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I decided to revisit the week seven topic of digital art history and museum labels.  I found that this assignment had many different choices of artifact to choose from and write a label about.  I decided to find a new medium and create a label […]

To begin my final post I would like to say that this was by far the most enjoyable class I had this semester. The small class size allowed me to get the extra help and support right from my professor. The projects that we have […]

Museum Label: This bill for sale is a pre printed document, made for transactions within the State of South Carolina. This particular document details the sale of Chloe, sold by Z.B. Oakes to Elias N. Ball on October 25, 1862 for thirteen hundred dollars. This […]

I decided to use the websites in the “D” section. The first one is https://americanantiquarian.org/NatTurner/. The title of the page is, “Revising Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination”. At first, the website seemed simple and almost underwhelming. It had a short article about Nat […]

For my final blog post, I have chosen to edit and revise my museum label blog. This means I will be selecting a completely new artifact and writing a new label for it, as well as explaining why I selected this artifact and also explaining […]

Item 1: http://omekahst251.jenniferandrella.com/admin/items/show/41. This first item is an image which depicts the harsh way in which enslaved people were treated. It shows a boy who is wearing a heavy iron collar which is meant to impede ones daily life and cause discomfort. The image also […]

As my final blog assignment, I have decided to go back and revisit the narrative mapping we did during week 6. The story map I created, using KnightLab, focused on a few key events that eventually led to abolition in the United States. When I […]

To start, the project I would like to continue would be the podcast week.  I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.  I wasn’t really sure how I felt about it at the start of the semester, but when the week came I was a […]

On week four I did my blog post about The Geography of Slavery in Virginia and Freedom on the Move websites. I felt both these sites were outdated, especially Geography, and were very clumsy to navigate. Windows were popping up everywhere, they weren’t very intuitive, […]

For this final reflection blog post I decide to revise blog post #4. This was during week 4 where we examined different digital historical websites that covered multiple components of slavery.  What made this blog post so fascinating compared to other weeks, is that it […]