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Early American Female Academies
Education for women in America was slow to progress and not well documented. Before formal education was offered to women, they relied on several kinds of informal schooling. In colonial America, both sexes participated in apprenticeships, trading labor for training, food and board, and education. While this form of education was allowed for women, only…
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The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America Review
On April 18, 2024, at 6:00 pm, Dr. Thomas Blake Earle discussed his book on the Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America in McCord Auditorium at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Blake Earle is from Texas A&M University at Galveston. Earle explains that fisheries weren’t just about the economy or…
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Early American Schools for Women GIS Mapping
Georeferencing involves taking an aerial photo or map and aligning it with real-world geographic coordinates. To georeference, I first chose an appropriate map that fit my topic. The founding of the schools I use as my data points fall between 1787 and 1837, so I decided on a map created in 1818 to best depict…
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Spatial History and Early American Politics
Spatial history is examining historical events in relation to their geographical context. Spatial history is analyzed through maps, Geographical Information Systems, and other spatial analysis methods. It is used to explore how the geography of a place influences its historical development. Maps are helpful for digital historians because they can help effectively visualize data to…
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Visualization: Early American Women’s Education
Timeline Visualization This timeline is a visualization of the progress of early American schools for women. While creating my timeline, I selected important events to visualize women’s education progress. I began by including a statistic on the literacy rates of women because it provides a numerical view of the development of women’s education. I selected…
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Early American Schools for Women
Airtable Link Reflection When I began my research, I sought data on women’s schools from 1700-1850 in the United States. During the process, the availability of sources caused my research to narrow to secondary schools for women from 1820-1850 in the United States. To find the necessary quantifying information I was looking for, advertisements for…
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Topic: Women’s Education in Early America
Zotero Library: https://www.zotero.org/groups/5415384/audrey_fox_public_library/library Source #1: Book Linda Eisenmann. Historical Dictionary of Women’s Education in the United States. Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 1998. https://search-ebscohost-com.proxy.libraries.smu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nlebk&AN=63711&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Historical Dictionary of Women’s Education in the United States examines the history of women’s education from the colonial era to 1998 using the presentation of alphabetically arranged disctionary entries. Eisenmann references institutions, persons, ideas,…
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Digital History Project Review: Women Writers Project
The Women’s Writers Project is a research project unarchiving texts by early women writers. They are focused on research and publication of pre-victorian women writers in English, intending to make texts by early women writers more accessible to audiences by digitizing and encoding texts and researching the issues with digitizing early printed texts. Their intended…