This week, Digital History pivoted on two topics, digitization/archiving and Harrisburg's City Beautiful movement. At the beginning of the week we broadly explored these topics; by the end of the week, we practiced archiving techniques in the Pennsylvania State Archives and Dauphin County Archives on our own individual class project. The City Beautiful movement was … Continue reading Digitally Archiving Harrisburg
Hello everyone, I'm Mike Ritter, and I am a junior history major at Messiah College. I grew up in the Washington DC area, and I currently live in Falls Church, Virginia. I transferred to Messiah after studying for two years at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. I was first drawn to history reading the non-fiction … Continue reading Encountering Digital History
The primary sources about Harrisburg and the City Beautiful movement are mostly physical copies in archives. Since we are learning about City Beautiful in the context of digital history, our first project focuses on digitizing a selection of these items relating to each of our specific themes. That’s why we spent almost seven hours on … Continue reading Digitization in the Real World
Over this past week, our class has been studying the City Beautiful movement. The City Beautiful Movement was initiated to bring beauty and life back into the unpolished industrial city of Harrisburg. Harrisburg was made up of railroad industries as well as Iron and Steel developments. Paul Beers, journalist, claims that at one point, Harrisburg … Continue reading The Quest to Discover more about Harrisburg’s City Beautiful Movement
When our class began to discuss Harrisburg history and digitization, I thought I would be ready for the onset of information. Of course, there is so much more to learn, but I knew thousands of early 20th-century Harrisburg residents by name and worked comprehensively with digitizing historical Harrisburg. That's a good base, right? Similar to … Continue reading Expanding the Narrative of a Beautiful City
Experimentation with Digital History is a central theme for me this academic school year. Traditional forms of historical research are taught to all historians in the Messiah History Department yet bits of digital history, its themes, and procedures, find their way into the curriculum of multiple classrooms. We have the privilege in Historical Methods, Messiah's … Continue reading Digital History: The Transformation of Historical Methodology
So as a senior I figured that I had a good hand on this whole digital history thing. I mean I have been looking stuff up online for almost four years now for research papers. History has come along way from the days of dusty archives and libraries, we do not have to spend days … Continue reading Zotero
Hello. My name is Sarah Wilson, and I am a junior history major who is currently in Digital History with Dr. Pettegrew. I am a public history concentration and am interested in Library and Information Sciences. Coming into the Digital History class, I already know a great deal about the subject. I have been working … Continue reading Entering Into Digital History
Ever since I could remember, I’ve always been a history buff. Something about telling people’s stories and learning more about the human experience has kept me fascinated for years. As I’ve gotten older, the sheer complexity of human history and what we as a society stand to learn from it continues to astound me. There … Continue reading Rediscovering the Digital Side of History
As a junior history major at Messiah College, with a public concentration, a course in digital history fits naturally in the courses I ought to take. A public concentration means that you want to work with the public to help them grow in their understanding of history. Jobs in public history can include work in museums, … Continue reading Introduction to Digital History
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