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Using iMovie, common source images, and original audio I have compiled a trailer for my upcoming Digital History website project! View below or on Youtube:

For this lab I worked in iMovie to create a brief video introducing my website Deconstructing the Reluctant Warrior. Having very little experience using iMovie in an academic setting or being on camera for that matter, I found it very difficult … Continue reading →

[View the story “Deconstructing Reconstruction” on Storify] [View the story “Deconstructing Reconstruction” on Storify]

Dickinson College is not in the MOOC (massive open online course) business, but we have been experimenting with online learning.  Each summer since 2012, the House Divided Project at Dickinson has been partnering with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American … Continue reading →

For the purposes of this week’s lab, I chose to “podcast” a close reading of Abraham Lincoln’s August 22, 1862 letter. Podcasts are audio recordings (sometimes with a video recording counterpart) that both experts and enthusiasts use to circulate discussions … Continue reading →

I used the open source audio editing utility Audacity to create a short podcast that I then uploaded to the public music and audio community Soundcloud. I combined and edited Prof. Todd Wronski’s reading of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address with an open … Continue reading →

Data Visualization tools allow users to analyze a text by taking statistical data – such as word frequency, the amount of times a certain word or phrase appears in a text, and create a “word cloud” or image of the … Continue reading →

Overview Podcasting has become a fashionable way to present history online to public audiences.  Most notably, there is now Backstory, a podcast series put together for National Public Radio by leading historians Edward Ayers, Brian Balogh and Peter Onuf.  The … Continue reading →

Due by March 7 The first historiography post (about 1,500 words) should analyze how one particular digital tool or platform has already affected various types of historical inquiry.  This post should include Chicago-style footnotes.  Images, hyperlinks, and embedded maps are … Continue reading →