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

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

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

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

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

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