I have been familiar with aspects of the 1930\u2019s to the since highschool. I was taught about the stock market crash which brought about the Great Depression. Many people during this time were unemployed, broke and living in hoovervilles.We saw a picture in class where a man was selling his car for $100.00 which really makes you realize that these individuals were struggling to make it through. What I learned and found interesting was the technology that was emerging during this time period. In class last week we learned that there was a shift happening from computing with emphasis on humanities to humanity that are in digital form. One of the inventions during this time was the punch card which became the official computing device for the New Deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The project that I was assigned to analyze was the\u00a0 Archive for Virtual Harlem by Jessica Johnston. Johnston researched and found influential artists, poets and musicians that were apart of the Harlem renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a time where \u201cAfrican Americans wanted to express themselves freely\u201d and so there was a \u201c cultural, social and artistic explosion\u201d. The main page of the website explains Johnstons idea that by making a virtual Harlem where individuals can experience sounds and art through interactive modules, one can understand more of the culture than if they were reading about it in a book. On the left side of the website there are different links that are clumped together with artists, poets and musicians. When clicking them they will take you through the individuals bio, some of their work and their influence in Harlem. The way this is set up makes the process easy to explore. There is also a bibliography at the end with tons of credible sources which makes this archive that much more reliable. The way this archive is set up makes one understand just how influential and important the Harlem Renaissance was. The talent that was brought up and expressed because of this time period really paved the way for the future of African American culture in the United States.\u00a0
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Johnstone, Jessica.An Archive for Virtual Harlem.<\/em> Retrieved from \u00a0 http:\/\/scalar.usc.edu\/works\/harlem-renaissance\/title-page<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Miriam, Posner. (2014, February 1). How did they make that?<\/em>.Retrieved from http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/how-did-they-make-that\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been familiar with aspects of the 1930\u2019s to the since highschool. I was taught about the stock market crash which brought about the Great Depression. Many people during this time were unemployed, broke and living in hoovervilles.We saw a picture in class where a man was selling his car for $100.00 which really … Continue reading “Blog post #1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}