For my final project for History 689 I plan to create a digital teaching site focused on U.S. World War II propaganda. The site will…
Every year in one of my classes, I give students what proves to be an exceptionally difficult assignment. I ask them to choose and analyze…
Hello everyone! I’m excited to be part of the DH689 learning community this summer. My name is Renee Romano and I am a professor of…
As this Digital Public History course comes to an end, I’m reflecting both on how much I’ve learned and on how much the material we…
After weeks of work, the Oberlin Community History Hub (OCHH) is nearly ready to go public! The OCHH consolidates existing historical materials related to the…
The Oberlin Community History Hub project is moving forward, if sometimes slowly! This week, I spent most of my time developing the “About” section for…
In the past four weeks in DH 694, we have been reading about different genres of digital public history, from community and local histories, to…
This week I would characterize my work on the OHCC as “plugging along.” I did two main kinds of work on the project this week.…
Coventry Village—or plain Coventry as most locals call it—is a street in Cleveland Heights, Ohio that is known for a kind of counterculture hippie vibe,…