Online Portfolio

2017 Women’s March After changing the theme of my website from Center Row to Freedom, I met with my professor to discuss the progress I am making on the development of my interactive website about the 2017 Women’s March. We discussed moving the thumbnail image currently located on the top left of the home page…

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park, Fredericksburg, Virginia For a mobile public history site, I visited the National Park Service Visitor’s Center near the Fredericksburg National Cemetery, located in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. They offer a self-guided tour of the Sunken Road Trail, which is approximately one half mile along an easy walking terrain path behind…

2017 Women’s March Website One of my challenges with the website has to do with the overall look and layout. I used Canva, a platform for making flyers, posters, and other visual aids, to create a banner that said, “2017 Women’s March.” Under “appearances,” I added the image as the logo. But it was so…

2017 Women’s March Website  I have added an About paragraph rough draft.  Challenges are to work on the overall look of the website, to fix the title banner, and to edit the about paragraph.  The next steps I need to work on are to ensure that all the plugins work properly and that users can…

2017 Women’s March Archival Website Development of my interactive website covering the stories and images of the 2017 Women’s March is in the initial stages. So far I have completed the following:  The addition of plugins:  I have added a new cover photograph, and have tried to add a banner title.  Some of the challenges…

Persona 1: Leslie Scope is a white woman in her 50s. She has a Masters in Library Science and lives in the suburbs. She is the head Research Librarian at her local town library. Her two children are both living out of state at four year colleges. She considers herself to be spiritual, but no longer attends…

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…