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 3, 2019 | CURI Summer 2019
CURI 2019 is here! The sun is out and the Musical Geography website is open on my computer. Especially after reading through the interim team’s final blog posts, it is clear that we accomplished so much more than we thought we would. For one, all of our maps are in...
by west3 | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
As we wrap up a month of research, it feels fitting to reflect on the things I’ve learned over the past few weeks. When I was writing the prose for the introduction of our project page and the “Mapping H.T. Burleigh” section, I found myself trying to grapple with the...
by Thea Brenner | Jan 30, 2019 | DUR January 2019
In my usual way, I went about starting this blog post by trying to come up with a witty (at least to me) title. Check out hits like On the Media (for you NPR fans), and Pulling Out All the Stops. Seeing as this is my wrap-up of H.T. Burleigh research, this title...