Digitalizing History: Research and Exploration of History in a Evolving Field

Week 14: Reflections on the History Harvest: Democratizing the Past Through the Digitization Of Community History History Harvest! Our team and participants. Hannibal Square, 2023. Photo by Scot French.      This past weekend I had the privilege and honor of participating in the University of Central Florida's History Harvest for the memory and recollection of the Hungerford School located in Eatonville, Florida. Our team was assigned to collect documents, interview attendants, and collect a general history from participants in the field. I was tasked alongside fellow student Sebastian Garcia to collect oral histories from Central Florida residents, Eatonville residents, Hungerford high school alumni, and children of teachers from Hungerford high school. I had never been apart of a "branded" history harvest, but I did take part in a oral history day led by the Veteran's History Project at UCF focused on veterans working at the multiple campuses across UCF.  Sebastian

 Week 13: Draft Proposals for Final Paper/Digital Demo - In-Class Workshop      For our final project and evaluation of digital history as a sub field in research, teaching, and the profession itself, I specifically would like to look at how digital history can impact research and how research can be presented. I’d love to specifically address the usage of digital tools and the reflection of data used in digital tools. In my analysis of the visualization of USCT troops and their geospatial patterns, I wondered how the drafted/substituted solider faired in comparison to the self conscripted solider both during the war and after. My question, directly, is "How does the experience and service of drafted/substituted soldiers translate into their occupation of space?" This question involves the question of spatial history and requires a timeline using platforms like ArcGIS and Story Maps to build a narrative that shows a history of soldiers and their experiences surrounding their

 Week 12: Making the Case for the Black Digital Humanities: Recovery, Redress, Reciprocity      This week, we're looking at case studies regarding the understanding of the black community within the realm of digital humanities. The evolving nature of the realm of digital humanities poses lots of questions involving the cultural tone and expression involving digital tools. Here, specifically, understanding black history and cultural connotations implies a new level of understanding within black digital humanities.  "Making a Case for the Black Digital Humanities"        Kim Gallon argued that any connection between humanity and the digital therefore requires an investigation into how computational processes might reinforce the notion of a humanity developed out of racializing systems, even as they foster efforts to assemble or otherwise build alternative human modalities. She calls this relationship a “technology of recovery,” or the effort to showcase the stories of margi