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digital history

Black History Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon Placement at York University”

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Editor’s Note: This is piece is written from two perspectives to reflect on a collaborative public history placement at York University in Toronto, Canada. The authors, Alanna Brown and Leena Hussein, are profiled at the end of the piece.

Introduction:

Credible sources are essential to improving both the reliability and credibility of Wikipedia as an academic resource. Read More

Shared Work: William & Mary’s Highland and The Lemon Project

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William & Mary (W&M) is home to several institutes, programs, projects, and places of public history and community engagement that support the university’s mission of inclusivity and partnership.  Many of these sites partnered in W&M’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded grant, Sharing Authority to Remember and Re-Interpret the Past. Read More

Digital public history as folk music hootenanny: Part 3—Toward a multimodal Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

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The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project, discovered in the silent archives of Northwestern University Libraries Special Collections repository (Part one) and digitally developed through collective effort (Part two), now features a fully-searchable, open-source online archive and a digital exhibit that introduces themes and materials to aficionados and newcomers alike. Read More

Digital public history as folk music hootenanny: Part 2—How we created the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

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The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project began with silence. The question became how to activate its noisy past for a broader public when its history only remained in the quiet corners of the archive. The path forward would require not one solitary scholar in the stacks, as with a traditional historical research project, but many participants bringing out the voices, music, and sensory experiences from the repository. Read More

Digital public history as folk music hootenanny: Part 1—Finding the Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project

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This three-part series proposes that digital public history can deepen our study of the American folk music revival and cultural history in the United States. Conversely, it also contends that the folk music revival—with its hootenanny sing-alongs and sense of collective action—offers intriguing democratic models for digital public history. Read More

Metadata as restorative justice: a case study of the Sanders-Bullitt digital collection—Part II

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This is the second of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society. Part 1 was published on December 30, 2021.

The Bullitt family enslaved over two hundred people at the Oxmoor plantation in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and the Cottonwood plantation in Henderson County, Kentucky. Read More

Metadata as restorative justice: a case study of the Sanders-Bullitt digital collection—Part I

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Editor’s note: This is the first of two posts about the Sanders-Bullitt Digital Collection at the Filson Historical Society.

The core component of The Filson Historical Society’s latest digital collection featured a reworking of the Bullitt Family Papers to highlight the people they enslaved, including the Sanders, Green, and Taylor families, among others. Read More