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My experiences this year have changed the way I think about doing many things, but the way I do history has probably changed the most profoundly. Initially, I did not think much of the digital format, especially doing digital history, … Continue reading →

I chose to do a narrative map on Fredrick Douglass. Fredrick Douglass was a very interesting person and there is a lot to say about him. The open access primary resource identified Fredrick Douglass as the “most important black American … Continue reading →

Geospatial visualization is an interesting way for digital historians to conduct inquiries beyond writing or creating visuals like maps. I think a lot of the ability for geospatial visualization to be so compelling lies in its relationship of absolute and … Continue reading →

I find that computational text analysis has great research value to me, and that it would be of definite use to me as an historian. To begin, computational text analysis can help stimulate inquiry questions. Computational text analysis is “distant … Continue reading →

This is a website review on Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination (American Antiquarian Society) (https://americanantiquarian.org/NatTurner/). This website is all about the man Nat Turner, a enslaved man who led a rebellion that attacked multiple plantations in August … Continue reading →

Item creation and description of my two primary sources did not have many hiccups. My two items were images, so I had almost no text to analyze. One of my sources, “Leap of the Fugitive Slave,” was unclear on what … Continue reading →

As I was reading Unrequited Toil, a particular sentence caught my attention. “In Slave Societies, owners and managers intensified violence to boost productivity, mitigate rebelliousness, and prevent uprisings.” I had always understood slavery to be a particularly ruthless experience, so … Continue reading →