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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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