Flickr and the Library of Congress…further adventures in the democratization of history
The Library of Congress hasn’t always been friendly to the public-at-large. Well into the latter half of the twentieth century, institutional culture reflected its original purpose as a reference library for Senators, Representatives and their staffs, and directions and admonitions to researchers seeking access to its collections served to discourage frivolous bibliographic meandering. It was an exciting place to go, …
Saved by an historical map?
The intersection of history and environmental geography is only one of many laudable qualities of Scott Reynolds Nelson’s work, Steel Drivin’ Man, John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend. In his narrative, geoforms have agency (to use a word that likely doesn’t appear in Nelson’s highly readable narrative), and to those who look closely, the history of our …
Minimalism works
The visual organization of history sites doesn’t necessarily have to hook in the dubious; it has to tell the visitor that the information that they need is there and where it can be found.
When is a photo not an artifact, but a design element?
it would seem that in visual representation, as in other realms, context is everything
Who do polyglot historians talk to?
There’s an aspect to toggling between past-ese and present-ese that the Polyglot Manifesto does not address. Sepoy emphasizes that the polyglot "has to speak within and without the historic discipline—with colleagues in the Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Computer Sciences and…with the digital public." However, he focuses on speaking to colleagues in computer science rather than the rest of his …
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