Baking the Past

Sarah Bousfield

  • Week 4- Digital History

    Much like the millions of websites that allow for massive amounts of data to be shared across space and time through the Internet, defining digital history is difficult and the meaning of it can be personal. In todays’ era of… Continue reading

  • Roy Rosenzweig – The Legend and His Legacy

    As previously established, digital history has been one of the most revolutionary fields of study because of its ability to democratize the study of the past. One of the most important figures within the historiography of digital history, and the… Continue reading

  • Week 3- Difficult Histories

    A few years ago, as a student at Valencia College I had the opportunity of listening to the story of a Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor at a talk at the Downtown Sanford Public Library. I was invited by my history… Continue reading

  • Afro-Futurism and Black Geographies

    The collaborative and progressive nature of digital humanities as a field has lent itself to uplifting and emphasizing the voices of minority communities. While last semester we focused on the idea of Afrofuturism as a form of revisionist history, the… Continue reading

  • Week 2- What is Public History?

    In the words of Carl Becker in his 1932 article “Everyman His Own Historian”, “History is the memory of things said and done” (Becker, 223). While Becker believes this to be the breakdown of the definition of the field to… Continue reading

  • Defining Digital History and Computing Humanities

    According to Adam Crymble in his book Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age, the beginnings of the field of digital history comes from the roots of humanities computing. Crymble defines this research as the idea of approaching… Continue reading

  • Update on my Visual Historiography Project – Embracing Scale

    Examining the scale at which digital history projects are organized and the criticisms or compliments on their interpretations of history, is a worthy examination into the ideas surrounding ethical practice and good scholarship when operating in the realm of the… Continue reading

  • Embracing Scale: Examining the Scope of Digital History Scholarship

    One of the most interesting aspects of digital projects for me has been examining the different choices in how historians have grouped information and what different scales they’ve used to create their data sets. Over the course of the semester… Continue reading

  • Visualizing Digital Historiography

    Despite the relatively new field of digital history, the exponential growth of technology over the past 60 years and interest in digital history has allowed for patterns throughout the field of digital scholarship to emerge. The great names of early… Continue reading

  • The ASSERT model and Bill Ferster’s Interactive Visualizations

    When sharing history with the public there can be many avenues to creating a user-friendly, understandable, and engaging narrative. Using Bill Ferster’s 2012 Interactive Visualization: Insight Through Inquiry as background information and his ASSERT model as the method for creating… Continue reading