Although I\nhave learned about the Great Depression and New Deal in previous classes, I\ncan\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever thought about these events through the lens of technology\nand digital humanities. Our first week of class definitely left me more\nconfused than when I went in, but after studying one of the projects and\ncompleting the readings, I do feel slightly more confident and I hope to see my\nconfidence only grow throughout the semester. I do not have much prior\nknowledge of digital humanities, but I am eager to learn more about it and how\nit impacted the 1930s and beyond. In last Wednesday\u2019s class, I found the\nslideshow of different technology developing through time very interesting. I\nwas especially surprised that the silent disco\/dance idea came far earlier than\nmy time. I never would have thought or believed that in the early 1900s anyone\ncould even fathom that idea. I\u2019m curious to know what other ideas we had\noriginally thought were new, were actually thought of before. It was\ninteresting to see how ideas that seem specifically relevant to our time were\njust as relevant nearly 100 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nproject I analyzed was Papers of the War Department 1784-1800<\/em>. This is\nan ongoing digital editorial project that is seeking to reconstruct and\ntranscribe documents of the War Department that were destroyed due to a fire in\nNovember 1800. Since this a collection of primary sources and historical\nartifacts this project would be classified as an exhibit according to Miriam\nPosner\u2019s framework. The Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 <\/em>project\nis pretty straightforward in that its goal to restore historical documents that\nwere once thought to be lost and allow these sources to be easily accessible to\nthe public and allow the public to participate in transcription. They provide\ndigitized images of all documents and many have transcriptions that makes\nunderstanding and reading these documents easier. This project uses sources,\nsuch as such as letters and maps, from the 1784-1800 time frame which are then\nprocessed through reconstruction and digitized to allow users to transcribe\ndocuments that can be easily presented for public use. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roy Rosenzweig Center for\nHistory and New Media, and George Mason University. \u201cPapers of the War\nDepartment 1784-1800.\u201d Papers of the War Department,<\/em>\nwardepartmentpapers.org\/s\/home\/page\/home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Posner, Miriam. \u201cHow did they\nmake that?\u201d UCLA Digital Humanities<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Although I have learned about the Great Depression and New Deal in previous classes, I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve ever thought about these events through the lens of technology and digital humanities. Our first week of class definitely left me more confused than when I went in, but after studying one of the projects and completing … Continue reading “Blog Post #1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dighist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}