Category: hist 428

This blog post discusses how a blog is not just for teenagers and college kids for expressing themselves online, but can also be used by professors and academics to show their classes, research, etc with an audience. It is also a way for professors to be more approachable to students because they are working with…

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…

Wikipedia Reviews Defenestrations of Prague: Revision history It is listed under high-importance for the Czech Republic and mentions of military history (medical and early-modern) and former countries listed as the Holy Roman Empire. It is a C-…

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…

The process of creating this video was different for me because I was unable to be there for the recording of the b-roll, but I was able to help with the audio recording and script writing. I played a small role, but even just my voice recording…

Timeline (it would not let me embed the link)

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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…

JSTOR: JSTOR is one of my favorite sites, if not my favorite, for research. Content: The content is scholarly, with the inclusion of citations and information on where to find further readings from the author or related subject(s). There really isn&#8…

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…