Hello all! The first week of my internship was all about figuring out the first few assignments that I was going to be working on and tying together the research I was creating with some upcoming events over at the… Continue reading

Hello everyone! My name is Sarah Bousfield, as those of you who’ve been reading this blog over the past couple of years know I am a graduate student at the University of Central Florida currently working on my MA in… Continue reading

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Although for much of the semester we have been discussing historians as the arbiters of objective preservation and facilitators in the process of historical research and interpretation there is a place for historians as activists. It is a basic fact… Continue reading

Bibliography Hayden, Dolores. The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2021. Continue reading

As we continue our research into the Hungerford Normal and Industrial School in Eatonville FL we have begun to collaborate and form the foundation for the visualizations that students will be tackling further in a semester. The preservation of the… Continue reading

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

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

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

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