Out of all the readings that stuck with me this week, a single quote struck me the hardest as the central theme and idea surrounding all of these readings and the importance of the idea of shared authority.  “If interest… Continue reading

One of the most important tools that historians can utilize are primary sources of different kinds. When thinking of primary sources most historians consider written sources first, but the material sources can be just as important, often examining them leads… Continue reading

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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