At each internship this year, I achieved new skills and real world application from my course work for the digital humanities certification. The digital internship at the Smithsonian Affiliated Health Museum in Houston introduced me to museum work: The Health Museum At this internship, I developed a variety of skills that can be transferable to …
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Post 4: What are you doing that seems to be successful in the internship? Challenging? How can you address these challenges? One success has been the engagement of science communication with history. Being part of an interdisciplinary team engaged in teaching health to the general public in a museum-type format is a significant endeavor. In …
As a closet introvert who has to act like an extrovert online, the skills in engagement and brainstorming with others are being developed every week with meetings. Being an intern at a science museum rather than an archival museum has had its challenges. Struggling to develop a valid project around sexual education has been the …
When I applied for a digital humanities internship, who knew I would go through the “match” again? For people unaware of Match Day, it is the day each year that every graduating medical student learns where they have been matched to do their residency training. Match Day 2022 at McGovern Medical School (uth.edu). Applying for …
Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell, “Cirrus”, Voyant Tools, accessed July 2, 2022, https://voyant-tools.org/?categories=853c7c65560b565369c1c9d2b36b3a24&visible=105&corpus=4827e509dd3cd151a1868d76052a5b4f&view=Cirrus.
Made with Adobe Illustrator and Canva Source: The Woman Patriot. January 4, 1918. Google Digitized Book. Public Domain What was a watchfire? How were these demonstrations reported in the press? Anti-Suffragists called it riots, see photo below of the watchfire. Lesson will include historical evaluation of these events and at least three primary sources.
Write a blog post addressing the following: FILM METADATA: List the basic information (metadata) about the film, including title, year, producer, and how you accessed the film. If this film is based on primary or secondary sources, mention that as well. BIG THEMES: Think carefully about the big themes related to this topic. How does …
Third Puzzle Piece So far, I have found a primary source from each organization that I want students to analyze and think about the words used in these sources to describe demonstrations, the President, and propaganda in light of World War One. These sources are long and will have to be narrowed to specific protests; …
Digital media of primary sources and the ability to evaluate the use of words to tell a narrative allows students to dissect the narrative about specific events, like the final years before the 19th amendment. Digital media with the digitization of images, congressional records, and newspapers allows the student to evaluate the anti-suffrage movement and …
History teaching has changed in the late 20th and 21st century with the digitization of primary sources and the free-flowing access to information on the internet. While this has improved students’ access to information, especially college students who can access paid databases that their respective college subscribes to, it does not necessarily teach how to …
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When I started this project, I was initially focused on learning who the eclectic medical doctors were. I stumbled upon their textbooks, which is another story to tell, but needless to say, I opened them, and inside were pictures that looked like any other medical textbook from the late 1800s. I googled eclectic medicine and …
Graduate students in history are a distinct audience for public history projects that do not always reflect what the public would like to see in a history website or museum website. Tailoring your public history project based on your historical research interests does occur because of the enthusiasm to share the knowledge with others. But …
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For Spring Semester 2022, I am working on a small public history project on the professors and textbooks of an alternative medical school in the late 1800s called the eclectic institute of medicine. These textbooks illustrated the competition with allopathic medical schools and used multiple quack herbal drugs from North American plants. Developing a project …
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On a street corner of a historic block in Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the museum dedicated to James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States. Upon entry through an iron gate into a walled brick garden with the focal point of a black marble bust of James Monroe, you immediately step into a sense of …
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goals assignment for Digital History
After graduation in May 2023, I continued to work on the Death By Numbers project from my last internship. Death by Numbers: My professor encouraged my fellow grad students and me to submit our side projects. I have only been to two history conferences and had not presented before. Like my fellow students, digital humanities …
I have now almost completed two internships for my digital humanities certificate, one in traditional digital communications at The Health Museum and one in digital humanities at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Both experiences taught me that change is constant in this field. New software, social media marketing, and research methods …
The skills for a digital humanities internship that I have learned through this course, including textual analysis and website exhibits are constantly evolving due to new software or programs.As new software and programs are constantly emerging, it is important to be able to adapt and learn new things quickly. Project management skills are paramount. It …
This semester I started a new internship closer to home at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. I learned last semester about museum work and brainstorming as a team for science communication at the Health Museum. This semester I am working as a digital public humanities intern on …
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Internship update: With the start of this internship, we are now in the midst of developing an online resource on a health topic that for many can be controversial. There were many project ideas, and we are still brainstorming how to be a resource for a specific audience, and easy to understand communication. Sexual education …
