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....
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
Statistician Nathan Yau’s Flowing Data site was introduced to us via a specific project: this map of pizza place geography in the United States. The map isn’t interactive, yet it communicates data extremely clearly, thanks to the side-by-side comparison of map layers...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
This map, published by the Oxford English Dictionary’s website, shows how the English language has been formed from borrowed words throughout history. Despite its humble appearance, this application packs an effective punch. The time-lapse feature allows users to...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
The maps on this research blog are intended both to support research on the dance touring practices by Kate Elswit (in her ongoing collaboration with Harmony Bench) and to inspire new research questions. The maps are “exploratory visualizations” of the American...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
Named after the work of Monroe Nathan Work, this project maps every known lynching in American history carried out by a mob. Each marker on the map represents one incident, and each color represents a different racial/ethnic demographic. The map is accompanied by a...
by Thea Brenner | Dec 8, 2020 | DH Models - Other Humanities Projects
From 1932 to 1975, Annuals and Biennials held by the Whitney Museum of American Art recorded the street addresses of artists whose works were showcased. In 2019, the New York Times used this data to publish a series of static and maps, accompanied by prose, that shows...
