I am a graduate student at the University of Central Florida currently working on my MA in… Continue reading

  • RMA Blog 3 – The Rough Draft

    Following the return of our feedback, after we submitted our RMA Checklist, we had a lot of revisions to complete before we were ready to submit our new rough draft with the edits requested of us. Looking back on our… Continue reading

  • Hungerford Project Update Report

    https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=31151996-d400-11ed-b5bd-6595d9b17862 Continue reading

  • Week 11 – History Museums

    The past has always been “the property” of someone. This history, that has been preserved, interpreted, and presented to the public by individuals and groups with differing agendas, ideas of ownership surrounding the past, and how the interpretations of history… Continue reading

  • Hungerford Visualization Project ASSERT Model Breakdown

    Utilizing Bill Ferster’s ASSERT model, Devorah Burgess and I will be examining the classes and subjects taught at the Hungerford Normal and Industrial School in Eatonville, Florida. While Devorah will be primarily be focusing on the subjects being taught, I… Continue reading

  • Week 10 – Historians as Activists

    Although for much of the semester we have been discussing historians as the arbiters of objective preservation and facilitators in the process of historical research and interpretation there is a place for historians as activists. It is a basic fact… Continue reading

  • Week 9 – Revisionist Histories

    Bibliography Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021. Continue reading

  • Building the Project

    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… Continue reading