I’ve learned a lot this semester during the Digital History class, but I have to say there are three lessons that really stuck out as highly impactful. The first was reading silencing the Past by Dr. Michel-Rolph Trouillot. This book was incredible and has completely changed my perspective about understanding the power of recording or… Continue reading Self Reflection
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Blog Post #5
When it came to creating my own tidy data that took information from the American Philosophical Society’s “Curator’s Record of Donations to the Cabinet, 1769-1818 Volume 1: 3 February 1769-20 1818” I took great care to review Hadley Wickham’s article, “Tidy Data,” Journal of Statistical Software 59, no. 10 (August 2014), especially the three principals… Continue reading Blog Post #5
Blog Post #4
When I first logged on to the Virginia Department of Historical Resources to find a suitable highway marker I was quite overwhelmed; I hadn’t realized how many there were! I weighed the choices through the lens of personal context, I wanted to select a marker that had relevance to me on a physical proximity and… Continue reading Blog Post #4