It was really wonderful and rewarding to work with the sources team and the rest of my classmates this term on this project. Coming into the project, we fairly quickly formed the plan to tackle a small portion of the larger project by mapping and annotating the route that one of the deponents, Thomas Wilkinson,…
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When I began work on the Witness to the Revolution project, I had no idea what to expect. To be honest, I’d never audited a class before, much less a large-scale 2-year-old game project. It appealed to me in the sense that it was a big, team-oriented game development project; frankly, exactly what I’d been…
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As a history major with very little knowledge of computers or anything beyond typing words into search boxes, I knew that my contribution to this project would have to be through qualitative research, and that’s where I spent most of my time in this process. I worked with the sources team doing research into the…
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By McLain Sidmore I came into this project fascinated by the idea of building a three-dimensional recreation of a historical town yet nervous about my ability to contribute to the technical side of the project. I was able to conduct historical research for the project, which played far more to my strengths and offered me…
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I chose to join the mapping team because I wanted to learn ArcGis. I ended up not using ArcGis a single time. However, the skills I learned using Unity made me feel more confident in myself as a coder and gave me a newfound appreciation for the digital humanities. As a member of the mapping…
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Hi! My name is Max Bremer, I’m from Chicago, and I’m a senior CS major here at Carleton. Last week I began working with the Boston Massacre 3D team via auditing the course. As you might guess from my major, my background is largely technical, though it’s coupled with a passion for game design and…
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My name is Mac Scott, I’m from El Dorado Hills, California, and I’m a Junior at Carleton currently working on my Physics undergrad. While this project doesn’t interact much with my major, it does intersect with my interests in computer science, game design, and American history, all of which made me interested in this project….
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My name is Elise McIlhaney and I am a senior History major and Archaeology/MARS minors. By virtue of that, I have done a lot of historical research that includes looking through primary sources like hagiographies, popular histories, criminal trial records, treatises, and newspapers, to name a few. For this project, I would like to delve…
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Hello! My name is Aaron Young and I’m a Senior History major and Middle East studies and Arabic minor. I joined this class and project for a variety of reasons. Firstly, I took Serena’s class, Age of Hamilton, two years ago and loved it. From this class, I heard about her Boston Massacre project and…
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Hi, my name is Nicole Connell, and I am a senior History major (and Classics and Digital Arts and Humanities minors) at Carleton, with a focus on early American history. I have worked with both Professors Austin Mason and Serena Zabin on a variety of academic and Digital Humanities projects over my time at Carleton,…
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