Schedule

1 Thursday Jan 21 Introductions

2 Tuesday Jan 26

Assignment #1:

  1. Academic Honesty and Syllabus Quizzes
  2. create accounts on zotero.org and dropbox.com
  3. reply to the Intro post on the course blog
  4. find two examples of metadata in the wild

3 Thursday Jan 28 – Humanities Data

4 Tuesday Feb 02 – Twitter

Assignment #2:

  1. Identify and review two history accounts on two different social media networks (four total)
  2. Reply in the comments to Where does history live on the web?

5 Thursday Feb 05 – Wikipedia

Assignment #3:

  1. Summarize the major issues discussed on the Talk pages of two wikipedia entries for history topics

6 Tuesday Feb 09 – DH Projects

Assignment #4:

Review and compare two of the following DH projects

  1. UAlbany Campus Buildings Historical Tour
  2. The Normal School Company & Normal School Company History
  3. State Street Stories
  4. Black and Free
  5. Valley of the Shadow
  6. Arabella Chapman Project
  7. Mapping Segregation
  8. Digital Harlem
  9. The Negro Traveler’s Green Book
  10. Visualizing Emancipation

7 Thursday Feb 11 – DH and Power

8 Tuesday Feb 16 – Digitization

Assignment #5:

  1. transcribe one page of the 1810 census

9 Thursday Feb 18 – Digital Sources

10 Tuesday Feb 23 – Dataviz I

Assignment #6:

Intro to working with data

11 Thursday Feb 25 – Dataviz II

12 Tuesday Mar 01

  • Class cancelled

13 Thursday Mar 03 – Northern Free Blacks

Assignment #7:

Walking tour proposal

  • Northern Free Blacks: The Scholarly Discussion (Blackboard)

14 Tuesday Mar 08 – Employment Patterns

  • The Most Laborious and Least Profitable Employments: Urban Free Black Occupational Patterns (Blackboard)

15 Thursday Mar 10 – Housing Patterns

  • Lofts, Garrets and Cellars in Blind Alleys and Narrow Courts: Urban Black Housing (Blackboard)

Assignment #8:

Walking tour rough draft

Tuesday Mar 15   Spring Break

Thursday Mar 17   Spring Break

16 Tuesday Mar 22

  • Workshop Day

17 Thursday Mar 24 – Dataviz III

18 Tuesday Mar 29

Assignment #9:

Walking tour due

19 Thursday Mar 31 – Networks I

20 Tuesday Apr 05 – Networks II

Assignment #11:

Final project proposal due

21 Thursday Apr 07 – Maps I

22 Tuesday Apr 12 – Maps II

  • Workshop Day

23 Thursday Apr 14

Assignment #12:

  1. One story draft due – 500 words + one Tableau visualization

24 Tuesday Apr 19 – Texts I

25 Thursday Apr 21 – Texts II

26 Tuesday Apr 26

Workshop day

Assignment #13:

Final project draft (see project guidelines for details)

  1. Process
  2. Argumentation
  3. Revised visualization – may be the same visualization from the story draft or a new visualization; must be revised if using the same visualization

27 Thursday Apr 28

Workshop day

28 Tuesday May 03

Workshop day

Final projects due online May 12 3PM