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Social Media Madness | history@Jub
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One grad student's thoughts on digital history, new media, and the public. If you had to pick the very best children’s book of all-time, your first choice might not be,. The Scholastic Book of World Records, 2009.*. As far as I know, the book has not made it to the top of any critic’s lists. But in at least one Wisconsin elementary school, this book reigns supreme. Last week, the students crowned this book as champion in their school library’s March Madness Book Bracket. Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Might not m...
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A Capital Market: Final Reflection | history@Jub
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One grad student's thoughts on digital history, new media, and the public. A Capital Market: Final Reflection. 8220;If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.”. 8211; Some man named William Edward Hickson. 8220;No. Try Not. Do. Or Do not. There is no try.”. I immediately wanted to learn more about this forgotten landmark. Although I found wonderful resources and images from the market, I was not fully satisfied with my final product. My critique of Omeka.net aside. Therefore, I was thrilled to p...
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Market Space | history@Jub
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One grad student's thoughts on digital history, new media, and the public. Space is neither simply natural geography nor an empty container filled by history. It is rather something that human beings produce over time. Spatial relations shift and change. Space is itself historical. Drawing upon Henri Lefebvre’s. The Production of Space. Richard White provides this definition of space in. What is Spatial History? I am currently researching Center Market. The ‘center’ of Washington D.C....It is worth repea...
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Mobilizing Through History | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. April 16, 2014. In History and New Media. When we hear the phrase “New media” we usually think of recent technology like smartphones, or Twitter, or even just the internet at large. However, as the essay collection. New Media, 1740-1915. Take for example mobile applications in museums. Though thoroughly robust mobile applications were uncommon prior to the rise of smartphones a decade ago, museums have long used hand-held ...
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Why I’m a Maphead | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. March 27, 2014. In History and New Media. Why I’m a Maphead. A Precursor to Normandy? Just like Brick Tamland loves lamp. Are much more complex than D.C.’s Metro map. I believe spatial history is absolutely vital in Digital History. Besides the very practical uses of maps I outlined above, maps can be great tools of learning. The image at the top of this post comes from a 2012 Guardian piece. Historians should not view maps ju...
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Final Resting Place | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. May 1, 2014. In History and New Media. Burials at the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery peaked as Abraham Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation in September, 1862. Way back in February, I wrote. Into our site, the database itself is the foundation of the project, rather than the end-all, be-all. Instead, the website robustly interprets and contextualizes the cemetery. Specifically, the website demonstrates that...After...
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That’s What History Said | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. That’s What History Said. History is filled with great characters, who in turn are filled with great quotes. As I come across any memorable and distinct quotes, I’ll tweet them from @ZachHistoryAU. With the hashtag #thatswhathistorysaid,. And if you find any quotes that really speak to you, feel free to tweet them too! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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It’s the culturomics, stupid | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. February 26, 2014. In History and New Media. It’s the culturomics, stupid. The Internet Archive is pretty awesome. But the Google Ngrams. Tool, which allows anyone to search millions of books from 1800 to 2008, is pretty neat too. This tool is part of a new field called “ culturomics. Steps for Ngram :. 1) Books are written 2) Google scans books 3) Ngram analyzes selection of books 4) User searches for specific words. Geotagge...
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Mapping History | Amelia Midgett-Nicholson
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Speak Friend and enter. Skip to primary content. March 27, 2014. While historians throughout time have had notable moments of spatial awareness, the field has by-and-large taken space for granted. Argues, Historians still routinely write about political change, social change, class relations, gender relations, cultural change as if the spatial dimensions of these issue matter little if at all. So how should historians study and research changes in geography and spatial meaning over time? And as White con...
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Communication Breakdown | Zach's History Blog
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Zach's History Blog. One public historian's musings. That’s What History Said. April 3, 2014. In History and New Media. Last week I received a group email from a friend. The subject line was simply “fb” and the original message was quite clear: “What the hell. Stop changing.” That was followed up by a dozen responses, some in agreement (“Argh”), some pragmatic (“What the hell else are their engineers going to do but change things? Why do we always complain when a site like Facebook, or Google. From perso...