Documenting the American South

I reviewed the online archive, Documenting the American South, which was compiled and maintained by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. There are roughly 1400 documents from the South pertaining to the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.... More

Digital Scholarship

The examples of digital scholarship I examined for this week were “Hearsay of the Sun” by Thomas Thurston, “The Difference Slavery Made” by Will Thomas and Edward Ayers, and “From Hogan’s Alley to Coconino County: Three Narrative of the Early... More

Design

Like many thinks so far in this course, I had previously given little thought to web site design. However, after reading the articles for this week it became quite easy to find many sites that demonstrate some basic design flaws.... More

Site evauluation

The Valley of the Shadow, Two Communities in the American Civil War ,(http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/) Introduction The Shenandoah Valley is a wide fertile valley just west of the Blue Ridge running from central Virginia to the middle of Pennsylvania. The Valley,... More

Scavenger hunt

I started the scavenger hunt looking for the recording of Trotsky speaking english on Google by searching for "leon Trotsky, recording, english". I came up with a number of sites, none of which panned out. I was using a... More

What historians do.

Historians, no matter what type of history they study, do basicly the same things. They 1) collect information and data on past events, 2) orginize the information, 3) interpret that information, and 4) finally express their interpritations to other historians... More