Practicum Week 1: Digitizing Lantern Slides
This week I began my work as the Martin L. Levitt Fellow at the American Philosophical Society. For those of …
Digital History Project Plan
Project Plan Thanks to the skills I have learned in my Digital History class this semester at Temple, I am …
Object Captions
After reading through Beverly Serrell’s book, Exhibit Labels: An Interpretive Approach, it is time to put these guidelines into practice. I …
Symbolism in Material Culture
This week’s readings all dealt with symbolism, emotions, and exhibits. The first article I read was “A Stage Set for Assimilation” …
Digital History Project Proposal
Intro: For my digital history project, I wanted to pick something that is both realistic and beneficial to my academic progress …
Local Historical Context
Instead of meeting for class this week, I was assigned to visit either a place in Philadelphia my object was …
Digital Project Review
For my digital project review, I decided to look at Digital Paxton: Digital Collection, Critical Edition, and Teaching Platform by Will …
Treasure Hunt: Using Voyant to Analyze Text
As you know from my previous posts, I am working with data that I gathered on Urban Lumbees from the University …
Clean it Up: Refining Data for Digital History
As you know from my previous post, I decided to gather data from the University of Florida’s Samuel Proctor Oral …
Exploring Data for Digital History
When given the task of selecting a dataset to use for this class, I wanted to pick something that would …