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For our project with the Central Rappahannock Heritage Center, a paper archive in downtown Fredericksburg that stores collections from Spotsylvania, Stafford, Caroline, and King George counties, we set out to increase public engagement through a social media campaign and an Omeka site that would house an archival collection of digitized photos and postcards created in…

This week, we are looking at the changes in the historical field due to an increasing digital presence. To do this, I chose to look at a number of different sites speaking on the subject, including Digital History’s Perpetual Future Tense by Cameron Blevins, Public, First by Sheila A. Brennan, Waiting for Web 2.0: Archives…

This week, we discussed the benefits and how-tos of a digital portfolio. I looked through several websites and found some interesting tidbits on how to properly format a portfolio in an online format. We live in the 21st century, and I have grown up online, so I have always been aware of my digital presence….

Wikipedia Discussion I chose to look at several different Wikipedia pages and focus on their history sections. I looked at Freedom Riders, Hollywood, and Rosenwald Schools, three topics that are only related by my personal interest in them. All of them are vastly different topics, each with their own diverse history, but something similar was…

Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing how to represent topics to our audience in different ways while maintaining accessibility. As we’ve developed our project ideas, we were assigned to film a short video on the status of our work. To do this, we chose to keep it simple with our video and…

This week, we were assigned the task of making both a timeline and a story map using the resources we had been introduced to by the DKC. I enjoyed making both, but my patience was also tested at the same time. This assignment reminded me how temperamental and specific technology is, but also how capable…

Project #1 Review: September 11th Digital Archive Content: The content of this page is definitely relevent, considering it pertains to September 11th, and though that occured 25 years ago, the ramifications of it still permeate through society. This website is updated regularly, and doesn’t necessarily take a specific interpretive angle. The goal of this website…

For this week, we were assigned two AI-heavy tasks: create a 2-page essay and transcribe a historical document. For the former, I chose to use Copilot, Microsoft’s AI platform, for its data protection feature (that I place half-hearted trust in). I’ve attached my conversation to this post, where the essay and picture reside. I chose…

For this week, I chose to look at the two sites St. John’s College Digital Archives and Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project, due to their direct connection to my career interests. To start, I looked at St. John’s College Digital Archives. This website gives access to collections from two libraries, the Greenfield Library in Annapolis,…

Why this class? I chose to take this class because I have always been interested in how the history field interacts with digital media, and how these resources can help improve the field. I’m also interested in improving my own digital skills, especially when it comes to developing projects that are public-facing and involve historical…