ADH 10.0 — HIST 428

Category: Digital History

  • Hoofing It to the Finish Line

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    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.…

  • DGD – Final Steps

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    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…

  • Post Carousel, My Love

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    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…

  • Post Carousel, My Enemy

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    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…

  • Copyrighting history?

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    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…

  • 2 Minute Project Video

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  • Maps and Timelines

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    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…

  • History and AI…

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    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…

  • Reviewing Digital History Projects

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    Gilded Age Plains City What works: What Doesn’t:Taking:Avoiding: The coloring, massive blocks of text, Created: 2007-2008, and it’s clear. Even though a message is popping up at the top that says “this version of the site was created in 2025,” it’s very clearly outdated. Sources: The Emilíe Davis Diaries What works: What Doesn’t:Taking:Avoiding:Created: Sources: 100…

  • Exploring Omeka

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    Omeka is a site-building platform, sort of like WordPress, but its purpose is more to house the digital form of a collection, rather than to build a robust website. I’ve used it once before, but only in limited capacity. In HIST 299, myself and each of my classmates were tasked with archiving a news article…