The serendipity of history
When poking around on the Library of Congress Map Collections to find a header image the other day, I stumbled upon Dr. John H. Robinson’s 1819 map of the southern United States and what was then...
View ArticlePopularizing the Historical Process
This week’s readings (Week 12) focused on what can broadly be called “citizen history” or “crowdsourcing”–inviting public participation in the process of creating knowledge, not just waiting to receive...
View ArticleWhat Difference Does New Media Make to Doing History?
It makes me sad to say that this is my last blog post for Clio Wired I. I have learned a great deal, and really enjoyed learning both the bigger picture of digital history, and some hands-on skills...
View ArticleFun with fonts and styles
As I’ve read the book and watched the video for this week’s assignment (scroll to February 13), I’ve been dividing my attention: I’ve succumbed to the temptation of continually modifying my portfolio...
View ArticleWhat a difference a detail can make…
Right now I’m sitting by a microfilm machine at George Mason University’s Arlington campus library, looking at a microfilm–retrieved via interlibrary loan–of the journal of Calista Cralle Long. Long’s...
View ArticleAnd now, it is done…
At least for now. At least for the sake of Dr. Petrik’s gradebook. You can see my final assignment, “Santa Anna Goes to Washington.” There is still more that I would like to do. In spite of Geoff and...
View ArticleIt’s 3 a.m. … Do you know where your CSV columns are?
Tomorrow, or technically today, I’m presenting in Clio 3 on Data Manipulation. As Professor Gibbs and I defined it on Monday, my presentation on this potentially broad topic is twofold: Using SQL...
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