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The Mud Pit » The Ghost of Tom Joad

Posted 12 hours ago

This semester I am also in a US History in Film class and in it we have to create an original online research project analyzing a particular film. I’ve chosen the Grapes of Wrath and while I already know the Reverend has put some mighty fine clips of the film up on his blog awhile ago my brain usually runs ... [Link]

The Mud Pit » Faulkner & Morrison

Posted 38 hours ago

(image from cultural logic) I am currently taking a course on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and after the first class and doing some readings I am really excited for the class to get going. I freely admit to being ignorant about souther writers although I have read a few novels by both Faulkner and Morrison. Being from the North ... [Link]

The Mud Pit » New Law

Posted 47 hours ago

Another school year at Mary Wash. I have mixed feelings of excitement, nervousness, optimism, and cynicism. So as promised when I started this blog, cheesy song lyrics for my current cynicism: Derek Webb - A New Law “Don’t teach me about politics and government, just tell me who to vote for. Don’t teach me about truth and beauty, just label ... [Link]

Mary's blog » I’m a slacker

Posted 4 weeks ago

because I haven’t updated in awhile. I’ve basically finished my research on the jim crow travel in Fxbg and I’m now on a new topic: women and preservation. This one is tougher because there isn’t really anything definite out there, it’s going to be a lot of me extrapolating and combining tidbits into something cohesive and hopefully something interesting and ... [Link]

Mary's blog » Internship Con’t.

Posted 8 weeks ago

So I was away on puppy-sitting duties and then my boss was away on vacation. So. While she was gone I did this: watched the American Experience (Truman) to see the sign for Fredericksburg. That signed mentioned the Hotel McGuire as a “negro-friendly” stop. So then I found the Negro Motorists Green Book and thankfully it was the entire book ... [Link]

Mary's blog » Hot time, summer in the city

Posted 11 weeks ago

Bonus points if you are reading and can name the artist of the song in my title (because I can’t and I’m too lazy to.) Anyway. Figured I might as well use this to document my internship, so here it goes- an abbreviated version of the past couple of Tues/Thurs. I promise to write more as the days go on ... [Link]

Digital History » Just when we thought we were done !

Posted 4 months ago

For the past couple of days the JFG has been fixing errors on our site. We split the list, however someone already completed most of my list! weired! I added the UMW official James Monroe papers site to the related links page and fixed some typo’s. Laura and I talked about changing the format of the UMW TODAY page to ... [Link]

Digital History: Spring 2k8 » This class so isn’t over yet.

Posted 4 months ago

Just when we thought we had escaped our websites, we all got those wonderful “Corrections” emails. Well, I’m happy to say Lisa and I are pretty much done with our edits and corrections. She sent me the edited bibliography for the official website and is proofreading our timeline. I went through and made sure the dates were all consistent in ... [Link]

The Low Downs » Corrections and other stuff

Posted 4 months ago

I’m working on those website corrections. Fun stuff. Actually, what’s more fun– and I’m betting this is the group that would be interested in this (being a little geeky and good-oriented): I was driving around Fredericksburg today (I was either on Stafford St. or on Augustine St. can’t remember) and saw the google “street view” camera car! If you don’t ... [Link]

Digital History--A New Perception » Making it Happen

Posted 4 months ago

Click to Play This video was originally shared on blip.tv by thalpern87 with a No license (All rights reserved) license. [Link]

Sona si latine loqueris » Error edits

Posted 4 months ago

So, I don’t even know if we’re required to still maintain these blogs. Probably not, but I thought I would briefly mention what I have been cleaning up on the Farmer site at least for the benefit of my group. I added dates to the summaries of all the videos on the “videos” page and added links to our descriptions ... [Link]

Lisa M's Digital History Blog » Thank you Dr. McClurken

Posted 4 months ago

Considering the nature of this class, I have always wondered whether Dr. McClurken enjoyed pain or was just crazy. In either case, I think each and every one of us in this class owes him a great deal of gratitude in his quest and the realization of bringing Digital History to UMW. Besides if it were not for his efforts, ... [Link]

Digital History: Spring 2k8 » Single vs. Group Projects

Posted 4 months ago

I noticed Andrea made a post about doing these gigantic projects we spent all semester working on individually. And, not to argue, but I can’t seem to grasp how that would have even been possible. The projects would not have been able to be as large of a task as they were which would make them far less impressive than ... [Link]

the monroe hall doctrine » Doing it ourselves…

Posted 4 months ago

Dr. McClurken said in class today that he didn’t think this project should or could be done by one person alone, but I really disagree the more I think about it. I really think a lot of the problems we had as a whole group wouldn’t have happened. Even if there were only two people in the group, we wouldn’t ... [Link]

Juliann's Digital History » Final Post

Posted 4 months ago

DONE!!! The project is done, the website is done, and I have finished my reflection. Digital History has certainly been an experience this semester, one that I learned a lot from. But I am certainly glad to be finished. I am really happy with our final product, but if I had to do the semester over again, I would do ... [Link]

The Cobbgoblin speaks on Digital History » Last Reflections on Digital History

Posted 4 months ago

Digital History as a class actually is a great idea. This isn’t just to suck up and pretend that I enjoyed everything, this is actually how I feel. The projects we did were unlike anything else that college has offered me. That being said, the projects took up the entire semester, and indeed have the look and feel of an ... [Link]

Whitney's Digital History Blog » returning books to FVC

Posted 4 months ago

Funny story: I believe I mentioned in a past post how much Frank O’Reilly helped me. He loaned me a book of his own, as well as two from the library of the Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center (FVC), which is where I was volunteering that day, March 15. He said ‘keep it as long as you need it,” and perhaps ... [Link]

Digital History Project » Final Post

Posted 4 months ago

Someone recognized me the other day and said oh my god, are you in that Digital History? I sad yes and they just laughed. I think the rumors of the drama have gotten to urban legend status. So, this got me to thinking about renaming the course for next time. It will be cataloged as Digital Soap Opera 471. The ... [Link]

the monroe hall doctrine » Reflecting on our Contract

Posted 4 months ago

The James Monroe group created two separate websites. The first site, the James Monroe Papers website, was created using Contribute following Dr. Preston’s specifications. We did meet with Jerry to learn how to use Contribute, and following his suggestion, most of the actually uploading through Contribute was completed by Kelly, who had Contribute on her computer. We completed the site ... [Link]

(insert witty title here) » Reflection

Posted 4 months ago

I chose the historical marker group because, for me, it was the project that had the clearest vision for a beginning, middle, and end. I knew right away what I was getting myself into, maybe not how much work I was going to have to do, but I knew at least what I would be doing. I do not regret ... [Link]

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