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My work this week for Greenwood has involved reviewing previous walking tours. This includes some wonderfully detailed notes provided by...

There have been several points in my academic career that have led me to beautiful and historic Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, Florida....

It is with great pride that I can announce the completion of my group’s Rollins Museum of Art teaching portfolio, themed to explore...

After receiving feedback and affecting revisions on our portfolio introduction, my team received the go-ahead to begin our teaching...

This week we are endeavoring to finalize our data and begin the process of creating our digital visualizations. While my partner and I...

The overarching theme of responsible museum stewardship is present in this week’s readings. To begin, Cauvin explains that while the role...

Readings this week center around the historian’s role in community activism and preservation in urban environments. Thomas Cauvin says...

This week we have begun to solidify our research projects relating to the Hungerford School. My teammate and I have noticed some...

The importance of “vernacular” space in public history can be explored in Delores Hayden's The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public...

Our Rollins Museum of Art Teaching Portfolio project proposal was generally well received and was approved by David Matteson, Associate...

This week we are moving full steam ahead towards creating effective visualizations for the Hungerford School Project. We learned that the...

We live, for better or worse, in a material world and the conditions of capitalism have transformed the idea of commodities from products...

Macroanalysis is extremely useful for historians to discover patterns that may be invisible using traditional methods of analysis. One...

Public historians must be mindful of the manifold challenges of preserving the spaces and places of the past. According to Thomas Cauvin,...

Interactive visualization serves to support understanding by using external means, which as a subset of information visualization, uses...

Interpreting difficult history is a challenge faced by many historic public sites who must consider many factors in presenting stories...

The use of letters as a primary source to answer evidence-based, argument driven historical research questions is nothing new. However,...

A debate that continues to resonate both within the academic community and the wider public centers around a basic question; to whom does...

The Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) is a local resource that Dr. Cheong’s Intro to Public History graduate students will be working in...

Historical Geographic Information Science (HGIS) is an interdisciplinary methodology which focuses on the spatial components of...