Fall 2024: Digital History

      Every History Harvest I have a unique experience. This is technically my third History Harvest that I have been a part of. The first one, which I don't remember where it took place, I was actually really late for and was only their at the tail-end to help the RICHES team pack up everything. I was able to talk to some of the local people in the community. The harvest was also for a colored school that was being demolished to build a community center, and the people there were giving oral histories and telling stories about their time, or siblings time, at the school.     My second history harvest I also forgot the name of until I started walking around the Apopkans Museum where our History Harvest took place. It was in Zellwood, and I made sure to arrive bright and early to make up for missing the first History Harvest while I was an intern at RICHES. At that Harvest, I was working on scanning things. Unlike the Harvest at Apopka, where there was relatively few people that I s

      The Digital History project that I would like to review is the World Turned Upside Down podcast which is narrated by Jim Ambuske and is produced by Jeanette Patrick. This podcast is about explaining the events leading up to the American Revolution through the perspective of the British subjects living in the American colonies. The podcast starts around the Seven-Years war and goes over events such as Pontiac's War, the different taxation acts, which its latest episode that released on October 22nd going into detail about how the Sons of Liberty and other patriots were doing acts of resistance to the British Crown.      This podcast is affiliated with George Mason University, and is one of a series of podcasts that are connected with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Some of its major supporters have been The McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution, The John Carter Brown Library, and it has also received a grant from the National Endowment

      This assignment had me looking through mainly the American Historical Review (AHR) and see their evolution regarding reviewing digital projects. The first few "background" readings set the stage for these reviews. One of the articles was an interview with Dr. Jeffrey McClurken, an editor for the Journal of American History, and the other was more of a blog post by Dr. Cameron Blevins. While the two articles go into varying topics regarding reviewing digital history projects, I believe the main similarity is that these projects cannot be reviewed like how traditional history research is done. Dr. Blevins does a bit of a better job articulating what he means by giving different categories to reviewing a DH project, which is by pedagogy and public engagement, academic scholarship, and data and design criticism.      These categories by Dr. Blevins set a good guideline for what to look for in the later readings, particularly the reading which was one of AHR's first atte