I can’t agree with you enough here. In any DH project, the creators are telling a story. The issue with ours is that the story we’re telling isn’t necessarily ours to tell. It might be interesting to reach out to staff or ex-inmates of the penitentiary to try and prioritize their voices rather than ours when crafting our narrative. ESP only closed…[Read more]

I actually think this way of doing a project could be really cool. It would be similar to the exercise we did in class when we played with the tool that mapped important people of the early modern era to each other, and then asked ourselves what questions we could come up with.
It would be super interesting to see what random observers think…[Read more]

The last paragraph of your post really got me thinking. How our society punishes people directly shows us what we determine most harmful, thus showing us what society collectively values more. The fact that rape sentences last 1/10th as long as forgery ones do shows us that (sadly) at that time, a woman’s safety apparently mattered 1/10th as much…[Read more]

I was actually reading something about this a few weeks ago. It’s interesting because initially when I heard about prisoners working, I thought “That’s god, it’ll be something to pass the time”. Then I found out they were being paid under a minimum wage for any of the work they did, and I’ll be honest, my initial reaction was “so what, they’re…[Read more]

This is something that really resonates with me too. I was taught how to write a letter, where the address goes, and what stamps to use, but not once in my life have I ever actually mailed a physical letter. When will we realize that it’s really time to modernize our education system? Being literate in technology goes further than knowing Excel…[Read more]