On the Media

Greetings from the final week of Music Geography 396 here at St. Olaf College! We’ve split into groups depending on our specialties in the spirit of efficient and equal work responsibilities for this project on H.T. Burleigh. I was in two groups at the start of...

It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday

While this phrase is the title to a classic Boyz II Men song, it doubles for my feelings on the phase of research I just finished ⎯ looking at the racial makeup of various places Burleigh performed or spoke at. At first, I was excited to add this element to our data...

Data, Data, and more Data!

As a data scientist (of sorts), I’m feeling quite at home in the layers and layers of spreadsheets that represent all the research we’ve done to date.  I’ve learned a few things during my time amongst the data, so I figured I’d share these...

Letter From an Editor

When we began this project, one of our first readings was parts of Mark Monmonier’s How to Lie with Maps1. Now that Jacob and I are working on our editing specialization, I’m reminded that his lessons apply to words as well. That might seem like a little bit of a...