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Marking Digital History at UMW

Published by Reverend April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 3 Comments

Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]

Book Autopsies

Published by Reverend October 10th, 2007 in art. 5 Comments

Brian Dettmer’s Book Autopsies featured on the Centripetal Notion blog is well worth a look if you haven’t seen it already.

Found via Carole Garmon’s UMW Blogs post for her Video Art class here. Go UMW Blogs go!

Pirates in our midsts

Published by Reverend June 6th, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 2 Comments

Title Page of The Vial Poured Out Upon the Sea, from Daniel E. Williams’s Pillars of Salt: An Anthology of Early American Criminal Narratives.
The topics of pirates and piracy has been on my mind a lot as of late. In the Early American Criminal Narratives class I have been talking about at length [...]

Knowledge, Categories, Tags, and Crime

Published by Reverend May 21st, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 12 Comments

Well, I have been furiously putting together my syllabus for the class on Early American Crime Narratives I’ll be teaching this first Summer session, which starts tomorrow! The class will be tracing a series of narratives from the colonial period through the U.S. revolution. More specifically, we will be examining the reformulation of crime and [...]

Thinking History Digitally

Published by Reverend April 22nd, 2007 Uncategorizedin . 0 Comments

Tomorrow a few of DTLT’s finest are going to meet with some folks from the History and Historical Preservation departments to talk about the technological possibilities for the emerging Center for Digital History at UMW (nothing official yet!). This is very exciting because we all know the faculty in these programs quite well, and [...]

Felix the Cat - a socialist?

Published by Reverend April 13th, 2006 in video. 8 Comments

Who knew Felix the cat was such a pinko? Here he is doling out money to the poor of the depression-era (a majority of whom would make up the the audience in a theatre for this short) with his gold brickin’ goose - this is yet another fascinating cartoon in this Vintage Tooncast [...]