When I look back at my elevator pitch video, it isn’t a perfect mirror of my final project, but I think I’m content with that. Initially, I was intimidated by the fact that my resources were mostly newspapers and narrowing my focus also affected how my exhibits turned out. Since our last meeting, I’ve added…
Film metadata: Hotel Rwanda, 2004 Producers: Terry George, A. Kitman Ho, Bridget Pickering, Sam Bhembe This film was accessed through Amazon’s “Prime Video” and is fictionalized yet based on the real-life accounts of the survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and of Paul Rusesabagina himself. Themes: The two main themes of the film could be…
NASA Commons Rights Statement The NASA on the Commons site, which is located on flickr, is a digital archive of NASA’s expanding collection of photographs, historic film, and videos through their Image and Video Library. As NASA continues to make thousands of images, video, and audio content available to the public through this site, the…
For my digital public history project, I’ve chosen to build a platform that brings members of the Black historian community together to engage with one another about how history continues to shape contemporary issues in the United States and abroad. This project, temporarily dubbed the Black Historian Network, will use Omeka as a public discourse…
In the 21st century, many American colleges are reckoning with their past and how they’ve benefited from the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The second-oldest higher-learning institution, William & Mary, has been a trailblazer as faculty and students have worked to acknowledge the school’s past. The Lemon Project: A Journey of Reconciliation and the Committee on Memorialization…
A digital map in ArcGIS could be used to teach 6th-12th-grade students about history and historical thinking as they relate to radicalism and Black political thought. The potential of ArcGIS has influenced me to broaden my scope and focus on a group of Black radical thinkers to demonstrate how Black intellectual thought fits in. This…
National Museum of Natural History Rights Statement The National Museum of Natural History website provides access to their exhibits in addition to research, education, and upcoming events. On their exhibits page you can find information on the exhibits currently being displayed. Furthermore, some of these exhibits offer greater exploration of the content through interactive visualization….
As a former kindergarten Instructional Asssitant and reformed history hater, the “Thinking Like a Historian” article by Sam Wineberg stuck with me. I’ve always been taught that history is a sequence of events to memorize, and there was little nuance past that. In fact, I struggled with history throughout most of my adolescence up until…
J Paul Getty Museum Rights Statement The J Paul Getty Museum website offers a guide to the objects in the museum’s collection, research materials, and educational opportunities. The site also boasts over 100,000 free artwork images available through Open Content. Some of their titles are available through their virtual library. Their virtual catalog includes an…
My final project is in its final stages as I refine the lesson plan. The topic I’ve chosen explores dominant narratives in history and how the digital age has ushered in a new era of activism through discourse online and the preservation of activists’ voices. This lesson plan is geared towards high school seniors and/or…
