by hynes1 | May 14, 2018 | Emily Hynes
On an adventure we go, to the American south, where folk songs and tunes await! This spring, I’ve been conducting research on folk song collecting in the American south. Thus far, I have cataloged all of the songs from John and Ruby Lomax’s 1939 Southern...
by Siriana | May 31, 2017 | CURI Summer 2017
The mountain of information I had compiled into my spreadsheet seemed insurmountable. By the time I had finished the first three readings we were assigned, I had already collected over 50 locations to map. I felt a bit like Hercules facing the Hydra. My previous map...
by Katharina Biermann | May 16, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
At various points in this course, the question of whether a digital map has to have or make an argument has pushed itself to the forefront of our conversations on the digital humanities. On the one hand, I might argue that, well, of course it does. Not so much because...
by Katharina Biermann | Apr 27, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
The embedded map above shows the current state of this cartographic experiment. A couple of things have changed since I began this project; first, there are now two data sets. I started out with simply the information from William Francis Allen et al.’s Slave...
by Carolyn Nuelle | Apr 4, 2017 | DUR Spring 2017
Throughout the past couple of weeks of reading, discussion, and conversation, we’ve explored several different reasons why students and scholars choose to make and use digital maps. Recently we’ve been able to articulate some of these potential “goal...
