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What is Digital Humanities? The term digital humanities is one that carries varied meanings, which scholars are constantly formulating, rethinking, questioning and reshaping. However, Melanie Kohnen (2012) postulates that, digital humanities describes the incorporation of digital media into the production, distribution, and archiving of humanities research. Digital Humanities encompasses both the use and creation of digital tools and the interrogation of these tools, that is, to think about how…

road. The thesis in this work is not clearly stated intentionally, but as he goes through the book he uses the testimonies of those who were requisitioned, as well as his own personal experiences and evidence found in German, Soviet and American archives to come to the conclusion that the Holocaust by Bullets was and is an everyday reality. The first key point that recurs throughout the book, is the belief that the Nazi’s wanted no trace of mass shootings and the burial of Jews. For instance,…

Gould Meacham, Virginia. “If I can't have my rights, I can have my pleasures, and if they won't give me wages, I can take them: Gender and Slave Labor in Antebellum New Orleans," Discovering Emancipating Perspective the Women on the American Past in Slavery, Patricia Morton, (Ed), University of Georgia Press: Athens, GA, 1996, 179-201. Gould argues the urban experience of urban slave women have been overlooked by historians who are only interested in the narratives of the rural southern slaves.…

Philippine National Film Archive focuses its goals in providing a home to preserve, exhibit and promote Philippine cinema and educate its visitors about its rich history and development. This facility will serve as a museum destination for educational and exploration trips for students and families or even individuals who wish to enrich their knowledge and feed their interests with the subject. To further enumerate, the project objectives are as follows: 1. To provide an archive with the…

the damage to his property inflicted by the notorious family. It is believed that later on the photograph was included into the mugshot book of North Riding police force and then ended up in the archives of Cleveland Police. In its turn, Cleveland Police donated various crime-related objects from its archives, including the mugshot book with the photograph, to Stockton…

perspective, it became fundamental to dive into the national archives in order to explore and characterize some roots of the current status of the Chilean media system. To do so, I examined three types of archives: the history of the legal changes on television in Chile, the archives on political accusations conducted within the School of Journalism at the Universidad de Chile after the military coup, and media archives. Firstly, I review the legal archives about the regulatory changes on…

Preservation of Physical and Digital Materials Preservation must be given proper consideration when planning increases in access, especially when working with items from the 1920s and 1930s. When it comes to digitizing to preserve and the challenges of preserving both files and documents, there is disagreement among archivist about best practices. While some archivists see as much value in a digital file as they do in a document, others dismiss digitization completely. Access to digital files…

letter of recommendation for Carolyn Komatsoulis of Maryland. She recently completed her summer internship at the Guilford Keeping Society, a non-profit historical society in Connecticut. The challenge for her was to provide us with a workable online archive so that we will be able to share and make public some of the over 10,000 historic images of Guilford housed in our photography collection. Speaking on behalf of the Society, we were all most impressed with Carolyn's technical work, the…

enterprise, in resource, in sound judgement, promptitude of decision, and every other military talent.¨, Nathanael Greene was a Revolutionary War general, serving all the eight years of the war, who was key in the success of the Americans in the war. (Archives) Though he is remembered now as a military general, a significant portion of his success can be attributed to his political background. From 1770-1772 and then in 1775, Nathanael Greene served as a deputy in the General Assembly of Rhode…

Civil rights in Missippi People dream of a day where everyone can look at each other as one. Wheres people dont judge becuase of the color of someones skin but look at personality and who they are as a person. Through history you can see that things have changed from the past and now. Research shows that the rights of African Americans were not equal. The civil rights movement started the passing of federal legislation throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s. Although, race relations…