KC's Adventure through HIST 390

Unfortunately I was not able to attend this weeks class because I was really hoping to get some good ideas from my fellow course mates on how they are setting up there projects. I also could have used some help from the professor adding some information to mine. There were no required readings for this […]

During this weeks class we worked solely on our projects through the omeka website. We learned how to set up our exhibits for our final project. Most of the class was spent trying to organize how we were going to split up our soldiers life. Since my soldier didn’t move around too much before or […]

In this weeks class we went in depth on the value of text mining in a document. We also went into detail graphing information from historical texts we were looking at. One graph the really struck my attention was one that pertained to the number of casualties each regiment sustained. This graph was broken down […]

In the beginning of this class we were looking at maps of Harlem during the 1920’s that were developed by Prof. Robertson. It was really interesting to see how a community has changed not only from the 1920’s til now but during the short period of time that the map laid out. I liked the […]

In this weeks class we were looking into a lot of various statistics that pertained to our soldier’s regiment. The example we did in class was comparing the deaths of our soldier’s regiments versus other regiments from their respective state. We also looked into whether more soldiers died actually in battle or from disease. We […]

This past class we received our mid-term grades and I did much better then I anticipated when I left class. My group is still in the process of finalizing our visit to the Blenheim house which we need to get done as soon as possible. In this weeks class period we set up our omeka […]

This week we took the midterm exam which I believe went over pretty well. For this blog we were supposed to go back and look out our soldiers files to see what they did after being mustered out. My soldiers file is filled when many pension requests because after his time in the army he […]

This week is Spring Break so of course there is no class.  I have used this time to get caught up on my blog posts as well as study for the mid-term coming up in a week.

This class started out by Prof Robertson getting every caught up on Zotero and helping us get our libraries set up in order to share with him. In class professor went to the waybackmachine and showed us how much not only the Mason site has changed but webpages in general. Then game the discussion on […]

This weeks class started with a fantastic presentation by Andrea of the Blenheim House. She gave the class a lot of interesting facts about the whole history of the Blenheim house from pre Civil War to its current state that it is in today. We briefly went over primary sources again and went into learning […]