I was really struck by how the article came back to the idea of always having to go back and read the sources, even if you make visualizations/use digital tools. Digital tools in the humanities is just a different tool in our arsenal, it shouldn’t replace traditional methods. I was also intrigued by their challenge regarding digital tools: should radically… Read more →
Brain Teasers and Time Savers: The Benefits of Learning a Little Bit of Code
The only other time I’d experienced coding was in a select few QGIS tutorials. The code included in one tutorial was something I actually saved in a document for future use. It would automatically set the colour of polygon border lines to 30% darker than the fill colour. This was a nifty little string of code that I could copy… Read more →
I Was Tricked Into Using Numbers in History (And I’m Happy About It)
In my experience with quantitative data, I found it most useful as a way to observe broad trends across a large group of people, specifically how many Irish and English women immigrated to Ontario between 1860-1886. My project from last term aimed to map these women’s final destinations within Ontario and answer the question, “Why did they chose to emigrate?”… Read more →
Visualizations Matter: A Review of “An Online Exhibition of Canadian Dress”
Hello again, 396. Here’s another review, this time for an online museum exhibit, found here. What is it? “An Online Exhibition of Canadian Dress: The Confederation Era (1840-1890)” is an online museum exhibit/learning module created for the Canadian Museum of History (which has a surprising number of online exhibits, check the rest out here). It focuses on the… Read more →
Mapping the Republic of Letters: A Review
Welcome to the first of several Blog Posts, 396. Today I’ll be reviewing the site Mapping the Republic of Letters, found here: http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/ What is this project and what does it have to offer? Mapping the Republic of Letters is a project that aims to visualize the social connections, mail correspondence networks, and physical travel networks of early-modern… Read more →
A Household Name
Disney is a well-known media corporation, yet I only have a vague idea of what its past is. Using the Timeline tool, I chose to represent key moments in the company’s history, spanning from 1923-1999. I also chose to include a tiny segment about the critiques that Disney has faced, with an example of sexism that Mary Ford experienced in… Read more →
What in the Witch…
This is an image of Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Witches. My summer class on Renaissance art had a section on the Witch trope, which I did my paper on. Basically, witches are cool, have a lot of negative depictions, and were seen to have immense power over men. Also long, uncovered hair was the ultimate Sex Symbol of the 16th century?… Read more →