For my final blog post I would like to start off by saying how I came into this class not knowing much about it, after I had to drop a class early on in the semester. I read the description for […]

I want to start my reflection off by saying how great of an opportunity it was to take this class. I wanted to thank you for sharing your knowledge in this class and also allowing us to be introduced to different materials, sources, and apps […]

For my final blog post, I decided to revisit the assignment we did on Omeka. I really enjoyed this assignment because it really opened my eyes. I didn’t know that there was a way for me to access such historical photographs and documents. While searching […]

Creating the flourish map was one of the most interesting things that I did the entire semester considering all of my classes. With that in mind, I had a lot of fun playing around and looking at different data of information and comparing them to […]

Charleston slave badge from 1801 for Mechanic No.  108. This badge was used in Charleston, South Carolina, the United States, North, and Central America. It is apart of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture collection. This badge is made of copper […]

This reading from this week covered the topic of industrial slavery. When I think of industrial slavery, I think of modern-day slavery. When I say modern-day slavery, I mean working in an industrial factory or for an industrial company for lots of hours although the […]

Link to Flourish Map For this week I decided that my research topic for this week would be discussing the difference between nonwhite enslaved individuals and nonwhite free individuals in the 1840’s.  The building of this map was a bit challenging as I would like […]

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2015.222.8?destination=edan-search/collection_search%3Fpage%3D3%26edan_q%3D%252A%253A%252A%26edan_local%3D1%26edan_fq%255B0%255D%3Dtopic%253A%2522Slavery%2522 This artifact is a picture of Sergeant Jacob Johns seated. Johns was part of the 19th United States Colored Infantry that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. This regiment was composed of African American Enlisted men, from the Eastern Shore. […]

https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/4648750/ Geospatial visualization and analysis can change how we look at historical questions by allowing for questions and their answers to be shown up as maps, data graphs, etc. It encourages the readers and the audience to look at it from a different standpoint as […]

I really enjoyed creating a podcast and discussing topics relevant to our class.