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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 15
This is a rather bittersweet entry as it will be the last of my internships! Though I'll be continuing my work with Greenwood Cemetery,...
Sarah Boye
Nov 27, 20233 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 13
What an exciting week it's been! And it's only Tuesday! Last week I finished up two of the tour entry drafts for my research subjects,...
Sarah Boye
Nov 14, 20232 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 12
I finally made it out to the West Oaks Genealogy Library to get my hands on a few specific books that are only available in person. Both...
Sarah Boye
Nov 5, 20232 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 11
This week started early for me. Last Friday, I went out to Greenwood and walked the path of the proposed "core" walking tour to time how...
Sarah Boye
Oct 30, 20232 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 10
The week has only just begun, but I wanted to provide an update after the Florida Historical Society 2023 Annual Meeting and Symposium...
Sarah Boye
Oct 23, 20233 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship Part Deux: Week 9
This week hasn't been as productive as I was hoping, unfortunately. A good portion of my time was spent finishing up my conference poster...
Sarah Boye
Oct 18, 20232 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship: Week 12
This is the final week of this semester's internship with Greenwood Cemetery. I haven't accomplished anything groundbreaking since last...
Sarah Boye
Jul 31, 20232 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship: Week 11
This has been a busy couple of weeks! I mentioned last week that I was able to finish putting together the drafts for my Clio entries to...
Sarah Boye
Jul 26, 20233 min read
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Greenwood Cemetery Internship: Week 9
While the official meeting for the grant has yet to be scheduled, I am proceeding full steam ahead with the creation of the “proof of...
Sarah Boye
Jul 13, 20233 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Apr 2, 20233 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Mar 24, 20233 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Mar 4, 20232 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Feb 26, 20234 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Feb 21, 20234 min read
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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,...
Sarah Boye
Feb 14, 20233 min read
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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...
Sarah Boye
Feb 7, 20233 min read
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Democratizing History Through Technology
"If the past is to have an abundant future… then historians need to act in the present." - Roy Rosenzweig The dawning of a new digital...
Sarah Boye
Jan 31, 20234 min read
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Mapping Black Imaginaries & Geographies
The idea of using technology to recover narratives of marginalized groups is not unique to Black studies, however, utilizing the tools...
Sarah Boye
Jan 25, 20233 min read
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Defining Digital History and the Digital Humanities
It is undeniable that the technological revolution of the twentieth century has changed the state of knowledge and how we, as historians...
Sarah Boye
Jan 18, 20234 min read
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