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Portfolio – History 390
This class introduced us to the use of digital tools for the purposes of making often analog history more accessible or otherwise more informative. Omeka…
The Progressive Era and the Holmes Court
Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress LC-USZ62-47817 (b&w film copy neg.) “Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree.” Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree | The Vineyard of…
Black Migration?
First, I manipulated this dataset to have a little fun with it. Unfortunately, there was a lot of disparate data and the data for each…
The Mechanization of Information
Algorithms are mechanized mathematics – they are sets of rules that dictate programmatic action. Safiya Noble has written at length on the social implications of…
The Segregation of Philadelphia
Before the introduction of the national highway system in 1956, traveling the roads in the United States required passing through cities and communities to get…
Text Mining – Mid 1918 US
Using eleven issues of “The Woman Citizen” from June thru August of 1918, I have performed a cursory textual analysis of the issues with the…
Suffrage Parades
For this project,we created a “database” that tracked several pieces of information from news sources regrading suffrage activities in the early twentieth century. In the…
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
On March 25, 1911, a small fire on the 8th floor of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory started near quitting time on a Saturday afternoon. The…
Carrie Nation
I chose an subject I was certain would yield search results, but this was a valuable exercise in research using various archives as well as…
Mapping Early American Elections
Mapping Early American Elections is a web archive and interactive repository of Congressional voting data from the colonial era created and curated by the Roy…
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