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Is Graduate School a Job?
From Persephone Magazine: This is not a unique or a new debate. While in this case I am looking at graduate school, the same argument about whether or not academic careers should be treated like jobs has been raging and … Continue reading
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Community: Pillows and Blankets and Public History
Last week’s episode of Community featured an epic documentary a la Ken Burns’ Civil War that documented the colossal pillow fight between Abed Nadir’s Pillowstown and ex-best friend Troy Barnes’ Blanketsburg. The episode utilized an impressive array of sources that … Continue reading
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The Digital Narrative of Perez Hamilton
PerezHamilton.com parodies pop culture gossip monger Perez Hilton by blogging about major events of seventeenth century American history. The site functions as a digital narrative by exhibiting components explicated by Bryan Alexander in The New Digital Storytelling: Creating Narratives with New Media. Perez … Continue reading
Questioning Online Archives
To begin my foray into the world of digital archiving, I uploaded several images of the 1893 Columbian Exposition on to an Omeka website. Specifically, I sampled images of the Midway Plaisance published in souvenir books in order to facilitate … Continue reading
Historic (Web)sites
How can a website assist the interpretive mission of a historic site? I am loosely defining a historic site as a historically significant location preserved to fulfill an educational function in contrast to a museum focused on the collection and … Continue reading
Imperialist War
Practicing my novice Photoshop skills with a composite image of a WWII Soviet TASS Poster and the Michigan Avenue Bridge sculpture that commemorates the Battle of Fort Dearborn.
Flickr for the Public Historian
Flickr is the black hole of pretty pictures. Its emphasis on digital photography and aesthetic beauty foreshadows the popularity of Tumblr and Pinterest. The site certainly holds value for historians through the sheer volume of historical imagery, and the potential … Continue reading
Between the Personal and the Professional
As a public historian and young adult, there is no question of whether or not I will cultivate an online presence. Recently, however, I have been seriously grappling with the implications of separating or integrating my personal and professional online … Continue reading
Twitter for the Public Historian
At its best, Twitter serves as a showcase for wit and a tool for grassroots mobilization. At its worst it is a platform for inane updates on the daily lives of celebrities and–even worse–of normals. How can public historians harness the … Continue reading
Scissorizing, Scrapbooking, and SOPA
In “Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth-Century Reading, Remaking, and Recirculating,” Ellen Gruber Garvey frames nineteenth century scrapbooking as a practice in which readers both consumed and created written works by cutting excerpts of books and newspapers of personal interest and collecting … Continue reading
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