My experiences with Omeka before this class were not nonexistent, but it had been awhile. I took a class at Auburn where we had a week on Omeka where a student gave a roundtable tutorial as we all followed along to learn how to add images to a collection and went through all the different […]
Potentially the most important anecdote from my experience with Open Refine over the last few days is this: it took me over twenty minutes to figure out how to split the columns with the dates into two separate ones. Yes, over twenty minutes, though I didn’t time it exactly. My issue was that I continuously […]
The most interesting part of the readings and the class discussion this week was, of course, defining and discussing “What is Digital Humanities”? Though my perpetually-a-student-self dislikes there being no clear cut answer, I had a fruitful discussion with our breakout room that built off the definition in the AHA article about digital history/humanities. Discussing […]
Our QGIS tutorial began with data from Early Modern England, with two datasets related to populations in London, and information regarding parishes and the plague. Playing around with this data was relatively easy and more fun, in my opinion, especially with the visual aspect and Dr. Otis’s tutorial that felt clearer than last week (though, […]
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Gadsby’s Tavern Museum
Old Town Alexandria VA Situated on North Royal Street near the corner of Cameron Street stands the Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, two red brick buildings dating to the late 18th century that housed a tavern (1785) and the City Hotel (1792) that sheltered and fed pivotal people such as George Washington, John Adams, Marquis de Lafayette, […]
523 Queen Street in Old Town Alexandria, VA Among rows and rows and streets and streets of townhouses stands a little blue sliver that attracts photo ops and glances from tourists. Seven feet wide, the Hollensbury Spite House is not the only so-called spite house in Alexandria but is the narrowest house in the United […]
In May of 2020 I finished my thesis at Auburn and graduated with an MA in History. My research has been graciously supported by the Auburn University History Department and I have done research at the American Antiquarian Society and the John Rylands Library. Below is the abstract of my thesis. As part of the […]
