Author: Katie Faull
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Blog Post #1
Blog #1: “On Material and Digital Archives” Due: 9/5 Prompt: This week you have visited several websites that are based on archival materials. Go to the DH project Sample book that Dr. Jakacki assembled and look at the projects again. How are the projects categorized? Look especially at the ones that are categorized under Archive.…
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Getting to know the Archives!
Tomorrow during class we will be visiting the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem (virtually, alas!) to learn a bit about where the documents are housed that we will be working with semester. The Archivist, Dr. Paul Peucker, has kindly agreed to show us the Archives, talk about the kinds of materials that are kept there, and…
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Nick Miller’s Post on American Indian Histories
Nick Miller Web Site: http://www.aihc.amdigital.co.uk/ The link above takes you to an informative and well developed web page that provides an in depth look at what they title American Indian Histories and Cultures. Upon loading the web page, you are immediately met with pictures that provide you with options in the bottom left-hand corner of…
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This weekend’s assignment!
So the practice blog post for this weekend has been slightly modified from the one you found on your paper syllabus. Please follow this rubric! Assignment #1: Trial post to website. Choose one of the sample DH projects on this site. Given the six categories of DH approaches we have outlined e.g. distant reading, visualization,…
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Welcome to Digital Humanities!
Welcome to one of two new courses being taught in the Comparative Humanities program this semester on Digital Humanities! Over the course of the semester we will be working with manuscript materials from the pre-Revolutionary period of North America that reveal some of the complex and unexpected relationships, activities and modes of awareness that Native…
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Course Introduction
Humanities 100: Digging into the Digital is a project-based course in the humanities that introduces students to the world of digital humanities through use of selected digital tools and methods of analysis. Open to first years and sophomores only. Our Subject Some of the earliest European visitors to the area around the Confluence of the Susquehanna River…