Baking the Past

Sarah Bousfield

  • Week 8- Commodifying the Past

    Like so many industries dependent on tourism, heritage tourism has bended to the whims of materialistic masses and made a commodity of history. As long as people have been willing to shell out a little cash for Bibliography Baillie, Britt,… Continue reading

  • RMA Blog 2 – Introduction and Checklist

    For this next chapter on the project with Rollins Museum of Art, we decided to further breakdown and identify the pieces of art that we had chosen for the Teaching Portfolio. Like other groups, we had also received feedback from… Continue reading

  • Topic Modeling and Big Data

    Digital History as a field has the unique opportunity to investigate the past with a wide-range of applications and tools that can be used to analyze incomprehensible amounts of information. Given the reliance that many of us have on the… Continue reading

  • Week 7 – Historic Preservation

    Nicolai Ouroussoff’s article “An Architect’s Fear that Preservation Distorts” challenges the ideas that preservation, actually conserves and shares the past, rather his article focuses on the ideas of two architect’s and their idea that preservation sanitizes history, creating a more… Continue reading

  • Visualizing the Hungerford School: Looking at the ASSERT Model

    Bill Ferster’s ASSERT model, described in his book Interactive Visualization Insight Through Inquiry focuses on the idea of using digital technologies to answer and ask research questions of all kinds. This model is particularly applicable and appealing when approaching historical… Continue reading

  • Erasures and Public Memory: Preserving Structures

    Public history is a unique field for the wide range of mediums that it can utilize to share information to the public. However, it is incredibly important to understand what narratives are being disseminated, and perhaps even more crucial: whose… Continue reading

  • Making an Argument through Digital History

    Robertson and Mullen said in their introduction of “Arguing with Digital History,” arguments and interpretations should not be “the ends of digital history… but they are an end that digital history should pursue” (pg. 1006). While I can appreciate the… Continue reading

  • Week 5: Public Trust, Authority, and Authenticity

    Out of all the readings that stuck with me this week, a single quote struck me the hardest as the central theme and idea surrounding all of these readings and the importance of the idea of shared authority.  “If interest… Continue reading

  • RMA Blog 1: Finding a Theme

    When examining the teaching portfolios available on the Rollins College Rollins Museum of Art website there was a distinct pattern of engaging with humanistic themes, particularly those focusing on marginalized groups, women, and the relationships between the haves and the… Continue reading

  • Historical GIS through Geographies of the Holocaust

    One of the most important tools that historians can utilize are primary sources of different kinds. When thinking of primary sources most historians consider written sources first, but the material sources can be just as important, often examining them leads… Continue reading