Baking the Past

Sarah Bousfield

  • Reviewing The Manitoba Food History Project

    The Manitoba Food History Project is an interesting amalgamation of oral histories, Storymaps, and public history. Created by professor Janis Thiessen at the University of Winnipeg. At a time when food issues like climate change are on people’s minds, and… Continue reading

  • Digital Humanities and the Impact of ‘The Spatial Turn’

    Visualizations are a critical part of all Digital Humanities projects. Intended to gather vast quantities of data and translate them into understandable figures and easy to breakdown databases of collected and curated information, the widespread growth of interest in GIS,… Continue reading

  • AHR Reviewing Digital Projects

    The markers of professionalization within any academic field come from the participation in traditional academic journals and the presence of reviews. Just like traditional history, digital history needs reviews to forward it’s sense of professionalization. After all, academics are considered… Continue reading

  • Examining The History Manifesto

    One of the first things my professor in History and Historians taught me was that history has always been controversial. History has the power to shape and change nations, peoples, and individual identities and because of this, History terrifies those… Continue reading

  • Collaboration and Community in the Digital Humanities

    Over the past few weeks, we have been studying how digital humanities are the perfect platform for the studying and sharing of the stories and histories of underrepresented groups. While the projects organized and created by digital humanities centers at… Continue reading

  • The Valley of the Shadow Project and Its’ Legacy

    The rapid changes in technology throughout the last 40 years is incredibly astonishing, especially when examining the archived Valley of the Shadow projects developed by Edward L. Ayers. The different adaptations of the site from 1999 and 2014 are very… Continue reading

  • Understanding the ‘Past’ of Digital History

    Digital history as a field seems to have evolved from the creation of quantitative data and the utilization of new and growing technologies in the latter half of the 20th century. The understanding of the past from a quantitative direction… Continue reading

  • Understanding the Now and Future of Digital History

    As an introduction to the field of Digital History, the Virtual AHA panel on the future of digital history as a field of study gave a wonderful summary with several takeaways for someone like myself, who is more unfamiliar with… Continue reading

  • Week 12- Packing Up and Reflecting

    Well, we’ve finally come to the end. This has truly been a summer to remember. As I gave my internship presentation this morning at the Graduate Showcase I got a little sad realizing that it was in fact the end… Continue reading

  • Week 11- Test Pits

    All good things must come to an end, and the same can be said of any archaeological dig. At least for the season. During my three-week stint at Palmetto Junction I got the chance to assist in the excavation of… Continue reading