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 […]
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Quick Update: Technology
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!
Update–Technology Issues
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 […]
Who Cares?
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 […]
Are We Researching Correctly?
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 […]
Quakers and Secession
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 […]
Why the Quakers?
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 […]
Reading Reflection–Kolossov
This piece is a nice compliment to Anderson’s “Imagined Communities.” Kolossov also identified national (or political) identification as ultimately being an arbitrary social construct. Kolossov’s primary focus is on the ethnic identities of former members of the Soviet Union and how their perception of ethnicity and its significance in their life has changed. Ethnic identification […]
Project Contract–Liz Kurz Michel and Madeleine McKeon
Goal: Our project aims to examine the many conceptions and definitions of secession through the lens of the 17th-century Quaker community. The project will cover about 1650 to 1690 which is a period that includes the events leading up to and immediately after the falling out between the Quakers and Puritans. We hope to create […]