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When creating digital public history projects, there is oftentimes a tendency to overlook the importance of what “public” means to the overall success of that project. One of the places that digital humanists and historians can look to as models of audience interaction are local and community oriented public history sites. In his article Who’s…

Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center: Curators Nate and Michelle, managed by The Town of Fairfax and Virginia State Gov. Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center Website: Part of the City of Fairfax Gov, Website Design by Granicus For my comparative review essay I chose to focus on the Fairfax Museum and visitor center located right here…

The Journal of American History’s guidelines for reviewing the content and effectiveness of Digital Public History projects are quite thorough, and were established through reliable methods of reviewing books and articles. However, as technology evolves, so too must the criteria for assessing the quality, accessibility, and impact of these new projects. One aspect of these…

My name is Maximilian Smith, I am a first year master’s student at GMU majoring in History, with a concentration in modern European history. My area of interest primarily focuses on western Europe from the belle epoque period to the end of the First World War. I graduated Saint Michael’s College in 2023 with a…

How to use this map: Make sure the image is centered over France. Click the option for 3D map in the upper right-hand corner, and hold shift while dragging to change the camera angle. Use the cursor to hover over individual lines to discover information about the soldiers of Verdun, such as their birthplaces, units,…

Throughout the course of this semester, my understanding of what Digital Humanities is has evolved, and my conception of what it is capable of doing has expanded greatly. In my first week, I defined the field as “a method of interpreting historical information as data through software and modeling systems… which seeks to find new…

In the modern digital world, it seems as though humanities work relies more than ever on digital platforms to create engagement and generate interest from the public. One of the medium which some humanists have chosen to achieve this goal is through podcasts; a form of entertainment that has never been more popular than it…

Crowdsourcing is a way for historians and humanists to engage the public and a wider audience through cooperative contributions to various different projects. The projects which are best suited for this approach are those that do not require any particular qualifications for members of the public in order to maintain accessibility. Such types of work…

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia with millions of users who access its information every day, however many of them are not aware of, or do not take full advantage of the built-in analysis tools that are at their disposal. One of these is the “view history” tab located near the top left of the page,…

Similar to text mining and data mapping, network analysis is a method of visualization which allows researchers to demonstrate relationships between information, especially on a large scale. Oftentimes, humanists will upload hundreds or even thousands of individual data points into their network software which are referred to as “nodes”, and additional datasets which connect between…