I have always enjoyed history and learning about history so I have a good basic understanding about the Great Depression, New Deal, World War l and ll, and other world events around that time. I am a big believer in the “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” saying so I actively try to know my history. This past week of class acted as a good refresher to this time time period while also providing some new aspects to the era that I did not know or think about. The introduction of the older technology and its implementation and importance specifically, are topics that I never gave much thought to when learning about this time period. Things such as the radiophone and the early creation of the silent disco\/dance parties are things that I have only recently learned about and I hope to learn more about such things this semester. The near failure of the technology mogul, IBM, is something that I did not know about as well. I am excited to learn about the digital past and the history of digital technology growth and importance as it is not something that I would normally try to educate myself on. I think it will be a great semester to expand my historical knowledge and awareness.
I was assigned to analyze project #38, the photogrammar website, using Miriam Posner’s framework. The Photogrammar website is a collection of over 170,000 pictures from the time period we are discussing in class, 1930’s and 40’s. It is unique in that it geographically categorizes all of its photographs using a map of the United States. This makes the website very organized and easily accessible. The website also posts its main sources in big letters on the main page. Photogrammar allows its users to visually see the highs and lows of the time period and see how specifically how certain areas of the country were impacted differently. The accessibility of this photograph database, being web-based, is extremely useful and enlightening as it provides a more in depth look into the era than textbooks and literature can provide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Miriam, Posner. (2014, February 1).\u00a0How did they make that?<\/em>.Retrieved from http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/how-did-they-make-that\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dauterive, Jessica. What is Digital Humanities?<\/em> Retrieved from https:\/\/slides.com\/jdauteri\/what-is-digital-humanities#\/1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have always enjoyed history and learning about history so I have a good basic understanding about the Great Depression, New Deal, World War l and ll, and other world events around that time. I am a big believer in the “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it” saying so … Continue reading “Blog Post 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jessicadoeshistory.com\/courseblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}