Writing from grad school

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43 posts · 2013–2023
Jun 2014
Reflection
Minor Field Readings, Part 1: Digital Humanities

This summer I am completing a readings course for my minor field in Digital History. This weeks readings have discussed the digital humanities, the history of the field, and have offered critiques as …

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May 2014
Reflection
Readings Course on Digital History in Theory and Practice

This summer I’ll be completing a readings course for my Digital History minor field with Stephen Robertson. The course will cover Digital History in both Theory and Practice. You can view the …

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May 2014
Reflection
Final Clio Wired II Project

I still have a few small changes to make but for the most part my final project for Clio II is finished. I’d like to go back and add a few more primary sources and I still need to fix the …

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Apr 2014
Reflection
Final Project Design

I’ve been thinking about the final project and trying to make some decisions about design so that I can finish coding the basics of the site over the next week or so. I’ve decided to do …

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Apr 2014
Reflection
Image Assignment

I’m all finished with my image assignment. As I’ve been talking about for the last few weeks I used some images from a scrapbook I scanned a few years ago. The images were pretty damaged …

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Apr 2014
Tutorial
Attempts at Restoration

I’ve been slowly making progress on my image assignment. One of the things I’ve been attempting to do is to restore some images that were part of a scrapbook I scanned while I was working …

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Mar 2014
Tutorial
Restoring an Image from a Microfilm Copy

I’ve been working on making some of the small changes to my typography project that we discussed in class last week. Most of the spacing fixes and the changes to the lines were super easy to fix …

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Mar 2014
Reflection
Color

The last couple weeks we’ve been reading about color and the do’s and don’ts of picking a color scheme. I think the reading in White Space is Not Your Enemy was very helpful and got …

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Feb 2014
Tutorial
THATCamp Topic Modeling Results

This post is the last in a set of 5 written by the Digital History Fellows at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. The original post, which was collectively written by the DH Fellows, …

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Feb 2014
Reflection
Typography Assignment

For the typography assignment I decided to make a page using some of the content from my masters thesis. I said last week I wasn’t going to use my thesis for this class, but then I decided that …

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