There are many reasons why digital collections are helpful and are, in someways, unique. First of all, having a digital collection allows one to gather…
Author: Greta
Reflecting on Audience, Dialogue, and Co-Creation
One of the most integral parts of public history is paying close attention to one’s audience and creating a project that reaches their needs and…
User Research Findings
In the state of Indiana (where I grew up), Indiana history is taught in fourth grade. Right now, my upcoming digital history project is set…
Bon Appetit! Julia Child’s Kitchen: Reviewing and Comparing Physical and Digital Exhibits
This past fall, I visited the Smithsonian National Museum of American History for the first time since I was a child. As a person who…
Analyzing Digital Public History
The 1990s saw the advent of the internet and with it, the first projects in digital public history. Many of these first projects were largely…
“Whose Public? Whose History?”
In 1981, Ronald Grele wrote about the emergence of a new field in the historical profession. While the idea of engaging in historical based practices…
Introduction
Hello! My name is Greta. I am a second semester M.A. student at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. I am interested in Early American…
Doing Digital Humanities
My project, called Mapping Fraktur, uses the software CartoDB to map the locations where Fraktur (Pennsylvania Dutch illuminated manuscripts) were created in order to give…
Social Media Strategy for Fraktur Project
In the late 1600s, many people from the German lands in Europe immigrated to America and began to put down roots in southeastern Pennsylvania. As…
What Can You Do With Crowdsourced Digitalization?
As mentioned in a previous post, crowdsourcing is basically the idea that the general public can create or edit contents online. Crowdsourcing has been put…
