Author: Abby F.
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Dress, Social Death, and the Limits of Control
Okay, you may be wondering about the result of some of the other research from this semester. Digital History was the one I posted about the most, but it wasn’t the only history course I took this semester. My other class, Hist 444: American Slavery, was a much more analogue course. When I wasn’t in…
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Hoofing It to the Finish Line
Devil-Goat Day is over! Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) the 100 Years of Devil-Goat Day project is officially over as well. My project group presented at the university’s History Symposium yesterday (Friday, 4/25), the final step (outside of this blog post) for the class. RIP History 428: Digital History (not dead, I’m just gonna miss it.…
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DGD – Final Steps
As we’re coming up to the last few weeks of the semester, the Devil-Goat Day group and I are working to complete our website (dgd.umwhistory.org.) You’ll have to excuse my absence, I’ve spent a lot of the last week settled in at a desk publishing nearly 200 photos, yearbook scans, and more to the project’s…
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Post Carousel, My Love
So… last week I talked a little bit about the struggle of setting up a post carousel that could handle more than just 10 posts. It is important to note that I did end up figuring that one out. After spending the whole weekend turning through options, and possible alternatives for how to set up…
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Post Carousel, My Enemy
I think the hardest part of setting up this website so far has genuinely been making the post carousel. Is that silly? It took like a solid 2 hours to figure out to get the first post carousel to work, and then I realized that… it kind of… didn’t work. The first post carousel on…
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Research, research, research!
Hello! It’s been a little while since I updated on anything that wasn’t related to my Digital History course this semester, but I promise there’s good reason for that. You see, I have been researching. “Researching what?” you may ask, well, let me tell you a little about the work I’ve been doing. This semester,…
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Copyrighting history?
The Wikipedia articles that I looked at were: Talk: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire Talk: Disco Demolition Night Talk: Winter War …I am frankly not entirely certain that I understood what I was looking at here. It was just a lot of information and I got overwhelmed pretty quick. Cora and Ben (from my devil-goat day…
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Maps and Timelines
For this week’s post, we were tasked with making an interactive map and timeline. I made my map with StoryMapJS and my timeline with TimelineJS. Yankee Stadiums Storymap: Yankee Stadiums Timeline: I already had experience with both of these systems, both because I work at the DKC, but also because we used them when I…
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History and AI…
I would like to get this out of the way: I am severely opposed to the use of AI in pretty much anything, especially if its use is not directly and exclusively data storage / analysis. However, for the Tuesday, Jan. 27 blog post for Digital History, we were asked to have AI write a…