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 …
Category Archives: HIST 694-Digital Public History
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 …
Continue reading “Digital History Project Progress Update 4”
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 …
Continue reading “Digital History Project Progress Update 3”
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 …
Continue reading “Digital History Project Progress Update 2”
Annotating Oral History
Link for annotated oral history segment: https://ohms.uky.edu/meta.php?id=100236&m=1
Digital History Project Progress Update 1
After sketching out the storyboard for my project, I then went back to revise and take a second look at the storyboard. When I took a second look at my storyboard, I made some changes to order the information was presented and which sources I wanted to present in each section. From here I made …
Continue reading “Digital History Project Progress Update 1”
Digital Public History: Project Proposal
My digital history project will examine the story of one immigrant group, the Carpatho-Rusyns in the United States, and the process of Americanization among this group and their descendants. This will be accomplished by analyzing one of the major institutions established by Carptho-Rusyns in the United States, the Byzantine Catholic Church (also known as the …
