by Jessie Camp | Jan 29, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Dear DUR, We’ve only known each other for a month, but this month has simultaneously been the shortest and longest month I have ever experienced. 30 days ago, I had no idea how this relationship was going to work, with all of your complicated intricacies, but I’m...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 23, 2019 | DUR January 2019
We’ve now moved into specializations for our Burleigh projects, which means as peers slave over normalizing and checking over data, organize extensive bibliographies, and design maps, I am doing the same thing I have been all month: researching! As a certified...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 16, 2019 | DUR January 2019
I am three weeks into my research on the people H.T. Burleigh knew, and it has been full of so many different twists and turns. But researching is different for everyone. Today, I’m going to share with you the 5 things I’ve learned through our research thus far. 1....
by Jessie Camp | Jan 10, 2019 | DUR January 2019
The Protestant Reformation happened over 500 years ago, so why should we still care about it? It was just a whole bunch of religious white men arguing with each other, right? Well to some extent, yes. But the Reformation changed the entire world, especially in regards...
by Jessie Camp | Jan 8, 2019 | DUR January 2019
Maps. We look at them all time, nestled between blocks of text in articles and textbooks or on classroom walls, and we never give them a second thought. We accept them as they are—why? Because that’s what’s easy. We assume it shouldn’t be that difficult to...
