For my final project, I would like to continue with the same theme and general topic I used in the final projects I created for the two previous certificate courses, and create a project about the Carpatho-Rusyn people. Specifically, I was thinking about creating a project that examined the religious conflict that occurred between the …
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Historical Thinking
Historical thinking is the process that historians use when constructing narratives of the past. This process involves a close examination of primary source documents and other historical evidence to create a historical narrative that is as accurate as possible. Historical thinking is about more than just what historians now to be historical facts and truths, …
Introduction-HIST 689
My name is Andrew Hutsko (you can call me Drew) and I am excited to be a student in HIST 689 Teaching and Learning History in the Digital Age this semester. I am taking this course as part of the masters program. I am pursuing a Master of Arts in Applied History with New Media …
The Process of Digital Public History
Taking Digital Public History this past semester has given me a lot of valuable knowledge and insight that I will use in my future career and the historical work that I will create. Overall, I have learned what it means to create history for the public and how this can be done in a digital …
Digital History Project Argument
In my digital history project, I am telling the story of the unique immigrant experience, and Americanization process of the Carpatho-Rusyn people. My project starts in the 1880s, when the Carpatho-Rusyns first began to immigrate to the United States in large numbers, and ends in the present day, looking at the Rusyn-American community today. Throughout …
The Influence of Methods and Technologies on the Types of Digital Public History Works being Created
In the technology driven and digital world that we live in today, public historians are presenting their work in new and unique ways. No longer is public history just learned and experienced through a physical exhibit in a museum. Today, public historians are using new methods and technologies to create a variety of different digital …
Digital History Project Progress Update 4
Since the last update on my project, I have completed writing the descriptive captions that will appear under each of the images and items that will be included in my final exhibit. Each of the 55 items that will be included in the project were given captions that explained what they were and their importance …
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Digital History Project Progress Update 3
Since my last project update, I have begun to write some of the text that will be included and will provide the context for my project. I started with writing the descriptive captions for the images that will be featured in each section of my exhibit. These captions combined with the images and other items …
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Exploring your Landscape with Digital Public History: Images of Arlington County 1920
The mobile public history site that I tested was a project by the Arlington Historical Society called Images of Arlington County 1920. The project was created to mark the centenary of the renaming of the county in 2020. It features 119 images of buildings that would have existed in 1920 when Arlington County got its …
Digital History Project Progress Update 2
In the last week, I have worked on reorganizing my project to focus more on the experience of Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants in the United States and the process of Americanization that they and their descendants experienced. I used the information I already had on the evolution of the Byzantine Catholic Church in the United States to …
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