Overview The follow blog post is the final posting for the Spring 2020 class. This post will discuss two main themes from the course: public history authority, and digital content vs. printed content. Part I: Public History Authority Authority relates to who has creative control over an exhibit. After taking this course and…
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Evaluation of Project
Updated to include ideas on new direction for project… Overview: This is the third blog post in the Spring 2020 course sequence. This posting has two main sections. The first examines how I structured my final project, the decision that went into choosing my sources, and how I chose to present the chosen information….
Technology and Public History
Blog Post 2 Technology and Public History Overview: This will be my second blog post for the course. The discussion point is regarding how methods and technologies of public history influences the types of digital public history being created today. Therefore, the best way to breakdown this discussion topic is to talk about methods…
Exploring Landscape with Digital Public History
Public History and Technological Reality This site will contain my blog post regarding the digital public history application Histories of the National Mall and how it has impacted a public history site. While Washington, D.C. has been quarantined for the COVID-19 outbreak in recent weeks, I do have experience working with this application and using it…
Virginia Tavernkeepers: Bibliography
Bibliography Primary Sources: Christiana Campbell, “16 February 1818 Account of St. George Tucker Esqr with Edward Waddy. | Colonial Williamsburg Digital Library.” Accessed October 20, 2019. https://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/view/index.cfm?doc=Manuscripts\M1942.4.09.xml&highlight=Campbell. “A Guide to the Humphrey Harwood Account Book, 1776-1794 Harwood, Humphrey, Account Book, 1776-1794 MS 33.1.” Accessed October 20, 2019. https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=cw/viwc00031.xml. “April…
Spring 2020 Project Update
Overview: This page contains weekly updates regarding my final project for Spring 2020. I will enter the date for each update above the appropriate entry. Update as of 3/4/2020 I am currently working on refining my project. Asking questions like what is the core augment of this project? As a project on the history…
Spring 2020 Final Project Prospectus
-Spring 2020 Final Project Prospectus- This is the prospectus to my final project. Thoughts and ideas for the project are below, these are current as of 19 February 2020. Description of history questions and content: How are minorities (using the term vaguely) represented throughout the history of the census in the United States? If minorities…
Persona Creation
Overview: Here are three personas that I have been developing throughout this semester. I have decided to include three because my original plan for this project was education centered; however, that has changed slightly. My original personas pertained to teachers and students (two personas I have kept),but I have added a third persona to broaden…
User Research Findings
Overview: This posting contains two main sections: the first provides a quick discussion of user research that I have found for my project, and the second section offers a discussion platform to vent ideas as to how this project has changed or is changing due to the research data, reading articles, and holding meetings. Part…
Public History Comparative Paper
The United States Holocaust Museum: The Experience of Public History In Person or Online With the ever-growing array of multi-media platforms, social media, and digital scholarship, museums are in constant collaboration with digital tools and techniques. The US Holocaust Museum is one institution that has expanded its public outreach by creating an entirely interactive…