This past year, I had the opportunity to intern at the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. I was fortunate to live close enough to travel into the office and meet some of the people who put the Folklife Festival together. I was able to take advantage of field trips and webinars organized by…

Over the past few weeks, I completed a rough draft edit of a second time stamped, written transcription of one of the sessions from last summer’s Smithsonian Folklife Festival and submitted it for review. I then downloaded another session to Microsoft Word for the time stamped transcription, but was not sure if that was one…

For my internship project with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the plan was for me to create a digital package based on last summer’s lecture series from the Folklife Festival’s Voices of The  Indigenous Americas. There were a total of eighteen panel discussions revolving around specific topics, including talks about Indigenous Sovereignty, Indigenous…

My initial expectations about an internship with the Smithsonian Institution were that I would be able to intern at the Smithsonian in a hybrid work position, because I live in Northern Virginia. I am close enough to to travel to Washington, DC, but not on a daily basis. I had thought it would be beneficial…

What are you doing that seems to be successful in the internship?  For my internship with the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, my tasks are to transcribe audio files from this past summer’s Folklife Festival, Indigenous Voices of the Americas, then carefully edit the transcription. Many of the public programs are recorded, and…

What work have you done in the past few weeks?  For my project at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH), I have been tasked with creating audio file transcriptions from the 2024 Folklife Festival, Indigenous Voices of America. Most of the sessions are recorded as they take place, and have since been transcribed…

Blog Post #2 What are you enjoying the most during this experience?  For my internship with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, what I am enjoying the most with this experience has been meeting and interacting with others. I have been going into the office one day a week. Initially, there were more…

The Smithsonian Institution was established in 1846 for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. Today, the institution is made up of 19 museums, 21 libraries, several research centers, publications, and a zoo. The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) evolved over several decades following the first Festival of American Folklife in 1967. It…

In his keynote address to the 2015 American Association for State and Local History annual meeting, Stanford Education Professor Sam Wineburg discussed one of the biggest challenges facing history educators in the age of the internet. We do not have a problem with finding information. With the proliferation of mobile phones and devices, search engines are…

Project Update: My topic is about the 2017 International Women’s March, and how we can use images from the march as primary sources for research about women’s history.  It is also about how we can study continuity and change by comparing the 2017 women’s march with the 1913 Suffragette Procession and parade in Washington, DC.  My intended…