Author: Ben B.

The Devil-Goat Day digital archive challenged me in many ways. This group project may have been the largest I had taken on, with four members working together. The collaborative effort was also something I had not experienced in other group projects. We grew close and met frequently to work. In theory, the project was straightforward:…

Initial project is in! Our group began founding more material close to the deadline, which was a huge relief after our initial collection for some decades. Still no content for the 90s, but I’m hoping alumni will reach out. Social media is still going strong, and I will continue to blog in the following weeks…

Sources: Cameron Blevins, Digital Histories Perpetual Future Tense Sheila Brennan, Public, First Jeffrey McClurken, Archive 2.0 Cameron Blevins Digital History and the Civil War Era The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Sharon M. Leon Guidelines on the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians, 2015 Guidelines for Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship,…

Benjamin Berger-Relave now_and_ben@icloud.com 571-992-7912 I’m a senior at the University of Mary Washington, majoring in Historic Preservation with a minor in Digital Studies. I’m focused primarily on video projects, with an interest in how stories take shape through editing and visual structure. My portfolio also includes web design work that complements and enhances the way…

Sites looked at: Taylor Malone Layla McGovern Danah Boyd Rebecca Wingo Bonnie Stewart Depending on our audience, context, and platform, we shift the way we present ourselves to fit the situational needs. On a higher level, these shifting factors contribute to a general image of our online presence. Authenticity online or “who we are” does…

Nero: Talk Tab: This reveals the parameters for creating the Nero page. Wikipedia has unique input across its topics and articles, with entire groups of people dedicated to the pages. Undertaking the maintenance of Wikipedia requires some guidelines and parameters. The talk page denotes that the Nero page is subject to controversy. Beyond this their…

We started the process by capturing B-roll footage of the current encased devil goat day exhibit in the library. This served as a good background video to talk over and explain the project. From there, our team workshopped a script and made revisions after recording an initial read-through. With the script finished, Cora and I…

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Blog 1: The Spread of US Slavery 1790-1860 Content: This project utilises a rigorous dataset drawn from the National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS), which provides standardized U.S. Census demographic data. Mullen cites NHGIS directly, ensuring transparency and scholarly accountability. Because the project relies on official census counts, its foundation is both reliable and historically…

The paper: I chose to prompt Co-pilot with a history paper about Napoleon Bonaparte. My prompt initially was “Write a two-page history paper on Napoleon Bonaparte, providing a well-rounded exploration of his role in history and what people need to know about him.” This initial paper was broken up by large section headings and not…