NCPH 2013 session – Using WordPress in Teaching Public History

• UMWBlogs — WordPress multi-user system

• Other options
  • Hand-coding HTML — History of Eugenics (from Archive.org)
  • MediaWiki — No longer available.
  • Omeka — James Monroe Museum Political Cartoons

• Example WordPress student public history sites
  • James Farmer Lectures Project
  • Virginia State Historical Markers for the Fredericksburg and Yorktown regions
  • A Museum of American Technology
  • History of UMW’s buildings
  • Experiences of 1950s students at Mary Washington College