by Thea Brenner | Jan 19, 2021 | DH Models - Musical
Sekuru’s Stories is a digital public humanities project featuring the renowned Zimbabwean mbira player, oral historian, and ritual specialist Sekuru Tute Chigamba. Bringing Sekuru Chigamba’s oral narratives, or nhoroondo, together with recordings, photographs, and...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
This BuzzFeed article promises to show you 16 maps that will “change how you see France,” and they deliver. From maps that display historical land losses and gains, to ancient maps drawn by monks, or how many kisses it is customary to give in each region, to the...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
This map uses maps to visualize the racial divide in several US cities. The creator of this map used a certain technique, called force-directed mapping, to differentiate certain divides. The map takes racial demographic data from the 2010 census, and then creates...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
This map explorer, designed by the U.S. Geological Survey, overlays years worth of digitized historical topographic maps onto a neutral basemap of the United States. This map is very clear and user friendly ⎯ simply type in a U.S. location, and then click a place on...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
The Pompeii Bibliography and Mapping Project uses writings about the ancient city to create a map that reflects the city’s original layout. Using ArcGIS, this project provides a new way to engage with detailed information provided by numerous publications on Pompeii....
