Date: 2019 - Media Collections Online Search Results

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1. 02_Soldiers Write the War: World War II, Vietnam and the War on Terror (46:53)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; John Bodnar
Summary:: This paper will explore the way American soldiers from three different wars wrote about their experiences. It will attempt to unravel the fragile relationship between patriotic accounts of war tha...

2. 05_Rediscovering American War Experiences through Crowdsourcing and Computation (46:57)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kurt Luther
Summary:: Stories of war are complex, varied, powerful, and fundamentally human. Thus, crowdsourcing can be a natural fit for deepening our understanding of war, both by scaling up research efforts and by pr...

3. 03_Empowering Citizen Scholars: Lessons Learned from the History Harvest (47:57)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Rebecca Wingo
Summary:: The History Harvest is a community-centered, student-driven archival project that empowers community voices through material-based oral histories. Over the course of a semester, History Harvest stu...

4. 10_Telling War: An Exploration of Form (17:22)

Date:: January 15, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Lisa Silvestri
Summary:: With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Telling War, a veteran based initiative, explores manifestations of the veteran voice through a variety of story forms such as papermaki...

5. 08_Blood Sacrifice and Clashing American Narratives of the Vietnam War (18:31)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Edward Linenthal
Summary:: The mass slaughter of 1864-1865 in the American Civil War eroded traditional belief in martial sacrifice as redemptive, blood shed for the new birth of the nation. Narratives in tension continued t...

6. 06_Recap and Website Walkthrough (37:33)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Ron Osgood; Patrick C. Shih

7. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities? (55:36)

Date:: September 12, 2019
Main contributors:: Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau; Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities
Summary:: Digital image manipulation, social network analysis and data mining can change our perceptions of the world around us, but they also require careful critical use. This presentation will take arts &...

8. 04_Remembering Vietnam: An Experiment in Civic Engagement (43:46)

Date:: January 14, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; David S. Ferriero
Summary:: Ferriero will discuss the planning process for a major exhibit on the Vietnam War within the context of the mission of the National Archives. Particular focus will be on how the principles of Open...

9. Introduction to Network Analysis Tools (1:00:40)

Date:: January 28, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities; Mary Borgo Ton; Kalani Craig
Summary:: Interested in using network analysis in your research or teaching? Come to this hands-on session where we will deal with the basics of cleaning and formatting your data and loading it into the simp...

10. Why Use Digital Methods in Arts and Humanities Classrooms? (58:16)

Date:: September 25, 2019
Main contributors:: Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities; Kalani L. Craig; Michelle Dalmau
Summary:: We're all buried in the digital world when we work on our own arts & humanities projects - whether it's reading the digital copy of an article, snapping smartphone photos of related work, or collab...