Wikipedia

The three wikipedia articles I checked out were “Classical Architecture,” “Pierre L’Enfant,” and “Washington D.C.”
Classical architecture has no references and needs some badly. There are links to specific architectural revivals within the classical architectural tradition, but the main page itself is sorely lacking. This said, there appears to have been pretty regular editing [...]

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Something I’ve been thinking about…

By Maureen
I dabbled in computer programming in high school and as an undergrad. I started in Q basic and moved on to PERL and then HTML. One thing that I and other classmate encountered in high school (2001), was the desire to make one’s site or program “interesting to the eye” or for [...]

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Addendum to my project idea

I have been thinking about the two sites I visited and what would make them better and more interesting and how I can incorporate that into my project, etc. The site I said was the better of the two, GrandTraditions.net, is not static; it has the ability to grow, develop, inform, etc. I [...]

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The Good, the Bad, and the really bad.

By Maureen
Ok, so I didn’t find very many good sites that do what I’m interested in doing.  This could be both a good thing and a bad thing for me.  I’m going to go with it being a good thing in order to stay positve.  The best site I found that explored classical architcture in [...]

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My idea – Classical architecture and Washington DC

By Maureen
I blogged about my idea at the beginning of the semester, but I will go into more detail now as I have given it some thought. I wrote a paper last summer on the classical architecture of Washington DC and how the choice in classical references is indicative of prevailing views on republicanism [...]

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A thought on the readings from this week.

In reading for this weeks meeting, one thought I had in connection with accessibility of digital history. While working at the Center for History and New Media, one of the main projects I worked on was called Object of History, which was a project affiliated with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. [...]

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History websites

I visited The Ufizzi’s official website and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation website.
I wanted to put in a screen capture of the websites I visited so you all could just see what I’m talking about, but apparently my screen capture function hates me and isn’t going to work. Update: I finally got this to work.  Huzzah.  [...]

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Manovich and The Interchange

I read the Interchange article first and found it interesting and easy to follow.  The discussion on abundance of sources, the rising interest in graduate students pursuing careers outside of the more “traditional” academic setting, and the range of uses for digital hisory was particularly interesting to me.  Or maybe I felt this way because [...]

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Classical motifs everywhere!

This photo is of one of the lamp post bases as you walk toward the front of the Supreme Court from the Street.  Most people probably wouldn’t appreciate this, but I thought it was great.  Depicted here is one of the fates spinning the thread of life, ready to pass judgment.  Washington DC is really [...]

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Apotheosis of George Washington

I took this while on a tour of the United States Capital (The only way I would go through the trouble of setting up a tour would be because a friend of mine came out for a visit from Montana).  This is a fresco located in the rotunda painted by Italian artist, Constantino Brumidi and [...]

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