by admin | Mar 23, 2018 | Digital Humanities, History Pedagogy
I love visiting archives. I love to physically touch and smell these documents from the past. Yet, it is always a challenge to always make it to the archives that are most useful to my research. I find myself often relying on digital archives for some parts of my...
by admin | Mar 23, 2018 | Digital Humanities, History Pedagogy
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact – yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them. – Frank Herbert How do we understand the past?...
by admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Humanities
History is not simply the recalling of past events. It is more complex. It is an attempt to look into the past and to try to understand it with all its complexities. The procedures that historians use to make sense of the past is historical thinking. In the last...
by admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Humanities
Each year, billions of US dollars are sent to Africa as aid from the US government, foundations, charities, etc. These dollars are intended to develop the continent. In my classes focused on development, I often ask the students on the first day of class to comment on...
by admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Humanities
A substantial number of students come to my history classes telling me they are not good with history. There is always a sense of nervousness. If they could avoid taking the classes, they would gladly do but they have to because these are prerequisites for graduation....
by admin | Mar 22, 2018 | Digital Humanities
The Oral History Metadata Synthesizer developed by the University of Kentucky has great potentials in effectively managing oral interviews. In order to use the system, I uploaded an oral interview from YouTube, using the link. This process was very straightforward to...
