by Reed Williams | Aug 1, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
Somehow 10 weeks of CURI concludes tomorrow! Time flies when you’re in an ongoing battle with WordPress. This summer has been very eye-opening in many ways, but I think I have grown the most in the visual design aspect of the project. One of the unique things...
by Reed Williams | Jul 26, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
After a week in the archives of the Library of Congress and Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, we’ve arrived back on campus with more data than we were expecting — a considerably larger amount. Between the two institutions, there...
by Reed Williams | Jun 23, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
This week, Thea and I were able to reorganize our “Where Burleigh’s Music was Performed” data into spreadsheets that categorized the performers by race. The most difficult thing about this process was accurately determining (or sometimes guessing)...
by Reed Williams | Jun 19, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
After a week of struggling to find geographic breakdowns of census records for the early 1900s, we did it! Actually Ann Schaenzer did it. Thea and I went to her today to ask if she knew of any good resources, and she pointed us to Social Explorer. Not only does this...
by Reed Williams | Jun 12, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
This week has been full of researching the famous vaudeville/Broadway duo Williams & Walker. Bert Williams and George Walker were extremely successful actors who used vaudeville as a subversive comedy medium. Even though their shows were branded using racist...
