Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged outside of a class. As much as I admire the people who blog through their dissertations and have meant to do so, well… Good intentions and all that. I hope to blog my
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Tomorrow, or technically today, I’m presenting in Clio 3 on Data Manipulation. As Professor Gibbs and I defined it on Monday, my presentation on this potentially broad topic is twofold: Using SQL commands in PHPMyAdmin to merge and split fields; e.g., merge
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At least for now. At least for the sake of Dr. Petrik’s gradebook. You can see my final assignment, “Santa Anna Goes to Washington.” There is still more that I would like to do. In spite of Geoff and Sheri’s helpful advice,
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Right now I’m sitting by a microfilm machine at George Mason University’s Arlington campus library, looking at a microfilm–retrieved via interlibrary loan–of the journal of Calista Cralle Long. Long’s grandson published it in 1940, but it is hard to find–indeed, no Washington-area libraries,
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As I’ve read the book and watched the video for this week’s assignment (scroll to February 13), I’ve been dividing my attention: I’ve succumbed to the temptation of continually modifying my portfolio site, based on the inspiration and new skills that the
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It makes me sad to say that this is my last blog post for Clio Wired I. I have learned a great deal, and really enjoyed learning both the bigger picture of digital history, and some hands-on skills with it. So, we
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This week’s readings (Week 12) focused on what can broadly be called “citizen history” or “crowdsourcing”–inviting public participation in the process of creating knowledge, not just waiting to receive the end product. The four articles, Roy Rosenzweig on Wikipedia, Jeff Howe’s Wired
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Here is my presentation for class on October 11.
When poking around on the Library of Congress Map Collections to find a header image the other day, I stumbled upon Dr. John H. Robinson’s 1819 map of the southern United States and what was then northern New Spain. Being that my
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