Month: April 2017

Working this week has been admittedly rather challenging. This week was Holy Week/Easter which means a lot of church-going, a lot of preparation to go home, a lot of preparation once you get home (the Easter Bunny requires a lot of help–the dude is stretched thin). Despite the craziness, I managed to fit in a […]

Thanks to everyone who helped us yesterday with our tech issues. We’ve changed the theme which fixed our page issue although it did mess up some of our content and the page order. Tonight will be spent rectifying those issues! Have to run to class–thanks again for everyone’s help!

We got a lot accomplished this week–we’ve changed the structure of the website so it seems far more coherent and much more user-friendly. We’re excited and confident about the changes we’ve made as well as the content we’ve been plugging into them. Unfortunately, it seems that not all of those changes are actually appearing on […]

Design has been one of the most interesting parts of this project. How do you take information and present it in an effective way? Right now, I’m quite dissatisfied with our current presentation. I don’t like it. I’m glad with the theme we chose but I don’t feel like we’re using it the most effective […]

I’ve communicated with the University of Massachusetts Archives and they’re setting aside some resources for us so I can visit on Friday. I’m excited! It’s been hard to feel really connected to the subject when all of our sources are either secondary and/or are reprinted primary sources. This project has really highlighted the challenges that […]

We were now a few weeks into the class and learning more about the actual concept of secession. We were questioned in class if our proposal actually fit the concept of secession. That was shaking. We had never considered that our movement wasn’t. The professors wouldn’t have approved it if it wasn’t right? There was […]

Since we’re so behind on blogging I thought it would be a good idea to recount the journey of our project from the very, very beginning. So here begins Part 1: The Beginning. Lizzie and I met in a research methods course last semester when we found out that we had both been recommended for […]