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 →
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 →
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 →