A two-day oral history with Greg Baldwin became a layered digital presentation of Miami LGBTQ+ history — video, full audio, transcript, context, and a public-knowledge afterlife. This is the story, the presentation, and the toolkit behind it.
Category Archives: The Voices
Interviews, podcasts, video, oral histories, profiles, and recovered conversations documenting what other people know, practice, remember, adapt, and transmit. This lane treats interview media as folkloristic fieldwork: primary documentation of living cultural knowledge, with attention to the informal practices, cultural meanings, memories, relationships, technologies, and forms of authority that formal accounts often miss.
Dale Kronkright on Shaping Georgia O’Keeffe’s Digital Image
At the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, conservator Dale Kronkright helped test computational imaging technologies while making the research process visible to the public through digital media. This conversation explores the Georgia O’Keeffe Imaging Project as both a conservation experiment and a communications strategy: sophisticated documentation technologies paired with relatively simple online storytelling to connect conservation research, collections, and audiences.
Laura Bang on classroom digital humanities projects at Villanova University
Laura Bang discusses two student-built digital humanities projects at Villanova University: one interpreting the history of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, and another centered on a historic Peruvian manuscript. The projects show how relatively modest digital tools can support research, preserve cultural identity, and give students practical experience working with collections while learning that digital humanities is as much about interpretation and context as technology.
Philip Graham on partnering research with social media outreach at a national level
Philip Graham of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland describes an unusually coordinated approach to digital heritage: research institutions working across organizational boundaries to connect collections, public engagement, open technologies, and user contributions. The conversation examines Scotland’s Digital Futures work, the Canmore database, cross-institutional partnerships, and the difficult but essential work of building internal support for digital outreach.
Going Mobile: Implications of mobile technology uptake for Cultural Organizations
Marcus J. Wilson argues that cultural organizations need to treat mobile access as a fundamental design requirement rather than an optional enhancement. Written as smartphones and tablets were rapidly reshaping web use, the piece examines responsive access, competing mobile platforms, the decline of Flash, the rise of HTML5, and the practical consequences for organizations whose websites had been designed primarily for desktop computers.
Gary Kueber on Endangered Durham and Hyperlocal Heritage
A reconstructed Voices of the Past archive page preserving the 2011 interview with Gary Kueber of Endangered Durham on hyperlocal heritage, digital documentation, and the changing built environment.
Historic Uses of Lime Mortar, and Its Continuing Importance Today
Andy DeGruchy explains historic lime mortar, compatible repointing, traditional building technology, craft knowledge, and the importance of passing specialized masonry expertise between generations.
Talking Pyramids’ Vincent Brown on Managing News Content with Social Tools
Egyptology enthusiast Vincent Brown discusses using podcasts, blogs, Twitter, and other social tools to build an online community around ancient Egypt and the pyramids. The conversation moves beyond simply publishing content to questions of curation: how to find relevant material, shape useful updates, use hashtags effectively, and create a recognizable digital presence around a specialized field of knowledge.
How We Are (and Are Not) Adaptively Reusing Whole Cities
Aaron Lubeck examines adaptive reuse at the scale of cities, connecting preservation, development, sustainability, economics, policy, and the environmental, social, and economic value of existing buildings.
Meet the Blogger: Mike Anderson of “Ancient History”
Mike Anderson uses his Ancient History blog to ask a deceptively contemporary question: what can Greece, Rome, and the broader human past tell us about the choices societies make now? In this interview, he discusses why direct online publishing suited his approach, how short-form historical writing can invite conversation, and why recurring patterns in human behavior make ancient history more than an exercise in looking backward.