Links for Digital History Class for Alumni College 2014 – May 30, 2014
Jeffrey W. McClurken
http://mcclurken.org/presentations/ac2014/
What is “Digital History”?
o Online scholarly article with all the sources included
- Ed Ayers & Will Thomas — http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/AHR/
o GIS/imaging and historical maps
- CW in 4 minutes — Abraham Lincoln Library (preview here)
- Tona Hagen’s mapping of MD Physician Dr. Alexander Hamilton’s 1744 travels from MD to Maine and back. — http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=100153201231944797667.000472f19634583452f0e
- University of Richmond’s projects using Google Earth
- The Slave Trade in Antebellum Richmond — http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar/slavemarket.html
- Redlining Richmond — http://dsl.richmond.edu/holc/pages/home
- Visualizing Emancipation — http://dsl.richmond.edu/civilwar/vizemanc.html
- Neatline
- http://neatline.org/ — Battle of Chancellorsville
- Visual Eyes
- Example: Jefferson’s Travels in England in 1786 — http://www.viseyes.org/show/?base=jt
o Archival collections of the recent past
- Hurricane Digital Memory Bank – Katrina & Rita
- Heavy Metal Umlaut Video – Even Wikipedia has a history
o 3-D rendering
- Visualizing Washington DC in 1814 — UMBC Imaging Lab
- Rome Reborn – Collaboration of UVA and UCLA
- 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition – “White City“
o History as interactive game
- Classic — Lost Museum of P.T. Barnum — http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/barnum.html
- New games incorporate augmented reality and smartphones/tablets — http://www.converjent.org/jewish-time-jump-new-york_page/get-the-game/
o Data-mining/Text mining
- Tag Clouds/Wordle
- o My notes for the history methods class as a tag cloud — http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/39965/299
- o Gettysburg Address — http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/886521/G-burg_Address
- Victorian Book Project — http://victorianbooks.org/words-in-titles-1789-1914/
- Google Ngrams
- http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/
- Ngram of Railroads and Secession in the Civil War Era —http://railroads.unl.edu/blog/?p=466
- Topic Modeling with Mallet – Version of text analysis that allows the computer to come up with patterns.
- Rob Nelson’s analysis of Daily Dispatch in Richmond during the Civil War — http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/Topics
- Fugitive slave ads — http://dsl.richmond.edu/dispatch/Topics/view/15
o More traditional topics, but with powerful results
- Lincoln at 200 — Newberry Library and Chicago History Museum — http://lincolnat200.org/
o Digital History is also “crowdsourcing” creation of content
- War Department Papers — http://wardepartmentpapers.org/nominations.php
- Transcribe Bentham — http://www.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/
- Scripto — tool that enables community-based transcriptions of documents or video — http://scripto.org/
o Other (partly serious) defining Digital Humanities options
University of Mary Washington Digital History Resources and Work
o UMW digital image archives — http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Index
- Aerial view from 1965 – http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/umw:616
- Monroe Hall Swimming pool – http://archive.umw.edu:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/umw:376
- Centennial blog — http://centennial.umwblogs.org/
o UMW Battlefield Yearbook (1913-today), Aubade (1971-present), and Academic Catalog– Digitized resources
o UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org
History & American Studies Department work in blogs — http://cas.umw.edu/historyamericanstudies/course-sites/
- 1) Extending class discussion beyond the classroom
- Krystyn Moon’s Consumerism class. — http://consumerism.umwblogs.org/reflection-posts/
- Continuing class discussion beyond the classroom – my US History in Film course — Scroll down to see post-class discussion of Pocahontas – 2008
- Sue Fernsebner’s Gender in Chinese History – Course management tool
- 2) As Museum
- History of Tech Museum Exhibit — http://historyoftech.umwblogs.org/
- 3) Oral History
- Jess Rigelhaupt’s Oral History course on Rosie the Riveter — http://rosietheriveter.umw.edu/
- MWHC Oral History Project — http://mwhcoralhistory.rigelhaupt.org/
- 4) Learning to Do History in the Digital Age
- 5) Digital Media Enhanced Student Essay
- 19th C. etiquette manuals for women — http://etiquette.umwblogs.org/
Other departments’ history-related blogs
o Marie McCallister’s 18th-Century Audio Blog
- Phillis Wheatley poem, read by UMW Prof. Mara Scanlon — http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org/wheatley-on-being-brought-from-africa-to-america-read-by-mara-scanlon/
o Marjorie Och’s Bernini Exhibit (Art History) — http://bernini2013.org/
My students’ work
Women’s History Course
- Life of students in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s,
- Site: 1930s — http://mwc1930s.umwblogs.org/
- They looked into academics and social life
- Site: 1940s — http://mwc1940s.umwblogs.org/
- Dealt with the issues of WWII and veterans
- Slide show of images from the decade — http://mwc1940s.umwblogs.org/2012/03/15/mwc-to-umw-photographs-from-then-now/
- Site: 1950s — http://mwc1950s.umwblogs.org/
- Sophisticated site designed by the students
- Show Academics and Social Life
- Site: 1960s — http://mwc1960.umwblogs.org/
- Agree to the Honor Pledge before you enter the site
- Lots of interviews with alums from this decade — http://mwc1960.umwblogs.org/hear-what-our-students-have-to-say/
- Underground newspaper — http://motherofthefather.umwblogs.org/
o Ultimately, we voted on recreating a classroom session from the 1950s – http://hist328.umwblogs.org/2012/04/26/part-of-our-classroom-re-creation/
History of the Information Age Course
- o Class Timeline — http://infoagetimeline.umwblogs.org/
- o Project Assignments — http://infoage.umwblogs.org/project-assignments/
- Create an infographic with information about an early system of communication (with sources, posted)
- o Advertisements in the style of the 1930s-1960s
- Tupperware Print Ad — http://infoage.umwblogs.org/2011/10/24/post-war-woman-and-the-spread-of-information/
- Weight-gain Print Ad — http://infoage.umwblogs.org/2011/10/24/gain-flesh-gain-the-girl/
- Further explanation of the group’s research and approach, some technical discussion, and photo issues.
- Wurlitzer Jukebox meets the Hipster Print Ad — http://infoage.umwblogs.org/2011/10/23/advertisement-project-the-wurlitzer-jukebox/
- Discussion of advertising research
- o Group Assignment to make a documentary (5-10 minutes) on topic from Digital Age
- My reflections on the class over the course of the semester. http://mcclurken.blogspot.com/search/label/Information%20Age
Adventures in Digital History
o Digital History Class — http://digitalhistory.umwblogs.org/ (2008), http://dh2010.umwblogs.org (2010), http://dh2012.umwblogs.org/, & http://dh2014.umwblogs.org/
o 2008 Projects
- Historical Markers — http://fredmarkers.umwblogs.org/
- Farmer Project — http://jamesfarmer.umwblogs.org/
- Introductory video — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YJXFKjzHLg
- Alumni Project — http://projects.umwhistory.org/alumni/
o 2010 Projects
- UMW Images through the Ages – http://projects.umwhistory.org/images/
- Civil War Fredericksburg — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/
- o Exhibits – http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/exhibits
- o Fredericksburg as a Hospital — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/exhibits/show/fredericksburg-as-a-hospital/period-medicine
- o Clickable Map with images and links to more details — http://projects.umwhistory.org/cwh/maps
- James Monroe Papers — http://projects.umwhistory.org/jmp/
- o Letters to Two Secretaries of State — http://projects.umwhistory.org/jmp/exhibits
- o Map — http://umwhistory.org/projects/jmp/europe-map
- o Tags — http://umwhistory.org/projects/jmp/items/tags
- Life and Legacy of Mary Ball Washington — http://maryballwash.umwblogs.org/
o 2012 class projects
- James Farmer interviews (2012) — http://jamesfarmerlectures.umwblogs.org
- History of the buildings on campus (2012) — http://buildings.umwblogs.org/
- Political Cartoon site — from the James Monroe Museum collections — http://jmpolitoons.umwhistory.org/
o 2014 class projects
- Then and Now images of Mary Washington — http://thenandnow.umwhistory.org/
- 3D Modeling at James Monroe Museum — http://jmonroe3d.umwhistory.org/
- 1960s Scrapbooks — http://scrapbooks.umwhistory.org/
- Home Economics club — http://scrapbooks.umwhistory.org/collections/show/2
- Century America
- Overall Project site — http://centuryamerica.org/
- UMW students – http://umw.centuryamerica.org/
- Truman State U. site — http://truman.centuryamerica.org/
What can you do?
o Transcribe a letter and make it available.
Individual approaches you can take:
o Scanning old photos or sharing new digital ones
- Flickr.com, Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/)
- My pictures on flickr — http://www.flickr.com/photos/52355157@N00/
o Interview relatives (or yourself) and post online.
o Blogs as publishing platforms
- WordPress.com
- Manuals for UMWblogs – http://umwblogs.org/support/
UMW’s other forays in to the digital world
o Digital Studies Minor — http://cas.umw.edu/dgst/curriculum/
o Domain of One’s Own — http://umwdomains.com/ & http://community.umwdomains.com/
- Domain name and hosting for every incoming student
- Portfolio/digital resume
- Caitlin Murphy — http://caitlinpringlemurphy.com/
- Sidney Mullis’s art portfolio — http://www.sidneymullis.com/
- Candice Roland — http://www.candiceroland.org/
- Faculty Initiative — http://fi.umwdomains.com/
o ITCC – Convergence Center