Sarah Boye
Greenwood Cemetery Internship: Week 2
My work this week for Greenwood has involved reviewing previous walking tours. This includes some wonderfully detailed notes provided by...
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HIS6942 Internship | Dr. French
HIS5944 Internship | Dr. Larson
HIS5607 Intro to Public History | Dr. Cheong
HIS6164 Digital Tools for Historians | Dr. French
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Sarah Boye
May 15, 20233 min read
Greenwood Cemetery Internship: Week 1
There have been several points in my academic career that have led me to beautiful and historic Greenwood Cemetery in Orlando, Florida....
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Sarah Boye
Apr 14, 20232 min read
RMA Blog Entry 4: Reflections
It is with great pride that I can announce the completion of my group’s Rollins Museum of Art teaching portfolio, themed to explore...
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Sarah Boye
Apr 7, 20232 min read
RMA Project Blog Entry 3: Portfolio Draft
After receiving feedback and affecting revisions on our portfolio introduction, my team received the go-ahead to begin our teaching...
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Sarah Boye
Apr 2, 20233 min read
Hungerford Research Process
This week we are endeavoring to finalize our data and begin the process of creating our digital visualizations. While my partner and I...
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Sarah Boye
Apr 2, 20233 min read
History Museums
The overarching theme of responsible museum stewardship is present in this week’s readings. To begin, Cauvin explains that while the role...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 25, 20232 min read
Community-Based Preservation
Readings this week center around the historian’s role in community activism and preservation in urban environments. Thomas Cauvin says...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 24, 20233 min read
Structure, Envision, Represent, Tell a Story
This week we have begun to solidify our research projects relating to the Hungerford School. My teammate and I have noticed some...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 18, 20233 min read
Alternative Histories of Public Space
The importance of “vernacular” space in public history can be explored in Delores Hayden's The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 5, 20232 min read
RMA Teaching Portfolio Introduction & Checklist
Our Rollins Museum of Art Teaching Portfolio project proposal was generally well received and was approved by David Matteson, Associate...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 4, 20232 min read
Hungerford School Project Historical and Legal Data Visualization
This week we are moving full steam ahead towards creating effective visualizations for the Hungerford School Project. We learned that the...
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Sarah Boye
Mar 3, 20233 min read
Heritage Tourism and the Commodification of the Past
We live, for better or worse, in a material world and the conditions of capitalism have transformed the idea of commodities from products...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 26, 20234 min read
Distant Reading: Text-Mining and Topic-Modeling Tools in the Age of Big Data
Macroanalysis is extremely useful for historians to discover patterns that may be invisible using traditional methods of analysis. One...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 25, 20233 min read
Preserving the Built Environment
Public historians must be mindful of the manifold challenges of preserving the spaces and places of the past. According to Thomas Cauvin,...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 21, 20234 min read
Visualizing the History of Eatonville's Hungerford School Property
Interactive visualization serves to support understanding by using external means, which as a subset of information visualization, uses...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 18, 20232 min read
Erasures, Public Memory, and the Singular Building
Interpreting difficult history is a challenge faced by many historic public sites who must consider many factors in presenting stories...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 14, 20233 min read
Models of Argument-Driven Digital History
The use of letters as a primary source to answer evidence-based, argument driven historical research questions is nothing new. However,...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 11, 20234 min read
Public Trust, Authority, and Authenticity
A debate that continues to resonate both within the academic community and the wider public centers around a basic question; to whom does...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 9, 20232 min read
RMA Teaching Portfolio Project Proposal
The Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) is a local resource that Dr. Cheong’s Intro to Public History graduate students will be working in...
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Sarah Boye
Feb 7, 20233 min read
Exploring the Holocaust Through Historical GIS and Scale Analysis
Historical Geographic Information Science (HGIS) is an interdisciplinary methodology which focuses on the spatial components of...
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