I decided to review The September 11 Digital Archive. The purpose of this website is to preserve the memory of the events of 9/11 and expand on specific details for people who are interested in learning about what isn’t typically covered. Upon first investigation I see that this website starts…
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Newspapers Final Project
For my topic I chose to research the start of newspapers. I find it fascinating that information was able to spread so rapidly in a time with little technology so I really wanted to focus on how things spread in the colonies. I also think news is so important in…
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Mapping Newspapers in America
Georefrencing goes hand in hand with spatial works. It allows for points to be made accurately on a map based off of the spatial data that is created. It is used to analyze geographic data. In this example I georefrenced locations of early American News stands. In order to do…
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The Liberty to Take Fish
“The Liberty to Take Fish Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in the Nineteenth-Century America” Thomas Blake Earle Author University of Texas at Austin, Rice PHD, Texas A&M university at Galveston. Thomas Blake Earle begins the discussion that the understanding of history requires the consideration of nonhuman entities such as fish.…
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Spatial History
Spatial History uses geography to understand interactions between maps in historical times. They can change frequently and are a great visual representation for understanding the past. A great example of spatial history would be in political maps showing how counties are divided and split up and how that changes every…
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Visualizing Newspapers in Early America
My timeline shows the order of the first newspapers of America with a brief description and image of each one. The purpose was to show how sparse newspapers were in early America despite them being very influential. A lot of these newspapers still existed during the revolution and kept people…
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Dataset Project Analysis
Link to Airtable with my work. I chose an article that outline the first newspapers in early America from the year 1704 to past the revolution in 1806. Some of these newspapers even covered events like the revolution showing the importance of news being spread in the colonies. This relates…
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Newspaper Sources
Zotero Link to websites With the link above you can explore my findings related to my project of looking at early newspapers and colonial ways of communication. This is a Primary source off of Infoweb. It shows the First printed newspaper in America and it has typos. This newspaper began…