Dr. Jen Andrella

We’re doing Omeka, and students will walk through the process of creating items and exhibits!

a brown dog is sitting in the back seat of a car looking out the window . ALT: a brown dog is sitting in the back seat of a car looking out the window .

It’s Content Management Systems week in my intro to digital humanities course, which means that the only appropriate opener to today’s class is: “Archives…. Am I right??”

I know “A Century of Lawmaking” has been out of commission for a little while now, but I absolutely cannot stand the migration to congress.gov. It’s excruciating to search historical collections. I just want to browse the 1862 Congressional Globe 😢

The students in Museums, Monuments, and Memory this term identified alumni scrapbooks in Special Collections, researched the stories inside them, and produced podcasts on them! All in ten weeks. You can sample their work at scrapsoftime.knoxabolitionlab.org

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Thank you!! I’m especially excited to be part of USM’s Center for DH!

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I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining The University of Southern Mississippi as an Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and History starting fall 2025! I’m very grateful for the opportunity to continue my work at the intersection of history and digital scholarship 💛

Celebrating #DouglassDay in the Abolition Lab at Knox today! We had a great time transcribing and tuning into the virtual programming! And of course, there were plenty of snacks 🎊🥳🎊

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Another day, another Storymap JS tutorial #Abolitionlab

johnlegg.org Dr. John R. Legg currently teaches the American Civil War at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Trained in ethnohistory and digital public history, John specializes in the Civil War era and nineteen...

To my new followers in history departments: My contingent position at Minnesota State University wraps up this term. I’m actively on the job market for a full-time role, but in the meantime, I'm seeking an online teaching opportunity (synchronous/asynchronous) for the spring.
www.johnlegg.org

Thank you so much! This definitely sparks my motivation. I’m very excited to put this work out there!

Thank you! I’m also on the job market right now, so this was a big box to check on my postdoc goals list.

I am thrilled to work with Bridget Barry and the UNP team on this project, and I’m very thankful for the opportunity to publish with such a strong press for Western history.

From the vantage point of Montana Territory and the Northwestern Great Plains, this study of Reconstruction illuminates how the West perpetuated an enduring national crisis over citizenship, sovereignty, and belonging.

This book examines how Reconstruction was not merely a reaction to the Civil War, but a national project that engulfed both the South and the West.

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Black and white text document on the publishing contract

Now that it’s official, I’m thrilled to announce that my first book _When the War Raged On: Montana Territory, Native Nations, and the Struggle over Reconstruction in the West_ is under contract with University of Nebraska Press!

Special shout-out to @cjdenial.bsky.social for her encouragement and support throughout this process!

My goal with a “digital syllabus” was to design an immersive syllabus experience for students and curate resources that might be useful to others— almost all of the sources and readings are online and open access! I would also greatly appreciate any feedback on how to improve🙂

Our spring classes start this Wednesday and I’ll be teaching HIST 181: Intro to Native history. I finally have my digital syllabus/class website together, and I greatly look forward to meeting the students!
hist181.jenniferandrella.com

Oh perfect! Well I look forward to stopping by! 😃

Hi Gillian! Yes! That would be awesome, I’ll find a time to pop over to say hi! Does LEADR still close at 1 on Fridays?

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Heading to MSU for the in-person portion of the Global Digital Humanities Symposium! Looking forward to a productive weekend of learning and engaging with DH, and catching up with old friends and colleagues! #msudh #MSUGlobalDH

White paper with a weekly schedule in blue divided into one-hour time blocks from 10am to 3pm. Gold, purple, blue, and green paper squares fill the time blocks on the page.

Back in LEADR at MSU, we had a very analog way of scheduling lab hours: everyone had a pile of squares and would place them in available time slots. I’ve passed on this method to the Abolition Lab and, no joke, we solve the scheduling dilemma in 5 minutes every time. 10/10 would recommend.

Whoa… I have not. Thanks for sharing this!