On January 21, 2017 the international Women’s March took place in towns and cities across the world, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, in protest of his vitriolic political campaign leading up to the election. Estimated numbers of participants have made it the largest single day of…

The public historian is one who works in fields outside of the more traditional work in academia, such as with the federal government, non profit organizations, museums, libraries, businesses, or historical associations. The public historian’s role with people is collaborative and multidisciplinary, and methods of communication with the general population are different than ways in…

In thinking about a digital project for public history, I was interested in creating a website or platform based in some way on hand knitting. I reached out to others in the hand knitting community for their feedback in order to narrow the scope of the project, and to see where there might be interest…

A Comparative Review of the physical and digital sites. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Argument Harpers Ferry is a small, picturesque town that sits at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers. It was first established in 1763 by Robert Harper who operated a ferry service across the Potomac River. Embodied in this place…

I attended Loyola University Maryland and received my Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in History, but was unsure of what career direction to take. Eventually I decided to teach and worked towards my 7-12 certification in Social Studies while teaching US History in a Catholic grammar school. I am currently enrolled as a graduate student at…

In reviewing my initial definition of Digital Humanities from the first module, I would keep the overall description of who is involved in working with digitization, how it can be more easily shared with the general public, and that it requires diversity. I would add how digitization has created opportunities for expanded new scholarship through…

I love podcasts. I have been listening to them for the last few years, because of the flexibility and mobility that mobile devices allow for listening at my leisure. I enjoy listening to podcasts while out walking, gardening, and doing household chores. There are a few podcast shows that I have been listening to for…

Crowdsourcing is a term that was first used in a 2006 Wired Magazine description of how the idea of outsourcing work adapted to the World Wide Web. With crowdsourcing, a collective group of people can contribute to projects through their ideas and experience. Because of the internet, there are opportunities to tap into vast, global resources of…

Over the past few years, the prevalence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown exponentially, as technology corporations are competing with each other for users, and therefore, profits. However, their goals have come into conflict with one of the most popular websites on the internet, the online, global encyclopedia known as Wikipedia.  Wikipedia began in January,…

When working in the field of Digital Humanities, there are three computer based tools that can be indispensable for assisting with vast quantities of textual analysis, for digitized data sets that would be too time consuming and cumbersome to read through individually. Voyant Tools, Kepler.gl, and Palladio are all web based, easy to use, interactive…