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Oral Histories Metadata Synchronizer Experience
I had the opportunity to use OHMS to upload and annotate a clip from an interview conducted by Carla Mitchell interviewing Shirley Read from March 2018. I found the process to be pretty easy with the help of the guides and tutorials. The hardest part was uploading/embedding into WordPress, so that I can show the…
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My Fair Lady Wrapped Up
Developing My Fair Lady has been a long and rewarding process. While this semester is coming to a close, I really want to reflect on my journey throughout my project. First, My Fair Lady definitely did not end up as I had first imagined it in previous blog posts, I am not sure if its…
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Influential Media in Public History
Pubic history works tends to be thought of as only in museums or archives. However, we now know that public history is an umbrella terms for those things and more! The age of internet seems to have found its way into the mix of things. Public history intersects with digital public history in was the…
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My Fair Lady and Her Challenges
My Fair Lady has progressed significantly in these past few weeks. Throughout the entire process, it has been a challenge to keep several things in the back of my mind such as my audience, the accessibility of my project, what information is to be included in my project, which platform best presents the objects and…
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My Virtual Tour Guide, Clio
Having lived close to D.C. for almost a year now, I had the chance to explore just a little. I remember the first time I went to D.C. and couldn’t find the White House, a very fun experience indeed. That is why I thought in interesting tour to take would be the walking tour of…
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Finding A Persona
I am working on developing a digital project titled My Fair Lady. The focus of my project is women speakers and speeches given at the Columbian Exposition, also titled theWorld’s Fair of 1893. Women like Bertha Palmer, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and many other women gave impactful speeches over women’s rights, race, gender, religion,…
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My Fair Lady Proposed
My Fair Lady: An Analysis of the Congress of Representative Women at the 1893 Chicago World Fair, a digital public history project. My Fair Lady will take a closer look at the Congress of Representative Women at the Columbian Exposition in 1893. The Congress of Representative Women was a series of speeches given during the…
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Finding An Audience
As I develop my project, My Fair Lady, a primary goal is defining my audience. My Fair Lady is a project that seeks to showcase speeches and discussions given by The Congress of Representative Women at the 1893 Chicago World Fair. Topics consisted of race, gender, and sex. I want to provide a look into…
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Representing History: Physical or Digital?
The Holocaust Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg PI SW, Washington, D.C, 20024, Created by President’s Commission on the Holocaust, Maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/permanent, Reviewed February 6, 2022. The permanent exhibit at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C presents the atrocities committed against Jewish, polish, and Roma people, among other minority communities located…