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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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