Throughout the semester in Digital History, we discovered the use of a variety of digital tools while learning about the 1930s in the USA. Thanks to the knowledge I acquired in this course, I was able to come up with a research question and answer it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I decided to ask the following question for my Omeka exhibit<\/a>: how did the FTP, FMP, and FWP influence the Folk culture in California? I picked digital tools to match the needs of my research question. Indeed, digital history implies the use of images, sounds, and text analysis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n StoryMapJS is a great tool for mapping and building a visual itinerary. Creating and mapping a tour based on the American Guide Series helps to highlight the importance of the Federal Theatre Project <\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n SoundCite is a fabulous tool when it comes to share with your audience the atmosphere that is emanating from your text. It is a harmonious way to introduce a sound within the text. It was of great use to present Folk songs and culture and how it was influenced by the Federal Music Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n VoyantTool is a more serious distant reading text analysis. It is unavoidable when a corpus of text needs to be studied <\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. This tool helped to emphasize the importance of Folk culture and how it was influenced by the Federal Writers\u2019 Project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Digital tools bring interactivity and a better understanding of the sources. They use our senses to dig into the history. They also attract the audience and makes it feel comfortable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The 1930s brought a new dimension into the life of people. Franklin Delano Roosevelt developed the politic of the New Deal to fight against the Great Depression. FDR wanted to increase regulatory power, protect collective action, promote social reform, and regulate profiteering <\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Federal Project Number One regrouping the Federal Theatre Project, the Federal Music Project, the Federal Art Project, and the Federal Writers\u2019 Project entertained the population during this difficult period. It also brought employment in fields like theatre which was the will of Hopkins and Flanagan. <\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDR government believed in functionalism and wanted to promote this concept. In other words, all cultural forms in a given society \u2013 from superstitions to rituals of economic exchange \u2013 existed because they served functions in that society. For example, Folk songs that Alan Lomax used to record reflected a process of adaptation, an organizational superstructure and social functions <\/span>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the 1930s, the country was changing. Many people suffered from the Dust Bowl and migrants had to move and find a new place. They shared their culture and traditions, singing together on the railroads. <\/span>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The FDR presidency period was also marked by questioning and debates around civil rights. The 1930s were notably marked by the Long Civil Rights era. The New Deal helped to make civil rights a subject for political debate like gender inequalities, racism, discrimination, the place of African American and women in the South <\/span>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n FDR and the 1930s are still in the mind of people and we can still observe its legacies. For example, The Green New Deal<\/em> is an emerging energy infrastructure plan to combat a disrupted climate <\/span>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n T. Mills Kelly gave us a great lesson about the credibility of sources on the Internet. He supported his argument based on his own course he taught at George Mason University Lying About the Past. He emphasized the importance of having a critic look on what we think is a reliable source of information or not. He created fake History published on Wikipedia with his students. They used part of truth and lies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For ten days, no one noticed the discrepancy. They finally removed it from the web, but they hope that people will be more sensible in the future in picking their sources. He also explained that the growth of hoaxes on the web is an issue and they spread with social networks. We need to be careful more than ever. <\/span>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Throughout the semester in Digital History, we discovered the use of a variety of digital tools while learning about the 1930s in the USA. Thanks to the knowledge I acquired in this course, I was able to come up with a research question and answer it. 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