Here’s my question, or topic, folks–and it’s quite speculative: How can I use technology to supplement my work in material culture–both with respect to research as well as pedagogy? In particular, I’m interested in textile and garment production in early America, but the relationship between the body and the object is really difficult to reconcile …
Category Archive: Research Methods
Posts about analytical approaches of all kinds as well as posts about finding, evaluating, and using information.
Feb 25
Session on database design & where else to go
Early American THATCampers, This follows a bit along Zach Hutchins’s lines, and I’d be open to sharing a session with him if he’s interested. I’ve been working on a database of the loan records for the Easton Library Company, an Easton, Pa. shareholding library (on the model of the Lib. Co. of Philadelphia), for the …
